Pokemon The Series: Season 22 Collection 1 PAL/0

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Note: This episode was not dubbed into English, due to scenes involving guns being pointed at one another. However, the exclusion resulted in continuity errors, and guns had been featured in the English dubbed season previously and after.

The episodes of this season were originally released as a collection of 26 individual DVDs and VHS released by Viz Video and Pioneer Entertainment between December 13, 1998, and January 23, 2001. [3] [4] Misty and Jessie are go all out for the Queen of the Princess Festival. After hours of shopping, they both decide to enter the Queen of the Princess Festival Battle Tournament to win the dolls they both coveted when they were children. After finding a missing person sign featuring James, Ash and his friends decide to find James and inform him of his parents' death. However, James' parents turn out to be alive, and their death was only a decoy to get him to return home to the rich Jessie-look-alike Jessebelle ( ルミカ, Rumika), a girl James was arranged to marry from when he was a little child. James has left because Jessebelle is terrifying, so everyone tries to save James from this fate, including James' old pet Growlithe. Note: The English dub for this episode was initially banned because James was crossdressing with inflatable breasts, among other sexual themes. It did not air until June 24, 2000 on Kids' WB, albeit with all suggestive scenes edited. Ash goes to a large greenhouse called the Xanadu Nursery ( ムラサメ植物園, Murasame shokubutsu-en, Murasame Botanical Garden) to get some fertilizer for his mother, but Bulbasaur sniffs the flowers and becomes paralyzed.Writers: Hideki Sonoda , Junki Takegami , Yukiyoshi Ohashi , Shinzô Fujita , Satoshi Tajiri , Atsuhiro Tomioka Super Wallets • Heritage Collection • Heritage Collection II • Seasons 1-19: Deluxe Edition • Seasons 1-20: Ultra Collection • Seasons 1-21: Mega Collection After losing to Ritchie in the fifth round, Ash is moping around, annoyed that he lost. He is convinced by Misty that he should support Ritchie who is now in the quarterfinals. However, when Ritchie loses, they both have to look inside themselves to see if they are good trainers.

Starring: Rica Matsumoto , Ikue Ôtani , Yûji Ueda , Shin'ichirô Miki , Megumi Hayashibara , Inuko Inuyama During the 4th Round, Gary ends up losing to a trainer named Melissa after Gary's Nidoking is defeated by Melissa's Golem. Meanwhile, Ash faces against his toughest opponent yet, a trainer named Jeanette Fisher ( カオルコ, Kaoruko), who uses a Beedrill, a Scyther, and a Bellsprout. After a hard-fought battle with Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Muk, the match ends with Ash victorious, and he moves on to the 5th round, becoming one of the final sixteen members of the tournament. Ash finally arrives in Vermilion City and is ready to prove that he can defeat its gym leader, Lt. Surge, along with the leader's Raichu. However, Ash discovers that many trainers nearly lost their Pokémon to defeat Lt. Surge, who taunts Ash for not evolving his Pikachu. Ash must train his Pikachu's speed to defeat Lt. Surge and win the Thunder Badge. In Viridian City, Ash and his friends are victims to several thefts by some Clefairy. While investigating with Mr. Oswald ( ヒラタ, Hirata), they discover the Clefairy are building a spaceship. Ash enters his first match of the tournament on the water field, pitting his Krabby against Mandi the Astounding ( コーム, Kōmu). During the battle, Krabby evolves into Kingler, who gives Ash the advantage to win the match and move onto the next preliminary round.Note: This episode was controversial due to a scene with red and blue strobe lights causing a wave of seizures and other ill effects in viewers; [1] as a result of the controversy, the show took a broadcast hiatus for four months. The episode has since been pulled from rotation worldwide. Directors: Kunihiko Yuyama , Masamitsu Hidaka , Jim Malone , Tony Salerno , Jason Bergenfeld , Eric Stuart