AG028

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Seeing is Believing!

AG028   EP302 アゲハントとドクケイル！進化の果てに！ Agehunt & Dokucale! The Final Evolution!

First broadcast Japan June 5, 2003 United States April 24, 2004

English themes Opening I Wanna Be A Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending ポルカ・オ・ドルカ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Seeing is Believing! (Japanese: アゲハントとドクケイル！進化の果てに！ Agehunt & Dokucale! The Final Evolution!) is episode 28 of the Advanced Generation series, and the 302nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 5, 2003 and in the United States on April 24, 2004.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash, May, Max and Brock are sitting at their camp with Professor Birch. Ash then lets out Treecko, Taillow and Corphish to show Birch. May then lets out her Silcoon and Brock releases Mudkip and Lotad. Birch admires them but when he gets to Brock's Pokémon, Lotad is facing the wrong way so Mudkip turns it around.

Jessie is polishing her Cascoon and telling it what a beautiful Silcoon it is. James and Meowth wonder about when they should tell Jessie that it is a Cascoon. James takes out a Pokémon card with Silcoon on it to show Jessie, but she thinks they look the same.

Ash and friends are walking with Birch when they see some Seedot hanging from a tree. The three Seedot appear to be unhappy. The reason was that the trees in the areas don't contain much water. Professor Birch then suggests rubbing the Seedot with leaves to cheer them up. After that Professor Birch plays with the Seedot by rolling on the floor with them.

Watching Professor Birch play with the Seedot Jessie, James and TRMeowth ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]) create a devious plot to steal the three Seedot and give them to Giovanni as a present.

After Jessie has an argument with Professor Birch about weather her Cascoon is a Cascoon or not, Jessie and May battle, with Cascoon and Silcoon. During the battle Silcoon evolves into Beautifly. May is very happy about her new Pokémon and checks her Pokédex happily. The battle is ended when Ash's Corphish intervenes and sends their foes flying into the woods.

Brock then gives May a special food gel for Beautifly that he pre-prepared for the day Beautifly evolved. They discuss Beautifly new moves and Professor Birch hands May a Frisbee for Beautifly to keep spinning in the air by using newly learnt Gust.

Jessie then forces Meowth (Team Rocket) to fight Cascoon in order to raise Cascoon experience and to make it evolve into a Cascoon. Depite Cascoon beating Meowth (Team Rocket) it wasn't enough to evolve it. Jessie then battles James's Cacnea, but after another victory Jessie decides that she needs to battle stronger pokémon and she sets her sights on Ash and his friends.

Just after Ash and hisfriends find a tree that the Seedot like that is full of water and is near some good ground to roll on Jessie challenges Ash and friends to a fight. May accepts the battle and leads the attack with her newly evolved Beautifly. During the battle Cascoon starts to evolve. Scared of Jessie's wrath, Meowth dresses up as a Beautifly and hides the newly evolved Pokémon. This was seen through easily, however, and much to their surprise, Jessie loves her new Dustox, even though it didn't evolve into a Beautifly.

Major events

• May's Silcoon evolves into Beautifly and learns Gust.
• Jessie's Cascoon evolves into Dustox and learns Psybeam and Poison Sting.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Dustox (Jessie's)
• May's Beautifly
• Seedot

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Birch

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Wurmple

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Wurmple (May's; flashback)
• Silcoon (May's; evolves)
• Beautifly (May's; newly evolved)
• Lotad (Brock's)
• Mudkip (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Wurmple (Jessie's; flashback)
• Cascoon (Jessie's; evolves)
• Dustox (Jessie's; newly evolved, debut)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Seedot (debut)

Trivia

• The English title is based on the phrase "Seeing is believing."
• Wurmple's image for Who’s That Pokémon? has a white square covering part of its body, slightly below its head.

Errors

• While Team Rocket is training Jessie's Cascoon, James's Cacnea's four green spikes near the top of its head appear as black holes instead after Cascoon defeats it.

In other languages

• Chinese: 狩獵鳳蝶與毒粉蝶！進化之後！
• French: Armulys ou Blindalys
• German: Irren ist menschlich
• Hebrew: לראות ולהאמין lir'ot veleha'amin
• Italian: Vedere per credere
• Polish: Zobaczyć to uwierzyć!
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Ver para Crer!
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Ver para creer
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Ver para creer!

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