Pokémon the Series: Black & White

Pokémon the Series: Black & White
Season 14

Japanese title logo for the Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! series (top)
English title logo from the Pokémon: Black & White season (bottom)
No. of episodes48
Release
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original releaseSeptember 23, 2010 (2010-09-23) 
September 15, 2011 (2011-09-15)
Season chronology

Pokémon: Black & White is the fourteenth season of the Pokémon anime series and the first and titular season of Pokémon the Series: Black & White, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! (ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ, Poketto Monsutā Besuto Uisshu!). It originally aired in Japan from September 23, 2010, to September 15, 2011, on TV Tokyo channel 7, and in the United States from February 12, 2011, to January 7, 2012, on Cartoon Network. Brock and Dawn have left the series, and Ash Ketchum is joined by a new female trainer named Iris and a new male trainer named Cilan. The evil syndicate Team Rocket has a part to play in this season, and Jessie, James, and Meowth have been promoted.