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Random-ass Trivia: The 'Ash & Pikachu era' of the Pokemon anime is officially the longest adaption based on a video game with *1248 episodes to date.
*Counter includes Holiday Hi-Jynx, Snow Way Out!, Princess vs. Princess, The Purr-fect Hero, all the special episodes from DP (2 specials), BW (2 specials),and XY (6 specials), The four Arceus Chronicles specials, the 11 episode "Aim to be a Pokémon Master" epilogue and all the banned episodes from the original series and Sun & Moon. There's also 18 side stories, 27 Pikachu shorts, 23 movies (1 remake counted and the 3 I Choose You AU movies counted), 1 episode (Also from the I Choose You AU), 7 Planetarium specials (all lost media), Trouble in Big Town, Pichu Bros. in Party Panic (Which only existed in Pokémon Channel for the Nintendo GameCube) and A Ripple in Time.