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Veronica Taylor Answers All Our Questions About the First Time Ash Died
25 years ago, Pokémon: The First Movie took Ash Ketchum to new heights (and killed him).
You’d never know it by looking at Ash Ketchum, the Pokémon franchise’s longtime protagonist who is eternally 10 years old, but it’s been a quarter-century since he and Pikachu took their efforts to catch ’em all to the big screen. Even though the stakes were higher for The FirstMovie — again, Ash charges into the crossfire between two legendary Pokémon and dies in this, much to the shock of ’90s kids — there wasn’t any real change to the fast-paced dubbing process. Like, “Eventually I’ll do voiceover work for a movie, too?” Disappointingly, the only thing I knew about Pokémon before I auditioned for the series was that there was this show in Japan that caused children to have seizures.
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