While Ash is an important and iconic part of Pokemon's history, Horizons: The Series proves he was never really the very best ...

Ever since the Pokémon anime started airing in the '90s, the protagonist, Ash Ketchum ... Goomy looks just like the funny toys used to entertain children. Goomy is vulnerable to Fairy-types ...

including a “My Partner Eevee” toy with 50 different reactions, a Pokemon Carry Case playset that folds into a backpack modeled after Ash Ketchum’s, and a Snorlax plush that makes belly ...

the new toys. It’s always selling, each pillar advertising another in a structure that many companies can only dream of. Ash Ketchum has been both salesman and best friend, marketing emblem and ...

designed to sell toys and lunchboxes, but to kids it meant something. Actually, Pokémon is a classic children’s story and Ash is a classic children’s character: the child out on their own ...

to soft toys. Most seasons of the anime follow Ash's journey across various fictional regions catching Pokemon as he aimed to win eight gym badges to qualify for their Pokemon League. But the ...

Metatextually, it’s a way for the show to inject some exposition every time protagonist Ash comes ... several kid’s toys…except for the near-magical ability to identify Pokemon with a ...

But after 25 years as the main protagonist of the Pokemon anime series ... video games and countless toys. It's not hard to see why. Ash Ketchum represented the dreams many kids have of action ...