It's the New Year! Pocket Monsters Special!

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon animated series that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

お正月だよ！ポケットモンスタースペシャル！

It's the New Year! Pocket Monsters Special!

First broadcast Japan January 1, 1999 United States Unaired

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター'98 Ending

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(Japanese: お正月だよ！ポケットモンスタースペシャル！ It's the New Year! Pocket Monsters Special!) is a two-hour special, which included a special 90-minute clip show, that aired immediately after the original broadcast of the Pokémon the Series: The Beginning episode The Fourth Round Rumble.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

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• Plot
• Major events
  • Debuts
    • Pokémon debuts
• Characters
  • Humans
  • Pokémon
• Trivia

Contents

Plot

This clip shows summarized events up until The Fourth Round Rumble.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Mew

Trivia

• The opening is suspected to have been mostly the same as It's New Year's Eve! Pocket Monsters Encore, because most of that portion's clips are from episodes 1-37, and very few come from episodes that aired in 1998.

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