BW023

If you were looking for the unaired episode featuring Team Plasma, see BW023 (unaired).

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Battling For The Love of Bug-Types!

BW023   EP680 ヒウンジム戦！純情ハートの虫ポケモンバトル！！ Hiun Gym Match! Purehearted Bug Pokémon Battle!!

First broadcast Japan March 17, 2011 United States July 9, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 心のファンファーレ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation director 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Battling For The Love of Bug-Types! (Japanese: ヒウンジム戦！純情ハートの虫ポケモンバトル！！ Hiun Gym Match! Purehearted Bug Pokémon Battle!!) is the 23rd episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 680th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 17, 2011 and in the United States on July 9, 2011.

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

Major events

• Ash's Sewaddle evolves into a Swadloon and learns Energy Ball.
• Ash battles Burgh in his third Unova Gym match and wins, earning him the Insect Badge.
• James captures a Yamask.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Whirlipede
• Swadloon (Ash's)
• Yamask (James's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Burgh
• Giovanni's secretary

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Leavanny

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Tepig (Ash's)
• Sewaddle (Ash's; evolves)
• Swadloon (Ash's; newly evolved; debut)
• Dwebble (Cilan's; flashback)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's; new)
• Dwebble (Burgh's)
• Whirlipede (Burgh's; debut)
• Leavanny (Burgh's)
• Sewaddle (Castelia Gym's)
• Patrat
• Pidove (multiple)
• Minccino

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Herdier
• This episode was originally supposed to air on March 31, 2011 in Japan but was moved up two weeks earlier because of the original BW023 and BW024's postponement. The dub also followed this skip.
• Due to the reordering of the previous and following episodes, there was no next episode preview after the closing credits.
• This episode marks the first time that one of Ash's Pokémon has evolved during a Gym battle.
• Jessie and James go back to wearing their white uniforms and back to their mission of trying to capture Pikachu and other Pokémon. However, they still maintain their new gadgets and competence from previous episodes.
• This episode ends James's streak of having no Pokémon with him - after 23 episodes.
• Due to the delaying of the "Team Rocket VS. Team Plasma" episodes, this is the first episode to feature a new animation for the move Hyper Beam.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		飛雲道館賽！純情之心的蟲系神奇寶貝對戰！！

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