BW038

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Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!

BW038   EP695 ゾロア・ザ・ムービー！ポケモンナイトの伝説！！ Zorua The Movie! The Legend of the Pokémon Knight!!

First broadcast Japan June 30, 2011 United States October 22, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga 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

Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"! (Japanese: ゾロア・ザ・ムービー！ポケモンナイトの伝説！！ Zorua The Movie! The Legend of the Pokémon Knight!!) is the 38th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 695th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 30, 2011, and in the United States on October 22, 2011.

Synopsis

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

The gang are on their way to Nimbasa City and watch a preview for a new Wonder Fighter movie, where they encounter a Zorua masquerading as one of the actors. The Zorua belongs to Luke, a film-maker who also owns a Golett and dreams of being a movie director with Zorua as the star. Luke explains that Zorua has been acting up, becoming stubborn and refusing to play the characters that Luke asks for and ultimately running away from him. Team Rocket watch from the shadows as the gang leave to search for the Zorua, thinking to add it to Team Rocket’s organization.

The gang find Zorua and Cilan works out that it’s a girl and only wants to play the princess in the movie. Luke accepts Zorua’s wishes, securing Ash and his friends to play the other parts in the movie with the assistance of Luke’s Leavanny making costumes.

Filming begins on the movie, which tells the story of a Pokémon Knight (Ash) trying to rescue a Princess (Zorua) from an evil pirate (Cilan), with training from a dragon master (Iris). While filming the last scene Team Rocket appear, capture Zorua in an electric beam and take Zorua hostage aboard a plane. Luke sends out Golett who attacks the plane with Shadow Ball, destroying the plane and bringing Team Rocket and Zorua back to earth.

Cilan's Pansage removes the electric bars holding Zorua with Bullet Seed and Iris's Axew attacks Team Rocket, causing Zorua to fly away and land safely with the help of Ash's Tranquill. Meowth confronts Zorua, who ultimately uses Night Daze to send Team Rocket packing.

The movie goes on to be a success and Ash learns from Luke’s mentor, Mr. Matthews, about a battle tournament in Nimbasa Town. Luke, Ash, Cilan and Iris all express desire to enter and they leave together for the Club Battle tournament, in which they will all compete as rivals.

Major events

• Ash and company meet Luke.
• The group learns about an upcoming battle tournament being held at the local Battle Club.

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

Debuts

• Luke

Pokémon debuts

• Golett
• Golurk
• Escavalier

TV episode debuts

• Zorua (Luke's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Luke
• Mr. Matthews
• Movie characters
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Zorua

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Tranquill (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Swadloon (Ash's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Zorua (Luke's)
• Golett (Luke's; debut)
• Leavanny (Luke's)
• Escavalier (movie character's; debut)
• Golurk (movie character's; debut)

Trivia

• There is no Professor Oak's Live Caster following this epsiode.
• With 52 characters, this episode has the longest dub title so far out of Best Wishes episodes, and the whole series in general.
• In the dub, Cilan mentions a classic movie called "Yamask of the Opera", clearly referring to the famous novel The Phantom of the Opera that has been adapted into a number of musicals, TV specials, and films, among other things.
• Ash and Stephan narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The previous jingle is used for the title card.
• This is the third episode to be based on movies, the other two being Lights, Camera, Quack-tion, and Lights, Camerupt, Action!. Also, the former episode and this episode are both written by the same person.
  • Of the three, this is the only episode to not be based on the phrase "Lights, Camera, Action!".

Errors

• On the title card, "Pokémon" was misspelled as "Pokemon", without the e-acute (é).

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		索羅亞電影！神奇寶貝騎士傳說！！
Finnish		Filmiaika! Zorua elokuvassa «Pokémon-ritarin taru»!
German		Film ab! «Die Legende des Pokémon-Ritters»!
Italian		L'ora del cinema! Zorua in «La Leggenda del Cavaliere Pokémon»!
European Spanish		¡Momento película! Zorua en «La leyenda del Caballero Pokémon»

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