AG043

Let Bagons Be Bagons

AG043   EP317 飛べ、タツベイ！明日にむかって!! Fly Tatsubay! Towards the Future!

First broadcast Japan September 18, 2003 United States September 18, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes 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 Additional credits

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Let Bagons be Bagons (Japanese: 飛べ、タツベイ！明日にむかって!! Fly Tatsubay! Towards the Future!) is the 43rd episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 317th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 18, 2003 and in the United States on September 18, 2004.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

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Major events

Debuts

Pokémon 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 (flock)
• Salamence (fantasy)

Trivia

• The dub title is based on the phrase "Let boys be boys."
• This episode and the next three aired in the U.S. exactly one year after they aired in Japan.
• Music from Mewtwo Strikes Back was used.
• Michelle commanded her Bagon to use Skull Bash, when it can't learn that move legally in the games. It's possible that her Bagon realized this, and then decided to use Headbutt instead.

Errors

Dub edits

Pokémon Trainer's Choice

• Question: Trainers, which of these evolves into Grovyle?
• Choices: Nincada, Lotad, Treecko
• Answer: OK, trainers! If you chose Treecko, you were right!

In other languages

• Finnish: Bagonin unelma
• French: Vole Draby, vole!
• German: Der Traum vom Fliegen
• Hebrew: החלום לעוף hakhalom la'oof
• Italian: Voglia di volare
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Voe, Bagon
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Dejad que los Bagon sean Bagon
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Una entrenadora científica!

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