Summary
Ash’s father remains a mystery throughout the series, with only occasional mentions and no specific information about him. In the special episode “Pokémon: The Distant, Blue Sky”, Ash is given the chance to meet his father but ends up missing him due to time. The identity of Ash’s father remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in the Pokémon series, and it’s unclear if fans will ever learn more about him.
While Ash’s mother was in Pokémon Having become a larger figure in recent years, Ash’s father is nothing but a mystery, his existence only occasionally hinted at. Now, for the first time in the history of the series, Ash gets a chance to see him again, but when it comes to Ash, things rarely go according to plan.
Ash’s father was first mentioned in the second volume of the series by his mother, in the background of a statement about how it took him four days to get from Pallet Town to Viridian City in the making own Pokémon journey. Ash’s father has also been mentioned in recent movies (I Choose You! and Secrets of the Jungle), but since those movies take place in a separate continuum from the main anime, it can’t be drawn. get a lot from that. Aside from this few mentions, almost nothing is known about him, from his job to his hobbies or even his appearance.
Ash almost didn’t see his father
The “Pokémon: The Distant, Blue Sky” special begins with Ash swimming a bit and battling Pokémon with a new friend before heading to the nearest Pokémon Center and receiving a call from his mother, Delia, asked if he could meet in a place called Tonari Town that seemed to be in Kanto. She would be there to see his father the next day, and Ash excitedly set off. While traveling there, Ash meets an unusual boy who questions Pokémon and eventually leads Ash to a house in the middle of a mysterious forest.
Through the giant windows, Ash could see a man painting the sky inside, but was later spotted by his wife. However, Ash’s new friend, Haruto, suddenly disappears. Haruto turns out to be the dead child of a couple who have never been on their own Pokémon journey. Ash used his Aura powers to allow the ghostly Haruto to pet Pikachu, before continuing his journey. Unfortunately, when Ash arrived at the Pokémon Center, his father had to leave, so they couldn’t see each other and the audience never saw him either. However, Ash’s father left a gift: a new Pokémon League hat, identical to his original hat.
Ash’s father is still Pokémon’s biggest mystery
The end of the final episodes doesn’t deal with Ash’s father anymore, making his identity one of the biggest unanswered questions of Ash’s entire era. Fan theories about Ash’s father can be quite mythical; One popular theory in the past was that Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, was actually Ash’s father, an idea that arose from Pokémon Live! program stage. This became famous largely because the two hadn’t seen each other for a very long time, only meeting face-to-face during the Black and White era, more than ten years after the anime’s premiere. However, when the two finally meet, there is no acknowledgment or reunion, and Giovanni obviously won’t visit casually, as Ash’s father still does here.
The people involved in the production of the series occasionally commented on Ash’s father. Original creator of the anime Takeshi Shudo wrote in a novel that Ash’s father left on a journey not long after he was born and never returned, leaving behind his fate. Another creator involved in the series, storyboard artist Masamitsu Hidaka, has stated that Ash’s father, who is also a Pokémon Trainer, is on a journey and that he certainly still is. living. Neither of these has ever been confirmed in the anime, and even if his father is still alive has not been revealed until this very special.
With the book now closed about Ash’s era in the anime, it looks like fans may never know who Ash’s father is, which means his identity doesn’t really matter. He has no father because his partner in the game, Red, has no father either, and that has been true of almost every main character in the Pokémon game since. It’s a trend in the franchise much larger than Ash’s, but with Pokémon Horizons soon introducing Riko’s father, it could be something that will eventually die. Unless there’s finally another movie starring Ash in I Choose You! continuously, Ash’s father will have to stay a Pokémon secret.
