Master Quest over without Johto League !!!????

DP-NiSh · **Posted:** December 18th, 2005, 3:29 am

No, it isnt

Some of you (who probably know that Johto League that ran thru Johto Journeys/Johto League Champions ends with Master Quest) may be wondering why Cartoon Network just suddenly started repeats after Eps 264 - You're A Star, Larvitar instead of ending the Master Quest season with Johto League battles.

Well... It's like this. Mostly any anime or cartoons have seasons of 52 eps each as 1 eps per week upto 1 yr = 52 weeks = 1 season per year.
The Pokemon series is also shown in the same way, tho we don't get it once a week but 5 times a week thanks to CN.
'You're a Star Larvitar' was the 52nd episode of Master Quest hence the end of season 5 as per TV Series, not original seasons. Hence 12 more eps of actual Master Quest are left unaired which will be shown in Season 6 Pokemon Advanced alongwith 40 eps of Advanced.
Therefore, 12 MQ + 40 Advanced = 52 eps again in the same way.

So, as soon as the 12 eps of Master Quest are shown after the repeats, the Advanced episodes (season 6) will be shown without any delay.

You may also remember that even the Johto Journeys season in Summer 2004 was started from mid of Orange League, all so as to group eps into slots of 52.

SapnaYokris56 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2006, 10:42 am

Oh that's quite good calculation you got, hehe. Yea I believe that repeats are no harm unless they don't keep repeating twice and thrice which makes us lose interest in the show.

DP-NiSh · **Posted:** April 25th, 2006, 4:00 pm

Here's an article which wud seem interesting to be posted here. It also proves my above posted theory correct. Below is the list of how episodes from TV Season 3 (aired May 2004 India) are grouped into seasons.
NOTE: The dates used here and KidsWB channel refer to the Pokemon series shown in USA

Dogasu's Backpack wrote:

I think some people are thinking that a new saga = a new season, but that's not the case at all (nor has it ever been). Kids' WB! doesn't buy seasons storyline by storyline; they buy them in 52 episode chunks. And, as we've seen in the past, these "chunks" often include the last part of one saga and the first part of another saga. After the first two seasons, when the show was floating around on syndication before finding a home on Kids' WB!, the show got a regular 52 episode a year order:

Season Three (Fall 2000 - Summer 2001) contains the last eleven episodes of the Orange Island saga (from "The Pokemon Water War" to "The Rivalry Revival") and all 41 episodes of Pokémon Johto Journeys, for a total of 52 episodes.

Season Four (Fall 2001 - Summer 2002) contains all 52 episodes of Pokémon Johto League Champions (from "A Goldenrod Opportunity" to "Machoke, Machoke Man"), for a total of 52 episodes.

Season Five (Fall 2002 - Summer 2003) contains the first 52 episodes of Pokémon Master Quest (from "Around the Whirlpool" to "You're a Star, Larvitar!"), for a total of 52 episodes.

Season Six (Fall 2003 - Summer 2004) contains the last twelve episodes of Pokémon Master Quest (from "Address Unown" to "Hoenn Alone") and all 40 episodes of Pokémon Advanced (from "Get The Show on the Road" to "Watt's With Wattson"), for a total of 52 episodes.

Season Seven (Fall 2004 - Summer 2005) contains all 52 episodes of Pokémon Advanced Challenge (from "What You Seed is What You Get" to "Judgment Day"), for a total of 52 episodes.

Season Eight (Fall 2005 - Summer 2006) contains the final 38 episodes of the Houen League (from "Clamperl of Wisdom" to "At the End of the Fray") and the first fourteen episodes of the Battle Frontier (from "The Scheme Team" to "The Fighting Dojo! Satoshi vs. Haruka!"), for a total of 52 episodes.