Time hasn't flowed for Ash as the Pokémon anime series progressed. Fans can't help but wonder, though: if Ash had been aging, how old would he be now?
Ash Ketchum of the Pokémon anime is canonically 10 years old. That's as true back in the first episodes in Kanto as it is in Ash's final Aim to Be a Master miniseries episodes. But suppose time had been flowing for Ash all this while--how old would he be if that were the case?
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Related: Ash Finally Reunites With Three of His Most Iconic Pokémon Ash is Only 10 Years Old The anime does occasionally give markers of the passage of time, however. For example, around the time of the third movie, Entei and the Spell of the Unown, a short before the film established that it had been a year since Ash and Pikachu met in Pallet Town . The movie was released between episodes 155 and 156 in Japan, suggesting that those 155 episodes unfolded over the course of a year, slower than the 1-day-per-episode pace.
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