AG043

Let Bagons be Bagons
飛べ、タツベイ！明日にむかって!! Fly Tatsubay! Towards the Future!
Broadcast dates
Japan	September 18, 2003
USA	September 18, 2004
Theme songs
Opening	This Dream
Japanese theme songs
Opening	アドバンス・アドベンチャー
Ending	ポルカ・オ・ドルカ
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Assistant director	ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama
Animation director	広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka
Screenshots on Filb.de

Let Bagons be Bagons (Japanese: 飛べ、タツベイ！明日にむかって!! Fly Tatsubay! Towards the Future!) is episode 43 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 18, 2003 and in USA on September 18, 2004.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Bagon
• Shelgon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Michelle

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer’s Choice: Treecko

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Bagon (Michelle's; debut, evolves)
• Shelgon (Michelle's; debut, newly evolved)
• Pidgeotto
• Shelgon (debut)
• Salamence

Trivia

The dub title is based on the phrase let bygones be bygones.

Errors

• Michelle commanded her Bagon to use Skull Bash, when it can't learn that move legally in the games. It's possible it used Headbutt.

Dub edits

• This episode and the next three aired in the U.S. exactly one year after they aired in Japan.

In other languages

• French: Vole Draby, vole!
• Italian: Voglia di volare
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Una entrenadora científica!
• Portuguese: Voe, Bagon
• Spanish: Dejad que los Bagon sean Bagon

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