Pichu and Pals

Pichu and Pals is a British-Japanese (non-anime) traditionally animated television programme based off the franchise.

The show was created as an alternative to. Pichu and Pals focuses on and his other Pokémon friends. The show is targeted towards younger children, and steers away from the Pokémon battling, and instead focuses on them playing with each other in daycare and outdoors, causing the show to receive criticism from fans.

The main characters for the show include Pichu, Igglybuff, Cleffa, Chikorita, Togepi and Happini.

The show began in 2002 and ended in 2005, spawning 84 10-minute episodes. Two spin-off video games titled Pichu and Pals: PokéGames and Pichu and Pals: PokéGames 2 were released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002 and 2006 respectively.