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Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain!

BW078   EP735 ハチク登場！ウルガモスの聖なる山！！ Hachiku Appears! The Holy Mountain of Ulgamoth!!

First broadcast Japan May 10, 2012 United States September 8, 2012

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 川田武範 Takenori Kawada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain! (Japanese: ハチク登場！ウルガモスの聖なる山！！ Hachiku Appears! The Holy Mountain of Ulgamoth!!) is the 78th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 735th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 10, 2012 and in the United States on September 8, 2012.

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

Synopsis

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Brycen and Beartic in the movie "Freeze, Beartic".

Ash and his friends are traveling on their way to Icirrus City when suddenly they see two boulders about to crash! They run away from them as quickly as they can. However, Brycen and his Beartic stop them from crashing down. Brycen introduces himself to Ash. Ash introduces himself and is psyched to meet Brycen and says he can't wait to have a Gym battle. Iris on the other hand, is frightened of Brycen's Ice-type Pokémon, Beartic. Though, Cilan is thrilled to meet Brycen as he is a famous movie star. Cilan greatly admires Brycen and Beartic and talks about one of the movies he starred in called "Freeze, Beartic". Brycen says he has retired from making movies much to the gang's disappointment. Brycen tells the gang there is a Pokémon poacher trying to hunt a rare Pokémon called Volcarona at the top of its holy mountain.

The gang tells Brycen they'll help stop him. Ash wants Brycen to help train for the journey so he sends out his Krokorok. First, Brycen and Beartic stand on one hand. Ash and Krokorok try it but fail. Brycen and Beartic jump over several rocks but they fail at that as well. For the next challenge, Brycen breaks a boulder in half, then Beartic breaks it into even smaller bits. As for Ash and Krokorok, they damage their hand by even attempting. In an attempt to jump over a waterfall, Brycen and Beartic successfully jump on to a rock. Thunderclouds appear, and Brycen says this means that Volcarona is being attacked by Rinzō. Rinzō orders his Jellicent to use Confuse Ray which confuses Volcarona. Volcarona snaps out of confusion and uses Flamethrower, Jellicent counters with Hydro Pump and confuses it again and captures Volcarona. The gang comes to the scene to discover Volcarona has been caught. Ash scans his Pokédex on Volcarona. Brycen orders Rinzō to stop this now, but Rinzō simply rejects Brycen's order. Brycen discovers Rinzō was the cause of the crashing boulders.

Major events

• The gang meets Brycen, the Gym Leader of Icirrus City.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Brycen

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Volcarona
• Jellicent

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Officer Jenny
• Brycen
• Rinzō

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Volcarona

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Krokorok (Ash's)
• Beartic (Brycen's)
• Jellicent (Rinzō's; two)
• Volcarona

Trivia

Errors

• In one scene, Beartic's nose is light blue instead of black.

Dub edits

• Ash's Krokorok's gender is not revealed. Iris says that Axew likes action heroes.

In other languages

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.