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Harley Rides Again

AG160   EP434 ゴンベのデビュー戦！ハーリーと真剣勝負！！ Gonbe's Debut Battle! Harley and Taking the Game Seriously!

First broadcast Japan January 19, 2006 United States October 28, 2006

English themes Opening Battle Frontier Ending

Japanese themes Opening バトルフロンティア Ending GLORY DAY 〜輝くその日〜 ③

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Harley Rides Again (Japanese: ゴンベのデビュー戦！ハーリーと真剣勝負！！ Gonbe's Debut Battle! Harley and Taking the Game Seriously!) is the 160th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 434th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 19, 2006 and in the United States on October 28, 2006.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and friends finally arrive in Wisteria Town where May prepares for her next contest. Harley shows up and this time, he’s not so friendly! He declares that he will win this contest and his Fourth Ribbon. Team Rocket tries to convince Harley to work with them to help beat May and get Pikachu but he just calls them losers and leaves. In the contest, both May and Harley manage to breeze through the appeals and battles and end up facing each other, Munchlax to Octillery. Meanwhile, Team Rocket decides to get revenge on Harley...

Major events

• May enters the Wisteria Contest but is defeated in the final and suffers her first Kanto loss as well as her first loss to Harley.
• Harley is revealed to own an Octillery.
• Harley wins his fourth ribbon.
• May learns from Lilian that the next the Contest will be on Chrysanthemum Island and receives an invitation for the Contest from Drew.
• May's Munchlax is revealed to know Tackle.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Harley
• Nurse Joy
• Lilian
• Contesta
• Sukizo
• Cody
• Women
• Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Ariados (Harley's)
• Octillery (Harley's)

Various Pokémon seen at the Contest

• Beedrill
• Nidoran♂
• Gloom
• Paras
• Poliwag
• Machamp
• Bellsprout
• Magneton
• Dewgong
• Gastly
• Cubone
• Hitmonlee
• Rhyhorn
• Rhydon
• Furret
• Chinchou
• Cleffa
• Politoed
• Skiploom
• Sunflora
• Quagsire
• Granbull
• Swinub
• Ralts
• Ninjask
• Mawile
• Camerupt
• Vibrava
• Shelgon

Trivia

• This episode's title may come from a reference to a Harley Davidson motor bike. It could also possibly be reference to the film "Herbie Rides Again."

Errors

• After May's appeal, her skirt turns red.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		小卡比獸的出道賽！與哈利的認真比賽！
Finnish		Harley ratsastaa jälleen
French		Le retour de Harley
German		Immer wieder Harley!
Italian		Harley colpisce ancora
Spanish	Latin America	Harley ataca de nuevo
	Spain	Harley ataca de nuevo
Swedish		Harley uppe i sadeln igen

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