Pokemon Diamond & Pearl – Episode 75

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Animation: 10/10
Story in this episode: 9/ 10
Overall Rating: 9.5/ 10

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I’ve been planning on making my summaries shorter now, it simply takes too much effort (unless it’s a raw that’s not being subbed and I feel I should try to shed some enlightenment). When it comes to Pokemon, the episodes are so simple that I doubt few people can’t understand the gist of what’s going on. As usual I’ll give a summary, but this time it really will be a short one!

So, Hikari finds out that contest master Mikuri (the guy you battle for the 8th badge in Ruby and Sapphire, and the champion in Emerald) is in the area and, excited, goes to train with her Pokemon. Meanwhile Satoshi is also training for his next gym match, this time against a water trainer – he’s therefore decided to use Naetle and Pikachu, and with Gliger’s persuasion, Gliger too ^^. Hikari gets her team to perform some pretty cool moves, using more and more power, but then, remembering Nozomi’s words, becomes down heartened (remember when she got Eteboth to use a high powered swift in her last contest and failed to make it past the first round).

Satoshi and Takeshi try to cheer her up after she gets fried from jumping into the attacks, and then a reporter comes along. She tells them that Mikuri is nearby and Hikari gets even more excited, coming our of her depression speedily. Satoshi and Takeshi on the other hand are clueless as to who he is. They go looking and soon come across a Milokaross in a lake/ river and then meet Mikuri.

They have a nice conversation, where he explains that he’s there to get a break from all the interviews and fans and after showing him a battle between Satoshi’s Buoysel and Hikari’s Pochama, he invites them to participate in a contest he’s planning. It’s at this point that Musashi turns up in her Idol guise and her Habunake dressed up to look a bit like a Milokaross – Mikuri’s totally bemused XD.

He then gives them a performance of his own with his Milokaross and believe me, it’s really beautiful. Finally he says farewell and departs suddenly, “As expected from the contest master…” Musashi sneers at the idea of Hikari entering the contest and leaves. Later that evening at the Pokemon Centre they watch the news where Mikuri is announcing the upcoming contest in an interview – Hikari still looks a little unsure.

We have a final scene of another Pokemon center where a Nurse Joy is telling a very familiar someone about Satoshi and comapny. It’s Haruka! As shown in the episode preview, it seems she’s turning up for the contest – reminds me of when Kasumi turned up for the Mirage Kingdom special. Should be fun to watch!

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~ Some Screenshots ~

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~ Viz’s word on the episode ~

Well I definitely liked this episode, perhaps for reasons unknown to me. For one thing I felt so nostalgic seeing Mikuri that I started to laugh hysterically at every slightly funny thing that happened in the episode – the sapphire and ruby games were really good – and it was nice to have a Hikari focused episode. Another great thing was the contest moves – whenever we have a contest themed episode we always get to see some pretty animation, and this episode didn’t disappoint. The combination of all of Hikari’s Pokemon’s moves was really cool, though I’m starting to feel like Pochama’s whirlpool and Eteboth’s swift attacks are overused, and then we had Milokaross’ performance. That was so sparkly it made me feel kinda like a hippie afterwards and I had a sudden urge to colour stuff.

Then of course we had the humour aspect. I was so glad to see that reporter and her random team again (sadly her name slips my mind) and all the times she got hit on the head ’cause her mic dude couldn’t hold the mic up made me giggle. Finally when they don’t capture Mikuri’s performance on film I was in hysterics – nothing goes right for that woman! Ah, and it didn’t help when Musashi came out with Habunake dressed up as Milokaross – if I could have died from laughter it would have been right then and there. Roketto Dan are the best!

Overall I may have simply loved this episode ’cause I was high on air molecules, but I’d still recommend it, even with hindsight now – it was a good watch, a little different from the norm and we got to see a few characters we either haven’t seen in a while, or not at all before this point. Take a look at my grading system above (I was so enthralled I may have been overly generous) and make sure to join me again for Haruka’s return in the next episode! (Having already watched it I can safely say it was another good one ^^).

Viz signing out!

xxx

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