XY099

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XY098   EP897 ようこそ忍者村へ！英雄ゲッコウガの伝説！！ Welcome to the Ninja Village! The Legend of the Heroic Gekkouga!!

First broadcast Japan December 3, 2015 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Animation directors 中村路之将 Michinosuke Nakamura 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: ようこそ忍者村へ！英雄ゲッコウガの伝説！！ Welcome to the Ninja Village! The Legend of the Heroic Gekkouga!!) is the 98th episode of the XY series, and the 897th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 3, 2015.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Sanpei again.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Sanpei
• Jessie
• James
• Ippei
• Nihei
• Saizo (flashback)
• Hanzō
• Shinobu
• Kagetomo
• Heidayū
• Ninjas
• Ninja Army

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Venusaur (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's)
• Froakie (Sanpei's; photo)
• Greninja (Sanpei's)
• Greninja (Ippei's)
• Venusaur (Nihei's)
• Barbaracle (Saizo's; flashback)
• Weavile (Kagetomo's)
• Bisharp (Heidayū's)
• Ariados (Ninja's; ×2)
• Skarmory (Ninja's; ×6)
• Tauros (Ninja's)
• Machoke (Ninja's)
• Simipour (Ninja's; ×3)
• Simisage (Ninja's; ×4)
• Wooper (Ninja's; ×2)
• Psyduck (Ninja's)
• Poliwhirl (Ninja's)
• Poliwag (Ninja's)
• Marill (Ninja's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Puni-chan)
• Azurill
• Marill
• Frogadier
• Greninja (painting)
• Staraptor (painting)
• Heatmor (painting)
• Froakie (Poké TV segment)
• Stantler (Poké TV segment)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: Poké Love TV focusing on "Frubbles".
• Ash and Ash's Frogadier narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Bonnie wears the same ninja outfit that she wore in A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!.
• Ash's Frogadier remains outside of its Poké Ball for the entire episode.

Errors

• After Ash and his friends go through the trapdoor and walk up to the temple, Frogadier's toes are colored white instead of dark blue.

• XY098 error.png

  Frogadier's toes error

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