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A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!

XY063   EP862 迷い道は分かれ道！？ムサシとソーナンス！！ A Fork in the Path of Indecision!? Musashi and Sonans!!

First broadcast Japan March 5, 2015 United States May 16, 2015

English themes Opening Be a Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening ゲッタバンバン Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正ニ Shōji Yonamura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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

A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways! (Japanese: 迷い道は分かれ道！？ムサシとソーナンス！！ A Fork in the Path of Indecision!? Musashi and Sonans!!) is the 63rd episode of the XY series, and the 862nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 5, 2015 and is scheduled to air in the United States on May 16, 2015.

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

Plot

The episode begins with Ash, Serena, and Bonnie traveling to Lumiose City to prepare for Ash's Gym battle against Clemont. Bonnie is wondering if her brother will be all right without the three of them, but Ash and Serena are confident that he will be. At that moment, Clemont's Bunnelby defeats his Magneton in a practice battle against Clembot. After the battle, Clemont decides to program Ash's battling style into Clembot so that their practice sessions will be even more realistic.

As Ash is thinking about his upcoming match against Clemont, he is interrupted by a Shadow Ball from Jessie's Pumpkaboo. Team Rocket approaches, as usual, preparing for a fresh attempt at stealing Pikachu. However, they are defeated easily by just one Thunderbolt from Pikachu. During their blast-off, Jessie and Wobbuffet are separated from James, TRMeowth ([[{{{2}}} (move)|{{{2}}}]]), and Pumpkaboo. The latter three notice Jessie's absence and quickly begin their search for her, while Jessie and Wobbuffet search for them as well. During their search, however, Jessie and Wobbuffet are attacked by a wild Gloom and fall over a cliff into the water. They are rescued by a man named Dr. White, who gives Jessie a Cheri Berry and leads her back to his home so she can change into something dry.

While Jessie worries whether her new outfit looks good on her, she watches Wobbuffet get along happily with Dr. White's Wobbuffet and Wynaut, noticing as she does so how Dr. White has a great number of berries growing in his garden. While the doctor tells Jessie how he is an amateur when it comes to gardening, a man and his Diggersby come by to deliver some fertilizer for the berries. In gratitude for his saving her life, Jessie accompanies the doctor on his house calls, assisting him in whatever ways she can. While visiting Berry and healing her Bidoof, White and Jessie hear about a Pokémon Hunter who has been setting traps in the area. During their house calls, Jessie proves to be very adept at holding down a flailing Skiddo so the doctor can treat it. While helping Dr. White, Jessie finds herself captivated by him and wonders whether she should stay with him and live for happiness and love rather than for evil.

Meanwhile, while Serena, Bonnie, and Ash are having lunch, Dedenne wanders off and is drawn into a trap laid by the Pokémon Hunter mentioned before. The trap severely injures Dedenne, so after freeing it, the group hurries to Dr. White's clinic. Dr. White siphons the excess electricity and Dedenne recovers, much to the group's relief. Although Jessie tries to hide her true identity from Ash and his friends, they discover that she is at the clinic acting as Dr. White's assistant. As the group agrees to keep her membership in Team Rocket a secret from Dr. White, James and Meowth overhear her admitting to them that she has decided to quit Team Rocket and stay with White instead. At first, Meowth wants to go talk to Jessie, but James holds him back, saying that they should not interfere with what Jessie wants, and so they leave sadly.

While the group is staying at Dr. White's clinic, James arrives there, thoroughly beaten up, and begs for help from Ash, Serena, and Bonnie. He tells them how Meowth, Inkay, and Pumpkaboo have been captured by a Pokémon Hunter but he doesn't want to ask for Jessie's assistance. Ash, Serena, and Bonnie agree to go help James, and they distract the Pokémon Hunter while James sneaks in from behind and tries to free the three Pokémon. When Jessie hears that Meowth, Inkay, and Pumpkaboo have been captured by a Pokémon Hunter, she witnesses Dr. White running for Berry and reassuring himself that she is all right, hearing him say how Berry means so much to him and he was worried that she might have done something stupid. Realizing that White was never in love with her, Jessie leaves Wobbuffet behind with his new friends and goes to rescue James and the others from the Pokémon Hunter. Rejoining Team Rocket, she begins to help fight the Pokémon Hunter, when Wobbuffet appears to battle the hunter's Rhyperior. Jessie realizes that Wobbuffet would rather be with her than at Dr. White's clinic, and working together with Ash and company, Team Rocket defeats the Pokémon Hunter and continues onward, with Jessie realizing that she has the best friends in the world in her life with Team Rocket.

Meanwhile, back at the Lumiose Gym, Clemont finishes programming the data about Ash into Clembot, but Clembot can't comprehend all the new data and explodes.

Major events

• Clemont begins his training to battle Ash, adding his Gym Pokémon back to his active party.
• Clemont's Bunnelby learns a new move, which is later revealed to be Wild Charge.
• Jessie attempts to release Wobbuffet, but Wobbuffet decides to stay with her.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Dr. White
• Berry
• Pokémon Hunter

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Wynaut (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Magneton (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Fennekin (Serena's)
• Pumpkaboo (Jessie's)
• Inkay (James's)
• Wobbuffet (Dr. White's)
• Wynaut (Dr. White's, ×3)
• Bidoof (Berry's)
• Rhyperior (Pokémon Hunter's)
• Skiddo (multiple)
• Gogoat (multiple)
• Gloom
• Diggersby
• Bidoof (×4)
• Ursaring
• Beedrill (multiple; flashback)

Other

• Clembot

Trivia

• Jessie and James read the title card.

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Frogadier
  • Instead of Pokémon Holo Caster, Professor Oak announces the new trailer for the movie 18, Pikachu Short 27, tickets for the movie and Arceus event giveaway.
• Serena and Aria narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This is the first appearance of a female Wobbuffet in the anime, outside of Professor Oak's lecture.
  • As a result, by gender difference, Jessie's Wobbuffet is officially confirmed to be male in this episode, as he was introduced before gender differences.
  • This is also the first time since Wobbu-Palooza!, 689 episodes earlier, that a Wobbuffet other than Jessie's has appeared.
• The scene where Jessie's Wobbuffet and Dr. White's Wobbuffet share food and accidentally kiss could be a reference to a famous scene in the film Lady and the Tramp.
• During one scene after wedding scene, Jessie and Dr. White wear green T-shirts with Wobbuffet of them, it could be a reference to Yoshirin and Micchi (Louis and Geri in English dub) from Crayon Shin-chan.

Errors

• Pumpkaboo was hit by Rhyperior's Horn Drill despite Pumpkaboo being Ghost-type.
• Pikachu used Thunderbolt on Rhyperior despite Rhyperior being Ground-type.

Dub edits

In other languages

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