Has pikachu ever NOT been in an anime episode or movie as of 2018?
Aug. 1, 2018I recently made a point (IRL, not on this site) that part of what makes pikachu iconic is that it has a starring role in every single episode of the main-series anime (so not the no longer broadcast mega-evolution specials or Pokemon origins/generations) as well as every movie. but was that statment actually correct? has pikachu (or A pikachu) ever been absent from a main-series episode or movie?
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This answer is based on the assumption that Mew’s answer on this (https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/49649/are-there-any-pokemon-episodes-with-no-pikachu) is a correct list of all episodes without Pikachu up until that point.
Pikachu makes an appearance in every single episode of season 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21.
In Season 19 however there is an episode called “The Legend of X, Y and Z!” in which both Ash and Pikachu are absent. Which seems to be the only time since Mew’s answer was written that Pikachu doesn’t appear in an episode of the anime.
That means the list would be:
