BW040

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BW040

BW040   EP697 熱闘ドンバトル！ツタージャVSコマタナ！！ Fierce Fighting Don Battle! Tsutarja VS Komatana!!

First broadcast Japan July 21, 2011 United States

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation director 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: 熱闘ドンバトル！ツタージャVSコマタナ！！ Fierce Fighting Don Battle! Tsutarja VS Komatana!!) is the 40th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 697th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 21, 2011.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Trip's Timburr is revealed to have evolved into a Gurdurr.
• Cilan's Dwebble is revealed to know Rock Slide.
• Cilan defeats Trip and advances to the second round.
• Kenyan defeats Bianca and advances to the second round.
• Luke defeats Sekimoto and advances to the second round.
• Iris defeats Yoshihiko and advances to the second round.
• Langley is revealed to have obtained a Pawniard.
• Ash begins his battle with Langley.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Pawniard
• Gurdurr

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Don George
• Trip
• Bianca
• Burgundy
• Kenyan
• Langley
• Luke
• Antonio
• Dino
• Sekimoto
• Yoshihiko
• Takemitsu
• Don George's apprentice
• Trainers
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Oshawott (Ash's; flashback)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Dwebble (Cilan's)
• Timburr (Trip's; flashback)
• Gurdurr (Trip's; debut)
• Minccino (Bianca's)
• Zebstrika (Kenyan's)
• Pawniard (Langley's; debut)
• Zorua (Luke's)
• Golett (Luke's)
• Darmanitan (Sekimoto's)
• Watchog (Yoshihiko's)

Trivia

• There is no Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster following this episode.
• The next episode's preview is narrated by Iris and Kenyan.
• Music from Zoroark: Master of Illusions is used as background music.
• This is the last episode of the Pokémon anime to broadcast in analog in Japan, as that country will cease most analog TV broadcasts three days later on July 24, 2011.

Errors

Dub edits

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