Ash earns his final two Badges and secures himself a spot in the Hoenn League Championships, while May comes dangerously close to not getting her final Ribbon—setting the stage for epic showdowns with both of her rivals in the Grand Festival. Ash meets two Trainers that become his own Hoenn rivals, facing off against both of them during the course of the tournament. Upon returning to Kanto and reuniting with old friends, Ash is recruited for a new challenge—the Battle Frontier!
| Name | Pokémon Season 8 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | September 9th, 2004 |
| Genres | Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Production Companies | The Summit Media Group, Inc., Shogakukan Production, The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, TV Tokyo, 4Kids Entertainment |
| Number of Episodes | 53 Episodes |
| Plot Keywords | pokémon, children, creature, based on video game, fantasy world, adventurer, pikachu, anime |
Episodes List
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 1 : Clamperl of Wisdom
September 9th, 2004The kids are heading to Maisie Island on a ferry when they spot a Spoink floating on a log. They quickly realize it's the same Spoink they helped befo...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 2 : The Relicanth Really Can
September 16th, 2004The kids are relaxing at the Grand Wazoo Resort on Wazoo Island when a man emerges from the water completely covered in seaweed. His name is Adam, and...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 3 : The Evolutionary War
September 23rd, 2004En route to the ABC Islands, Ash and the gang are passed on the way to Island A by a group of children racing on top Huntail or Gorebyss. It turns out...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 4 : Training Wrecks
September 30th, 2004The kids land on Muscle Island, where another ferry will finally take them to Mossdeep City. Team Rocket also lands on the island, fleeing their sub b...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 5 : Gaining Groudon
October 7th, 2004The kids are floating on logs at sea when a red submarine appears beneath them, belonging to Team Magma. At the floating Magma base, the kids are take...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 6 : The Scuffle of Legends
October 14th, 2004Team Magma and Team Aqua continue to fight on Monsu Island. The Red Orb, which can control Kyogre, is currently held by the Team Aqua Leader Archie. A...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 7 : It's Still Rocket Roll to Me!
October 21st, 2004Ash and friends finally arrive in Mossdeep City and head straight to the Pokémon Gym—only to find it empty because everyone in town is at the Space...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 8 : Solid as a Solrock
October 28th, 2004Ash's battle with the Mossdeep Gym Leaders is set to begin. He calls out Swellow and Pikachu versus Tate's Solrock and Liza's Lunatone, taking into ac...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 9 : Vanity Affair
November 4th, 2004Ash is battling with another Trainer by the waterfront, not realizing he is being watched by a mysterious sailor. After he wins, Ash is confident and ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 10 : Where's Armaldo?
November 11th, 2004The kids travel to Wales Island, where both Ash and May have plans to train. May is thrilled when her Bulbasaur learns a new attack—Petal Dance. She...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 11 : A Cacturne for the Worse
November 18th, 2004The kids are still headed for Izabe Island, where May will compete in her next Pokémon Contest with Bulbasaur. Meanwhile, Team Rocket has just bought...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 12 : Claydol Big and Tall
November 25th, 2004Ash and friends continue their journey across Izabe Island, where they spot a giant stone Poké Ball atop a cliff. They meet a sage named Sigourney, w...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 13 : Once in a Mawile
December 2nd, 2004Ash and friends continue their journey across Izabe Island, where they spot a giant stone Poké Ball atop a cliff. They meet a sage named Sigourney, w...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 14 : Beg, Burrow and Steal
December 9th, 2004Lost in a desert, Ash and his friends see lots of identical pits in the ground—Trapinch burrows! A young woman named Elisa warns them they're trespa...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 15 : Absol-ute Disaster!
December 16th, 2004Ash is approaching the next town on Izabe Island when a sudden surge in the river destroys the bridge he was about to cross. An Absol is spotted in th...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 16 : Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!
December 23rd, 2004In a snowy region of Izabe Island, Ash and his friends take a rest at a Pokémon Center. As they're greeted by Nurse Joy, a Snorunt steals Ash's badge...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 17 : Do I Hear a Ralts?
January 6th, 2005As Ash and his friends are taking a break, Max hears a cry for help and finds a sick Ralts. It's too weak to walk but needs to be treated at a Pokémo...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 18 : The Great Eight Fate!
January 13th, 2005Our heroes have arrived in Sootopolis at last, and Ash is ready to earn his eighth badge—but first it's time to watch the Sootopolis Gym Leader, Jua...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 19 : Eight Ain't Enough
January 20th, 2005We rejoin the action in the middle of Ash's match against Juan, the Sootopolis Gym Leader. Ash's Grovyle has been confused by Luvdisc's Sweet Kiss and...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 20 : Showdown at Linoone
January 27th, 2005Ash is now three months away from Ever Grande City and the Hoenn League, while May is gearing up for her next contest in. But after they stop for a re...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 21 : Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?
February 3rd, 2005When Ash and May see Drew training his Masquerain, May can't resist the challenge of a practice match. Beautifly and Masquerain battle it out in a Sil...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 22 : Date Expectations
February 10th, 2005May and her friends are headed to Pacifidlog Island for the last Pokémon Contest before the Grand Festival. But their boat has engine trouble and the...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 23 : Mean with Envy
February 17th, 2005Pacifidlog at last! May is practicing for her contest, and Ash wants Snorunt to practice Ice Beam. But Snorunt's wild aim hits Team Rocket instead and...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 24 : Pacifidlog Jam
February 24th, 2005The second round of the Pacifidlog Contest begins! Erica and her Jynx face a suspiciously familiar team—the Jester and Meowth. Meowth is afraid of J...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 25 : Berry, Berry Interesting
March 3rd, 2005The kids are now headed to Slateport City. But while eating berries, Ash bites into a Tamato Berry and burns his mouth! They reach a Pokémon Center ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 26 : Less is Morrison
March 10th, 2005Our friends have stopped to eat, but Munchlax won't stop eating! Ash is training when he sees a sandwich come rolling down a hill, and Munchlax gulps ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 27 : The Ribbon Cup Caper!
March 17th, 2005May is traveling to Slateport City in style: onboard a giant cruise ship that has the Grand Festival's prize Ribbon Cup on display! Officer Jenny reve...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 28 : Satoshi and Haruka! Heated Battles in Hoenn!!
March 24th, 2005This is a clipshow Unaired outside of Japan of Satoshi's (Ash's) gym battles and Haruka's (May's) contest battles. ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 29 : Hi Ho Silver Wind!
April 7th, 2005May has arrived in Slateport City for the Grand Festival. Her mother, Caroline, has come to cheer her on, and her friends sent notes to wish her luck....
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 30 : Deceit and Assist
April 7th, 2005The Grand Festival is underway in Slateport. Harley asks May if they can train together for the main competition, and May agrees. She's not the only o...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 31 : Rhapsody in Drew
April 7th, 2005May and Harley face off in the main competition of the Grand Festival! It's Harley's Banette and Cacturne against May's Beautifly and Bulbasaur. May's...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 32 : Island Time
April 14th, 2005Ash is ready to board the ferry to Ever Grande City when May comes running up—she's won four plane tickets to Ever Grande! Except once the kids are ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 33 : Like a Meowth to a Flame
April 21st, 2005Ash and his friends have finally arrived in Ever Grande city for the Hoenn League Championships, but they're mobbed by a group of Murkrow as they're l...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 34 : Saved by the Beldum
April 28th, 2005Where's Morrison? That's the question on Ash's mind as he trains his Pokémon in preparation for the big tournament in Ever Grande City. When Morrison...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 35 : From Brags to Riches
May 5th, 2005The preliminaries are over, and now the Hoenn League Championships begin in earnest! The qualifying round is all double battles, and Ash goes to watch...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 36 : Shocks and Bonds
May 12th, 2005Ash, Tyson, and Morrison are all aiming for the top of the Hoenn League, but first they have to qualify for the Victory Tournament stage of the compet...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 37 : A Judgment Brawl
May 19th, 2005The first round of the Victory Tournament finds Ash in a tight spot. He has three Pokémon remaining; Katie, his opponent, has four. Katie's Golduck f...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 38 : Choose It or Lose It!
May 25th, 2005Morrison and Ash are battling each other in the Hoenn League, and Morrison is so upset he can't bring himself to choose his next Pokémon after his Gi...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 39 : At the End of the Fray
June 16th, 2005It's the battle between Ash and Tyson to decide who moves on to the final four of the Hoenn League, and Glalie and Sceptile are already out! Tyson's S...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 40 : The Scheme Team
June 23rd, 2005The Hoenn League has ended and our friends must go their separate ways. Tyson and Morrison are off to new adventures; May and Max return to Petalburg ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 41 : The Right Place and the Right Mime
June 30th, 2005Ash has returned to Pallet Town to find a reunion of friends! May stops by Ash's house but Ash has left for Professor Oak's lab, where Max, Misty, and...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 42 : A Real Cleffa-Hanger
July 7th, 2005Ash and his friends are on their way to the Battle Frontier, and Misty joins them for a while as she heads back to Cerulean City. But Daisy calls to a...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 43 : Numero Uno Articuno
July 21st, 2005The Battle Factory is Ash's next destination—if he can find it, that is. He and his friends have become lost, but they see snow and an Articuno flyi...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 44 : The Symbol Life
July 28th, 2005Ash has opted to battle Articuno with Charizard in his Battle Factory match. Now he's busy training with Charizard, who has gotten even stronger durin...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 45 : Hooked on Onix
August 4th, 2005Ash's Battle Factory victory has him eager to reach the next Battle Frontier stop right away, but even he has to stop for food and water. Munchlax tak...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 46 : Rough, Tough Jigglypuff
August 11th, 2005On their way to the Battle Arena, Ash and his friends are snagged by a net trap. But for once, it's not Team Rocket—it's a fellow named Mitch and hi...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 47 : On Cloud Arcanine
August 18th, 2005May and Ash are waiting on line outside a popular bakery when an Arcanine runs past. May wants to catch it, but she sees that Drew is chasing it too! ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 48 : Sitting Psyduck
August 25th, 2005A Psyduck is frantically running from a Machop, Machoke, and Machamp when it hurls headlong into Ash and friends, on their way to the Pokémon Contest...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 49 : Hail to the Chef!
September 1st, 2005Chasing after a hungry Munchlax, Ash and his friends end up at Rhonda's, a restaurant run by a girl named Rhonda with Mr. Mime as its head chef. Team ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 50 : Caterpie's Big Dilemma
September 8th, 2005On their way to Saffron City, Ash and his friends encounter a Caterpie and its Trainer-in-training, Xander, who mistakes them for lab robbers. Fortuna...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 51 : The Saffron Con
September 15th, 2005May and friends arrive in Saffron City, where May is so excited about the upcoming Pokémon Contest that she heads straight for the Contest Hall. She ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 52 : A Hurdle for Squirtle
September 22nd, 2005The contest in Saffron City is about to begin! Harley ends up apologizing to May, but it rings hollow given his history of hating May. He goes first, ...
Pokémon Season 8 Episode 53 : Pasta La Vista
September 29th, 2005Before they leave Saffron City, the kids have different things they want to check out. May and Brock want to try some awesome noodles. Ash and Max wan...