Eyecatch
- This article is about the the anime transitional feature. For the images seen in some games when locations are entered, see location preview.
An eyecatch (Japanese: アイキャッチ eyecatch) is a transitional feature in the Pokémon anime that appears between commercial breaks during an episode. Sometimes, the 12 seconds available are used for two 6-second eyecatches or a single 12-second eyecatch.
The only eyecatch retained for Western audiences was Dare da? (Japanese, kana: だれだ?; translation: Who is it?), which became Who's That Pokémon?. Unlike its Japanese counterpart, it continued well into the Advanced Generation series, ending with Watt's with Wattson?. It was replaced by Pokémon Trainer's Choice, starting with What You Seed is What You Get and ending with Pasta La Vista, when eyecatches disappeared in the dub. Who's That Pokémon? later returned in In The Shadow of Zekrom!. With that, the English dub episodes of Diamond & Pearl series are the only ones with no eyecatch entirely.
List of eyecatches
Japanese
English dub
Name | First half | Last half | Episodes |
---|---|---|---|
Original | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | EP001 - EP116 | ||
EP117 - EP157 | |||
EP158 - EP274 | |||
Advanced | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | AG001 - AG040 | ||
Pokémon Trainer's Choice | AG041 - AG145 | ||
Black & White | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | BW001 - BW142 | ||
The Series: XY | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | XY001 - present | ||
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