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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg arc (AG001–AG003) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 2 · English episode 275 · Japanese episode 278 · Bulbapedia code AG002 |
| English title | A Ruin with a View |
| Japanese title | 古代ポケモンと謎の軍団！ Kodai Pokemon to Nazo no Gundan! — “Ancient Pokémon and Mysterious Teams!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 28 November 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 8 November 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Crobat (US) |
| Previous episode | Get the Show on the Road! (AG001) |
| Next episode | There’s No Place Like Hoenn (AG003) |
Plot episodeAsh enters the Hoenn LeagueTeam Magma debut
A Ruin with a View is the 2nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 275th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 278, Bulbapedia code AG002). It first aired in Japan on 28 November 2002 and in the United States on 8 November 2003. It falls within the season’s A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg stretch (EP1–EP3).
First shown as part of the sneak preview on 15 March 2003 — just 107 days after its Japanese premiere, the shortest gap for any 4Kids-dubbed episode — with slightly different dialogue from the regular broadcast of 8 November 2003.
Synopsis
While Ash begins May’s training, the Team Rocket Trio are given orders by Giovanni to start a Team Rocket branch in Hoenn. His idea is to keep the Trio busy, while they brief him on the operations of Team Aqua and Team Magma. Ash and May are there when Professor Alden discovers the passage to ancient pokémon for him to study. They also meet Team Magma for the first time. Next stop is Petalburg City for Ash to face his first gym battle against a gym leader who May says she doesn’t know.
Major Events
- May fails to catch an Azurill
- Torchic reveals Peck and Ember
- Ash registers for the Hoenn League in Oldale Town
- Giovanni orders Jessie, James and Meowth to set up a Hoenn branch
- First encounter with Team Magma, who kidnap Professor Alden to open the Oldale Ruins
- Relicanth and Azurill debut
- Dubbed 107 days after Japan, the shortest gap for any 4Kids episode
Pokémon making their anime debut
Azurill#0298 · AG002
Relicanth#0369 · AG002
Trivia
- The English title plays on “E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View”.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- 3 seconds of Jessie’s akanbe (eyelid-pulling taunt) cut, as had been done in Clefairy and the Moon Stone and The Bicker the Better
- Preview version: “Oh! Wait for me!” / “Oh good!” (broadcast: “No! Wait for me!” / “Oh great!”)
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