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Japanese Episode 008: "The Path to the Pokémon League" American Episode 108: "The Path to the Pokémon League" Pokémon Dare Da? Sand Japanese Air Date: May 20th, 1997 American Air Date: September 17th, 1998 Important Characters: Akira (A.J.) Satoshi has become pretty confident in his travels, boasting that he already has two gym leader badges. However, his cockiness is soon undermined when he comes across an unofficial Pokémon Gym led by a boy named Akira. The young "Gym Leader" has won ninety-eight consecutive battles, and when he wins his hundreth match, he'll begin competing for Gym Badges in official Pokémon Gyms. Satoshi decides to challenge the trainer, but Akira shrugs him off, confident that Satoshi will give him his ninety-ninth victory. Sure enough, Akira's Sand makes quick work of Satoshi's pokemon, shattering the young trainer's confidence. When the match is over, Akira goes back into his gym and scolds his pokemon for having such a lousy match. Satoshi hears the commotion from outside and goes into the gym to investigate. When he peeks inside, he sees all of Akira's pokemon undergoing extremely harsh training! The young trainer comes to the conclusion that Akira will hurt his pokemon by overworking them so much, so he invites them to leave the gym and join him. The pokemon refuse, and before long Satoshi comes to realize that Akira trains his pokemon so hard because he cares for them so much. Without warning, the Rocket-Dan appear and attempt to kidnap Akira's Sand! After recovering his pokemon, Akira challenges the Rocket trio to a battle. They accept, and before long Akira's Sand is able to defeat the trio and earn victory number one hundred for Akira. Later, Satoshi and Akira part ways, vowing to meet each other someday in the Pokémon League. Thoughts
This episode
presents us
with a very skilled trainer and interesting character, Akira. I
mean,
if you consider the kind of advantage he has starting his pokemon
journey
with 100 victories under his belt, his gym leader battles should be a
breeze.
Satoshi and Akira promise to battle each other another day, and just
like
the Samurai, we'll never see Akira again outside of that one shot in
the second opening theme. One thing that
probably went unnoticed by non-Japanese fans is a reference made to the
classic series Kyojin no Hoshi. The
basesball-themed show, which was first broadcast in Japan in 1968, is
given a bit of an homage in the form of the suit that Akira makes his
Sand wear. If you look below, the appearance (and function) of
the suit that Sand wears is very similar to the one Hyuma wears in Kyojin no Hoshi: The dubbed version had quite a bit of paint thrown around, as well as a rather odd video edit toward the episode's end, but otherwise it was alright. It's hard to imagine present-day 4Kids dubbing an episode that tackles (if only slightly) the topic of animal abuse, though. If this was an Advanced Battle episode, would 4Kids have let this episode leave Japan? I'm not too sure these days... Sand keeps its Japanese voice. Paint Edit
Paint Edit Click on each image for a larger version.
Dialogue
Edit Ash: "Hey
wait! I thought you said pacing, not passing!" Originally,
Satoshi tells Akira that Sand's not a sandbag (I'm not to
clear on why...). Afterwards, Pikachu holds up a zabuton (because it sounds
similar to the word sandbag,
I guess) and Satoshi yells at Pikachu for not being serious. Since Sandshrew and pillow don't sound anything alike
in English, the scene had to be rewritten. The
pacing-passing-padding thing actually works pretty well, so I have to
give props to 4Kids for doing a decent job on this. Cut--3
sec/Added footage--3
sec Well, what 4Kids
did was
this: The panning out of the battlefield lasts five seconds and
then goes straight to Akira saying
goodbye
to Satoshi. I guess 4Kids thought the pan-out lasted too long or
something because they shortened the pan down by three seconds and
inserted a three-second shot of Akira and Sand from earlier in the
episode. It's such a
pointless change that doesn't do anything to the episode, so I wonder
why 4Kids even bothered. A few additiona
shots of the scoreboard are repainted as well.
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