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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 46 · English episode 255 · Japanese episode 258 · Bulbapedia code EP256 |
| English title | Just Add Water |
| Japanese title | リュウグウジム! みずのなかでバトルだぜ! Ryūgū Jimu! Mizu no Nakade Batoru da ze! — “Ryugu Gym! Battle in the Water!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 11 July 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 12 July 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Rhydon (US) · Goldeen (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Why? Wynaut! (EP255) |
| Next episode | Lapras of Luxury (EP257) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeMisty challenges a Gym
Just Add Water is the 46th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 255th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 258, Bulbapedia code EP256). It first aired in Japan on 11 July 2002 and in the United States on 12 July 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Synopsis
Ash and company make it to the coast and start traveling to New Bark Town. On their way they decide to stop off an watch a water show at a brand new water stadium. The owner, Dorian, is a fan of the Cerulean gym and Misty’s sisters, so he decided to build his own gym featuring an underwater arena. Misty and Dorian decide to have a battle and go at it with a three on three. Team Rocket are having mechanical difficulties with their Magikarp sub and surface for repairs near the water gym. Unwilling to listen to Team Rocket trying to explain their damaged sub. Ash and Dorian attack it and send them on their way. Team Rocket are justifiably miffed in being treated so badly.
Misty and Dorian battle and are tied at one loss and one win each, when Team Rocket decides to capture their pokémon out of spite. Team Rocket catches all their water pokémon except for Psyduck. Misty and Dorian are taken captive as well. Team Rocket knocks out Ash and Brock and make good their escape. Ash and Brock go after Team Rocket, but before they have a chance to counter-attack them a very angry Psyduck challenges Team Rocket. Psyduck uses Confusion and then Psychic. All by itself, Psyduck sends Team Rocket blasting off again.
Dorian and Misty decide to call their battle a draw. Dorian compliments Misty on her abilities as a trainer and tells her that he will tell her sisters that she is doing just fine as a trainer. Brock comments that it is too bad no one knows about his gym. Then Ash makes the offer to tell everyone at the Johto League Silver Conference about his gym. They then say their goodbyes and continue to New Bark Town.
Major Events
- Misty vs Dorian (first non-Ash Gym-Leader challenge)
- Last episode before M05 in Japan
Trivia
- Apparently, everyone forgets their promise. No one will make any mention of the Coastline Gym at the conference.
- The English title plays on “just add water”.
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Johto story.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Goldeen in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Rhydon in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
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