Pokémon: Master Quest

Pokémon: Master Quest
Season 5
English DVD Cover
No. of episodes
  • 65 (Japanese version)
  • 64 (English version)
Release
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original releaseAugust 9, 2001 (2001-08-09) 
November 14, 2002 (2002-11-14)
Season chronology

Pokémon: Master Quest is the fifth season of Pokémon known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Episode Gold & Silver (ポケットモンスター金銀編, Poketto Monsutā Kin Gin Hen). It originally aired in Japan from August 9, 2001, to November 14, 2002, on TV Tokyo, in the United States from September 14, 2002, to October 25, 2003, on Kids' WB. It was the first season of Pokémon to be digitally animated as opposed to cel animation, starting with the episode "Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid".

The season follows the adventures of the ten-year-old Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum and his electric mouse partner Pikachu as they collect Gym Badges in the fictional Johto region so they can compete in the Johto League competition.

The episodes were directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and produced by the animation studio OLM.