The twenty-third season of the Pokémon animated series is known as Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスタ-) in Japan, and internationally as Pokémon Journeys: The Series. The season premiered on November 17, 2019 on TV Tokyo in Japan. In the United States, it is a web television season scheduled for a June 12, 2020 release on Netflix.   This season follows the adventures of Ash Ketchum and new protagonist Goh as they travel across all eight regions of the Pokémon franchise, including the new Galar region from Pokémon Sword and Shield, and learn to use Gigantamax moves.