User blog comment:YoungOtakuNerd/Request for Some Appreciation/@comment-1272757-20120918020251/@comment-1587581-20120918200903

Yeah, the narrator needs a sense of time.

The way I see it each series (generations as called in the games) last at least a year and due to there being five series (generations) Ash would be fifteen.

By the way, how old are Ash's comrades? Brock, Misty, May, Dawn and "the new girl and dude".