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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The Johto League Silver Conference arc (EP265–EP272) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 57 · English episode 266 · Japanese episode 269 · Bulbapedia code EP267 |
| English title | Love, Pokémon Style |
| Japanese title | よせんリーグ! マグマラシほのおのバトル!! Yosen Rīgu! Magumarashi Honō no Batoru!! — “League Preliminaries! Battle of the Magmarashi Flame!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 26 September 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 18 September 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Skiploom (US) · Quilava (Japan) |
| Previous episode | A Claim to Flame! (EP266) |
| Next episode | Tie One On! (EP268) |
Plot episodeAsh beats MacySlugma debut
Love, Pokémon Style is the 57th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 266th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 269, Bulbapedia code EP267). It first aired in Japan on 26 September 2002 and in the United States on 18 September 2003. It falls within the season’s The Johto League Silver Conference stretch (EP265–EP272).
Aired on Thursday 18 September 2003 as part of a second weekday premiere week; Kids’ WB counted the episodes from EP263 onward as the start of Season 6, though they still carried the Master Quest title card.
Synopsis
Ash checks the boards to see who he will be battling against in the semi-finals. One of his chosen competitors, Macy, challenges him to a battle to check out what she’s up against. Before they can start though, Team Rocket steals both Pikachu and Macy’s vulpix. When Ash goes after Team Rocket and rescues their pokémon, Macy is impressed and falls in love with Ash. Misty immediately steps in to ward off Macy, only to back down when challenged to actually make a confession. The next day Ash and Macy battle. Ash wins with Squirtle who insisted on going to the conference to help Ash. Macy is still impressed, and her slugma evolved into magcargo to always remind her of Ash. Macy decides to postpone their date and train more for a chance at the semi-finals. Ash, of course, is going to do the same.
Major Events
- Ash beats Macy
- Squirtle returns (knows Bubble)
- Kingler injured
- Slugma debut (last Gen II main-series debut of GS)
Pokémon making their anime debut
Slugma#0218 · EP267
Trivia
- The English title plays on the TV series "Love, American Style".
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Quilava in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Skiploom in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
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