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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Dewford Island I: Brawly, Steven & Corphish arc (AG019–AG024) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 20 · English episode 293 · Japanese episode 296 · Bulbapedia code AG020 |
| English title | Brave the Wave |
| Japanese title | ムロジム！波乗りジムリーダー・トウキ登場！ Muro Jimu! Naminori Jimu Rīdā, Tōki Tōjō! — “Muro Gym! Enter Touki the Surfing Gym Leader!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 10 April 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 7 February 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Polka O Dolka – Meowth (Inuko Inuyama) & the Nolsol Chorus Group |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Delibird (US) |
| Previous episode | Sharpedo Attack! (AG019) |
| Next episode | Which Wurmple’s Which? (AG021) |
Plot episodeAsh loses to BrawlyMakuhita evolves
Brave the Wave is the 20th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 293rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 296, Bulbapedia code AG020). It first aired in Japan on 10 April 2003 and in the United States on 7 February 2004. It falls within the season’s Dewford Island I: Brawly, Steven & Corphish stretch (EP19–EP24).
Synopsis
Ash meets Brawly, the Dewford gym leader who enjoys surfing. Ash insists on a gym battle and considers Brawly a gym leader who doesn’t take battling seriously. Ash loses and learns that playing is also a form of training.
Major Events
- Dewford Gym loss. Ash’s only official Gym defeat in Hoenn and his first Gym battle without Pikachu since Fit to Be Tide
- Brawly’s Makuhita evolves into Hariyama mid-battle
- Taillow’s Quick Attack
- Brawly, Makuhita and Hariyama debut
- Last 4Kids-era episode narrated by Rodger Parsons (credited as Ken Gates)
Pokémon making their anime debut
Makuhita#0296 · AG020
Hariyama#0297 · AG020
Captures and evolutions
- Makuhita → Hariyama#0297 · Brawly · mid-battle
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- “Fight the Big Wave” painted onto the Gym sign
- Lemonades become “Super Sodas”
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