Pokemon The Series: Season 22 Collection 1 PAL/0

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Note: Originally scheduled to air in Japan on January 6, 1998, but was also preempted due to the hiatus. Note: This episode was controversial due to a scene with red and blue strobe lights causing a wave of seizures and other ill effects in viewers; [1] as a result of the controversy, the show took a broadcast hiatus for four months. The episode has since been pulled from rotation worldwide. During the 4th Round, Gary ends up losing to a trainer named Melissa after Gary's Nidoking is defeated by Melissa's Golem. Meanwhile, Ash faces against his toughest opponent yet, a trainer named Jeanette Fisher ( カオルコ, Kaoruko), who uses a Beedrill, a Scyther, and a Bellsprout. After a hard-fought battle with Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Muk, the match ends with Ash victorious, and he moves on to the 5th round, becoming one of the final sixteen members of the tournament. Note: This episode was not dubbed into English, due to scenes involving guns being pointed at one another. However, the exclusion resulted in continuity errors, and guns had been featured in the English dubbed season previously and after. A single release DVD containing Indigo League episodes titled Partner Up with Pikachu! was released by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom on DVD on April 15, 2019. The episodes focus on the friendship between Ash and Pikachu.

After losing to Ritchie in the fifth round, Ash is moping around, annoyed that he lost. He is convinced by Misty that he should support Ritchie who is now in the quarterfinals. However, when Ritchie loses, they both have to look inside themselves to see if they are good trainers. Writers: Hideki Sonoda , Junki Takegami , Yukiyoshi Ohashi , Shinzô Fujita , Satoshi Tajiri , Atsuhiro Tomioka Super Wallets • Heritage Collection • Heritage Collection II • Seasons 1-19: Deluxe Edition • Seasons 1-20: Ultra Collection • Seasons 1-21: Mega Collection Misty and Jessie are go all out for the Queen of the Princess Festival. After hours of shopping, they both decide to enter the Queen of the Princess Festival Battle Tournament to win the dolls they both coveted when they were children. Directors: Kunihiko Yuyama , Masamitsu Hidaka , Jim Malone , Tony Salerno , Jason Bergenfeld , Eric Stuart

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The Season 1 disc set was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2017. Both sets contain a total of 52 episodes. The DVD set contains eight discs across 2 volumes, while the Blu-ray set contains five discs in one volume. Its discs are designed to resemble a Poké Ball. The set doesn't include English closed captioning.Note: The English dub for this episode was initially banned because James was crossdressing with inflatable breasts, among other sexual themes. It did not air until June 24, 2000 on Kids' WB, albeit with all suggestive scenes edited.

In Viridian City, Ash and his friends are victims to several thefts by some Clefairy. While investigating with Mr. Oswald ( ヒラタ, Hirata), they discover the Clefairy are building a spaceship. Ash and his friends finally arrive in Saffron City, but he is warned by a strange man not to go into the Gym. Ash enters anyway to discover a strange training facility for people with psychic powers. Ash challenges and loses to Sabrina, the emotionless Saffron City gym leader, and her Abra, who evolves into Kadabra. Ash and his friends are transported into a toy box set and forced to play with a dangerous little girl. The group is rescued by the strange man who, after failing to convince Ash to give up on defeating Sabrina, gives him a tip: He may be able to beat Sabrina with a Ghost Pokémon from Lavender Town. Note 2: Originally scheduled to air in Japan on December 23, 1997, the week after Cyber Soldier Porygon, but was preempted due to the broadcast hiatus that followed the airing of that episode.After finding a missing person sign featuring James, Ash and his friends decide to find James and inform him of his parents' death. However, James' parents turn out to be alive, and their death was only a decoy to get him to return home to the rich Jessie-look-alike Jessebelle ( ルミカ, Rumika), a girl James was arranged to marry from when he was a little child. James has left because Jessebelle is terrifying, so everyone tries to save James from this fate, including James' old pet Growlithe. Ash finally arrives in Vermilion City and is ready to prove that he can defeat its gym leader, Lt. Surge, along with the leader's Raichu. However, Ash discovers that many trainers nearly lost their Pokémon to defeat Lt. Surge, who taunts Ash for not evolving his Pikachu. Ash must train his Pikachu's speed to defeat Lt. Surge and win the Thunder Badge.