BW084

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Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 2

BW084   EP741 激闘タチワキジム！VSホミカ（後編） Fierce Fighting at Tachiwaki Gym! VS Homika!! (Part 2)

First broadcast Japan June 14, 2012 United States October 20, 2012

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening None Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

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.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 2 (Japanese: 激闘タチワキジム！VSホミカ（後編） Fierce Fighting at Tachiwaki Gym! VS Homika!! (Part 2)) is the 84th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 741st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 14, 2012 and is scheduled to air in the United States on October 20, 2012.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash continues his Gym battle with Roxie and wins, earning himself the Toxic Badge, completing his requirement for the Unova League.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Roxie
• Billy Jo
• Nicky
• Boy
• Referee
• Audience

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Garbodor (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Leavanny (Ash's)
• Palpitoad (Ash's)
• Garbodor (Roxie's)
• Scolipede (Roxie's)
• Meloetta (anime)

Trivia

• Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Kyurem VS the Scared Swordsman: Keldeo
  • Team Rocket hijacks the Live Caster from Professor Oak at the beginning of this segment. They took over Professor Oak's role of taking charge of an eight-week movie-related promotion that gave fans a chance to win prizes.
  • Viewers could call one of three phone numbers to hear a mission from either Jessie, James, or Meowth. Ten random callers among those who picked the Team Rocket member with the most callers won a copy of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
• This two-part episode marks the first time an episode has had its dub title leaked before airing in Japan, as the title was first revealed two days before this episode aired.
• This marks the first time "Next Time...A New Beginning!" is put at the end of the episode instead of "To Be Continued" without Ash beginning a new journey at another area in the next episode.
• This marks the first time Ash has not collected the exact same Badges from the game the saga was based on, receiving the Toxic Badge instead of the Legend Badge as his final Badge.
• This is the first time Ash's Palpitoad has appeared on-screen since Dazzling the Nimbasa Gym!, 34 episodes ago, when he previously fought in another Gym battle.
• This is the last episode of Best Wishes season 1.

Errors

The error

• In one scene, the background appears over Roxie's hair.
• The Toxic Badge appears to move slightly during the scene where Ash announces that he has obtained it.
• In the scene right before Roxie sends out Garbodor, Scolipede's silhouette on the scoreboard represents that it is still in battle although it had already been defeated.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		激戰立湧道館！VS霍米加！！（後篇）
Dutch		Lol trappen in de Virbank Gym! (Deel 2)

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