EP035

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not yet been aired dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

ミニリュウのでんせつ The Legend of Miniryu
Broadcast dates
Japan	November 25, 1997
USA	Unaired
Theme songs
Opening
Japanese theme songs
Opening	めざせポケモンマスター
Ending	ニャースのうた
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
Storyboard	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Assistant director	鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
More credits

The Legend of Dratini (unofficial English name; Japanese: ミニリュウのでんせつ The Legend of Miniryu) is the 35th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 25, 1997, but never broadcast in the US or most parts of other countries airing the 4Kids Entertainment dub.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash captures 30 Tauros.

Debuts

• Dratini
• Dragonair
• Tauros
• Rhyhorn

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Kaiser

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Tauros

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Tauros (Ash's; new, multiple, sent to Oak's lab,debut)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Nidorina
• Nidorino
• Rhyhorn
• Rhydon
• Gyarados
• Dratini (Japanese debut)
• Dragonair (Japanese debut)

Trivia

• This episode (and the lack of it) created a major plot hole, confusing many fans on how Ash captured 30 Tauros, although Professor Oak mentioned it once in Showdown at the Poké Corral.

Errors

Dub edits

• This episode was never aired due to large use of firearms, though dubbed copies were created and still exist.
• There is another possible contributing reason as to why this episode was never aired. When James and Meowth do a police-like interrogation on Kaizer, Meowth has a mustache that has striking similarity to the mustache that Adolf Hitler had.

In other languages

As most dubs are based on the English adaptation, this episode has not aired in most of the world outside of Japan.

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