BW130

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Butterfree and Me!

BW130   EP787 サトシとバタフリー！また会う日まで！！ Satoshi and Butterfree! Until the Day We Meet Again!!

First broadcast Japan June 13, 2013 United States September 14, 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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Assistant director 竹内哲雄 Tetsuo Takeuchi Animation director 古瀬登 Noboru Furuse No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Butterfree and Me! (Japanese: サトシとバタフリー！また会う日まで！！ Satoshi and Butterfree! Until the Day We Meet Again!!) is the 130th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 787th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 13, 2013 and in the United States on September 14, 2013.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and his friends are sailing through the Decolore Islands and are close to approaching an island. Ash sees a flock of Swanna and scans it with his Pokedex. Porter explains that they are migrating in which Cilan points it due to the season change. Porter explains that Wayfarer Island is a popular spot for migrating Pokemon to rest that are on their way to other places. Ash is delighted to see it happen.

Major events

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

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

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Butterfree

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Caterpie (Ash's; flashback)
• Butterfree (Ash's; flashback)
• Leavanny (Ash's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Amoonguss (James's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's)
• Rotom (Professor Oak's)
• Butterfree (Pink Butterfree; flashback)
• Caterpie (evolves)
• Metapod (multiple; evolve)
• Butterfree (multiple; newly evolved)
• Ursaring
• Swanna (multiple)
• Swablu (multiple)
• Altaria (multiple)
• Swellow (multiple)

Trivia

The flashback to Bye Bye Butterfree, showing Ash's Butterfree alongside the Pink Butterfree

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Zweilous
• Ash and Iris narrate the preview for the next episode.
• As of this episode, all of Ash's original six Pokémon (Charmander, Squirtle, Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur, Butterfree, Pikachu) have appeared in the Best Wishes series, either in flashbacks or in the flesh.
• While gender differences for Pokémon which debuted before the introduction of these differences have been acknowledged in the anime, this is not true for the Butterfree in this episode, all of which — including the Pink Butterfree, confirmed to be female — have no purple spots on their wings and thus appear to be male. This may be either an animation oversight or an indication that Butterfree's anime design is not intended to correlate with its gender differences in the games.

Errors

• During several scenes throughout the episode, Ash's eyes are colored black instead of brown.
• When Ash and his friends witness the evolution of the Metapod swarm, Ash says that he's never before seen this many Metapod evolving at the same time, even though he has already witnessed a mass evolution of Metapod in the fourth movie.
• When Ash is reading a magazine in the Pokémon Center, Pikachu's right cheek is colored pink, and Metapod's eyelid is placed in the wrong position.
• During the brief scene showing Team Rocket after their motto, the Meowth balloon's ears are cream-colored like its face, instead of black.
• In one scene, one of the video screens on the control panel of Team Rocket's balloon disappears.
• When Team Rocket are blasted off, Woobat and Amoonguss disappear.

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  Ash's eyes error
• Pikachu's cheek and Metapod's eyelid errors
  Pikachu's cheek and Metapod's eyelid errors
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  Meowth balloon error
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  Control panel error

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		小智和巴大蝴！總有一天再見面!!
Italian		Io e Butterfree!

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