Season of Radiance

Lore & Background

The season culminates the research fellowship adventures of Ash Ketchum and Goh, as they travel across all eight regions, including the new Galar region from Pokémon Sword and Shield and the Galar region's Crown Tundra from Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Crown Tundra. Ash ascends through the ranks of the World Coronation Series to enter the Master Class and Goh continues his work with Project Mew to be a Chaser and find Mew. In the final part, Ash travels with his old friends Misty and Brock. Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles is a set of four special episodes based on the Pokémon Legends: Arceus game, released on January 21 and 28, 2022, in Japan on Amazon Prime Video. These episodes debuted on Netflix on September 23, 2022. This marked the final season to feature Ash and Pikachu as the main characters, as well as the Team Rocket trio.

Reader's Guide

The Japanese opening songs are 'One, Two, Three' by Karaage Sisters for 9 episodes, and by Rika Matsumoto and Goh (Daiki Yamashita) for 37 episodes, and 'Aim to Be a Pokémon Master -with my friends-' by Rika Matsumoto for 11 episodes. The ending songs are 'Supereffective Type' by the Pokémon Music Club for 65 episodes, 'One Hundred Fifty-One' by Unshō Ishizuka for 6 episodes, 'Takeshi's Paradise' by Yūji Ueda for 1 episode, 'Riding on Lapras' by Mayumi Iizuka and Rikako Aikawa for 1 episode, 'Face Forward Team Rocket!' by Team Rocket (Jessie, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet) for 1 episode, 'Type: Wild' by Rika Matsumoto for 1 episode, in which the latter ending themes are taken from past seasons of the anime, and the English opening songs are 'With You' by Echosmith, and 'Gotta Catch ém All' by Ben Dixon and the Sad Truth with Haven Paschall and Hilary Thomas. These instrumental versions were served as ending themes.

Did You Know?

• The series received the Anime Series of the Year award at the 4th VP Choice Awards, held in Pasig, Philippines, on March 29, 2023.
• Starting with the next season, Pokémon Horizons: The Series, which premiered in Japan in April 2023, two new main characters were introduced, Liko and Roy.