BW069

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BW069

BW069   EP726 難関突破！天空の塔を登れ！！ Barrier Breakthrough! Climb The Tower Of The Sky!!

First broadcast Japan March 8, 2012 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 七色アーチ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Assistant director 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: 難関突破！天空の塔を登れ！！ Barrier Breakthrough! Climb The Tower Of The Sky!!) is the 69th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 726th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 8, 2012.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Stephan again and everyone enters the Bell of Wishes Festival contest.
• Stephan wins the contest and then accompanies the group to Toaru Town where the Donamite tournament will be held.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Nurse Joy (fantasy)
• Officer Jenny (fantasy)
• Stephan
• Mile
• Reiji
• Trainers
• Burgh (flashback)
• Alder (flashback)
• Elesa (flashback)
• Professor Juniper (fantasy)

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Litwick (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's; fantasy)
• Sawk (Stephan's)
• Emolga (Elesa's; fantasy)
• Bouffalant (Alder's; fantasy)
• Darumaka (Professor Juniper's; fantasy)
• Herdier (Officer Jenny's; fantasy)
• Elgyem (Reiji's)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Woobat (Trainer's)
• Patrat (Trainer's)
• Pidove (Trainer's)
• Tranquill (Trainer's x2)
• Dwebble (Trainer's x2)
• Cottonee (Trainer's)
• Darmanitan (Trainer's)
• Gothita (Trainer's)
• Blitzle (Trainer's x2)
• Lilligant (Trainer's)
• Foongus (Trainer's)
• Maractus (Trainer's)
• Darumaka (Trainer's)
• Ducklett (Trainer's)
• Deino (Trainer's)
• Pansear (Trainer's)
• Munna (Trainer's)
• Minccino (Trainer's)
• Gothitelle (Trainer's x2)
• Servine (Trainer's)
• Sewaddle (Trainer's)
• Swadloon (Trainer's)
• Venipede (Trainer's)
• Sandile (Trainer's)
• Panpour (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's)
• Purrloin (Trainer's)
• Lampent
• Chandelure
• Patrat (multiple)
• Watchog (multiple)
• Litwick (multiple)
• Frillish (multiple)
• Pidove (multiple)

Trivia

The costumes

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Chandelure
• Before the characters dressed up, in the clothes box, Brock's green vest from his original appearance, Dawn's hat (along with a Dawn wig), James's pants, an R-less Team Rocket shirt that Jessie owns, and Team Rocket gloves can be seen.

Errors

• Prior to Cilan first sending out his Pansage, a Darumaka whose face is missing its orange portion can be seen.
• Right when Pansage starts to paddle his and Cilan's boat, the inside of his ears are the same color as his skin rather than being green.

Dub edits

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