Fan CastingPokémon Live Action TV Series 2023

Ash Ketchum (Jack Dylan Grazer), a 10-year-old aspiring Pokémon trainer from Pallet Town who is given a Pikachu (Ikue Ōtani) by Pokémon researcher Professor Oak (Martin Freeman) to begin his Pokémon journey, Ash is driven by his desire to win the Indigo Pokémon League, a challenging tournament for outstanding Pokémon trainers who compete against each other in Pokémon battles. To qualify for the tournament, Ash must collect the required number of gym badges, which are tokens earned after defeating each of the Kanto region's elite Pokémon gym leaders. Early in the season, Ash befriends the water-type Pokémon trainer Misty (Glory Joy Rose), who befriends Ash in hopes of him replacing her destroyed bicycle, and Brock (Lance Lim), a Pokémon breeder who is the leader of the Pewter City gym earning badges to compete in the Indigo League tournament, and evading the humorously incompetent Team Rocket—Jesse (Emma Roberts), James (Evan Peters), and Meowth (Alan Tudyk), a talking cat Pokémon—who yearn to steal Pikachu for their gang leader, and while encountering and catching all sorts Pokémon as well making new friends on his journeys and encounter extremely dangerous tasks quests challenges battling different rivals and other threats along the way.