EP087

The Crystal Onix
クリスタルのイワーク The Crystal Iwark
Broadcast dates
Japan	March 11, 1999
USA	February 5, 2000
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon World
Japanese theme songs
Opening	ライバル！
Ending	タイプ・ワイルド
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Assistant director	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Additional credits are currently unavailable.

The Crystal Onix redirects here. For the Pokémon with the same name, see Crystal Onix.

The Crystal Onix (Japanese: クリスタルのイワーク The Crystal Iwark) is episode 87 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 11, 1999 and in the United States on February 5, 2000.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Marill (Tracey's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Mateo
• Marissa

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Rhyhorn (US and international); Crystal Iwark (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Venonat (Tracey's)
• Marill (Tracey's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Victreebel (James's
• Cloyster (Mateo's)
• Charmeleon (Mateo's)
• Onix (Crystal Onix)

Trivia

• In this episode Jessie breaks the fourth wall by acknowledging the writer's existence.

Errors

• When Mateo commanded Charmeleon to use Ember against the crystal Onix, it used Fire Spin instead.
• Marill's Japanese voice can be heard instead of its English voice in one scene in the dub.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Onix de Cristal
• Italian: Il messaggio in bottiglia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El Onix de cristal!
• Spanish: El Onix de cristal

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