Ash and Pikachu were the protagonists of some of the strangest moments of this curious episode.
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The Pokémon anime is one of the longest on the air right now. His first episode came in the distant 1997 serving as a small adaptation of the prologue of Pokémon Yellow also giving a remembered cameo of the then enigmatic legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, being the visible face of what would be the next main installment of this huge franchise.
The success of video games and anime made the series extend and its protagonists lived all kinds of adventures which, in many cases, could be considered very far from what could happen in the common journey to be the Champion of the Pokémon League as the history of the main video games usually treats. One of these chapters is considered by fans as one of the strangest of all, with a moment when Ash is turned into Pikachu by a witch’s magic.
A chapter that some fans cannot forget
The episode Hocus Pokémon is part of the fifth season of the series, released in 2002. It followed the classic formula of introducing an episodic character exclusive to the series: in this case a witch who wanted to make a magic potion that would allow humans to better understand Pokémon. In the chapter, the script twists would not take long to arrive due to this character.
Not only the introduction of the call is striking “Magic Pokémon” instead of high technology, a resource that the series uses to justify more extravagant situations: at the end of the chapter Ash ends up being transformed into Pikachu, keeping this form even after the episode is over. This conflict is not resolved during the episode, leaving everything up in the air and causing some to consider what happens in Hocus Pokémon as some kind of bad dream of Ash’s.
The appearance of Ash being Pikachu
This chapter over time won some strength among the fans surprised by its peculiarity, they renamed this version of Ash as Ashachu and coming to have stories and drawings made by fans long after the original airing of this episode.
The closest thing to seeing a situation like this in the video games of the saga is in Pokémon Mysterious World carried out in a better way and taking advantage of the concept of showing How does it feel to be a human being a pokemon?
How strange it turned out to be at the time of its airing makes the episode Hocus Pokémon avoid being forgotten, and this has some merit considering the large number of episodes that Ash starred in. On the other hand, this episode will be a frequent option when listing the strangest situations ever by the former protagonist of this anime.
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