AG055

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AG055   新人ジムリーダー・アスナ！穴だらけのバトルフィールド!? The New Gym Leader, Asuna! The Hole-Filled Battle Field!

First broadcast Japan December 11, 2003 United States November 20, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending スマイル

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Poetry Commotion! (Japanese: 新人ジムリーダー・アスナ！穴だらけのバトルフィールド!? The New Gym Leader, Asuna! The Hole-Filled Battle Field!) is the 55th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 329th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 11, 2003 and in the United States on November 20, 2004.

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

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Lavaridge Town and meet Flannery, the local Gym Leader.

Debuts

• Flannery

Pokémon debuts

• Torkoal

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Flannery
• Mr. Moore

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Togetic

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Mudkip (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Slugma (Flannery's; nicknamed "Mag", evolves)
• Magcargo (Flannery's; nicknamed "Mag", newly evolved)
• Torkoal (Flannery's; debut)
• Typhlosion (Mr. Moore's)
• Wingull (Mr. Moore's)
• Vileplume (flashback)
• Doduo (flashback)
• Politoed (flashback)
• Breloom (flashback)

Trivia

Errors

Mr. Moore Incorrectly told Typhlosion to do Tackle in the English dub. Where as, in the Japanese version he told it to do Headbutt

In other languages

• French: Poésie Pokémon
• Italian: Una Capopalestra inesperta
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Problemas poéticos!
• Portuguese: Confusão Poética!
• Spanish: Conmoción poética

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