A young boy named Ash Ketchum embarks on a journey to become a "Pokemon Master" with his first Pokemon, Pikachu. Joining him on his travels are Brock, a girl-obsessed Rock Pokemon Trainer, and Misty, a tomboyish Water Pokemon Trainer who may have a crush on him. Ash and Co. end up traveling through various regions, including Kanto, the Orange Islands, and Johto, and then enter the Pokemon League competitions there. Along the way, they run into many confrontations with Jessie, James, and Meowth, a trio of Pokemon thieves who are apart of an evil organization called "Team Rocket". But everytime Team Rocket try to do their evil deeds, they fail thanks to Ash and his Pokemon.
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The first series tells the story of Ash Ketchum (known as Satoshi in the Japanese version, he is named after Pokemon's creator, Satoshi Tajiri) and his quest to become a Pokemon Master. However, unlike in the video games, he is given a Pikachu as his first Pokemon under unusual circumstances. Much of the series focuses on the friendship between Ash, Pikachu, and the various Pokemon and Trainers along the way.
The other two series continue to follow the adventures of Ash and his friends. However, starting with the Advanced Generation series. a new main character named May travels with Ash, Max, and Brock through the Hoenn region, and competes in Pokemon Contests, which are set up in a similar manner to Pokemon Gyms (many throughout the region, and ending with a large tournament), although immensely different.
Throughout the run of the show the subject matter changes. In the original series, the show is more comical and whimsical (light and airy). It uses "goofy" humor (or "cute" humor when it comes to Pikachu, who does wacky things in between important scenes). In the Advanced Generation series as Ash becomes more of a mature and leader-type character, the main course of the show becomes more serious, as it deals with love and death, and its previous comical nature (for the most part) changes into comic relief, attributed mostly to Team Rocket and Brock's love of girls, though the Diamond and Pearl series seems to have returned to using the original comical nature (mostly Ash being the straight man to his Pokemon's antics and Dawn taking the role of the naive beginner).
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