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| Season | Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies (Season 15) · Nimbasa City & the Champion arc (BW049–BW052) |
| Episode | Season 15, episode 3 · English episode 704 · Japanese episode 709 · Bulbapedia code BW051 |
| English title | Lost at the Stamp Rally! |
| Japanese title | サトシ、デントVSサブウェイマスター！ Satoshi, Dento Tai Sabuwei Masutā! — “Satoshi, Dent VS Subway Masters!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 6 October 2011 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 3 March 2012 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Pokémon Ieru kana? BW (Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW) – Takeshi Tsuruno |
| English opening | Rival Destinies – Alex Nackman & Kathryn Raio |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Chandelure (US) |
| Previous episode | Dazzling the Nimbasa Gym! (BW050) |
| Next episode | Ash Versus the Champion! (BW052) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeTag Battle with Ingo & Emmet
Lost at the Stamp Rally! is the 3rd episode of Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies, the fifteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 704th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 709, Bulbapedia code BW051). It first aired in Japan on 6 October 2011 and in the United States on 3 March 2012. It falls within the season’s Nimbasa City & the Champion stretch (EP49–EP52).
Synopsis
While Cilan races to finish the Subway Bosses’ Stamp Rally, Ash and Iris spend a day out in Nimbasa City and try to reunite a lost Axew with its Trainer. They watch a sports match, play tennis and get pulled on stage at a Pokémon Musical before finding a female Axew with a bow on its tail. Cilan, meanwhile, collects stamps across the subway and helps a girl named Erina look for the friend she was separated from.
The Axew mistakes a girl carrying a Swadloon for its Trainer and dashes onto an express train, where Swadloon’s String Shot and Emolga’s Discharge cause chaos. Erina, it turns out, is the Axew’s Trainer, but after reading Ash and Iris’s message Cilan leads her the wrong way.
Everyone finally meets at Nimbasa Central Station, where Erina and her Axew are reunited. Cilan is one stamp short when the rally closes, but Erina gives him her Axew stamp, and Ingo and Emmet challenge Ash and Cilan to a Tag Battle inside a subway car. Chandelure and Eelektross beat Tepig and Pansage with Smog, Psychic and Thunderbolt, and that evening Ingo announces that the drawbridge has reopened.
Major Events
- The Stamp Rally. Ash and Iris’s day out in Nimbasa City, including a Pokémon Musical
- Erina’s lost Axew
- Cilan’s Stamp Rally on the subway
- Ash’s Tepig and Cilan’s Pansage lose a Tag Battle to Ingo’s Chandelure and Emmet’s Eelektross
- The drawbridge reopens
- New background music for Japan’s Live Caster
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Unova story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The Best Wishes! instrumental is replaced in the dub by an instrumental of Rival Destinies
- “As I’m Lost ~By Your Side~”
- New background music for Japan’s Live Caster from this episode
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