BW057

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BW057

BW057   EP714 快傑ア☆ギルダーVSフリージ男！ Kaiketsu A☆Gilder VS Freege Man!

First broadcast Japan December 1, 2011 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita 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.

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(Japanese: 快傑ア☆ギルダーVSフリージ男！ Kaiketsu A☆Gilder VS Freege Man!) is the 57th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 714th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 1, 2011.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash and friends arrive in Driftveil City and meet Clay.
• Ash tries to challenge Clay to a Gym battle, but Clay refuses.
• Team Rocket destroys the shrine of Tornadus.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

• Clay

Pokémon debuts

• Accelgor
• Vanillish

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Clay
• Officer Jenny
• Charles/A☆Gilder
• Linda
• Thief
• Henchmen (two)
• Professor Tsuraraa/Freege Man
• Driftveil Market sellers
• Driftveil Market shoppers

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Tepig (Ash's)
• Accelgor (Charles/A☆Gilder's; debut)
• Vanillish (Professor Tsuraraa/Freege Man's; debut)
• Vanillite (Henchmen's; two)
• Ducklett (thief's)
• Timburr (Linda's)
• Lillipup (Driftveil Market shopper's)
• Sandile (Driftveil Market shopper's)
• Blitzle (Driftveil Market shopper's)
• Foongus (Driftveil Market shopper's)
• Patrat (Driftveil Market shopper's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Pawniard
• As I'm Lost ~By Your Side~ is used as background music.
• Cilan narrates the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

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