Join Ash Ketchum, accompanied by his partner Pikachu, as he travels through many regions, meets new friends and faces new challenges on his quest to become a Pokémon Master.
This tv show contains 19 potentially triggering events.
Several Pokemon are abandoned by their trainers for one reason or another. 2 examples in particular stand out. A Bulbasaur was sent floating down a river by his trainer for not evolving, and a Gengar was abandoned by a trainer who believed him to be bad luck. One episode set up that Ash would've needed to abandon Pikachu due to him believing that he would've been happier in the wild with the other Pikachu, though that's resolved with a happy ending.
The Pokemon themselves are comparable to animals, and there are many a time where they are unhappy. Pikachu in particular can be seen crying on some occasions.
The beach contest episode (which was never dubbed into English) not only gives James inflatable breasts, but comments are made by other characters (Including James, a grown man) about the breasts of Misty, an 11-year-old girl.
Episodes featuring Jynx got banned because she resembled blackface (black skin though it was later changed to purple, big pink lips). Moreover, the 64th episode of Sun and Moon got banned worldwide because Ash wore dark face paint resembling blackface to look like a Passimian.
There is an episode where Ash is stuck in an ice cave with a few of his pokemon, and there's another episode where Ash, Pikachu, and Team Rocket end up in a cave in. (It's much larger than the ice cave, but it can feel claustrophobic to some)
Sorta??? Misty does use a cross to try to repel a Gastly in one episode, and Arceus and Giratina are frequently compared to God and Satan respectively (by the fandom), but I don't think it goes any deeper than one offs like that.
Oddly enough some early episodes are temporarily banned from US television for content they thought would trigger response for similar reasons such as one episode involving Tentacruels destroying a city
Not in the show proper, but this episode does feature bright flashing lights to simulate explosions. The characters are shown trying to shield their eyes, but nothing beyond that happens on screen.
Depending on how you look at it yes, but it was all played off as comic relief, as the character in question was an antagonist but (spoilers for Holy Matrimony, tw for mentions of n*glect and r*pe) the character was n*gl*cted by his parents, and was forced to marry an ab*sive fiancée against his will, and non consensual BDSM is implied to have happened at least twice to this character as well, multiple times off-screen, and one scene from an episode of The Indigo Leauge can be interpreted as such.
Non-consensual BDSM is implied in an episode of the Indigo League, but was played off as comic relief. Said character looked extremely disturbed for the majority of the episode.
Technically, yes. In indigo league (and assumably other Pokemon series), Pokemon are seen eating unspecified meat, which is likely other Pokemon. It's not explicitly said and not even implied that it's cannibalism though.
Nobody is actually burned alive, but there are several fire type attacks that do heavy damage to pokemon. One example used for partly comedic purposes is a Paras that is visibly (cartoonishly) charred after a Charmeleon burns it.
In the banned episode “Beauty and the Beach,” Misty, an underage character, enters a bikini contest. Ash and Brock make inappropriate comments about her body, as does a much older man.
I don't think they meant it to be truly derogatory, but there's this exchange between Jessie and Meowth regarding one of James' outfits.
"Where did he get that outfit?"
"I think it came outta his closet!"
One of the episodes in the Hoenn series depicted dozens of Team Rocket members doing a salute heavily resembling the Nazi salute, though this is heavily altered in the English version so they are no longer doing the pose in that scene
In the original Japanese version there is a little bit of mild sexual content in the early seasons but it never gets more graphic onscreen than inflatable boobs at a bikini contest