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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Slateport City: Drew & May’s first Contest arc (AG032–AG036) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 32 · English episode 305 · Japanese episode 308 · Bulbapedia code AG032 |
| English title | Abandon Ship! |
| Japanese title | すてられ船！しのびよる影！！ Suterare Fune! Shinobiyoru Kage!! — “The Abandoned Ship! The Creeping Shadow!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 3 July 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 15 May 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| 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? | Silcoon (US) |
| Previous episode | Just One of the Geysers (AG031) |
| Next episode | Now That’s Flower Power! (AG033) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeArrival in SlateportSwampert debut
Abandon Ship! is the 32nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 305th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 308, Bulbapedia code AG032). It first aired in Japan on 3 July 2003 and in the United States on 15 May 2004. It falls within the season’s Slateport City: Drew & May’s first Contest stretch (EP32–EP36).
Synopsis
Because of a failed attempt by the Team Rocket Trio to catch Pikachu, Ash and company are left adrift on a ship. The ship drifts to an abandoned luxury liner that they hope will have a working radio. They discover that Tommy, a young man who had been a passenger on the “Forsaken Ship” when it crashed into the rocks had returned to see if the ship was salvageable and to see if he could find his marshtomp who he lost there. One by one the party members disappear.
Major Events
- Tommy’s abandoned Marshtomp, now a Swampert
- The group leaves Dewford and reaches Slateport
- Marshtomp and Swampert debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Marshtomp#0259 · AG032
Swampert#0260 · AG032
Captures and evolutions
- Marshtomp → Swampert#0260 · Tommy’s · off-screen
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Hoenn story.
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