This is a pokemon series well a live action/puppet series produced and created by the pokemon company international, olm inc and the jim Henson company, it not just includes pokemon but pulseman, tembo, harmoknight, drill dozer and other game freak games. It will refashioning characters and themes from the original Gamefreak games into new stories that often retained much of the flavor of Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori's own works. Each episode is a self-contained story based on a character such as red, misty, clemont, milo, pulseman and tempo The unifying element is that the stories are introduced and commented on by Pikachu who serves as host of the show and also sometimes have a self contained story. Occasionally, pikachu himself appears in the episode. This series combines live action puppets with traditional anime animation and cgi animation.
the poster of the series
And here's the characters of season 1 The main, the major, and the reoccurring characters as puppets
And the background characters of the anime as puppets and the other pokemon seen in this series
but Ash, Ted, Mary from the main anime and Jon from twilight wings are not puppets, because they stayed in 2d animation, in this series Ash and co have a bewildering variety of pokemon and jobs which includes postal service, safari guides etc
the poster of the seriesAnd here's the characters of season 1 The main, the major, and the reoccurring characters as puppets
And the background characters of the anime as puppets and the other pokemon seen in this series
but Ash, Ted, Mary from the main anime and Jon from twilight wings are not puppets, because they stayed in 2d animation, in this series Ash and co have a bewildering variety of pokemon and jobs which includes postal service, safari guides etc