Ash Ketchum is a 10-year old boy on a Pokémon journey.
Ash ----l> He has been 10 for the past 13 years and is a convicted criminal in disguise. He likes ketchup. Now you know the truth.

And all this time I thought he was a kid in a coma and the Pokemon universe was all a dream of his.

Yes I always wondered when he would grow up. Also anyone else find it odd he is a 10 year old boy wondering the world by himself? don't know about the rest of you but being 10 years old walking around the world by yourself I thought would be quite difficult but Ash makes it look so fun

April 29, 2013 6:23:36pmRojuroStorage Wrote:  Yes I always wondered when he would grow up. Also anyone else find it odd he is a 10 year old boy wondering the world by himself? don't know about the rest of you but being 10 years old walking around the world by yourself I thought would be quite difficult but Ash makes it look so fun

Well, they said it would be weird if a 23 year old roameds the world with a group of youngns. But he could have a child and that be the new protagonist.

They kept him 10 years old, so the anime won't end, and I seriously thought this thread was going to be about the coma theory, childhood embrace!

wow i really cant imagine ash all grown up , So as MAy, Dawn , Misty , Brock and any other girl/boy , And btw dont pokemon age -.- ? Eg. Pikachu < o.o

It's almost like no one ages in the Pokemon realm. Prof. Oak should probably be dead about now.

Lol , your totally right Chinkofmilk , I mean how old is he now -.- . Its really hard to understand like that . It seems like nothing has happened in the past seasons cuz he doesnt age

It's a cartoon, get over it ;P we should be more worried about how he never changes his outfit

The ACTUAL story:
Ash is some re-re who got himself in a coma by being electrecuted by Pikachu too much. In his coma, he's dreaming of some pretty odd things. The only pokémon that actually exists was pikachu. Which was actually a robot who's wires were cut. The End.

i wonder when they think about giving him his actual age. It sucks the fact that he keeps getting away with being 10 after so many years

I also like for him to grow up a bit, I mean... atleast create an episode where ash celebrates his birthday, that would be nice.

Omg... He's 23 years old?
What?
Pokemon in reality shouldn't keep going since its been here for so long and there's a X and Y.
I like the good old kind

I also think it would be cool if he aged just a bit. Maybe they avoid it because they feel that would lead to them having to explore "adult" topics, like...*gasp*...dating?

If you read the manga version of pokemon
Red is Ash (obviously )
and in the manga Red grew up
that was actually the same idea on the anime... although there was one problem
A lot of people in that time didn't want Ash to grow up, because the show was intended for little kids... that's why they kept Ash at 10, to prevent ratings going low...