BW081

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Crisis at Ferroseed Research!

BW081   EP738 テッシード研究所！アイリスとバイバニラ！！ Tesseed Research Institute! Iris and Baivanilla!!

First broadcast Japan May 31, 2012 United States

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Crisis at Ferroseed Research! (Japanese: テッシード研究所！アイリスとバイバニラ！！ Tesseed Research Institute! Iris and Baivanilla!!) is the 81st episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 738th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 31, 2012.

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

Synopsis

As Ash and his friends head towards a harbor to take the boat to Tachiwaki City, they happen to meet the Dragon Buster Georgia and the "Blizzard Pokémon" Vanilluxe. Georgia tells them she's currently on her way to the Ferroseed Research Institute in order to acquire "moss that enhances Pokémon's abilities". Ash and his friends find this interesting, and head to the laboratory together with Georgia, where the mentioned moss is created from the components of rocks and stones taken into the body of the "Thorn Seed Pokémon" Ferroseed.

Suddenly, a large mass of moss emerges from the room where an experiment to create moss from Electric Stones ("Chargestones") was being conducted! The laboratory ends up completely covered! Ash and the others quickly escape the place, but Iris, Axew and Oshawott end up left behind on the laboratory roof! And Vanilluxe, being an Ice-type, which Iris is uncomfortable with, is on the roof with them as well! Iris shakes in fear at both the approaching moss and Vanilluxe...! What will happen now!?

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Georgia again.
• Georgia is revealed to own a Vanilluxe.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Ferroseed
• Vanilluxe

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Georgia
• Clay
• Professor Marble
• Researchers
• Trainers

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Vanilluxe (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Excadrill (Iris's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Stunfisk (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's)
• Beartic (Georgia's)
• Vanilluxe (Georgia's; debut)
• Ferroseed (multiple; debut)
• Swanna (Officer Jenny's; multiple)
• Tynamo
• Blitzle
• Krokorok
• Sandile
• Zebstrika
• Drilbur
• Joltik (multiple)
• Emolga

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 and upcoming episodes.
• Music from Arceus and the Jewel of Life and Zoroark: Master of Illusions is used in this episode.

Errors

• In one scene, Vanilluxe is without her straw.
• Officer Jenny's Swanna used Blizzard, a move that Swanna cannot legally learn.

In other languages

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Best Wishes series

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