User blog comment:Trainer Micah/Pokemon UltraSun/UltraMoon prediction's 4 Anime/@comment-26573805-20171104235624

Additionally, I'm just going to point out, we already know that the time in the Pokémon world in the anime is the same as the time in the real world.

In Flabebe and the Fairy Flower!, the newspapers held by the Rocket Gang (Musashi, Kojiro, and Nyarth) said 2014-05-15, which is an obvious reference to the episode's original air date, in the same manner in Put It Down, the 2nd episode of South Park's 21st season had Trump's tweets referencing the episode's air date (labeled as being posted on September 20, 2017 at the exact time in the episode too). Interestingly enough, XY026 was originally going to be XY027 and was going to air on May 22nd instead but then the date got pushed up by a week. It is likely that they took those 3 weeks and 2 days to go back and edit that element in the episode and I imagine that before Kuzumo (XY050; originally XY024) was postponed, that date may have been 2014-05-22. Dogasu says he can imagine how it was like in the offices of OLM. "Well, looks like we'll have to postpone the Kuzumo episode for a while and HOLY CRAP THE DATE IN THAT ONE SHOT IS WRONG! NOW SOMEONE, RUSH TO FIX IT, GO, GO, GO!!!!". Of course, it's also likely that the newspaper easter egg didn't exist prior to the Kuzumo and Dramidoro episode being postponed and that it was added as a last-minute detail before airing. It's also possible though highly unlikely that they weren't even aware of the one week break following XY024 and that it was that way in the first place - otherwise they were likely desperate to send a new master to TPCi and ask them to run the existing audio track for the already produced dub over the version with the "correct" date and were very desperate to get it to match to make it appear as though nothing was changed, we know the dubs are usually produced somewhere before the original Japanese airing. Either it was that way in the first place, the newspaper element didn't exist, or they rushed to change it in a hurry before airing and quickly informed TPCi before the episode would air in the UK at the end of the next month. All we can confirm is true is that it is no longer XY027 and is actually XY026 - just that sites like Serebii allow themselves to number episodes the way they want rather than sticking to the correct, official numbers.

The 20th anniversary occurring in Pokémon world canon in the latest series further proves that they are following the same timeline as the real world.

Yet suddenly Satoshi doesn't age - both in the language version I watch (that the majority of the wiki's users can only understand when subbed), and in the localized English dub.