Kids Station (Japanese: キッズステーション, Hepburn: Kizzu Suteeshon) is a Japanese cable and satellite programming channel which generally airs reruns of animated shows, including the Pokémon anime. In regards to the Pokémon anime, the channel started off airing Pokémon movies in the early 2000s and acquired the main series in early 2005; since then, it handles Japanese reruns of episodes and movies of recent series, in addition to episodes from the original series which consists of Pokémon the Series: The Beginning and Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver, whereas TV Tokyo serves as the primary broadcaster which airs the original broadcasts of episodes however generally does not rerun them (except for rare special occasions such as during Pokémon-related side shows such as Pokénchi and Pokémon Smash!).
They currently air Pocket Monsters (1997 series) and Pocket Monsters (2019 series) and will be airing Pocket Monsters (2023 series) in the future. In the past, they have aired Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon, Pocket Monsters: XY and Pocket Monsters: XYZ, and Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes!, Pocket Monsters: Diamond and Pearl, and Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation.
Their online schedule guide follows the numbering system which is used by the rental DVD releases, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix, and therefore airs the three-part version of Mewtwo Returns which is considered part of the main series and acknowledges the existence of "Cyber Soldier Porygon" by skipping from 37 to 39. The versions of episodes 1 to 37 reflecting the edited versions following the Porygon incident.
In addition, their versions of "It's Mr. Mime Time" (in the preview of "Holiday Hi-Jynx"), "Holiday Hi-Jynx" itself, "The Mandarin Island Miss Match", "The Ice Cave!", and "All Things Bright and Beautifly!" show Jynx in its original black-colored design, like Hulu (which also acquired the series prior to the existence of edited versions of the older Jynx episodes) but unlike Amazon Video and Netflix. The versions aired on Kids Station also include the sponsor tags and the five-second tag at the end of each episode with 「次回お楽しみに！」 in the upper right-hand corner.
The Pocket Monster TV eyecatches in the Kids Station versions from "The Wayward Wobbuffet" to "Around the Whirlpool" use the same 4:3 versions used in their originally broadcast and Hulu versions. On the VHS and Amazon Video versions, they are updated to 16:9, and all episodes from "Fly Me to the Moon" and onward use the 16:9 versions on all versions of the episodes.
In the case of episodes which originally aired with their next episode preview segments showcasing a banned or postponed episode that was originally the next episode on the schedule at the time of originally airing on TV Tokyo (specifically, "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion", "A Venipede Stampede!", and "Coming Back into the Cold!"), the Kids Station airings of those episodes show the preview for the following episode in the new lineup (respectively "Pikachu's Goodbye", "Battling for the Love of Bug-Types!", and "Climbing the Walls!" instead of "Cyber Soldier Porygon", "Team Rocket vs. Team Plasma! (Part 1)", and "An Undersea Place to Call Home!"). DVDs and Amazon Video follow this as well, however Netflix (which cuts out all of the eyecatches and next episode previews from each episode) and Hulu (which uses the originally aired versions of episodes, therefore including the previews of banned episodes) do not.