Although Ash Ketchum of the original Pokémon anime remains a staple of the franchise, he is actually the Pokémon world's second-greatest hero. The Pokémon Trainer whose skills surpass even his is Red ...

Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own ...

Adriano is GameRant’s Anime Features lead. He has been working on creating anime content for GameRant since November 2021. He enjoys a wide variety of anime, with Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the Pokémon anime, Ash has captured and trained a broad range of Pokémon over the years, ...

I think most Pokemon fans can admit that Ash really is only as good as his companions. It’s a brutal truth, but as a fully static character, his reactions to things are magnified or decreased based on ...

Based on the already-popular game series, the Pokémon anime became a cultural phenomenon almost immediately after it was first released in the '90s. A quarter-century later, the franchise is about as ...