Across about twenty-six seasons, here are some of the best memes to come out of the show to date. Ash's sidekick, Pikachu, was visibly thicker around the edges. However, as time went on ...

Never mind that Studio Ghibli director and founder Hayao Miyazaki famously denounced AI-generated art as “ an insult to life itself .” Both the Pikachu protester and the viral Studio Ghibli-esque ...

But that’s not the only evidence of obsessive devotion to this meme. At least one TikToker got a tattoo of Surprised Pikachu on their left arm, and another person created a series of ...