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Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit!

BW139   EP796 エモンガ、ロケット団に入る！ Emonga Joins Rocket-dan!

First broadcast Japan September 5, 2013 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening 夏めく坂道 Ending 手をつなごう

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard Assistant director Animation director 案浦達哉 Tatsuya Annoura No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit! (Japanese: エモンガ、ロケット団に入る！ Emonga Joins Rocket-dan!) is the 139th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 796th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 5, 2013.

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

Plot

Waiting for the Decolore cruise ship to sail after the evening, Ash and his friends are spending a while in a meadow, having a relaxing picnic. During such, Iris has a little misunderstanding with her Emolga, making the latter really upset and storm off.

As she glides through the air, Emolga loses her balance and falls to where Team Rocket are. Jessie and James's Pokémon try to engage in a battle with her, but Emolga easily defeats them with one Attract move. After what seems to be an overwhelming victory, Jessie convinces James and Meowth so they invite her to join their side. Emolga, not thinking that anything is up, joins forces with the trio.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Alexa
• Jessie
• James

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Exploud (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Scraggy (Ash's)
• Excadrill (Iris's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Frillish (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Amoonguss (James's)
• Helioptile (Alexa's)
• Exploud
• Galvantula

Trivia

Woobat's nose colors are swapped after getting hit by Attract

Emolga's ears colors are swapped

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Fraxure
• Shiritsu Ebisu Chūgaku are removed from the ending, which reverts to the original version.
• Jessie's Woobat and James's Yamask are confirmed to be male in this episode.
• This is the only time Jessie and James are seen using all of their Pokémon obtained during the Best Wishes series in the same episode.
• Iris once again uses her ability to hear the heart of a Dragon-type when she finds out how Axew got hurt. The first time she did this was in Iris and the Rogue Dragonite!.
• Pikachu demonstrates its mimicking abilities by imitating Axew.
• This episode shares similarities with A Scare to Remember!:
  • Similar Japanese titles.
  • An Electric Pokémon belonging to a main character temporarily joining Team Rocket.
  • The aforementioned Pokémon joining in reciting Team Rocket's motto.
• Cilan narrates the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• When Woobat and Yamask are hit by Attract, the pink and black colors of Woobat's nose are swapped.
• During Emolga and Snivy's argument, the white and yellow colors of Emolga's ears are swapped.

Dub edits

In other languages

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