EP035

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon animated series that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

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EP035   ミニリュウのでんせつ The Legend of Miniryu

First broadcast Japan November 25, 1997 United States Unaired

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ニャースのうた

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda Storyboard 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

The Legend of Dratini (unofficial English name; Japanese: ミニリュウのでんせつ The Legend of Miniryu) is the 35th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 25, 1997, but never broadcast in the US or most parts of other countries airing the 4Kids Entertainment dub.

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

Synopsis

The episode

Major events

• Ash captures 30 Tauros.

Debuts

• Dratini
• Dragonair
• Tauros
• Rhyhorn

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Kaiser

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Tauros

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Tauros (Ash's; new, multiple, sent to Oak's lab,debut)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Nidorina
• Nidorino
• Rhyhorn
• Rhydon
• Gyarados
• Dratini (Japanese debut)
• Dragonair (Japanese debut)

Trivia

• This episode (and the lack of it) created a major plot hole, confusing many fans on how Ash captured 30 Tauros, although Professor Oak mentioned it once in Showdown at the Poké Corral.

Dub edits

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Kaizer pointing his revolver at Ash

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Meowth's mustache

• This episode was never aired due to large use of firearms, though dubbed copies were created and still exist.
• There is another possible contributing reason as to why this episode was never aired. When James and Meowth do a police-like interrogation on Kaizer, Meowth has a mustache that has striking similarity to the mustache that Adolf Hitler had.

In other languages

As most dubs are based on the English adaptation, this episode has not aired in most of the world outside of Japan. Template:Epstub Template:EpisodePrevNext

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.