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This article is about an episode of the Pokémon animated series that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
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イッシュ地方へ！ゼクロムの影！！
To the Isshu Region! Zekrom's Shadow!!
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First broadcast
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September 23, 2010
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| United States
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Kato
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| Screenplay
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冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
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| Storyboard
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須藤典彦 Norihiko Sudō
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小山賢 Masaru Koyama
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志村泉 Izumi Shimura
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(Japanese: イッシュ地方へ！ゼクロムの影！！ To the Isshu Region! Zekrom's Shadow!!) is the first episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 658th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan, as part of a one-hour special along with BW002, on September 23, 2010.
Synopsis
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A new journey begins, Ash and Pikachu start the episode in Pallet Town back in the Kanto region, he is reintroduced to the audience, and expresses his excitement for the upcoming journey. Ash's Mum then walks into his room straitens Ash's hat and tells him of Professor Oak's presence.
We then see Giovanni talking to Jessie, James, and Meowth about Team Rocket's plans to take over the world. We find out that Isshu will be the base of operations for their attempts at world domination.
Ash,Professor Oak, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Delia Ketchum all travel to Isshu region by a plane, but only the Team Rocket members are aware of the other groups presence. Once they arrive they step off the plane and head towards Professor Araragi's lab when Pikachu scenes something and stops. Pikachu looks to the sky and spots some black clouds in the sky. Ash doesn't see the clouds because he was distracted by a Mamanbou that was jumping in and out of the water. Upon inspection of the Mamanbou Ash also notices the black clouds. Jessie, James, and Meowth then use this opportunity to spring a trap to catch Pikachu. The black clouds then send a massive blue thunder bolt that his Pikachu causing Pikachu to escape, Jessie, James, and Meowth to fall backwards and near by electronics to break. Pikachu (unhurt) then decides to use Thunder Bolt and aims it directly into the centre of the clouds. It makes contact. The clouds disperse slightly and we see Zekrom's outline with glowing eyes, and tip. Zekrom's shadow appears over Pikachu, making it unable to use Template:Type2 moves.
Professor Araragi then appears and takes the crew to her lab in the car. On the way they see a herd of Shikijika, a flock of Mamepato, a group of Minezumi, and a school of Swanna. Professor Araragi also explains that there aren't any Pokémon from other regions in Isshu. The soon arrive at Kanoko Town where the Professor Araragi's lab is. There they run some tests on Pikachu after noticing some sparks coming from his cheeks after the encounter with Zekrom, the tests show that Pikachu has absorbed too much electricity and will be fine.
This is when Ash is introduced to Shooti whom passes a few bad words about Ash's home town. Professor Araragi then shows Shooti the three starter Pokémon (Pokabu, Mijumaru, and Tsutarja. Shooti then choose Shooti's and gets given a Pokédex. Shooti then challenges Ash to a battle. It was going well until Pikachu tries to use Thunder Bolt which fails and then Pikachu takes a hit. To Ash's amazement half of Pikachu's moves aren't working. Due to this complication Ash losses the battle.
Ash take Pikachu to the labs to get him checked out again. It turns out that the massive thunder strike from before put Pikachu into “overload” rendering all of his Template:Type2 moves useless. Suddenly the black cloud reappears over the lab and all electronics are disabled. Then some thunder strikes the lab and Pikachu's body is covered in static.
Professor Araragi then spots the black clouds and explains that they might have been formed by Zekrom.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- This episode marks the first time that the first episode of a series has focused on Ash since Pokémon - I Choose You!.
- According to the narration at the beginning of the episode, Ash is still ten years old (despite the fact the anime has been airing for over thirteen years at this point).
- For the first time since the series began, Ash receives a physical redesign, with the most significant change being his irises being made larger to match Ken Sugimori's recent character art. Jessie, James and Delia's eyes are also similarly modified.
- Also, for the first time since the series began Jessie, James and Giovanni are given costume changes, and the Team Rocket logo is also modified, now showing as a stylized "R". However, the logo on the uniforms of Jessie and James remain the same.
- Several of the items in Ash's bedroom at the beginning of the episode are those he received during his travels through Sinnoh. These are:
- This is the second time Ash has arrived in a new region and Pikachu has had problems with its electricity, the first being Hoenn.
- Two new eyecatches were shown.
- The first one featured Ash wearing his Best Wishes clothes with his Pikachu standing alongside him and Zekrom's head in the background.
- The other one was also similar to the first one, but featuring Ash with his Pikachu on his shoulder instead and Reshiram's head in the background.
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