XY057

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Thawing an Icy Panic!

XY057   EP856 バニプッチ・パニック！ホワイトアウトはこおりごおり！！ Vanipeti Panic! An Ice-Covered Whiteout!!

First broadcast Japan January 22, 2015 United States April 4, 2015

English themes Opening Be a Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening ゲッタバンバン Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation director 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata 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

Thawing an Icy Panic! (Japanese: バニプッチ・パニック！ホワイトアウトはこおりごおり！！ Vanipeti Panic! An Ice-Covered Whiteout!!) is the 57th episode of the XY series, and the 856th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 22, 2015 and in the United States on April 4, 2015.

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

Blurb

When our heroes finally make it to Coumarine City, they learn that Nurse Joy is taking care of a lost Vanillite and head off to meet it. They take a shortcut through a ranch where the owner, Ramos, watches over a large number of Grass-type Pokémon.

When they reach the Pokémon Center, Bonnie happily plays with the friendly Vanillite—until Team Rocket shows up to steal it! But it turns out Vanillite has powerful friends, and when Vanillish and Vanilluxe come looking for their lost companion, they bury the entire city under a massive snowstorm!

Ramos directs the huge group of Sunflora under his care to stop the storm, and with his help, our heroes send Team Rocket blasting off again and reunite the three icy Pokémon.

Nurse Joy thanks Ramos for his help, and Clemont finally realizes who he is: this Trainer who can command an entire field of Grass-type Pokémon is Ash’s next opponent, the Gym Leader of Coumarine City!

Plot

Ash, Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie finally arrive in Coumarine City. While there, Bonnie sees an ice cream stand and asks for an ice cream cone. After she remarks about it being in the shape of a Vanillite, the man at the shop tells the group about a Vanillite that is being looked after by Nurse Joy at the Pokémon Center. The group decides to go see it, and so, not knowing about the monorail, they begin a long trek up the hill that leads to the other side of Coumarine City. Clemont, getting worn out much more quickly than the other three, shows off an invention that allows him to move up the hill with ease, but it goes awry and sends him crashing through a gate and into a field that is a pasture for Grass-type Pokémon. He is then attacked by a group of angry Victreebel, but is saved by a man riding a Gogoat. The man, after accepting their explanation for being in a reserved area, allows them to take a shortcut through his ranch to get to the Pokémon Center.

At the Pokémon Center, Nurse Joy introduces the group to the Vanillite under her care. While Vanillite is shy at first, it quickly begins to trust them and plays happily with Pikachu and Dedenne. Nurse Joy accepts everyone's offer to help her and they all go to another room to prepare food for Vanillite. However, Team Rocket disguises themselves as Nurse Joys and runs off with Vanillite, leading everybody to chase after them and pursue them up the same hill they went on to traverse the fields between the two halves of Coumarine City. While in Team Rocket's clutches, Vanillite manages to cry loud enough for its family, a Vanillish and Vanilluxe, to hear it. In response, Vanillish and Vanilluxe use Blizzard, summoning a raging snowstorm that covers Coumarine City in snow.

Ash and his friends finally catch up to the three false Nurse Joys, who reveal themselves as Team Rocket and recite a variation of their motto. As the blizzard worsens, Vanillish and Vanilluxe arrive and attack both Team Rocket and Ash and company. They freeze Team Rocket in a block of ice and try to do the same to the others, but Ash runs forward and tries to stop them. Before he can be frozen as well, the man from before—named Ramos—arrives and Gogoat uses Vine Whip to pull Ash out of harm's way. Lecturing Ash on the difference between attacking head-on and taking "the side road," he has his Jumpluff use Sunny Day and then tells his numerous Sunflora to unite and use Solar Beam to melt all of the snow, which appears to calm down Vanillish and Vanilluxe.

However, a newly thawed Team Rocket moves over to their next plan and produces a giant Meowth-shaped robot to continue with their plot to steal Vanillite and the others. Inserting the three Pokémon into the machine's "cold collectors", they begin forcibly taking the cold energy from the three Ice-type Pokémon and using it to attack Ash, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, and Ramos. When they explain the workings of their machine, Clemont is impressed with their scientific prowess, but Bonnie scolds him and they continue to battle. Clemont's Luxio, Ash's Pikachu, and Serena's Fennekin all start to attack the robot, but to no avail, as the frigid air from Vanillite, Vanillish, and Vanilluxe stops their attacks. In response, Ramos has his Gogoat use Grass Knot and Leech Seed on the robot, effectively immobilizing it. With Frogadier's Cut and Pikachu's Iron Tail, the three Pokémon are freed and Team Rocket is sent blasting off with a barrage of attacks from Frogadier, Pikachu, Fennekin, and Luxio.

Back at the Pokémon Center, the group, Ramos, and Nurse Joy all say goodbye to Vanillite, Vanillish, and Vanilluxe. Ash and his friends finally introduce themselves to Ramos, and they learn his name—a name which Clemont recognizes, but cannot immediately remember. Ramos tells Ash how he must remember to always take the side road in life sometimes. Just as Ramos is leaving, Clemont remembers that Ramos is the Coumarine Gym Leader and Ramos tells Ash that he will be waiting for his Gym challenge.

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Coumarine City and meet Ramos, the Leader of the Coumarine Gym.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Ramos

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Ramos
• Shopkeeper

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

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

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's)
• Fennekin (Serena's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxio (Clemont's)
• Wigglytuff (Nurse Joy's)
• Jumpluff (Ramos's)
• Gogoat (Ramos's)
• Exeggutor (Ramos's, multiple)
• Victreebel (Ramos's, multiple)
• Sunflora (Ramos's, multiple)
• Oddish (Ramos's, multiple)
• Bellossom (Ramos's, multiple)
• Vileplume (Ramos's, multiple)
• Weepinbell (Trainer's)
• Oddish (Trainer's)
• Foongus (Trainer's)
• Jumpluff (Trainer's)
• Vileplume (Trainer's)
• Bellsprout (Trainer's)
• Hoppip (Trainer's)
• Skiploom (Trainer's)
• Budew (Trainer's)
• Bellossom (Trainer's)
• Lotad (Trainer's)
• Slurpuff (Trainer's)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Skiddo (Trainer's)
• Wigglytuff (Trainer's)
• Vanillite
• Vanillish
• Vanilluxe

Trivia

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The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Slurpuff
• Jessie's Wobbuffet is absent in this episode.
• This episode marks the return of James crossdressing, which he hasn't done since the Diamond & Pearl series.
• When Team Rocket's mech is being attacked, Meowth scolds Ash and friends with several references to the popular anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. First by yelling (in Japanese,) Muda-nya, which is main villain Dio's catchphrase, meaning "useless" (with Meowth's vocal quirk of adding Nya to the end of words). Secondly, he does several poses famous to the series for being over the top and dramatic.

Errors

• In the English dub, when Fennekin is sent out to battle Team Rocket, her Japanese voice can be heard.
• In the Swedish dub, Vanilluxe's Pokédex was not read and the sound afterwards when it attacked was muffled a bit.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	迷你冰陷入恐慌！霧茫茫的大風雪！！
	Mandarin	迷你冰陷入恐慌！霧茫茫的大風雪！！
Danish		Optøning af en iskold paniksituation!
Dutch		Een ijzige paniek laten ontdooien!
Finnish		Jäisen paniikin sulattelua!
European French		Un hiver inattendu !
German		Eiskalte Panik in Tempera City!
Greek		Νικώντας έναν Πανικό Πάγου!
Hebrew		!בהלת קיפאון
Italian		Panico a bassa temperatura!
Korean		바닐프티 패닉! 얼음은 이제 싫어!
Norwegian		Å tine iskald panikk!
Polish		Lodowa panika!
Portuguese	Brazil	Pânico Congelado!
	Portugal	Derreter um Pânico Glacial!
Russian		В борьбе со снежной паникой!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Derritiendo un pánico helado!
	Spain	¡Derritiendo un pánico helador!
Swedish		Hur man töar upp en isig panikstuation!
Thai		เหตุวุ่นวายจากวานิพุจจิ! ความขาวโพลนด้วยไอเย็น!!
Turkish		Buzlu Panik Çözülüyor!

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