BW050

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BW050

BW050   EP707 ライモンジム！ 華麗なる電撃バトル！！ Raimon Gym! Magnificent Electric Shock Battle!!

First broadcast Japan September 29, 2011 United States

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation director 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ライモンジム！ 華麗なる電撃バトル！！ Raimon Gym! Magnificent Electric Shock Battle!!) is the 50th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 707th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 29, 2011.

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

Major events

• Ash has a Gym battle with Elesa and wins, earning himself the Bolt Badge.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Tynamo

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Elesa
• Female referee
• Elesa's fans
• Professor Juniper

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Palpitoad (Ash's)
• Emolga (Elesa's)
• Zebstrika (Elesa's)
• Tynamo (Elesa's; debut)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Zorua
• Ash's Palpitoad is confirmed to be male in this episode.
• An instrumental of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is used as background music.
• Cilan, Ingo, and Emmet narrate the preview for the next episode. Also, unlike most previews in the Best Wishes series, the preview does not start with Ash talking.

Errors

• When Ash receives the Bolt Badge from Elesa, Palpitoad is much smaller than normal, barely reaching Ash's knee, whereas Palpitoad was roughly the same size as a kneeling Ash in BW039.

Dub edits

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