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| Season | Pokémon: Indigo League (Season 1) · The St. Anne & Porta Vista arc (EP15–EP19) |
| Episode | Season 1, episode 15 · English episode 15 · Japanese episode 15 · Bulbapedia code EP015 |
| English title | Battle Aboard the St. Anne |
| Japanese title | サントアンヌごうのたたかい! Santo Annu-gō no Tatakai! — “The St. Anne Battle!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 July 1997 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 28 September 1998 · first-run syndication |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Mezase Pokémon Master (Aim to Be a Pokémon Master) – Rica Matsumoto · Hyakugojūichi (One Hundred Fifty-One) – Professor Oak & the Pokémon Kids |
| English opening | Pokémon Theme – Jason Paige |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Raticate (US) · Raticate (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Electric Shock Showdown (EP014) |
| Next episode | Pokémon Shipwreck (EP016) |
Plot episodeFirst tradeJames buys Magikarp
Battle Aboard the St. Anne is the 15th episode of Pokémon: Indigo League, the first season of the Pokémon anime, and the 15th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 15, Bulbapedia code EP015). It first aired in Japan on 8 July 1997 and in the United States on 28 September 1998. It falls within the season’s The St. Anne & Porta Vista stretch (EP15–EP19).
Synopsis
Our heroes are excited to head out to the St. Anne, a luxury cruise ship after Ash wins tickets for them to take a trip on it. For a brief period Ash trades his Butterfree for a Raticate but remembers all the time he and Butterfree (Caterpie, Metapod) spent together and feels bad about it (and so he should) and asks for his Butterfree back. Unfortunately it turns out that the entire cruise and competition was yet another Team Rocket scheme devised with the sole aim of relieving all of the ‘lucky winners’ of their Pokemon!
Meanwhile Jessie, James and Meowth are also onboard the St. Anne and James is tricked into buying a Magikarp by a devious salesman who promises it will make him rich. A short while later a powerful storm rocks the ship, in the panic to evacuate the ship Ash loses Butterfree’s PokéBall and tries to locate it, likewise James loses the ball with Magikarp in and tries to find that. Ash and his friends as well as Jessie, James and Meowth are all knocked out and miss the evacuation lifeboats that takes the other passengers to safety. The episode closes with our heroes and Team Rocket on a sinking cruise ship.
Major Events
- First dubbed episode broadcast
- Ash trades Butterfree for a Raticate and back (first trade)
- James buys Magikarp from the Magikarp salesman
- Giovanni debuts (voice/silhouette)
- Team Rocket Grunts debut
- Ship sinks. Debuts: Giovanni, Magikarp salesman
- Raticate, Persian, Magikarp.
Pokémon making their anime debut
Raticate#0020 · EP015
Persian#0053 · EP015
Captures and evolutions
Magikarp#0129 · James · bought- Raticate#0020 · Ash · traded and traded back
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Kanto storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Kids’ WB! cut 6 s (sale/merchandise shots; on DVD)
- 2 s ship shot shortened
- SALE sign and 勝利 → “WIN”
- ¥30,000 → $300
- +1 s on the TBC card
- ¥30,000 becomes $300
- Dub ending: the Kanto Pokérap (Friday segment)
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