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H012   ロケット団　愛と青春の原点 Team Rocket - The Origin of Love and Youth

First broadcast Japan September 30, 2003 United States N/A

English themes Opening Pokémon Chronicles theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening N/A Ending 前向きロケット団！

Credits Animation ? Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 辻初樹 Hatsuki Tsuji Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation director 井ノ上ユウ子 Yūko Inoue No additional credits are available at this time.

Training Daze (Japanese: ロケット団　愛と青春の原点 Team Rocket - The Origin of Love and Youth) is episode 12 of Pokémon Chronicles. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 30, 2003, and in the UK on August 3, 2005. It has yet to air in the USA. In this episode, Team Rocket reveals how they became a trio.

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

Major events

• Jessie, James, and Meowth are grouped together and become official members of Team Rocket
• Butch, Cassidy, and Raticate are grouped together and become official members of Team Rocket

Debuts

• Viper

Characters

Humans

• Jessie
• James
• Butch
• Cassidy
• Giovanni
• Viper
• Jūbei
• Various Team Rocket staff, members, and trainees

Pokémon

• Meowth
• Giovanni's Persian
• Cassidy's Raticate
• Jessie's Wobbuffet (present-time only)
• Mankey (previously partnered with Jessie and Jūbei)
• Gengar
• Magnemite
• Venonat
• Geodude
• Growlithe
• Arcanine

Trivia

• Jessie had been through 12 partners before becoming compatible with James and Meowth.
• In the English dub, Double Trouble was used as an insert song. In the Japanese version, Team Rocket Forever was used.
• While in the English dub, Butch's name is mispronounced many different ways, in Japanese, it is only mispronounced as コサンジ Kosanji (instead of correctly being コサブロウ Kosaburo).

Errors

• The history given in this episode appears to contradict statements from earlier episodes. Jessie and James previously stated they were friends long before joining Team Rocket, whereas this episode implies they met after joining. In additon, in previous episodes, Meowth was known to formerly be Giovanni's personal pet who was replaced by Persian, but in this episode, Giovanni has Persian when Meowth joins, and Meowth is made to do petty chores. Finally, in EP057, Jessie had to explain who Cassidy was to James and Meowth, whereas in this episode, they clearly met.