Eyecatch
Not to be confused with Location preview. An eyecatch (Japanese: アイキャッチ eyecatch) is a transitional feature in the Pokémon anime that appears between commercial breaks during an episode. Sometimes, the 12 seconds available are used for two 6-second eyecatches or a single 12-second eyecatch.
The only eyecatch retained for Western audiences was Dare da? (Japanese, kana: だれだ?; translation: Who is it?), which became Who's That Pokémon?. Unlike its Japanese counterpart, it continued well into the Advanced Generation series, ending with Watt's with Wattson? and being replaced by Pokémon Trainer's Choice starting with from What You Seed is What You get? ending with Pasta La Vista, when eyecatches disappeared in the dub, but then returned in In The Shadow of Zekrom!. With that, the English dub episodes of Diamond & Pearl series are the only ones with no eyecatch entirely.
List of eyecatches
This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: first DP high-definition eyecatch episodes, other Who's That Pokémon? images |
Japanese
English dub
Name | First half | Last half | Episodes |
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Original | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | EP001 - EP274 | ||
Advanced | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | AG001 - AG040 | ||
Pokémon Trainer's Choice | File:PokémonTrainersChoice Seviper.png | AG041 - AG145 | |
Black & White | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | BW001 - BW142 | ||
The Series: XY | |||
Who's That Pokémon? | XY001 - present | ||