Pokopia gets an August 5 date. The 1997 Pokémon anime has 269 free episodes here.
All 269 sit on the Pokémon TV channel, the country field is unrestricted, and the run begins at the first episode. It stops at 269 of a recorded 276.
By Sana Whitfield · AnimeSphere staff · August 3, 2026
Pokémon Pokopia has a date for part of its expansion pass. A trailer for the game set August 5 as the launch day for its Bubbly Basin downloadable content. Pokopia is a game rather than an anime, and that is the whole of the news.
What we do carry, for anyone looking up the 1997 television series, is a long stretch of it that costs nothing to watch. Our index records 276 episodes for that show at a 24-minute episode length. The page on animesphere.app puts the free run at 269 of them and marks episodes 270 to 276 as outside it. A reader arriving today has 269 episodes to play.
Where the 269 come from
Every one of them sits on the Pokémon TV channel, which carries a verified badge on YouTube. All 269 were checked against their uploads today and all 269 resolved, with no fetch failures. Each upload title carries the words FULL EPISODE.
There are 269 distinct episode identities behind the run and no duplicates, so nothing is counted twice under a second video ID, and no single video is filed against two different episode numbers. The country field on these rows is unrestricted. There is no region gate.
Three were opened in full today. They run 1,343, 1,361 and 1,273 seconds against that recorded 24-minute length, which puts those three in whole-episode territory rather than clip territory. Each reports an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English, and each also carries an authored English subtitle track.
It starts at the start
The first upload in the run is the one titled for "I Choose You!", and its own title flags it as FULL EPISODE 1, Season 1. There is no hunting for an entry point partway through.
The uploads label themselves by season. The counts under each label are:
- Season 1: 52
- Season 2: 60
- Season 3: 41
- Season 4: 52
- Season 5: 64
Those five figures add to 269. One caution goes with them. Our own numbering runs straight through from 1 to 269, while the uploads count within their season, so the two schemes do not line up. Treat the season labels as grouping rather than as a map back to our numbers.
Where it stops
At 269. The recorded total for the series is 276, and the site states plainly that the free episodes end at 269, and lists episodes 270 to 276 outside that run. We have nothing to add about what happens past that line, and we are not going to guess. What we can say is narrow: the first 269 are present, they resolve, they are unrestricted, and they begin at the beginning.
The Pokopia expansion pass date comes from Anime News Network.