BW018

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Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!

BW018   EP675 ヤグルマの森！クルミルとアーティ！！ Yaguruma Forest! Kurumiru and Arti!!

First broadcast Japan January 27, 2011 United States June 4, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 心のファンファーレ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura 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

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Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest! (Japanese:ヤグルマの森！クルミルとアーティ！！ Yaguruma Forest! Kurumiru and Arti!!) is the 18th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 675th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 27, 2011 and in the United States on June 4, 2011.

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

Synopsis

Ash, Iris, and Cilan arrive in the Pinwheel Forest. While they move through the beautiful forest, admiring the scenery, they find themselves ambushed by a small Bug Pokémon, who swoops down from a tree with string from String Shot and attacks Pikachu. Pikachu, angrily, readies a Thunderbolt as the bug swings in the opposite direction, smacking Ash in the face and dodging the attack. Pikachu, instead, ends up shocking Ash. The bug continues to attack Pikachu with a barrage of Razor Leaf, and then ends up latching onto Pikachu's head with a Bug Bite.

After regaining his composure from the zap he received, Ash gets up and finds out from his Pokédex that the bug is known as a Sewaddle. Ash decides to battle Sewaddle, but Sewaddle uses String Shot to wrap Ash in a ball of string. Pikachu uses Iron Tail to free Ash, and he has Pikachu attack Sewaddle, who instead flees. Ash and the gang take chase, with Ash now fired up to catch this Sewaddle, but Ash ends up tripping and landing face-first on the ground. Cilan and Iris catch up to him.

Ash is determined to find the Sewaddle and Iris claims that she hears the voice of the forest, only to learn that it was Ash's growling stomach. Iris manages to lead the trio to a very large tree. They climb it, and end up finding a curled up cocoon. Cilan shouts at it, and it's not a Sewaddle that pops out, but a human. His name is Burgh, and he's the Castelia City Gym Leader. They question why he was cocooned up, and he explains he is living like an insect in order to gain inspiration for his art.

Sewaddle swoops down and kicks Ash in the face again, hopping right onto Burgh's shoulder. Cilan makes lunch for the group as Burgh attempts to bond with Sewaddle by tapping heads with it. He and Sewaddle make an instant connection. Pikachu, Axew, and Iris all manage to connect with Sewaddle too. Ash is eager to try, but Sewaddle instead headbutts Ash and knocks him over. Sewaddle turns away, ignoring Ash as he tries to talk to it.

Ash, Iris, and Burgh head out to a field with Sewaddle, where Sewaddle wraps itself up and takes a nap. They all lay around it, staring into the day sky. Suddenly, Sewaddle wakes up, crying. It walks toward a group of bushes, taking fruits off of them. A Woobat appears, and ends up calling five other Woobat to join it. They attack Sewaddle, but Ash is attacked instead, taking the hit for the little bug. Sewaddle and Pikachu then team up to scare off the Woobat.

At sunset, the three of them return to the big tree with Sewaddle, where they find Cilan's lunch ready for them. That night they ready themselves for sleep, and Sewaddle strings itself up by Ash in the tree, dangling there to sleep. Ash lies down, with Pikachu in his sleeping bag, and Sewaddle wakes him up, climbing inside too. The next morning, Ash instantly notices that Sewaddle is missing. He checks through the trees, and sees that a still asleep Sewaddle is being taken away by a Patrat. Sewaddle wakes up and tries to swing away, but is scooped away by the wind, and ends up accidentally attaching itself to a Deerling. The startled Deerling charges into the forest while Ash, Iris, Cilan, and Burgh rush after the Patrat.

They end up in a cavern where the Patrat meets up with its companion, who is sick and was looking for a cure for its mate by feeding it Sewaddle's leaves, which have a healing property to them. Burgh healed the sick Patrat, but it finds the medicine bitter. After leaving the cavern, the group sees Deerling, with Sewaddle still attached, charging toward them. Sewaddle's leaves are extremely tattered from all the running Deerling did, and it manages to detach itself from Deerling, but ends up being blown toward a chasm with a crashing stream below it.

Ash dives after Sewaddle, but finds himself and Sewaddle unable to escape the current before reaching a waterfall so he decides to curl up in a fetal position to protect Sewaddle. Bracing for impact, Ash is surprised to find himself end up on land, pulled to safety by the String Shot of Burgh's Leavanny. Returning to the forest, Burgh's Leavanny manages to sculpt new leaves around Sewaddle's head. Sewaddle rubs his head on Ash's leg lovingly, and Ash makes the conclusion that Sewaddle wants to be caught. Ash tosses a Poké Ball, and instantly captures Sewaddle. The Ball instantly shrinks down in size and locks with a glowing red light due to Ash already having a full party.

They arrive at a Pokémon Center at sunset, and Ash leaves one of his Pokémon with Professor Juniper so he can have his newly-caught Sewaddle on his team. Ash lets Sewaddle out, and the two successfully touch heads, having bonded. Burgh exclaims happiness, before bidding the group farewell.

Major events

• Ash and friends reach Pinwheel Forest and meet Castelia City Gym Leader, Burgh.
• Ash captures a Sewaddle.
• Ash sends his Pidove to Professor Juniper and adds Sewaddle to his team.
  • While we see Ash send a Pokémon to Professor Juniper, we only learn that it was Pidove who was sent in the next episode.

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

Debuts

• Burgh

Pokémon debuts

• Sewaddle (Ash's)
• Leavanny

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Burgh

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Sewaddle

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Sewaddle (Ash's; new; debut)
• Leavanny (Burgh's; debut)
• Deerling
• Patrat (two)
• Woobat (two)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Servine
• Cheren's theme, as well as the Unova wild battle music, Unova gym battle music, and along with Unova trainer battle music are used as background music.
• This episode marks the second time that Ash has captured a Pokémon with a full party. The first time this happened was back in Kanto when Ash captured Krabby in Mystery at the Lighthouse, which aired over thirteen-and-a-half years ago.
  • This episode also reveals that if a Trainer captures a new Pokémon while having a full party, then the Poké Ball will seal itself until the Trainer either deposits it or another Pokémon in the party. This wasn't the case in Mystery at the Lighthouse. Instead, Krabby was immediately sent to Professor Oak. This could be explained by Unova being far away from the other regions, and Ash originating from Kanto, with Professor Oak as his Pokémon storage. The Pokéball didn't know where to be sent, and therefore it just seals itself.
• As of this episode, Ash has already obtained the same amount of Pokémon he obtained during the entire 192 episodes of the Advanced Generation series and the entire 191 episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series with six Pokémon.
• This is also the earliest time in a series that Ash switched his team around, with Sewaddle being swapped with Pidove.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		矢車森林！蟲寶包與亞堤！！

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