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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 53 · English episode 262 · Japanese episode 265 · Bulbapedia code EP263 |
| English title | Address Unown! |
| Japanese title | ふしぎのくにのアンノーン Fushigi no Kuni no Annōn — “Unknown of the Country of Mystery” |
| First aired (Japan) | 29 August 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 13 September 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Moltres (US) · Unown (Japan) |
| Previous episode | You’re a Star, Larvitar! (EP262) |
| Next episode | Mother of All Battles (EP264) |
Plot episodeUnown & Tyranitar
Address Unown! is the 53rd episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 262nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 265, Bulbapedia code EP263). It first aired in Japan on 29 August 2002 and in the United States on 13 September 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Although it carries the Master Quest title card and theme, Kids’ WB counted this episode as part of Season 6; VIZ’s DVDs and streaming services include it in Master Quest.
Synopsis
On their way to the Pokémon Preservation Center, Ash and company see a dimensional rift in the sky. An unown falls out of it hitting Misty. From the contact, Misty is able to tell Ash and Brock that the unown is not feeling well and is now anxious about being separated from its home and friends. They do what they can to make the unown comfortable. The larvitar seems to be especially worried about the larvitar and watches over it. In the morning the unown is feeling much better and begins playing with larvitar. Team Rocket attacks just then to capture both the unown and the larvitar. The larvitar protects its new friend, and fires Hidden Power at Team Rocket. The wobbuffet counters with Counter and just before it hits, the unown begins to glow.
Ash and company awake to find themselves in a dimension created when the unown merged its mind with the larvitar’s. They find an egg wit a black thorn sticking into it. Ash touches it and finds larvitar trapped in a thorny maze of its fears. The adventurers help the larvitar break free of its prison, and are returned to their camp. The unown returned the care it received by helping to cure larvitar of its anxieties. The unown returns to its dimension, and the larvitar now allows even Misty to touch it. The heroes continue their journey to bring the larvitar home.
Major Events
- Larvitar’s memories
- Unown & Tyranitar main-series debuts
- First dub episode not recorded at TAJ
Pokémon making their anime debut
Unown#0201 · EP263
Tyranitar#0248 · EP263
Trivia
- The English title plays on “address unknown”.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Unown in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Moltres in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
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