Pokémon: Advanced Battle is the eighth season of the Pokémon anime series and the third season of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation (ポケットモンスター アドバンスジェネレーション, Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon). It originally aired in Japan from September 9, 2004, to September 29, 2005, on TV Tokyo, and in the United States from November 5, 2005, to October 7, 2006, on Kids' WB.
This season follows Ash Ketchum as he continues travelling across the Hoenn region with Brock, May, and Max. Later on, they travel across the Kanto region to challenge its Battle Frontier.
The episodes were directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and produced by the animation studio OLM. This was the last season of the series to dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment after their contract expired, and the last to air on Kids' WB before moving to Cartoon Network.
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