Pokémon's Anime Confirms Ash's Dad Exists... With One Cruel Twist

Summary

While Ash ’s female parent inPokémonhas become a bigger grapheme in late age , Ash ’s father has been nothing but mysterious , his existence only now and again reference . Right before he receive his Pokémon ending , Ash was offer a chance to receive his father once again , but when it comes to Ash , things seldom go according to design .

Ash ’s father was first mentioned in the second instalment of the series by his female parent , in the context of a statement about how it took him four day to travel from Pallet Town to Viridian City when on his own Pokémon journey .

Ash ’s beginner has also been call down in late movies ( I Choose You!andSecrets of the Jungle ) , but since those take place in a separate persistence from the main anime , there ’s not much that can be drawn from that . Beyond these handful of cite though , almost nothing is know about Ash ’s father , from his study to his interestingness or even his appearance .

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Ash Just Barely Misses Seeing His Father

The especial episode " Pokémon : The Distant , Blue Sky " starts off with Ashdoing a little swimming and having a Pokémon battle with a new friend before getting to the nearest Pokémon Center and get a call from his female parent , Delia , ask if he can play in a place call Tonari Town which seems to be in Kanto . She ’ll be there to cope with his father the next day , and Ash excitedly takes off . While go there , Ash converge an unusual boy , who asks questions about Pokémon and eventually run Ash to a house in the middle of a mystifying forest .

This special episode is actually coiffe in theI Choose You!timeline , and is thus technically a freestanding persistence from the main anime . Ash ’s backstory is the same in both , however , so it may still be relevant .

Through the jumbo window , Ash can see a human being paint sky scenes at heart , but is then tell apart by his wife . Ash ’s newfangled friend , gay , short go away , however . Sunny turns out to have been the dyad ’s asleep baby who never got to go on a Pokémon journeying of his own . Ash use his Aura powers to countenance the ghostly Sunny to pet Pikachu , before finally getting on with his locomotion .

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Unfortunately , when Ash arrives at the Pokémon Center , his father has already had to leave alone , so they do n’t get to encounter , and the audience never sees him . Ash ’s father does leave a gift , though : a new Pokémon League hat , identical to his original one .

Why Pokémon Still Hasn’t Shown Ash’s Father

There are a few potential reasons why Ash ’s father never appeared in the serial . Most belike is that Ash does n’t have a begetter because his vis-a-vis from the plot , Red , did n’t have one either . This is a vernacular trend amongPokémonprotagonists , with onlyRuby , Sapphire , andEmeraldbucking the trend by make the musician ’s father a Gym Leader , Norman . Sometimes the forefather ’s existence is alluded to , but they never actually appear in the games .

This also happens to be a reflection of the company thatPokémoncomes from . With the " Salaryman " culture in Japan , which encourages lots of overtime and in effect mandatory socialization with coworkers , many children in Japan do n’t get to see their fathers all that often . Ash ’s father in particular seems to have a job that requires him to travel a circle , further make out down the opportunity for father and son to meet . With Ash setting out on his own journey at such a unseasoned historic period , it ’s not really a surprisal that their paths never crossed .

Ash’s Father RemainsPokémon’s Biggest Mystery

The final stretching of episodes ultimately did n’t deal with Ash ’s father any further , leaving his identicalness as one of the large unanswered questions of Ash ’s entire era . Fan theories about Ash ’s father can be quite wild;one popular theory in clip past was thatGiovanni , the leader of Team Rocket , was actually Ash ’s sire , an idea that bourgeon from thePokémon Live!stage show . In the point show , Delia reveal that she and Giovanni once dated when they were younger .

This gained popularity largely based on the fact that the two were kept from go out each other for a very foresightful clock time , only meet facial expression to face in theBlack and Whiteera , over ten class after the anime debuted . However , when the two at last meet , there was no acknowledgment or reunification , and Giovanni apparently would not claver so casually , as Ash ’s Padre does here .

Those involved in the production of the serial publication have now and then commented on Ash ’s Fatherhood . The original Jehovah of the anime , Takeshi Shudo , spell in a novelization that Ash ’s father left on a journey not long after he was born , and never return , leave his fate up in the melodic line . Storyboard artist Masamitsu Hidaka once stated that Ash ’s father was also a Pokémon Trainer , off on a journeying , and that he was definitively still alive . Neither of these were ever corroborate in the anime , and even whether his father was alive was left up in the air until this very especial .

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With the book now closed on Ash ’s epoch of the anime , it seems like fan may never learn who Ash ’s Father-God was , which mostly intend that his individuality does n’t really weigh . It ’s a trend in the dealership that ’s much larger than Ash , but withPokémon Horizonsintroducing Liko ’s father early on , it may be one that ’s lastly dying off . Unless there ends up being another movie starring Ash in theI Choose You!continuity , Ash ’s father will just have to rest aPokémonmystery .

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Spanning over twenty-five years, Pokemon, known as Pocket Monsters in Japan, is the multimedia franchise created jointly by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. Conceptualized by Satoshi Tajiri in association with Ken Sugimori and Junichi Masuda, Pokemon is set in fictional worlds where people live together with tamable creatures known as Pokemon. Humans who catch, raise, and battle the creatures are known as Pokemon Trainers. They head out on extensive journeys across their continents to raise their Pokemon with the ultimate goal of competing in tournaments to become the champion. Pokemon spans several massive properties, from a long-running animated series to a successful trading card game, to the medium that started it all, video games. In addition, Pokemon began the “two-game” trend where two versions of a game would release and include different Pokemon/features between the versions, encouraging players to meet up with others and trade so they could “catch ‘em all."

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