EP052

Princess Versus Princess File:PrincessVSPrincess.gif.png

EP052   げきとう！ポケモンひなまつり Fierce Fighting! Pokémon Girls' Festival!

First broadcast Japan July 9, 1998 United States September 4, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ポケットにファンタジー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 横田和 Kazu Yokota Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director 武田優作 Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

Before this episode re-aired on Kids Station, the scenario credit given was 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka.

Princess Versus Princess (Japanese: げきとう！ポケモンひなまつり Fierce Fighting! Pokémon Girls' Festival!) is episode 52 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 9, 1998 and in USA on September 4, 1999.

While enjoying Princess Day, Misty and Jessie get into a rivalry. They enter the "Queen of the Princess Festival" contest with both sides having sad childhood memories driving them to refuse to lose.

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

Major events

• Jessie catches a Lickitung.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Daisy (flashback)
• Lily (flashback)
• Violet (flashback)
• Fiorello Cappucino
• Announcer
• Crowd

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Butterfree

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Vulpix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Lickitung (Jessie's; new, debut)
• Weezing (James's)

Pokémon seen at the tournament:

• Raticate
• Fearow
• Parasect
• Primeape
• Machoke
• Graveler
• Kingler
• Cubone
• Tangela
• Pinsir

Trivia

• Chronologically, this episode takes place prior to EP049, since Jessie's Lickitung is mentioned in that episode, as well as EP050, in which Togepi (who is absent here) is hatched.
• This episode was originally scheduled to air on Girls' Day itself, on March 3, 1998, but was rescheduled in the aftermath of EP038.
• The original airing schedule suggests that this episode takes place between EP047 and EP048.
• This episode and the following air after The Breeding Center Secret in the dub.
• This is the first episode to play Pikachu's Jukebox.
• Misty borrows Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Vulpix while Jessie borrows Weezing and also uses Meowth.
• Misty wins her own one-of-a-kind "Pokémon Princess doll set" that she sends to the Cerulean City Gym.
• The contest that takes place in this episode is similar in many aspects to Pokémon Contests that were introduced in Generation III and Advanced Generation. Similarly, both Jessie and the girl who is traveling with Ash at the time enter it.
• The Pokemon featured in this episode's "Who's that Pokemon?" guessing game is Butterfree

In other languages

• French: La guerre des princesses
• Italian: Una festa principesca
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Princesa contra princesa!
• Spanish: Princesa versus princesa

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