Review DP174: The Grand Festival Begins! The Art of Flame and Ice!!

[Dogasu]

- Hikari's theme plays during the preview.

- We see all of Hikari's rivals - Naoshi, Kengo, Urara, and Nozomi.

- Hikari's hair gets fried by Plusle and Minun again.

- We also see Eevee, Booster, Showers, Tyltalis, Korotoc, and Keiko'uo (I think).

- Hikari's using Hinoarashi and Mimirol.

- Hikari's wearing her new, yellow dress.

This episode is scheduled to air on April 29th.

 

[Kojiro]

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Korotoc and Keiko'uo ? Can you please use their english names?

 

[darklord18]

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- Hikari's hair gets fried by Plusle and Minun again.

Didn't the whole fear on Plusle and minun thing Dawn had end back in DP162?

anyway wow so they decide show most of the eevee line (were a espeon when you need it? lol)

look like a great episode

 

[PKMN_Veteran]

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Lookin forward to this GF.

 

[Hassel]

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Where the hell is Musashi's new dress? O_O

Kengo poking at Hikari's cheek is so cute.

 

[Adamant]

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- We also see Eevee, Booster, Showers, Tyltalis, Korotoc, and Keiko'uo (I think).

Not to mention Koroboshi, in it's first ever notable anime appearance.

Who are we missing now? Only Erlade?

 

[Dogasu]

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Korotoc and Keiko'uo ? Can you please use their english names?

Kricketune and Finneon.

 

[TeddiUrsa]

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Is it just me or does it look like Urara is evolving 2 Eevee into Vaporeon and Flareon as part of her appeal?

 

[Candy-Musalina]

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Is it just me or does it look like Urara is evolving 2 Eevee into Vaporeon and Flareon as part of her appeal?

Yup, she'll do that.
I always wanted to see something evolve in a Contest appeal. Sure she'll get lots of points.

 

[Yoghurt]

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I'm excited! This Grand Festival should be awesome!

 

[Musashi]

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What the hell is going on with Musashi? First no new dress, and now she's doing crappy appeals again?

Everyone else looked great, and I'm looking forward to their appeals.

Loved seeing Plusle and Minun zapping Hikari's hair again.

Kengo pinching Hikari's cheeks, and Hikari and Nozomi holding hands... guess no GF is complete without some shipping.

 

[Yoghurt]

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Musashi has REALLY WON only 3 ribbons! She isn't too strong for Grand Festival.

 

[Piplup]

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- We see all of Hikari's rivals - Naoshi, Kengo, Urara, and Nozomi.

Don't forget Jessielina XD she did prove to be a serious rival this time

- Hikari's hair gets fried by Plusle and Minun again.

I like it! She proved she got over this in her last Contest, so I expect Dawn to act more mature about it this time

- We also see Eevee,

EEVEE! YEAH!!!

Not to mention Koroboshi, in it's first ever notable anime appearance.

Did they show Kricketot together with Kricketune in the same scene? please tell me they did... I sure hope it's not the same Kricketune in a flashback... Kricketot deserves its first proper appearance after 170 eps...

Is it just me or does it look like Urara is evolving 2 Eevee into Vaporeon and Flareon as part of her appeal?

WTF?! Crazy and awesome at the same time!
I always wanted to see a Pokémon naturally evolve at the middle of a performance but I guess that's good as well... just that it'd be less shocking to Ursula herself
It'd be interesting to see how someone would act in case a Poké evolved at the middle of his performance, since sometimes that would mean the Poké won't be able to continue the performance in the way you planned

 

[Musashi]

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Musashi has REALLY WON only 3 ribbons! She isn't too strong for Grand Festival.

Battle wise yes, but I'm talking about appeals here. I guess she gets overconfident which leads to her downfall.

I also wonder if maybe Musashi will make it farther since she's shown with a new dress in the scans. Maybe she'll win a battle after all?

 

[Adamant]

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Did they show Kricketot together with Kricketune in the same scene? please tell me they did... I sure hope it's not the same Kricketune in a flashback... Kricketot deserves its first proper appearance after 170 eps...

I don't remember, to be honest. Seemed like a proper appearance to me.

 

[Candy-Musalina]

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Fantina is here as a Judge. Nice to see her again.

 

[Piplup]

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Fantina is here as a Judge. Nice to see her again.

I called it! I remember when some people speculated Johanna would be a judge in the GF and I said that she'll probably just come to watch it, while the additional judge would be Fantina!
Thank Arceus they didn't forget her and let her do something Contests-related
I hope Dawn will battle Fantina before/after the GF (actually, she's a good possible Coordinator to crush Dawn after her GF win...)

 

[Yoghurt]

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Are we 100% sure Dawn will win the Grand Fesival?

 

[Hassel]

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Are we 100% sure Dawn will win the Grand Fesival?

It's 50/50. Either her or Nozomi.

 

[Piplup]

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The only thing that we know for fact is that the final battle is Dawn VS Zoey
I think it's pretty obvious that Dawn will win, otherwise I can't see why they'd bring her to the final... it'd be a nice and different way to end her story (her on screen story, since she'll obviously continue to travel and do Contests in other regions - just like Solidad)