EP263

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Original series

EP264 : Mother of All Battles →

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EP263   ふしぎのくにのアンノーン！ Unknown of the Country of Mystery

First broadcast Japan August 29, 2002 United States September 13, 2003

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.

Address Unown! (Japanese: ふしぎのくにのアンノーン！ Unknown of the Country of Mystery) is the 263rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 29, 2002 and in the United States on September 13, 2003.

An Unown falls out of the sky and the group help it return to full health. When Unown defends against Wobbuffet's Counter, the group find themselves transported into Larvitar's mind and have to confront its painful past.

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

Major events

• Larvitar finally gets over its shyness towards Brock and Misty.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Unown
• Tyranitar

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Pokémon Poacher Brothers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Moltres

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Larvitar (Ash's)
• Elekid (Casey's, top of head only)
• Magby (Satchel's)
• Shellder (as crowns of Slowking)
• Slowking
• Unown (multiple; debut)
• Tyranitar (debut)

Trivia

• This is the first episode of American season 6. However, the Master Quest title remains for the remaining eleven episodes of the Johto saga.
• The depiction of the Unown dimension is the same as in Spell of the Unown.
• The Latin American dub title is the same as the one given to the Twilight Zone series and movies.
• The Unown that the gang care for in this episode is the 'G' form.
• This episode features a rare glimpse of Misty with her hair down.
• This episode has a lot in common with the banned episode Electric Soldier Porygon, in that the heroes enter another dimension, the Pokémon that enter with them become giant, and they ride them.
• An instrumental version of the Bulbaby is used as background music.

Errors

• In many dubs, dubbers mistook Unown for a misspelling of Unknown.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Quem é Esse Unown?
• Iberian Portuguese: Morada Incerta
• French: Souvenirs, souvenirs
• German. Geheimnisvolles Icognito
• Italian: L'altra dimensione
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Dimensión desconocida!
• Iberian Spanish: ¡El mundo de Unown!

← EP262 : You're A Star, Larvitar

Original series

EP264 : Mother Of All Battles! →

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