New episodes of the latest season of the Pokemon television anime will be delayed, due to safety concerns caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the official Twitter, beginning this week new episodes of the Pokemon anime will be replaced with rebroadcasts. Pocket Monsters, as it’s called in Japan, normally airs Sundays at 6PM JST. The episode originally scheduled to air on Sunday April 26th will be delayed for the foreseeable future.
The new season of Pocket Monsters follows Satoshi (Ash) and his new companions Gou (or Go). Pokemon and regions from all of the mainline game’s “generations” will be featured. The newest season titled Pokemon Journeys: the Series in English, has yet to have a formal debut in the west.
The online YouTube series Pokemon: Twilight Wings has also been affected, with the English dub of the latest episode not being available as of this time of writing. The prior episodes had released Japanese and English dubs simultaneously to the official Pokemon YouTube channels (Japanese and US respectively).
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (also known as COVID-19 officially, or Chinese Flu to others) has affected many worldwide, from businesses to public gatherings and events. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].
This includes the postponement of GDC, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, along with the cancellation of E3 2020 (including digital events), the physical event for Gamescom 2020, and Comiket 98.
We also recently reported on Toei Animation suspending the broadcasts of One Piece and Digimon Adventure:, and Dragon Marked for Death’s 3.0.0 update being delayed on Nintendo Switch.
The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering are mapping the virus’ spread [1, 2]. As of this time of writing, there have been over 2.492 million total confirmed cases worldwide, and over 1.665 million active cases. There have been over 171,000 deaths, however over 656,000 people have made a “total recovery.”
Japan have had over 11,135 cases (9,633 active cases), 263 deaths, and 1,239 recoveries.
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