BW090: Difference between revisions

Jostling for the Junior Cup!

BW090   EP747 ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！ The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!

First broadcast Japan August 2, 2012 United States December 1, 2012

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！ Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Assistant director 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Jostling for the Junior Cup! (Japanese: ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！ The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!) is the 90th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 747th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on August 2, 2012 and in the United States on December 1, 2012.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Lacunosa Town.
• Dawn meets Trip, Burgundy, Georgia and Alder.
• The Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup begins.
• An exhibition match between Cynthia and Caitlin takes place, ending in a draw.
• Trip's Servine is revealed to have evolved into Serperior.
• Burgundy is revealed to have obtained a Darmanitan.
• Trip defeats Burgundy and advances to the next round.
• Cilan, Ash and Dawn defeat their opponents and advance to the next round.
• Iris's Dragonite starts disobeying her.
• Iris defeats Georgia and advances to the next round.

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

Debuts

• Caitlin

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Cinccino
• Reuniclus
• Serperior (Trip's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Dawn
• Nurse Joy
• Trip
• Burgundy
• Georgia
• Alder
• Cynthia
• Caitlin
• Freddy O'Martian
• Manning
• Kenton
• Shepherd
• Horatio
• Simeon
• Marris
• Geraldo
• Cassie
• Ramone

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Garchomp

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Snivy (Ash's; flashback)
• Leavanny (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's)
• Meloetta (anime)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Servine (Trip's; flashback)
• Serperior (Trip's)
• Darmanitan (Burgundy's)
• Beartic (Georgia's)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's)
• Gothitelle (Caitlin's)
• Heatmor (Manning's)
• Golett (Kenton's)
• Galvantula (Shepherd's)
• Cinccino (Horatio's)
• Zebstrika (Simeon's)
• Karrablast (Marris's)
• Reuniclus (Geraldo's)
• Sawsbuck (Cassie's)
• Stoutland (Ramone's)
• Blitzle (Trainer's)
• Foongus (Trainer's; multiple)
• Lillipup (Trainer's; x2)
• Deerling (Trainer's)
• Pidove (Trainer's; x2)
• Patrat (Trainer's)
• Minccino (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)

Trivia

Dragonite's error

• Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo
• This episode marks the first time two Pokémon League Champions are seen interacting with each other in the anime.
• This episode begins the four-part Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup arc.
• The Who's That Pokémon? segment was skipped in the original airing of the English dubbed episode.
• This episode aired on November 26, 2012 in Italy (on K2), five days before the US airdate.
• This is the first episode since Dawn's return to not feature the Team Rocket trio.
• The quotes that Caitlin and Cynthia used before and after the exhibition match were the same exact ones used in the Generation V games when the player character interacts with them during the battle.

Errors

• When Iris sends out Dragonite, Dragonite's antennae are orange instead of cream.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Italian		La Coppa Junior ha inizio!

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