User blog comment:YoungOtakuNerd/Request for Some Appreciation/@comment-1272757-20120918020251/@comment-1587581-20120918030133

No, it's not a dubbing mistake. Or at least it wasn't last time I checked.

You see, all Pokemon trainers get their starters at age ten (but that raises the question about Youngsters and Jr. Trainers) as did Ash. Like Kagi pointed out they always reset as a new series starts so Ash is still chronologically ten.

If you want to look at it the realistic way like I do then yes, Ash is fourteen.

Wait a minute....original series, Joto, Advanced, Diamond and Pearl, Black and White.

HOLY CRAP! ASH IS FIFTEEN!!!!!