Twenty-eight seasons in one long run, and twenty-three films that each belong inside a season rather than after one.
There are two honest answers and they lead to different places. If you want to watch Pokémon now, start with Horizons, which begins in 2023 with a new cast and asks nothing of you. If you specifically want Ash Ketchum's story, start at the beginning and accept that it is about 1,200 episodes long. The path below does the first, then hands you the second.
Seen some of these already? Tap the circles to tick them off. The full list below fills in as you go.
A soft reboot with new leads, a new region and no returning cast. It is the only point in the run where nothing has happened yet, which is exactly what a newcomer needs.
Continues straight on and pays off the mystery the first season sets up. Horizons is serialised in a way the older seasons were not, so these are not interchangeable.
The current season, still going out in parts, so this is where you catch up to the present and stop. Nothing after this exists yet.
If Horizons worked and you want the original, this is the beginning of it. Eighty two episodes of 1997 television, largely self contained, and the only stretch most people can quote from memory.
The film was made to sit inside season 1 rather than after it, so watch it late in the Indigo League episodes and before the tournament. Saving it for the end makes it read as a sequel to something it is not.
Then what? From there it is one long line: seasons 2 to 25 in order, with each film dropped in at the point marked on it rather than saved up. If you do not want all of it, the three usual shortcuts are to watch the original series (seasons 1 to 5) and stop, to jump to Diamond and Pearl (season 10) which needs almost nothing before it, or to jump to XY (season 17) which is where the show looks and moves best. Journeys (season 23) is a third clean entry point because it drops the region format and reintroduces everyone. The four films in the separate continuity group and everything under Side series can be watched whenever, or never.
A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below: tick anything off in either place.
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The code holds only this franchise. The link opens the tracker with your progress already filled in, good for showing someone where you're at. The image is a picture you can keep anywhere: scan the code on it with a phone, or drag the file back in below.
Every franchise you have touched, in one code.
Scan it with another device's camera, or paste the code in below. It never leaves your browser.
This reads the progress stored inside the picture, so nothing has to be retyped. If the image has been through a messaging app it may have been re-encoded and lost that: scan the code on it instead, or copy the code printed along the bottom.
Takes either kind of code. A single franchise code replaces that franchise, on any device. An everything code merges by default, so nothing you have ticked on this device is lost. Putting a whole list onto a device that has nothing on it yet is the part an account pays for.
Read only. This never changes what you have saved, and nothing leaves your browser. The code has to be their code for this same franchise: codes do not carry a name, so one from somewhere else may not be recognised as wrong.
Your email is confirmed and your account is ready. Everything you tick is saved on this device, as it always was.
Part of the subscription.
Your SagaList account.
Nothing else happens until you follow the link. If it has not arrived in a few minutes, look in your spam folder and search for SagaList. It is sent from a no-reply address on our own domain, so there is nothing to reply to.
Both addresses get an email: the new one to confirm it, and the old one so that nobody can move your account without you knowing. Nothing changes until you follow the link.
Signing out leaves everything you have ticked on this device exactly where it is. It only stops it syncing.
This removes your account, your email address, and the progress stored on our side. It cannot be undone and we cannot get it back for you.
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