Pokémon: Advanced Challenge
| Pokémon: Advanced Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Season 7 | |
English front cover of the Pokémon: Advanced Challenge DVD collection box | |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original release | September 4, 2003 – September 2, 2004 |
| Season chronology | |
Pokémon: Advanced Challenge is the seventh season of Pokémon and the second season of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation (ポケットモンスター アドバンスジェネレーション, Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon). It originally aired in Japan from September 4, 2003, to September 2, 2004, on TV Tokyo, and in the United States from September 11, 2004, to September 10, 2005, on Kids' WB.
Set in the fictional Hoenn region, 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 so they can compete in the Hoenn League competition. Along the way, they are joined by Brock, the formed leader of the Pewter City Gym, and the ten-year-old Pokémon Coordinator May and her younger brother, Max, as May competes in Pokémon Contests with the aim of earning Ribbons so she can enter the Hoenn Grand Festival.
The episodes were directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and produced by the animation studio OLM.