BW097

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Unova's Survival Crisis!

BW097   EP754 霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！ The Reijuu Formes Advance! Isshu's Greatest Crisis!!

First broadcast Japan October 4, 2012 United States

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！ Ending ロケット団よ永遠に

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Unova's Survival Crisis! (Japanese: 霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！ The Reijuu Formes Advance! Isshu's Greatest Crisis!!) is the 97th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 754th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on October 4, 2012.

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

Major events

• Giovanni successfully summons the kami trio and uses the Reveal Glass to turn them in their Therian Forme.
• Dragonite begins to obey Iris.
• Meloetta manages to calm the kami trio down.
• Giovanni withdraws Team Rocket (including Jessie, James and Meowth) from Unova and returns to Kanto.
• Meloetta leaves with Larry.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Tornadus (Therian Forme)
• Thundurus (Therian Forme)
• Landorus (Therian Forme)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Giovanni
• Dr. Zager
• Cynthia
• Jervis
• Larry

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Landorus (Therian Forme) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Unfezant (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Meloetta (anime)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's)
• Golurk (Larry's)
• Tornadus (both Formes)
• Thundurus (both Formes)
• Landorus (both Formes)

Trivia

• Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Team Rocket's old Pokémon
  • Viewers could call one of three phone numbers to want either Wobbuffet, Mime Jr., or Dustox to return to the series. Three random callers won a Nintendo 3DS XL with a prepaid gift card, which allows the player to gain access to the Pokémon Dream Radar.
• When first aired, Team Rocket Forever was used as the ending theme for this episode instead of Look Look☆Here. Subsequent re-airings use Look Look☆Here.
• Iris narrates the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• Just before Jessie, James and Meowth push Giovanni off the pedestal while he is possessed, the red glow in his eyes disappears before he falls.

In other languages

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