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If you were asked what the longest-running anime was, you’d likely say something like One Piece, or Dragon Ball Z, which are great guesses. Both anime have been around for a long time and have a huge catalog of episodes and seasons to watch.
What if we told you that there is an even bigger anime out there, one that has both of those anime beat? Turns out, thePokemonanime surpasses both of them when it comes to the sheer number of episodes across the various seasons of the show.
How Many Episodes Of Pokemon Are There?
Gotta Watch ‘Em All
The anime closely follows the journey and release schedule of the games for the most part. The Indio League mirrors the journey that you would take through the Pokemon Red & Blue games.
Season 3, The Johto Journeys, follows the games Pokemon Gold & Silver and so on,recording every Pokemon the Champion-in-training has caught over the years.
Ash’s journey came to an end in the 25th season, with him defeating Leon and dozens of other exceptional trainers from across the various Pokemon regions.
With him crowned the undisputed World Champion, Ash and Pikachu parted ways from the main show, letting Liko and Roy step into the spotlight with Pokemon Horizons: The Series.
As it stands, there are1,280 episodes of the Pokemon anime to watch, a staggeringly huge number that only barely eclipses the number of Pokemon in the games.
How Long Will It Take To Watch All Episodes Of Pokemon?
More Time Than It Takes To Catch A Shiny
Calculating the total number of hours it takes to watch all the episodes of Pokemon is a slightly more difficult task than just counting them all up.
It is pretty safe to assume that an average episode of Pokemon isanywhere between 22 to 24 minutes in length, that’s including the opening theme song, recap, and going all the way to the end of the credits.
If we say it takes an average of 23 minutes per episode to watch all 1,280 episodes, we end up with a total of490 hours to watch all the episodesof the Pokemon anime.
That’s more than 20 days of nonstop watching Pokemon episodes, 24 hours a day. A mind-boggling endeavor that would take more than 20 days to watch everything the Pokemon anime has to offer, from start to finish.
Obviously, you can’t watch Pokemon 24 hours a day nonstop, so it realistically would take much, much longer to watch everything in the Pokemon anime completely.Let’s say you want to throw in the animated movies too, well that’ll add an extra 2,120 minutes to the tally, and if we count Detective Pikachu that’s another 104 minutes,bringing the running total up to 527 hours total.
What Are All The Seasons Of Pokemon?
26 Seasons And Counting
If you want totry watching the anime season by seasonto make it a little bit more of a bite-sized adventure to take, you’re going to want to know how long each season is.
The amount of time it would take to watch these seasons are averaged out a bit, since there’s just so much content here thatyou’re going to be skipping those openingand ending credits.
It’s still a pretty good way to guess how much of a time investment you are going to have to take to finish every single episode that Pokemon has to offer.
1
82
31
2
36
13
3
41
15
4
52
19
5
65
24
6
40
7
8
53
20
9
47
18
10
Diamond and Pearl
11
Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension
12
Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles
Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors
34
14
48
49
16
Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond
45
17
43
21
22
54
23
42
25
57
26
Certain episodes of the Pokemon anime that have been banned or restricted, so you might have to hunt some down if you’re truly dedicated to the task.
