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Review HS03: We're No Angels!

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Shuukan Pokemon Housoukyoku Episode 009: "Do Your Best! Look Ahead, Rocket-Dan?"
Pokemon Chronicles Episode 07: "We're No Angels"

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Toonami UK, 4:30pm and 7:00pm
After being blasted off by the twerps, Jessie, James, and Meowth find themselves in a village where they are revered as heroes. Will the Team Rocket members play along and help get rid of the mad scientist terrorizing the area?

In Japan, this episode aired between the Pokemon Advanced episodes "You Never Can Taillow" and "In the Knicker of Time!"

Post your thoughts about the episode here. Please mark any spoilers for episodes not that have yet to air in America in spoiler tags.
 
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The 7:00am episode was "Cerulean Blue". This airs at 4:30pm and 7:00pm

After all the recent screw-ups, 4Kids can't screw this one up! Jessie and James remain main characters, so nothng majorly bad can happen, unless they forget where this episode is set or something.

We know that Meowth's voice is right from "Pikachu's Winter Vacation" and that whoever is doing this is aware of blasting off from "Cerulean Blue", so I remain dangerously optimistic.

Is that flock of Taillow the same one from "You Can Never Taillow"?
 
The Toonami official webiste says Jessie and James are both guys. XD.

I hope they actually use Weezing's old voice, not the one from "A Poached Ego"
 
Exactly. I'm just pointing out that Toonami obviously have no clue what their even showing, which I think is pretty lazy.

Could Toonami somehow be influencing some of the dub changes in Chronicles, like KidsWB has been known to do?

EDIT: Dogasu, this has been bugging me forever. But what the heck is going on in your avatar?
 
I don't think so. If you look at the credits for the Chronicles series, a lot of the usual people (like the translators) are different from the ones who do the main series. I don't think Toonami UK would make 4Kids stop using Paul Taylor for no reason.

And my avatar (which I need to change soon) shows Richard Gere dancing with Prime Minister Koizumi for the Japanese release of the remake of "Shall We Dance?" (starring Gere and Jennifer Lopez).
 
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Toonami wouldn't have much influence. They just take the product from 4Kids.

*50 minutes to go*
 
They did avoid making the obvious screw-ups:

Right Names - Check
Right Voices - Check
Right Arbok/Weezing voices - Check

But Meowth doing the title card sounds horrible!

Team Rightious was good, though.
 
They changed Rose's name to Kate, for some reason. O_o Strange.

Drat, I'll have to wait another two days to watch the ending. -_- Durn mothers.
 
Did Rose appear in the main show, though?

The ending seemed a bit rushed, and the plot seemed to dissolve away. Also, it was never explained why
Team Rocket resemble Team Righteous.

So at what point did they spread the name of Team Rocket?
 
Were there any obvious cuts in this episode?

Also, changing Rose to Kate means nothing since 4kids always change names of the minor characters.
 
Yeah, but I can't understand the point in making the change in this instance - Rose is a known English name. It's not a big deal, just a bit peculiar.
 
Rose was the name of the village girl who liked James in the original.

It seems as though they made this edit just for the sake of changing something. I mean, there really isn't any other reason for such a pointless edit.
 
I don't think it was just for the sake of changing something. In comparison to some of the changes we've seen, this doesn't really matter. Plus, Richie turns up with a Taillow called Rose in a few weeks, so they may be saving the name for that.

Any Rocketshipping hints in this episode were at the end, and they were linked to James and Rose/Kate - (does that ship have a name yet?).

Overall, this was a good episode. Let's hope they can keep up the standards...When was the last time we heard Tracey's name?
 
WTF. Serebii says Itsumu or something like that. Rose was Richie's new Taillow in the japanese version, iirc.
 
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When was her name ever Rose?
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Whoops, big mistake on my part. I really should should have checked first, before opening my big mouth :P

Her Japanese name is apparently Itsumu. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here.

EDIT: Habunake beat me :P
 
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