Summary
Ash’s age is a point of speculation in the Pokémon anime, with fans estimating that he will be around 13-14 years old based on the number of episodes and assuming each episode represents a day. Anime sometimes provides markers of the passage of time, such as mentioning a year has passed since Ash and Pikachu met and the construction of a magnet train took a year. Taking these into account, Ash is probably at least 17 years old or older. If Ash had aged properly throughout the series, he would have been almost a full-fledged adult by the time of the Aim to Be a Master miniseries. However, despite the passage of time in the anime, Ash is officially still 10 years old.
Ash Ketchum’s Pokémon anime is basically 10 years old. That’s true in the first episodes in Kanto as well as in the episodes of Ash’s last Aim to Be a Master miniseries. But assuming time has flown for Ash during this time – how old will he be if that is the case?
Unfortunately, there is no right answer to that question, but there are a number of different ways one can estimate his age, and certain anime markings can help establish some sort of timeline. time. Many fans believe that Ash is somehow kept from aging in Pokémon, but if that’s the case, other characters would have certainly commented on it already. If anything, the passage of time in Pokémon is more like the passage of time in Western comics – only permanently set in “modern times” when nothing has happened for too long, even then. is many years ago in real life. Time may pass for the off-screen characters, but whoever focuses on is just as stuck as they are.
36 years old Ash (if the Pokémon happens in real time)
Ash would be 36 years old in Pokémon if he were to age with the real world, but there’s no reason to assume time passes at a similar rate to reality for Ash. The simplest way to estimate Ash’s age is to count episodes. Most Pokémon episodes take place in a single day, so treating 1 episode as 1 day means that 1,232 days have passed from the beginning of his journey to its end, or 3 years 137 days , ie Ash is between 13 and 14 years old. That seems like a fair amount of time, if a bit short. However, that’s a very rough number and doesn’t take into account episodes that take place over a longer period of time or episodes from a storyline that take place on the same day.
Ash is 10 years old (in the Official Pokemon Timeline)
However, anime sometimes gives indications of the passage of time. For example, around the time of the third film, Entei and the Spell of the Unown, shortly before the film establishes that it has been a year since Ash and Pikachu met in Pallet Town (where is it? it was said that Ash had left on his 10th birthday). The series was released between episodes 155 and 156 in Japan, showing that 155 episodes took place over the course of a year, slower than the 1-episode-a-day rate. Episode 158 reveals a magnet train is under construction in Johto and will take at least a year, and that the train will be driven in the final episodes of the Black and White era, meaning at least a year has passed in 640 interlaced episodes, and other episodes where more than one is suggested.
Some series seem to take place over a fixed period of time, such as Sun and Moon, which essentially spans an entire school year. There are also incidents such as Professor Burnett having had a baby since Ash left Alola, suggesting that the first 36 episodes of Pokémon Journey take place over at least 9 months. Some other major events, such as tournaments, are sometimes supposed to run for a specific period of time, providing duration for alternating periods. When taking these specific time measurements into account, Ash must be at least 17 years old, if not older.
Ash’s companions will be even older
The same logic can also be applied to Brock and Misty. Misty’s age is never stated in the Pokémon dub, but in the Japanese version she is also 10 years old, meaning she’s roughly the same age as Ash, by any of these metrics. Brock was a bit older when he was first introduced, aged 15. That means that Brock would actually be in his 40s, just over 18 if you count on 1 episode per day and at least 22 when using use certain time increments In the program. Incidentally, that’s pretty much in line with what he’s been up to towards the end of the series, when Brock is training to be a Pokémon doctor, which is odd for a 15-year-old boy but befitting of a young adult. at the age of 20.
As surprising as it may seem, Ash had almost become a full-fledged adult by the time Aim to Be Master. However, these only give an idea of how old Ash might be if he ages properly throughout the series. While Ash is officially 10 years old no matter what, the 1,200+ episodes of the Pokémon anime prove that a lot of time has passed and that there are even specific periods mentioned in many places. Differences. ash and Pokémon anime’s other heroes will grow up with viewers, and in some ways, it’s a shame they never did.
