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title: "New Pokemon anime – To reveal Ash and Pikachu’s back story"
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description: "The very first trailer for the brand new upcoming Pokemon anime series has made its debut and it has got fans talking."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2019-11-04 20:16:06"
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New Pokemon anime - To reveal Ash and Pikachu’s back story | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![New Pokemon anime – To reveal Ash and Pikachu’s back story](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/new-pokemon-anime-to-reveal-ash-and-pikachus-back-story.jpg "New Pokemon anime – To reveal Ash and Pikachu’s back story")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/new-pokemon-anime-to-reveal-ash-and-pikachus-back-story.jpg)The very first trailer for the brand new upcoming Pokemon anime series has made its debut and it has got fans talking.

The trailer, which is in Japanese, seems to be showing flashbacks of Ash and Pikachu leading people to believe it could be a full-on reboot of the series focussing on Ash’s backstory with Pikachu.

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## [](#pikachu-is-born)Pikachu is Born

The first episode of the new season of Pokémon will be called “Pikachu is Born!” and will show what Ash’s Pikachu was like before his life at Professor Oak’s office.

Of course, Pikachu was a baby at some point, meaning we’re going to get to see a bunch of cute Pichu antics in it for sure.

Ash’s relationship with Pikachu started off rocky. Pikachu refused to get in its ball, electrocuted Ash constantly, and even laughed at him when he failed to catch a Pidgey.

Pikachu’s heart softened though as he realized how much Ash cared about him.

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