BW097

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Unova's Survival Crisis!

BW097   EP754 霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！ The Reijuu Formes Advance! Isshu's Greatest Crisis!!

First broadcast Japan October 4, 2012 United States January 26, 2013

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！ Ending ロケット団よ永遠に みてみて☆こっちっち*

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

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Unova's Survival Crisis! (Japanese: 霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！ The Reijuu Formes Advance! Isshu's Greatest Crisis!!) is the 97th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 754th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on October 4, 2012, in the UK on December 31, 2012 and in the United States on January 26, 2013.

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

Major events

• Giovanni successfully summons the kami trio and uses the Reveal Glass to turn them in their Therian Forme.
• Dragonite begins to obey Iris.
• Meloetta manages to calm the kami trio down.
• Giovanni withdraws Team Rocket (including Jessie, James and Meowth) from Unova and returns to Kanto.
• Meloetta leaves with Ridley.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Tornadus (Therian Forme)
• Thundurus (Therian Forme)
• Landorus (Therian Forme)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Giovanni
• Dr. Zager
• Cynthia
• Jervis
• Ridley

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Persian (US and international) Landorus (Therian Forme) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Unfezant (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Meloetta (anime)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's)
• Golurk (Ridley's)
• Tornadus (both Formes)
• Thundurus (both Formes)
• Landorus (both Formes)

Trivia

• Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Team Rocket's old Pokémon
  • Viewers could call one of three phone numbers to want either Wobbuffet, Mime Jr., or Dustox to return to the series. Three random callers won a Nintendo 3DS XL with a prepaid gift card, which allows the player to gain access to the Pokémon Dream Radar.
• When first aired, Team Rocket Forever was used as the ending theme for this episode instead of Look Look☆Here. Subsequent re-airings use Look Look☆Here.
• Iris narrates the preview for the next episode.
• This is the last episode of the fifteenth season, Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies.
• This episode aired December 31, 2012 in the UK, twenty six days before the US airdate.
  • The gap between the Japanese and UK airings was 88 days - making this the shortest time between the premiere of the Japanese version and the English dub of the same episode.
  • On January 26, 2013, it was also aired in in Spanish on CN USA via the Secondary Audio Track on U.S and U.S Territories (such as Puerto Rico)
• This episode aired on January 3, 2013 in Italy (on K2), twenty-three days before the US airdate.
• This episode aired on January 10, 2013 in Poland (on DisneyXD), sixteen days before the US airdate.

Errors

• Just before Jessie, James and Meowth push Giovanni off the pedestal while he is possessed, the red glow in his eyes disappears before he falls.

Dub edits

• In the original version of the episode, Tornadus's voice changes to become much higher pitched when it changes into Therian Forme. This is not retained for the dub, in which all three of the Kami Trio have the same voices in both Formes.

In other languages

Language		Title
Italian		Tutti uniti per Unima!
Polish		Walka o Przetrwanie Unovy!
Latin American Spanish		¡Unova y su crisis por sobrevivir!

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