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Beauty is Skin Deep

EP251   イブキとミニリュウ！ Ibuki and Miniryu!

First broadcast Japan June 6, 2002 United States May 31, 2003

English themes Opening I Believe Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 福本勝 Masaru Fukumoto No additional credits are available at this time.

Beauty is Skin Deep (Japanese: イブキとミニリュウ！ Ibuki and Miniryu!) is episode 251 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on June 6, 2002 and in the United States on May 31, 2003.

Ash arrives in Blackthorn City and meets Clair. A special ceremony must happen by the end of the day but she is too concerned with watching her Dratini... which Jessie decides to steal.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash, Misty and Brock get to Blackthorn City
• Ash, Misty and Brock meet Clair
• Ash challenges Clair to a battle

Debuts

• Clair

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Clair
• Jessie
• James
• Lance (flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Dratini

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Dratini (Clair's)
• Dragonair (Clair's, newly evolved)
• Gyarados (Clair's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Gyarados (alternate color, Lance's, flashback)
• Wynaut (hidden)

Trivia

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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