Review DP024: Showdown! Satoshi VS Pikachu!?

[Argy]

Japanese: 対決！サトシ対ピカチュウ!?
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This episode will air on TV Tokyo March 29 along with DP025 and a 10th anniversary quiz/game show.

 

[PPK]

Intro from official website (Sorry for my poor English):

Ash and Hikari are in a practising battle in a field when a woman appears who wants to borrow Pikachu for 3 days. She says she and Granny are running a Cake Shop. She is in trouble because a Pikachu named 'Sugar', who helped make cakes in the shop suddenly disappeared and thus they can't take part in the confectionery competition to be held in three days. So Ash's Pikachu pretends that it's Sugar and begins helping Granny with cake-making; however, will they be able to face the coming of the compitition day without any trouble?

 

[Cybersai]

Eh, that summary makes this episode sound very Johto-ish.

So I guess Aipom is battling that other Pikachu rather than Ash's Pikachu?

Other than that, meh, this episode looks like a throw-away, and seemingly no new D/P Pokemon either.

 

[Argy]

I wonder if Sugar is a boy or girl Pikachu.

 

[Kasumi]

Sounds like a girl's name to me.

 

[Habunake]

Uh-oh...

Could we maybe have proof that Pikachu is male?

 

[Kasumi]

^ Hopefully.

Though some people have said before it's highly possible for the gender differences being only a Sinnoh thing and so Ash's Pikachu wouldn't count. :/ I'm actually hoping this doesn't happen.

 

[Jukain]

It would be convincing enough to me if we see split tail Pika.

 

[Cybersai]

It should be convincing to everybody, (even to you-know-who), at any rate.

 

[Habunake]

I 'm just saying I'm sure they wouldn't miss up having a Split-Tail show our Pikachu some sugar...hubba-hubba...

 

[FabuVinny]

It should be convincing to everybody, (even to you-know-who), at any rate.

If that's who I think it is, you underestimate her.

Sugar is extremely likely to have the split tail. If we get a reference to Ash's Pikachu being male in the explanation then that's canon and nothing can change it. If there is absolutely no reference to Ash's Pikachu's gender then there won't be a change in the situation.

Let's wait until we know the full contents of the actual episode before getting into a debate on this.

 

[Geodude]

So I guess Aipom is battling that other Pikachu rather than Ash's Pikachu?

Considering Aipom's reaction when Ash sent it into battle, I doubt it.

 

[Habunake]

Yeah, I doubt Ash AND Aipom would confuse Pikachu.

 

[anonymous920314]

I hope we get gender differences, it seems that that would be the only thing that would make the episode worthwhile, because the animation is lacking and the plot sounds lame.

: /

 

[Haruki]

I'm not excited at this as I am with DP 25, but I still think it will be worth watching. Too bad the animation won't rock, though. :/

 

[Cybersai]

^ Every saga has some bad episodes, so if this one turns out to be lackluster, no big deal.

Even during the highest string of quality episodes over the various sagas we *always* had at least one bad filler scattered in with the gems.

These are still the same writers since day 1 so we can expect some episodes to be worse than others, its no big deal, especially with a filler. And of course its excusable since we've had a really great run of eps before this.

 

[Habunake]

This episode actually piqes my interest.

I'm hoping Ash ends up competiting against Pikachu in a cake-making contest with Aipom for some reason.

Regardless, the preview of Ash battling Pikachu makes this episode look slightly interesting.

 

[xRubyx]

Pikachu should stay with them forever and bake a lot of yummy cakes!!! ^.^

 

[QuietDragon]

Sounds like a cute episode! x3

Sugar's a cute name and I hope the Pikachu will be cute too~.

Caaaake...

 

[xRubyx]

I bet Pikachu's food will be much better then Brock's