Preview JN041: The Great Pikachu Dubbing Operation! / Half a Numacraw

[TRNatalie]

There was a Pokemon whisperer episode, episode 195 of the OS.

It was a piece of work. One of the worst episodes I have ever seen in any series.

Johto filler at its worse.

Really? I liked that episode (although that’s mainly because of Meowth, the little Butch and Cassidy cameo, and Takeshi Shudo writing it). At worst, I can think it’s kind of uneventful, boring depending on taste, kind of forgettable.

 

[R1ke]

Episode looks fun, don't really mind this 2-in-1 format since it means less filler overall between episodes. I didn't mind the magikarp jump/slowking one, it was certainly more entertaining than your typical filler episode (like episode 20, except the PWC part). It's especially good given that TR gets more focus here, which has been criminally lacking this whole series (compared to SM). Given it's sandwiched between the Zapdos one and the DD arc, I'll take it. I'm ok if we see even more of this format in the future, as long as it's not overdone.

 

[BigDocFan]

Information courtesy of Dephender at Serebii

Spoiler

Top blurb: Musashi and Kojiro dub Pikachu's voice?!
Bottom blurb: Satoshi encounters a Numacraw that's stuck in the ground!

 

[pokepal_123]

Imagine Ash getting Marshtomp, definately won't be a capture I expected.

 

[Jez]

According to the picture the poor Meowth is sick

 

[BigDocFan]

Imagine Ash getting Marshtomp, definately won't be a capture I expected.

Marshtomp on Ash's team will be way more useful than say on Goh's team

 

[BigDocFan]

My thoughts on this episode was low enough as it is, Team Rocket dubbing Pikachu makes it sound so much worse

Half buried Marshtomp sounds more enjoyable, especially if Ash does catch it

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I don't think this episode will involve captures for anyone. The previous two-parter didn't.

 

[pokepal_123]

I feel that Marshtomp will be recurring similar to Gengar.

 

[Silktree]

Can we not pretend that Marshtomp is likely to get caught? By Ash, anyway.

 

[Adelon]

Can we not pretend that Marshtomp is likely to get caught? By Ash, anyway.

More likely to be a PotD like that Slowking, either that or a recurring wild Pokemon.

 

[Nicolas721]

Meowth as a teacher? Learning about Pokémon's speech patterns? Now that's really interesting. It's a shame that it likely won't shake up the status quo though.

By the way it's impossible that it will be better than the Marshtomp segment.

 

[Islander Princess]

I for one am super excited Team Rocket are the stars of the first half of the episode! They were a very small part of the last "double feature" and all of their scenes in that one were wildly funny.

 

[Rocket Messiah]

Oh here we go with the plausible Marshtomp capture...

Oh wait a minute.... WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO MEOWTH MY POOR BABY.

 

[Reborn Talonflame]

Even though the episode Ash caught G.Farfetch’d was technically half an episode dedicated to it, I doubt they would spend half an episode devoted to another capture for Ash. I mean, the episodes Dragonite and Gengar were captured weren’t really focused as being capture episodes either, at least in terms of what they’d usually do, and these capture episodes are some of the best in the anime (mainly due to the characters interacting and showing cool battling scenes with them). Ironically, Sawmpert is one of my favourite Pokemon, alongside Dragonite, but that seems to be way too good to be true.

 

[ii kanji]

Oh look the cat got covid...

 

[Eclipsical]

Wouldn’t the logical thing to do be to just get it in a Poké Ball? Even if it doesn’t get captured, it would pop out and it would reform back on the ground.

 

[Johtohfiller]

Oh look the cat got covid...

Don't you mean...Coronya?

 

[Kurolegacy]

Wouldn’t the logical thing to do be to just get it in a Poké Ball? Even if it doesn’t get captured, it would pop out and it would reform back on the ground.

Not necessarily. Remember what happened with Celesteela when the majority of it was buried causing capture to be impossible? It seems that if a Pokemon is trapped like that, a pokeball can't work on it.

 

[Beatsy Ray]

Summary of the first segment of the episode from Dephender:

Spoiler

Musashi and Kojiro, who have thus far been relying on Nyarth's interpretations to understand what Satoshi and Pikachu talk about, decide to train themselves so they can understand it on their own. This airing will also include "Half Numacraw".

TR fans rejoice.

This sounds legendary. Some of the best TRio moments this series have been them just hanging out in the secret base, and now we're getting a whole episode (well, half an episode) of just that. Nasty Plot Shiritori remains one of my favorite moments of the whole series.