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A Festival of Decisions!

XY100   EP899 忍者村決戦！ゲコガシラ対キリキザン！！ Decisive Battle in the Ninja Village! Gekogashira VS Kirikizan!!

First broadcast Japan December 10, 2015 United States April 2, 2016

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation directors 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

A Festival of Decisions! (Japanese: 忍者村決戦！ゲコガシラ対キリキザン！！ Decisive Battle in the Ninja Village! Gekogashira VS Kirikizan!!) is the 100th episode of the XY series, and the 899th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 10, 2015 and in the United States on April 2, 2016.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

While our heroes are visiting their friend Sanpei’s home in Ninja Village, Chief Hanzo is captured by a group of mysterious ninja! Their leader is Kagetomo, a gifted ninja who has decided that he should be chief in Hanzo’s place.

Sanpei and his brothers are determined to free their chief, and they confront Kagetomo and his forces head on, with the help of Ash, Serena, and Clemont. During the battle, Ash’s Frogadier evolves into an immensely powerful Greninja! The ninja force is defeated, and Kagetomo sees the error of his ways and decides to refocus on his training.

Ash and friends stay to enjoy the village festival, where Hanzo names Sanpei’s oldest brother, Ippei, as the next chief. After our heroes depart, the middle brother, Nihei, tells the others that he saw something in Ash’s Greninja that reminded him of the village’s ancient hero...

Plot

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The episode starts with Ash and Sanpei battling Heidayu. When Shinobu and Serena escape Team Rocket using the ninja body switch, Kagetomo's Skarmory blasts Team Rocket out of the village. When Ash and Sanpei are about to lose against Heidayu, Saizo comes in to battle with his Barbaracle. At that time Kagetomo's ninja force retreated with Heidayu saying "But it looks like I have bought enough time".

Later Saizo tells everyone that it was Kagetomo and his henchmen who kidnapped the chief. Saizo explains to Ash and his friends that Kagetomo was a powerful ninja from the Ninja Village who ran away with his follower Heidayu because he was denied the position of chief due to his thirst for power. Later one of the ninjas had found that Chief Hanzo was being held captive at Otori Mountain. Then everyone goes to rescue the chief.

As they are going, Heidayu and some of his ninja minions intercept them. Nihei then says to Saizo that they will handle things here while Saizo and Ippei should go on. Saizo and Ippei agrees and goes on. A raging battle starts between Heidayu's ninja force against Ash and his friends. Ash brings out his Pikachu and Frogadier while Sanpei brings out his Greninja. Both again battle Heidayu and his Bisharp.

During that, Saizo and Ippei reach Chief Hanzo and Kagetomo and a battle between Ippei's Greninja and Kagetomo's Weavile begins, so that Kagetomo can prove his worth to Hanzo and take over ninja village as the new cheif.

On the other side Ash and Sanpei are having trouble figuring Hedaiyu's Bisharp. Frogadier is knocked on the mountain wall trapped in the rocks and Pikachu and Greninja are down on the ground unable to move.Just as Bisharp is going to finish off injured Pikachu with Fury Cutter, Frogadier jumps ahead of Pikachu at the last second and pushes back Bisharp as it evolves into Greninja. Ash's newly evolved Greninja attacks with its newly learned Water Shuriken and thereafter transforms into Ash-Greninja for first time by encouragement from Ash. It shortly defeats Bisharp with an extremely powerful Cut and reverts back to its original form before Ash can understand what happened. However this encouraged Clemont, Serena, Nihei and Shinobu to defeat the other ninjas.

On the other side Ippei faces difficulty battling Weavile. Hanzo also silently appreciates Weavile's power but says that it lacks one thing which Ippei has. Ippei with some strategy manages to beat Kagetomo's Weavile. Kagetomo is totally devastated at his defeat. Hanzo tells Kagetomo that his Weavile is far more stronger than Ippei's Greninja. But he lacks one thing Ippei has, that is dedication which is reason of his defeat.All battles are over and everyone retreats to ninja village for festival with Kagetomo's ninjas being captured by villagers.

Back at the village Hanzo declares Ippei as the new village cheif. Back at a cliff Kagetomo is seen with Hedaiyu, Hanzo and Ippei. He has realized his mistakes and wants to the world he should dedicate his powers for.Hediayu although unwilling accepts to join Kagetomo. Kagetomo tells Ippei to take care of village and leaves with Hedaiyu. In the morning Ash and friends leave too, and after that Nihei tells Hanzo, Ippei and Saizo about Ash's Greninja's mysterious transformation and everyone gathers at temple with Ippei saying that it means hero from the past saved the village again.

Major events

• Ash's Frogadier evolves into Greninja and learns Water Shuriken.
• Ash's Greninja transforms into Ash-Greninja for the first time.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Ash's Greninja (official)

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Sanpei
• Ippei
• Nihei
• Saizo
• Hanzo
• Shinobu
• Kagetomo
• Heidayu
• Ninjas
• Ninja Army

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Greninja (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Greninja (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's; evolves)
• Greninja (Ash's; newly evolved; Ash-Greninja)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Sanpei's)
• Greninja (Ippei's)
• Venusaur (Nihei's)
• Barbaracle (Saizo's)
• Liepard (Shinobu's)
• Weavile (Kagetomo's)
• Bisharp (Heidayu's)
• Skarmory (Ninja's; ×6)
• Bisharp (Ninja's)
• Pawniard (Ninja's)
• Ariados (Ninja's; ×2)
• Gengar (Ninja's; ×3)
• Mightyena (Ninja's)
• Houndoom (Ninja's)
• Simisage (Ninja's)
• Machop (Ninja's)
• Tauros (Ninja's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Greninja (painting)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: "Burn! Pokémon Challenge!!" focusing on Frogadier
• Serena and Eevee narrate the preview of the next episode.
• In Japan, this episode aired almost exactly one year after the episode where Ash's Froakie evolved into Frogadier.
• This was Mika Kanai's final episode as Bonnie. From the next episode Mariya Ise returns from her maternity leave.
• The other two possible answers during this episode's Pokémon Quiz were Ninjask and Accelgor which, like Greninja, are two other Pokémon known for having ninja-like abilities.
• This is the 900th episode of the main anime if Holiday Hi-Jynx and Snow Way Out! are counted as episodes.

Errors

• After Ash's friends notice Team Rocket, Dedenne can be heard despite not being physically present and Bonnie's bag being closed. This was fixed in the dub.
• When Hanzo, Saizo and Ippei talk to Kagetomo after Ippei defeats him, the golden triangle in Kagetomo's chestplate is colored black instead of gold.
• After returning to the Ninja Village, the webs on both Ash's and Sanpei's Greninja's feet are missing.
• At the end of the episode as Ash and his friends walk away, the patch of brown fur on Pikachu's tail is missing.
• When Ash takes out his Pokédex it is shown to already be open, however when it is pointed at Ash's Greninja it is shown to open up again.

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  The web on both Greninja's feet are missing

Dub edits

• After Frogadier evolves into Greninja, Serena says "Next time it'll be our turn, Braixen," referring to wanting Braixen to evolve. In the original, she simply calls for Braixen to prepare to attack.
• When Bonnie, Dedenne and Squishy are cheering, the order of Dedenne's speaking is different in the dub than the original Japanese version.

In other languages

Language		Title
Danish		En byfest med mange beslutninger!
Dutch		Het feest der beslissingen!
Finnish		Juhla täynnä päätöksiä!
European French		Un festival décisif !
German		Ein Festival der Entscheidung!
Italian		Un festival di decisioni!
Korean		닌자마을의 결전! 개굴반장 vs 절각참!!
Norwegian		En festival med mange avgjørelser!
Portuguese	Brazil	Um Festival de Decisões!
	Portugal	Um Festival de Decisões!
Russian		Фестиваль решений!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Un festival de decisiones!
	Spain	¡Un festival de decisiones!
Swedish		En festival med många beslut!
Thai		ศึกตัดสินหมู่บ้านนินจา! เกโคงาชิระ ปะทะ คิริคิซัน!!

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