From TPC's corporate site, they say that "While linguistic and cultural backgrounds vary greatly among the countries of the world, Pokémon is meticulously localized to ensure its content suits each region" and that they "strive to ensure that people all around the world can enjoy it at the same [time] with such things as simultaneous worldwide release of new game software in nine different languages."

So let's take a quick look at Asia, that mythical land in the east free of TPCI hegemony, where local distributors supposedly have a direct line to TPC:

They're getting M22 this year too.

The only country not in the Netflix deal, South Korea isn't getting M22 until later this year. They're announcing the results of their art contest on Feb. 27 so they're probably not getting it before Netflix. When do they normally get the movies? December/January.​

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Of the rest, Taiwan is the only one that consistently gets movies "on time", and in the cinema too. Taiwan got M13 within 20 days of its premiere in Japan and got M18-M21 in November of the same year. They're also one of the few places where the Japanese version of the movies have been screened: both M20 and M21 got subbed/dubbed showings in the cinema.​


They haven't started Pocket Monsters (2019) either.

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The Korean and Mandarin dubs have finished Pocket Monsters Sun & Moon. SM146 aired in South Korea on January 14 (2.5 months after Japan) and in Taiwan on February 8 (three months after Japan). These gaps shouldn't particularly impressive because much of BW/XY in the English dub was aired with a smaller gap. South Korea has announced the new series as "Pocket Monsters W", but with no start date as of yet.​

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As for the other dubs in the region, the Thai dub is 16 episodes behind the English dub. The Indonesian dub just started SM on September 20. The Cantonese and Vietnamese dubs in Hong Kong and Vietnam only got through SM043 before stopping back in October and July 2018, respectively. Note that the Indonesian and Vietnamese dubs of SM were dubbed from the English dub. Thailand and Vietnam are currently most of the way through a redub of the original series (in "season 4" apparently). These dubs are based on the Japanese version, and they retain the Japanese opening/ending themes.​

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Malaysia gets the English dub with Malay subs and are almost done with season 21. Isn't that nice.​


If TPC was interested in licensing the Japanese version of the series for simulsub anywhere, I think that some distributor in South Korea, Taiwan, or Southeast Asia would have already done so. As points of comparison, Boruto is both subbed/dubbed while Yo-Kai Watch has only been dubbed in South Korea/Taiwan, just like in English. Outside of the movies, none of them have been able to do that.

As long as TPC sees the anime as a kids show to promote merchandise, they're not going to license the Japanese version for simulsub--it hasn't been "meticulously localized" and it won't even be shown on local broadcasters to the kids. TPCi can certainly release the dub sooner as evidenced by BW/XY, but even ignoring the whims of Disney XD's scheduling it's not going to get significantly shorter than a two month gap. TPCi obviously makes money from selling the broadcast rights; if TPCi actually wanted to take distribution in-house, they already have their own streaming service in Pokémon TV.