BW090

Jostling for the Junior Cup!

BW090   EP747 ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！ The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!

First broadcast Japan August 2, 2012 United States December 1, 2012

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！ Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Assistant director 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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Jostling for the Junior Cup! (Japanese: ジュニアカップ開幕！カイリューVSツンベアー！！ The Junior Cup Gets Underway! Kairyu VS Tunbear!!) is the 90th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 747th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on August 2, 2012 and in the United States on December 1, 2012.

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

Blurb

The Lacunosa Town Tournament Stadium is buzzing with excitement, as the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup gets under way! With commentary from Freddy The Scoop and Champion Alder, the tournament begins with an exhibition match between Cynthia, the Sinnoh League Champion, and Caitlin, a member of the Unova Elite Four. These two top Trainers show their stuff with an elegant and beautiful battle between Caitlin’s Gothitelle and Cynthia’s Garchomp, which ends in a draw when time is called.

Then it’s time for Round One! Ash’s rival Trip is paired up against the Pokémon Connaisseuse Burgundy, who only wants to battle her old nemesis Cilan. But Trip’s Serperior manages to take down her Darmanitan in a flash—despite the type disadvantage. Burgundy is furious, but Trip is quietly confident that he’ll win the whole tournament and go on to prove his strength by beating Alder.

Cilan, Ash, and Dawn defeat their first-round opponents as well—and then, in the last battle of the round, it’s Iris and her new Dragonite versus “Dragon Buster” Georgia and her Beartic! This is Dragonite’s first battle with Iris, and it’s clear they’re not connecting: Dragonite repeatedly ignores Iris’s orders to dodge, instead standing its ground as Beartic lands hit after hit. When Beartic’s supereffective Ice Beam freezes Dragonite solid, Iris has had enough, and screams at her headstrong Pokémon to pay attention and get serious. In response, Dragonite breaks free of the ice and—without a command from Iris—launches a powerful ThunderPunch at Beartic, knocking it out! Georgia insists that she lost to Dragonite and not to Iris, but Iris is thrilled about defeating her rival anyway.

Alder declares the day’s battles a success, the crowd erupts in excitement, and Round Two awaits!

Plot

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Ash, Iris and Cilan enter Lacunosa Town for the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup. The Cup starts with an exhibition match with Champion Cynthia against Caitlin, which ends in a draw. Now the Junior Cup really begins!

The first round pits Trip and his newly evolved Serperior versus Burgundy and her brand new Darmanitan. Serperior uses Leer to lower Darmanitan's defense and uses a match-winning SolarBeam. When the smoke clears, Darmanitan is no longer able to battle. Trip is victorious!

All first round battles are showcased, all leading up to the final match of the first round (Iris versus her rival Georgia). Iris's Dragonite starts disobeying her and seems to be losing, but in the end Dragonite defeats Georgia's Beartic with ThunderPunch. Now the Junior Cup continues...

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Lacunosa Town.
• Dawn meets Trip, Burgundy, Georgia and Alder for the first time.
• The Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup begins.
• An exhibition match between Cynthia and Caitlin takes place, ending in a draw.
• Trip's Servine is revealed to have evolved into Serperior.
• Burgundy is revealed to have obtained a Darmanitan.
• Trip defeats Burgundy and advances to the next round.
• Cilan, Ash and Dawn defeat their opponents and advance to the next round.
• Iris's Dragonite starts disobeying her.
• Iris defeats Georgia and advances to the next round.

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

Debuts

• Caitlin

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Cinccino
• Reuniclus
• Serperior (Trip's)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Dawn
• Nurse Joy
• Trip
• Burgundy
• Georgia
• Alder
• Cynthia
• Caitlin
• Freddy O'Martian
• Manning
• Kenton
• Shepherd
• Horatio
• Simeon
• Marris
• Geraldo
• Cassie
• Ramone

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Garchomp

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Snivy (Ash's; flashback)
• Leavanny (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Audino (Nurse Joy's)
• Meloetta (anime)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Servine (Trip's; flashback)
• Serperior (Trip's)
• Darmanitan (Burgundy's)
• Beartic (Georgia's)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's)
• Gothitelle (Caitlin's)
• Heatmor (Manning's)
• Golett (Kenton's)
• Galvantula (Shepherd's)
• Cinccino (Horatio's)
• Zebstrika (Simeon's)
• Karrablast (Marris's)
• Reuniclus (Geraldo's)
• Sawsbuck (Cassie's)
• Stoutland (Ramone's)
• Blitzle (Trainer's)
• Foongus (Trainer's; multiple)
• Lillipup (Trainer's; ×2)
• Deerling (Trainer's)
• Pidove (Trainer's; ×2)
• Patrat (Trainer's)
• Minccino (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)

Trivia

• Team Rocket's Pokémon Live Caster: Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo
• This episode marks the first time two Pokémon League Champions are seen interacting with each other in the anime.
• This episode begins the four-part Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup arc.
• The Who's That Pokémon? segment was skipped in the original airing of the English dubbed episode.
• This episode aired on November 26, 2012 in Italy (on K2), five days before the US airdate.
• This is the first episode since Dawn's return to not feature the Team Rocket trio.
• The quotes that Caitlin and Cynthia use before and after the exhibition match are similar to the ones used in the Generation V games when the player character interacts with them during the battle.
• Caitlin and Cynthia battling could be a reference to the fact that Caitlin and the other female Elite Four members and Gym Leaders lend Cynthia the villa in the games. It could also refer to the fact that in the games, Caitlin was a Frontier Brain in Sinnoh for the Battle Castle.

Errors

• When Iris notices that Nurse Joy and Audino are here at the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup as well, Audino's tail is colored pink instead of white.
• When Cilan tells eveyone to get hurry, Cilan's eyes have sclera.
• When Dawn's Piplup defeated Ramone's Stoutland, Stoutland's face when it's fainted is colored the same way as his cream fur near its moustache.
• When Iris sends out Dragonite, Dragonite's antennae are orange instead of cream.

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  Audino's tail error

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  Cilan's eye error

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  Stoutland's face error

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  Iris's Dragonite's antennae error

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		青少年杯開幕！快龍對凍原熊！！
Dutch		Knokken voor de Junior Cup!
German		Ansturm auf den Junior Pokal!
Greek		Συνωστισμός για το Κύπελλο Νέων!
Italian		La Coppa Junior ha inizio!
Polish		Walka o Puchar Świata Juniorów!
European Spanish		¡A Empujón Limpio por la Copa Junior!

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