EP051
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| Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden | |
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| フシギダネのふしぎのはなぞの Fushigidane's Mysterious Flower Garden | |
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| Broadcast dates | |
| Japan | July 2, 1998 |
| USA | April 3, 1999 |
| Theme songs | |
| Opening | Pokémon Theme |
| Japanese theme songs | |
| Opening | めざせポケモンマスター |
| Ending | ポケットにファンタジー |
| Credits | |
| Animation | Team Ota |
| Screenplay | 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Storyboard | 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada |
| Assistant director | 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada |
| Animation director | 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa |
Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden (Japanese: フシギダネのふしぎのはなぞの Fushigidane's Mysterious Flower Garden) is episode 51 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 2, 1998 and in the United States on April 3, 1999.
A mysterious evolution festival is about to begin and Ash's Bulbasaur is capable of evolving. The festival is disrupted with Bulbasaur's refusal to evolve and Team Rocket stealing all the newly evolved Ivysaur.
Spoiler warning: Major plot or ending details may follow.
Contents |
Synopsis
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Bulbasaur (Ash's)
- Rhyhorn (unnamed hiker's)
- Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
- Bulbasaur (many; evolve)
- Ivysaur (many; newly evolved)
- Venusaur
Trivia
- Bulbagarden itself was named after this episode.
- Team Rocket blasts off twice.
- The episode's name is a pun on Bulbasaur's Japanese name, Fushigidane; where fushigi means "mysterious".
- Although it was never aired in syndicated form on Cartoon Network in 2003, it made its debut on September 13, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET
- This episode is followed by different episodes between the original Japanese version and dubbed versions. The episode is followed by Princess Versus Princess in the original Japanese version and by The Case of the K-9 Caper in the dub.
Errors
- When Cartoon Network aired this episode on September 13 and September 15, a brief scene of Pikachu with a Poké Ball on its head from the original Japanese credits with the words "Now Back To The Show!" is in the fade between the two parts of Who's That Pokémon.
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: Le jardin mystérieux
- Italian: Il giardino dei misteri
- Latin American Spanish: ¡El jardín secreto de Bulbasaur!
- Spanish: El jardín misterioso de Bulbasaur
- Swedish: Den mystiska trädgården
| This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each episode of the Pokémon anime. |
Categories: Episode stubs | Original series episodes | Episodes written by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi | Episodes storyboarded and directed by Yūji Asada | Episodes animated by Akihiro Tamagawa
