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As for the famous question on the age of Ash, the writers in interviews always reply that Ash and Pikachu “have no age,” in the sense that Pokémon is a product intended for any age group, therefore to ensure that the main character could be taken as a reference to any viewer, the rule was that Ash’s years would never be “revealed”. In the Best Wishes series the writers have unfortunately made ​​the mistake of giving a numerical value to the age of Ash, especially based upon their idea to recall the first generation. This has been facilitated by the fact that, given the length of the Pokémon anime, there are many changes in the staff and not all of them are fully informed about the events of the past episodes.