Review DP160: Get Fired Up, Kabigon! King of the Pokéthlon!!

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- The COTD, Yuuta, is seen revealing a poster for the Pokethlon.

- There's a scene with Kabigon running on a treadmill while wearing a helmet with wires coming out of it. Yuuta's monitoring this "training."

- We see both Yuuta and Satoshi jumping on a seasaw-like thing to launch their pokemon (Sawamura and Moukazaru, respectively) into the air.

- Yuuta and Satoshi are wearing devices on their head that cover their eyes.
 
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I can say that at this point I'm not upset that the Pokethlon is only one episode. Doesn't look like anything special, just track and field and some frisbee. No snowball fights.
 
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I'm not too familiar with the Pokethlons... Is there usually some kind of reward for winning 1st-place?
 
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Apparently character of the day creates a device where you can control your Pokemon. Isn't that kind of what Ash is against, controlling Pokemon as if they were robots.

That said it's cool that Monferno is being used, I thought it was just Pikachu.

And as I expect this episode is going to horribly rushed. Unless each event lasts a minute.

If Pikachu loses to Snorlax in the race, regardless of its talents, I'll lose all respect I have for Pikachu.
 
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and Moukazaru evolves.
 
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It does look like a fast paced episode, but that doesn't mean it will be rushed.

dman_dustin said:
If Pikachu loses to Snorlax in the race, regardless of its talents, I'll lose all respect I have for Pikachu.
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Then, let's hope Pikachu wins :)
 
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dman_dustin said:
If Pikachu loses to Snorlax in the race, regardless of its talents, I'll lose all respect I have for Pikachu.
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You should have lost it gens ago.

Anyways, I think I'm going to watch this one, just to see how Satoshi's Pokémon compete and what kind of relationship Yuuta has with Kabigon. I think Kabigon believes that Yuuta loves her, but actually for Yuuta Kabigon is just a tool and always will be a tool. Aah, Kabigon drama *shot*.
 
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What's with all the Kabigon recently? Seems like we've had a bit of a glut of them, no?
 
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Matkin22 said:
What's with all the Kabigon recently? Seems like we've had a bit of a glut of them, no?
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Probably foreshowing Ash's snorlax coming back in the league... like that magnezone v metagross where you saw a feraligator, a bayleaf and a snorlax on the ground... 493 pokemon and those are the 3 the writers choose... not a coincidence if you ask me...

Looks like a fun episode, but yeah it'll feel really really rushed... Not too sure the game concept of the pokethelon is gonna be well introduced in the anime...
 
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Jolteon said:
Probably foreshowing Ash's snorlax coming back in the league... like that magnezone v metagross where you saw a feraligator, a bayleaf and a snorlax on the ground... 493 pokemon and those are the 3 the writers choose... not a coincidence if you ask me...

Looks like a fun episode, but yeah it'll feel really really rushed... Not too sure the game concept of the pokethelon is gonna be well introduced in the anime...
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I always wanted Silver to came to the anime with riding an Ordle, LOL! But I guess he never stole a starter to begin with in anime, as he already had Nidoking in the LoT opening.

I kinda hope Pokéthlon had two episodes, but sadly it doesn't. But what can we say? One episode is still better than none!
 
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Matkin22 said:
What's with all the Kabigon recently? Seems like we've had a bit of a glut of them, no?
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Snorlax always gets a filler in the middle of a region. Remember that Slakoth banana garden ep where a wild Snorlax was eating their fruit back in Hoenn?

For some reason the writers love Snorlax, even when Ash's isn't around they put wild Snorlax or trainer's Snorlax in random fillers.
 
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Musashi said:
Satoshi challenges the CotD, CotD likes science and wants to do the Pokéthlon instead of a regular battle.

It looks like Satoshi is the only one doing this from the previews. That's really weird.
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I was wondering about whether Dawn and Brock would do Pokethelon while watching the preview... Actually, I hoped that Brock would participate and win (Snorlax getting beaten by Happiny in a sumo competition would have been hilarious, croagunk jumping with his frog legs...) cause he's sorta been suffering from nando syndrome recently (being totally forgotten by writers)
 
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Paperhorse108 said:
Then, let's hope Pikachu wins :)
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But then again if Ash really is controlling Pikachu like it implies in the preview, I guess it wouldn't be Pikachu's fault.

I still think this going to be awkward with the whole controlling your Pokemon with a mind control device story. Geez they really are making it like the games aren't they? Since in the games you can control your Pokemon.
 
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dman_dustin said:
If Pikachu loses to Snorlax in the race, regardless of its talents, I'll lose all respect I have for Pikachu.
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At this point, I honestly won't be surprised. It had a tied battle against a Magikarp in this region. Losing a race to a Snorlax is quite normal compared to that.

I hope suspect he will win this, however.

dman_dustin said:
I still think this going to be awkward with the whole controlling your Pokemon with a mind control device story.
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If that's what's going on, I am thoroughly disturbed by this episode.
 
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Man this has been one I can't wait for. Does any one have images from the preview?
 
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Daren said:
At this point, I honestly won't be surprised. It had a tied battle against a Magikarp in this region.
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The best Magikarp ever!

About the Snorlax talk: Go watch Ring Masters if you haven't done so. A very good filler featuring Snorlax from Johto.
 
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Kind of ironic that the Pokethlon, a brand new quest, is getting a measly filler that doesn't even look that good.

And here I thought Kotone and Ash would be doing them. oh well.
 
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^This. And, I kind of feel the "controlling pokemon..." thing is odd. I guess it has to do with the fact that you play with your Pokemon directly in the Pokethlon in the games, but...I dunno. I thought it would be something like the agility competition for dogs (sorry for bad comparison) where the trainer trains and then it's up to the pokemon. But I guess not.
 
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