Netflix

Netflix
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	Netflix Logo
Provider	Netflix, Inc.
Launched	August 29, 1997 (DVD rental) ; January 16, 2007 (video on demand)
Shutdown	N/A
Service provided	Video on demand service
Accessible by	Web, Mobile, Smart TV, Consoles etc
Website	netflix.com

Netflix is an Internet-based on-demand streaming service. The service has episodes and television movies without television network logos or advertisements. As of March 2022, Netflix is available worldwide except in mainland China, Crimea, North Korea, Russia, and Syria.^[2]

As of January 2022, Netflix requires a monthly subscription fee starting at US$9.99/€7.99/£6.99/CA$9.99/AU$10.99/NZ$12.99/ZAR 49/CHF 11.90/¥990/₩9,500/HK$63/NT$270 for one screen and US$15.49/€12.99/£10.99/CA$16.49/AU$16.99/NZ$18.49/ZAR 99/CHF 18.90/¥1,490/₩13,500/HK$78/NT$330 for HD and two screens.^[3]

Availability of Pokémon animation

Select episodes of the Pokémon animated series are available on Netflix in most countries worldwide, with the specific selection varying by location. As of September 4, 2025, the following episodes and movies are available:

Title	Episodes	Availability
		United States, Latin America and the Caribbean	Nordic countries, Poland, Turkey, New Zealand	Dutch Caribbean	Benelux	Italy, Spain	Other	Papua New Guinea, Samoa	South Asia, Laos, Mongolia, Timor-Leste	Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan	South Korea	Japan
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		Pokémon the Series: Indigo League	S01	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✔
Pokémon the Series: XY	S17, S18, S19, XYS01 - XYS04	✔	✘	✔	✘	✔	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔	✘
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon	S20, S21, S22	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔	✘
Pokémon Journeys: The Series	S23	✔	✔	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon Journeys: The Series	S23, S24, S25	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series	S24	✔	✔	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series	JN091 - JN136	✔	✔	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master: Ultimate Journeys: The Series	JN137 - JN147, JNS05	✔	✔	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon: The Distant Blue Sky	JNS05	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master	JN137 - JN147	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon Horizons: The Series	Horizons S01	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon Horizons: The Series	HZ001 - HZ045	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔
Pokémon Horizons: The Series	HZ001 - HZ067	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon Horizons: Season 2: The Search for Laqua	Horizons S02	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon: The Sky-High Adventure	HZ068 - HZ089	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon The Movie: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew	M08	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!	M20	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us	M21	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution	M22	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution	M22	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle	M23	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles	*	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon: Stories from the Johto Region - The Final Chapter	*	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Pokémon Detective Pikachu	*	^{[note 12]}	^{[note 12]}	✘	^{[note 12]}	✔	^{[note 12]}	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Pokémon Concierge	*	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Pokémon Kids TV	*	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘

↑ Includes Netflix American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Barthélemy, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela
↑ Includes Netflix Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Türkiye
↑ Includes Netflix Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten
↑ Includes Netflix Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands
↑ Includes Netflix Italy and Spain
↑ Includes Netflix in all other countries
↑ Includes Netflix Papua New Guinea and Samoa
↑ Includes Netflix Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste
↑ Includes Netflix Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong SAR China, Indonesia, Macau SAR China, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam
↑ Includes Netflix South Korea
↑ Includes Netflix Japan
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 ^12.2 ^12.3 Available on Netflix Andorra, Antarctica, Australia, Belgium, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Greece, Guadeloupe, Heard & McDonald Islands, Italy, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Portugal, Réunion, San Marino, Spain, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, St. Pierre & Miquelon, Switzerland, Tokelau, Türkiye, Vatican City, and Wallis & Futuna

Exclusive content

Netflix currently holds exclusive rights to Pokémon Concierge worldwide, recent Pokémon animated movies outside of Asia, and recent seasons of the Pokémon animated series in the United States, the Nordic countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, Poland, Turkey, the Benelux, and New Zealand. Content that Netflix has produced or has acquired exclusive rights to are branded as Netflix Originals, meaning that they have a red "N" on the title's artwork, a Netflix ident before and after the program, and a card with the text "A Netflix Series", "A Netflix Original Series", or "Netflix Presents" before the main title sequence.^[4]^[5]^[6] Content that is merely licensed to Netflix lacks this branding.

Specifically, the following pieces of Pokémon-related media have Netflix Original branding on Netflix in the following locations:

Title	Licensing	Where it has Netflix Original branding
Pokémon Journeys: The Series	Acquired exclusive rights	United States and the Nordic countries
Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series	Acquired exclusive rights	United States, the Nordic countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the non-Baltic post-Soviet states
Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master	Acquired exclusive rights	United States, the Nordic countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, the non-Baltic post-Soviet states, Poland, and Turkey
Pokémon Horizons: The Series Pokémon Horizons: Season 2—The Search for Laqua	Acquired exclusive rights	United States, the Nordic countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, Poland, Turkey, the Benelux, and New Zealand
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution	Acquired exclusive rights	All locations where it has been made available on Netflix except Japan and South Korea
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle	Acquired exclusive rights	All locations where it has been made available on Netflix except Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa
Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles	Acquired exclusive rights	All locations where it has been made available on Netflix except South Korea
Pokémon Concierge	Produced	All locations

History

The Pokémon animated series has been available in the United States on Netflix since March 1, 2014 with Pokémon: Indigo League, Pokémon: Black & White, and White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram.^[7] On June 1, Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands, Pokémon BW: Rival Destinies and Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice were also made available. The following year, Pokémon BW: Adventures in Unova and Beyond and Genesect and the Legend Awakened were added on March 15.

On February 15, 2016, Pokémon the Series: XY and Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction were added to the service. However, one day later, the Pokémon the Series: Black & White episodes and movies were removed, as well as Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.^[8] Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest was added on June 1, 2016 along with its corresponding movie, Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. Pokémon the Series: XYZ became available for streaming on April 1, 2017. Pokémon: Happy Birthday to You! was added on September 14, 2017.

Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon was added on April 1, 2018. I Choose You! was added on January 1, 2019. On April 1, 2019, Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon—Ultra Adventures was added, and the Pokémon the Series: XY episodes, Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, and Hoopa and the Clash of Ages were removed.^[9] Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel was removed on July 4, 2019. The Power of Us was added on January 1, 2020. Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution debuted worldwide outside of Japan and South Korea on the service on February 27, 2020 as part of Pokémon Day. Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon—Ultra Legends was added to the service on April 1, 2020. On April 1, 2022, the Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon episodes, I Choose You!, and The Power of Us were removed.^[10]

On April 23, 2020, it was announced that upcoming seasons of the Pokémon animated series would premiere exclusively on Netflix in the United States.^[11] This started with Pokémon Journeys: The Series, which debuted later that year on June 12, with episodes released in batches every quarter through March 5, 2021. The season was later released in batches in Asia beginning on November 21, 2020, released in batches in the Nordics beginning on January 1, 2021, and was added in its entirety outside of Asia on July 1, 2021.^[12]^[13] Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series was added in the United States in batches from September 10, 2021 to May 26, 2022. The season was later added in its entirety outside of Asia on September 2, 2022. Pokémon: Happy Birthday to You! was removed on September 14, 2021. Secrets of the Jungle debuted worldwide outside of Japan and South Korea on the service on October 8, 2021. Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles was released worldwide outside of Asia on September 23, 2022. Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series was added in the United States in batches beginning on October 21, 2022. The season was later added in its entirety outside of Asia on November 24, 2023. Secrets of the Jungle was removed in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa on October 9, 2023. On July 8, 2024, Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series was removed in the Nordics, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the post-Soviet states.

Pokémon Concierge debuted on December 28, 2023. Pokémon Horizons: The Series was added in the United States, the Nordics, Latin America and the Caribbean, Poland, Turkey, and the Benelux in batches beginning on March 7, 2024, and in New Zealand on April 15, 2024. The season was later added in its entirety outside of Asia on February 27, 2025 as part of Pokémon Day. Pokémon Horizons: Season 2—The Search for Laqua was added in the United States in batches beginning February 7, 2025. On June 1, 2025, Pokémon the Series: XY was re-added in the United States, Italy, Spain, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Part 2 of Pokémon Concierge was added on September 4, 2025.

Available audio and closed captioning

English audio/closed captioning are available for the Pokémon animated series and related movies in all countries except Japan and South Korea. The availability of other languages differ per country or region. The following languages are available in at least one country or region: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Banned episodes and seasons

Since Netflix uses the English dub and dubs based on the English dub, EP035 and EP038 are not included. Even though the banned episode Beauty and the Beach was dubbed in English, the episode was excluded on Netflix. When Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands was still available on Netflix Holiday Hi-Jynx, Stage Fight!, and The Mandarin Island Miss Match were excluded too. This is not specific to Netflix as all these episodes are no longer mentioned on Pokemon.com and excluded from Pokémon TV and newer DVD releases.

SM064 is the latest in banned episodes as Ash dresses up as a Passimian, who happens to have a dark colored face and is a chimp. Due to perceived racial connotations, this episode from Sun and Moon - Ultra Adventures was never aired outside of Japan.

The seasons are based on the season broadcasts in the dub. For example, Pokémon: Indigo League was split up into two seasons. The Indigo League episodes had the 1998 commercial bumpers where Brock says "We'll be back after these messages," and then after the advertisement when he says "And now, back to our show." However, due to Netflix not having advertisements during streaming, these bumpers served no purpose. The bumpers have since been removed from Netflix.

Trivia

The closed captioning misspells "Teach Pokémon to understand" in Pokémon Theme as "EACH POKÉMON TO UNDERSTAND" as does the closed captioning for other releases and the official lyrics.
- When the title cards are displayed for Indigo League, the text isn't repeated on the closed captioning.
The Latin American captions for the title cards read "[narrator] Hoy presentamos: [episode title]" for season 1, unlike the English captioning.
The Japanese version has the edited version of Holiday Hi-Jynx, like Prime Video but unlike Hulu.
The Japanese version has English descriptions for all episodes including for never dubbed episodes like EP035 and the not yet dubbed episodes of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon.
The American Netflix often spelled "macarons" as "macaroons" in its closed captioning.
The Japanese version of Netflix does not feature a next episode preview for episodes streamed after the episode nor does it feature a Japanese episode gag, such as the Poké Problem for Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon.

External links

Netflix on Wikipedia
Official website
- Pokémon (full playlist) on Netflix, only viewable on a Kids profile