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| The Misty Mermaid
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ハナダジム！すいちゅうのたたかい！
Hanada Gym! Underwater Battle!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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September 3, 1998
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| United States
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September 23, 1999
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
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| Storyboard
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井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
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| Assistant director
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岡崎幸男 Yukio Okazaki
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| Animation director
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林広道 Hiromichi Hayashi
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| Additional credits
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The Misty Mermaid (Japanese: ハナダジム！すいちゅうのたたかい！ Hanada Gym! Underwater Battle!) is the 61st episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 3, 1998 and in the United States on September 23, 1999.
Synopsis
While in Viridian City, Misty's Horsea, swimming in a fountain looks ill. Brock suggests that it needs to find a bigger pool to swim in, and so, the gang decide to head for Misty's home town, Cerulean City. When they get there, the discover that Misty's sisters at the Cerulean Gym are having trouble attracting crowds to their performances and have advertised Misty to be in a new performance called the "Underwater Ballet." Misty is reluctant to be a part of this at first, but finally agrees after much begging from her sisters. They then celebrate.
The whole gym fills up with people eager to see the show. Ash and Brock are sitting among the audience, and Ash is excited to see Misty. The show starts smoothly with Misty swimming with the water Pokémon. While Lily and Violet (in costume) are watching Team Rocket attacks them and replaces them to be the antagonists of the show. Daisy, who had been taking tickets, hears her cue on the pre-recorded voiceover and goes to change. Ash and Brock rush past them to help Misty. Confused at this, Daisy hears banging on a nearby locker, and finds Lily and Violet bound and gagged. An underwater battle commence between Misty's and Ash's water Pokémon and Jessie's Arbok, which happens to put up a good fight.
The battle continues and the audience are completely convinced that it's all part of the show and are practically enjoying it. Horsea, Goldeen, and other Water Pokémon fight against Arbok (Koffing floated to the surface, unable to be underwater). Seel fights well against Arbok and eventually evolves into Dewgong to freeze Team Rocket in ice. After Misty and Brock pull out the water Pokémon, Pikachu electrocutes the water, sending Jessie, James, and Arbok upwards, hitting Meowth and the balloon, sending them blasting off once more. The crowd goes wild, an obvious fact that they enjoyed the show. Because of this, the Cerulean Gym shows are popular again.
Before departing, Misty decides to leave Horsea in the gym and her sisters borrowed her Starmie. They also want Togepi and Pikachu as well, but Misty and Ash refuse to hand them over, but Misty offers to let them have Psyduck, which the sisters say they aren't that desperate for. After all that, Ash and his friends bid farewell to the Sensational Sisters to continue their journey. As they leave Cerulean City, Ash says that Misty was pretty amazing back there, but Misty reminds him that he still owes her a bike.
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Clefairy (US and international), Tattu (Japan)
Trivia
Errors
In other languages
Czech
Finnish
European French
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
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Portugal
Russian
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