BW128

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon animated series that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

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BW129 : The Pirates of Decolore! →

To Catch a Rotom!

BW128   EP785 ロトムVSオーキド博士！ Rotom VS Dr. Okido!

First broadcast Japan May 30, 2013 United States August 31, 2013

English themes Opening It's Always You and Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening 夏めく坂道 Ending 手をつなごう

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 川田武範 Takenori Kawada 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

To Catch a Rotom! (Japanese: ロトムVSオーキド博士！ Rotom VS Dr. Okido!) is the 128th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 785th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 30, 2013.

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

Major events

• Iris and Cilan meet Professor Oak in person for the first time.
• Professor Oak catches a Rotom.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Oak
• Porter

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Rotom (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Krookodile (Ash's)
• Excadrill (Iris's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Stunfisk (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's)
• Rotom (all forms; ×2)
• Rotom (Professor Oak's; new)
• Purrloin (flashback)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Rotom (mid-episode) and Gigalith (end of the episode)
  • This is the first time that two different Live Casters are in the same episode.
• This episode marks the first time that someone mentions the existence of genderless Pokémon in the anime.
• Much like in The Lonely Deino!, when Iris' Emolga steps on Cilan's Stunfisk and the Mow Rotom overrides it, it cries, even though in the Pokédex it says that "its skin is very hard, so it's unhurt even if stepped on by sumo wrestlers." This was done for comical purposes.
• Though not exactly a boss fantasy, this is the first time in the Best Wishes series that Team Rocket fantasizes about the Pokémon they are planning to steal.
• In this episode, for the first time since the Diamond & Pearl series, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
• The beam emitters that Team Rocket use to capture Rotom are similar in design to the Proton Packs from Ghostbusters.
• At the end of the episode, the narrator impersonates Professor Oak. Both characters have the same voice actor.
• In the English Dub there was a mistake in the opening with it was the N saga opening when it should have been the Adventures in Unova and Beyond opening, furthermore it does not say Adventure in Unova and beyond in the opening title card, but in the who's that Pokemon segment it does still acknowledge it as Adventures in Unova and Beyond

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		洛托姆VS大木博士！

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