TV Tokyo , MediaNet & ShoPro postponed the Pokémon anime series in April 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic .
On April 19 , 2020 , TV Tokyo , MediaNet & ShoPro announced that the TV anime series will be going on hiatus , with production on the TV anime series suspended , and the Pokémon anime will rerun the old episodes on all networks and on TV Tokyo starting next week due to the complicated COVID-19 epidemic in Japan .
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on television