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Once More with Reeling (Japanese: サトシVSハルカ！ラストバトル!! Satoshi vs. Haruka! Last Battle!!) is episode 190 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 7, 2006 and in the USA on February 24, 2007.

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

Synopsis

On their way to their respective homes, Ash and May enter a contest in Terracotta Town. Appealing with Pikachu and Eevee, Ash and May both get past the appeal stage and end up having to battle each other. Ash uses Sceptile, and May uses her newly evolved Blaziken, and the battle is fierce. However, despite the type advantage, both Pokémon are evenly matched. With 20 seconds left of battling, both Pokémon fire one last SolarBeam and Overheat attacks, respectively. They collide, and a thick cloud of smoke coats the arena. Which Pokémon remains standing...?

To be continued...

Major events

• Ash enters his first (though unofficial) Pokémon Contest.
• May achieves first place in the first round with Eevee, while Ash achieves second place with Pikachu.
• May's Combusken evolves into Blaziken during a battle with Team Rocket.
• May's Blaziken learns Blaze Kick.
• Ash and May enter the final round with Sceptile and Blaziken respectively.
  • Both Pokémon use their abilities (Overgrow and Blaze respectively) in the last minute of battling.

Debuts

• May's Blaziken

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Announcer (Seiyū: 堀川仁 Jin Horikawa)
• Pokémon coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's; evolves)
• Blaziken (May's; newly evolved)
• Eevee (May's)
• Charmeleon
• Weedle
• Pidgey
• Rattata
• Spearow
• Sandshrew
• Nidoran♀
• Jigglypuff
• Clefairy
• Zubat
• Oddish
• Gloom
• Paras
• Venonat
• Growlithe
• Poliwag
• Abra
• Tentacool
• Doduo
• Seel
• Magikarp
• Noctowl
• Hoppip
• Wooper
• Octillery

Trivia

• An alternate cut of 私、負けない！ ～ハルカのテーマ～ I won't lose! ~Haruka's theme~ is used as background music during May's appeal.
• An alternate cut of Spurt! is used as background music during Ash's appeal.
• Pokémon Symphonic Medley is used as background music during the battle between Ash and May.
• May's Combusken and Blaziken are both listed in the credits separately, as they have different voice actors.
• The flag on the Team Rocket mecha depicts a variant of the Flag of Japan and Mount Fuji.
• The Japanese version featured a banner promoting the unofficial contest using a recolored version of the American logo for the Pokémon franchise (the shows it being the word "Pokémon" in red letters bordered in a yellow outline, while the actual logo has yellow letters that are bordered in blue). Also, no Generation III Pokémon appear on the poster.
• This episode's title is a pun on the saying "once more with feeling".
• In Going for Choke, it was established that contest battles ending in ties would result in an extra battle. Ash and May did not have an extra battle even though they tied. It is possible that an extra battle was not held because it was an unofficial contest.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Coordinateur surprise
• Italian: Una partenza da rimandare
• Latin American Spanish: Una vez más en suspenso.
• Iberian Spanish: Un Día más de Emociones

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