Season

A season of the Pokémon anime is a collection of dubbed episodes that air for the first time between September and June, though since Pokémon USA has been dubbing the series seasons have typically started in the spring. They usually share an opening, and are often 52 or less episodes long. There is no distinction between these dubbed seasons in the original Japanese airings, except when the seasons' beginnings and endings coincide with those of a new series in Japan. Each season also has a movie that corresponds to it, though the pairing of a movie with a specific anime season is merely due to the annual release they undergo in Japan.