Ash's hat

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Ash's sixth hat that he wears in the Sun & Moon series

Ash's hat (Japanese: サトシのぼうし Satoshi's hat) is an item of clothing that Ash Ketchum is seldom seen without. Throughout the Pokémon anime, Ash has worn six different hats so far, one for each of the six different series.

All of Ash's hats have been produced for people to wear. Ash's Advanced Generation hat was available to purchase at PokémonCenter.com before it shut down. His hats can be found at numerous stores (including the Pokémon Centers in Japan) and on online auction sites such as eBay.

In the anime

Pokémon League Expo hat

Ash's first hat
Ash wearing his Pokémon League Expo hat backwards

Ash's first hat, worn during the original series, is easily the most well-known: an official Pokémon League Expo hat that was red and white with a green, stylized "L" on the front. There were only 100 of these hats which were given away by the Pokémon League, and Ash claims to have "sent in about a million postcards" in order to obtain it. Misty also tried to win it but stated she only sent in one postcard. Ash wore this hat during his journey through Kanto, the Orange Archipelago, and Johto, and was very attached to it, becoming enraged when a Mankey stole it and played keep-away with it in Primeape Goes Bananas. The design may be loosely based on Red's Generation I hat, and in early concept sketches for the anime, Ash's hat matched Red's exactly.

Commonly, Ash would turn the cap backwards, particularly when he was concentrating heavily, such as when he would face a Trainer or capture a Pokémon. This was seen most often early in his journey in Kanto, gradually becoming less frequent until his journey in Johto ended, by which time he hardly ever turned his cap. The sequence was actually a common animation practice used frequently to cut costs at the time.

Advanced Generation hat

Ash's second hat
Ash wearing his second hat backwards

After returning from Johto, Ash was given a change of clothes by his mother, and he immediately changed into them, including switching his old hat for a new black-and-red one which had a green Poké Ball symbol on it. He seemed to have no hesitation in changing hats, despite the attachment shown in Primeape Goes Bananas.

Like the first one, his second hat was also stolen by a monkey-like Pokémon which Ash later captured, this time an Aipom in Slaking Kong!. Unlike previous occasions, Ash actually accepted that it was gone (or so he assumed), saying that he would "feel strange" without it. At the end of the episode, Aipom returned Ash's hat to him. However, Aipom followed Ash and his friends to the Kanto Grand Festival where it stole his hat again. After Ash captured her, Aipom stole Ash's hat multiple more times as the Advanced Generation series ended and the Diamond & Pearl series began.

Ash rarely flipped his hat during the series. Occasions on which he flipped his hat include when he was dressed as an eggplant in Claydol Big and Tall, when he was cleaning the dojo in Pasta La Vista!, while sleeping with his Pokémon in Gathering the Gang of Four!, and during the climax of the ninth Pokémon movie.

Diamond & Pearl hat

Ash wearing his third hat backwards
Ash's third hat

Ash had received his third hat in a package from his mother while in the Sinnoh region. Though his clothes changed quite a bit between their Advanced Generation and Diamond & Pearl iterations, his hat remained similar; though while his second hat had a green Poké Ball symbol, his third one was blue. This hat also had a larger and square black area around the Poké Ball, while the black area in the Advanced Generation series was round.

Ash flipped this hat only twice: in his battle against Tobias in The Semi-Final Frontier! and briefly in the thirteenth Pokémon movie.

Best Wishes hat

Ash wearing his fourth hat backwards
Ash's fourth hat

In the Best Wishes series, Ash wore a red and off-white hat. Unlike the hats seen during the Advanced Generation and Diamond & Pearl series, this hat bore a slight resemblance to the one seen in the original series, but with a blue Poké Ball design for a logo and no line running down the middle. The hat resembles the hat worn by Hilbert from Pokémon Black and White.

In Dancing With the Ducklett Trio!, Ash's hat was stolen once again, this time by a trio of Ducklett.

During the early episodes of the Best Wishes series, Ash flipped his hat somewhat often, with decreasing frequency as the series went on. This is the same pattern seen in the original series with the Pokémon League Expo hat.

In Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!, Ash flipped his hat before moving forward to help his Pokémon dig through the cave wall.

A comparison of the similarities between Ash's hat from the original series (left) to the Best Wishes series (right)


XY hat

Ash wearing his fifth hat backwards
Ash's fifth hat

In the XY series, Ash wears a red hat with a white brim and a white semicircle across the front. This hat resembles the hat worn by Red in the games from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen to Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.

Once again, his hat was stolen in Dreaming a Performer's Dream where a mischievous Pancham stole it, along with Clemont's glasses, to use for practicing for performances. Serena eventually got the two items back by trading for a pair of sunglasses.

Ash flipped his hat somewhat often early in the XY series, but only did so twice in the second half of the series: during the eighteenth Pokémon movie and in The Synchronicity Test!. Ash has also had the tendency of adjusting his hat often in this series; this was seen more commonly than seeing him flipping his hat backwards. This tendency echoes Red's sprite animations from Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver onwards.

Sun & Moon hat

Ash wearing his sixth hat backwards

In the Sun & Moon series, Ash wears a red hat with a white Poké Ball symbol on it. The hat resembles Elio's hat from Pokémon Sun and Moon, but is red instead of black while the brim is recolored from black to white.

The hat continued the tradition of being stolen, this time by Tapu Koko in The Guardian's Challenge, where it stole the hat to lure Ash and Pikachu to a forest to battle against them, returning the hat when they arrived.

Ash has flipped his hat more often so far in the Sun & Moon series than in the early episodes of most other series.

I Choose You! and The Power of Us hat

Ash wearing his I Choose You! and The Power of Us hat backwards

In I Choose You!, the Ash of the alternate continuity is shown wearing a different hat. It looks almost the same as the other Ash’s original Pokémon League Expo hat, except that the Pokémon League logo is changed to resemble the Poké Ball symbol from his Sun & Moon hat. Ash continued wearing this hat in The Power of Us, despite the rest of his outfit changing. This makes it the only one of Ash's hats that was worn with multiple outfits.

In I Choose You!, Ash wore this hat backwards twice, both times while protecting Pikachu. In The Power of Us, Ash wore this hat backwards when Pikachu battled Zeraora.

Due to its shorter screen time, this is Ash’s first hat that has never been stolen by a Pokémon in any of its appearances.

In the games

Core series

Bulbanews
Bulbanews has an article related to this subject:
Main article: List of Pokémon with form differences → Pikachu in a cap

Six forms of Pikachu, each wearing one of Ash's six hats between the original series and the Sun & Moon series, were introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon. They were distributed to moviegoers who pre-ordered tickets to I Choose You! in Japan, and via a series of internet downloads in the West. A seventh form, the Partner Cap Pikachu, wearing Ash's hat from I Choose You!, was introduced in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. It was available via a special Pokémon Ga-Olé disc in Japan, and via a QR code distributed at screenings of the movie in the West.

Side series

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Ash's hat in Hey You, Pikachu

In Hey You, Pikachu!, the original hat, along with the rest of the outfit, can be seen hanging on a coat rack in the player's bedroom. Pikachu uses the hat in "The Piñata Game" to cover his eyes.

Trivia

Concept art of the Pokémon League Expo hat


In other languages

Pokémon League Expo hat

Language Title
Denmark Flag.png Danish Pokémon-liga-casquette
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Pokémon League pet
Finland Flag.png Finnish Pokémon-liigalippis
France Flag.png French Casquette de la ligue Pokémon
Germany Flag.png German Pokémon-Liga-Kappe
Italy Flag.png Italian Cappello della Lega Pokémon
South Korea Flag.png Korean 포켓몬 리그전 공인 모자 Pokémon League-jeon gongin moja
Norway Flag.png Norwegian Pokémon-liga-keps
Poland Flag.png Polish Czapka z Wielkiej Wystawy Ligii Pokémon
Brazil Flag.png Brazilian Portuguese Boné de liga Pokémon
Russia Flag.png Russian Бейсболка Лиги Покемонов Beysbolka Ligi Pokémonov
Spain Flag.png European Spanish Gorra de la liga Pokémon
Sweden Flag.png Swedish Pokémon-liga-keps

See also


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