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ロケット団ＶＳプラズマ団！（前編）

Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 1)

First broadcast Japan Skipped United States Skipped

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 心のファンファーレ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: ロケット団ＶＳプラズマ団！（前編） Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! (Part 1)) is the 23rd episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 680th episode of the Pokémon anime.

This episode was originally scheduled to air in Japan on March 17, 2011, but it has been postponed, along with the original BW024, indefinitely because of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. As of Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, its events have been removed from continuity, and it is no longer part of canon. It is currently unknown if or when it will air in any form.

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Team Plasma

Pokémon debuts

• Liepard

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Pierce
• Dr. Zager
• Team Rocket Grunts
• Team Plasma Grunts
• Officer Jenny
• Looker
• Professor Juniper

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Liepard (Team Plasma's)
• Krokorok (sunglasses)

Trivia

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Airing of two-part Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan episode to be moved

• This is the first episode to be skipped since the unaired episode of the Advanced Generation series back in 2004. The following episode was also skipped. All three episodes were put on hold because of an earthquake that hit Japan.
  • However, unlike the unaired Advanced Generation episode, this two-parter was supposed to be important to the overall storyline while the other was a stand-alone episode.
• Had this episode aired in time, it would have marked the anime debuts of Team Plasma and Liepard and the return of Looker.
  • Due to Team Plasma's debut being delayed, the Plasma Grunts were never actually shown in their original outfits in the anime, which they were supposed to wear in this episode. When they eventually debuted in Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, they were seen using their new outfits.
• Scenes highly resembling the scenes seen in this two-parted episode's previews were later used in Meloetta and the Undersea Temple! during Team Rocket's "Operation Tempest".
  • In addition, an updated design of the Meteonite's chamber in the Relic Castle is used as the Golden Dark Stone's chamber in Explorers of the Hero's Ruin! and as the Light Stone's chamber in BW120.
• According to Tom Wayland, this episode and the next one were sent to The Pokémon Company International but were never dubbed before being delayed.

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