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Just Waiting On A Friend

EP232   きりのなかのキュウコン！ The Kyukon in the Fog!

First broadcast Japan January 17, 2002 United States September 26, 2002

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター (Whiteberry) Ending 前向きロケット団！

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 横田和 Kazu Yokota Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director 徳田夢之介 Yumenosuke Tokuda No additional credits are available at this time.

Just Waiting On A Friend (Japanese: きりのなかのキュウコン！ The Kyukon in the Fog!) is episode 232 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 17, 2002 and in the United States on September 26, 2002.

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Lokoko

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Sudowoodo

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's)
• Ninetales (Mansion Owner's)

Trivia

This episode features references to the myths of kitsunes that Ninetales was based upon.

Errors

• Brock claims that he had a Ninetales of his own, but the Vuplix that he accquired from Susie (and then later returned) never evolved into Ninetales. (English dub only)

Dub edits

• In the English version, Rokoko explains that when the master went away and never came back, the servants mysteriously disappeared, but in the Japanese version, they died.

In other languages

• French: Un seul être vous manque...

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