BW 015 "Shippou Gym Battle! VS Gym Leader Aloe!!" Review Thread

[Afrojisiac-19]

So, I wonder how much money Ash lost for losing to Aroe...

[Hellion]

Are we seriously complaining about Aloe switching?

Who cares!? It's not that serious.

This

I'm glad he was curbstomped because it gives him an excuse to train his Pokemon, especially Pokabu.

This... Yoshi, you're like a bundle of wisdom today :)

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Beginning of the episode, why is there a tree in the middle of a museu... oh wait that's Iris doing a good job at backgrounding. >___> Aloe and Dento have a conversation about being a sommelier which I bet I'll love even more when I understand what was being said. :D Get to the battle already.

Thoughts on the gym battle... Well I blinked and missed it!

jk... well almost, it went fast and it wasn't super interesting. Though I really liked three things about it: 1- Aloe using status moves which I always love in the anime since I always feel it hightens the quality of the battle and 2- Aloe being able to recall her pokémon, that rule never made sense to me and 3- Spinning bishie Dento with da sparklez. Few things I disliked. I feel nothing for Pokabu and Mijumaru, they were just there... no real interesting personality, at least to me. Oh and I wanted to bitchslapped Kibago when it came out of Iris' hair. If it ain't doing nothing, I don't want to see it. It's starting to feel like the new Togepi.

Egg moment, it still exists!

Don George cracked me up for some reason here.

TEAM ROCKET ARE BADASSES!!!! OMG!!!! *speechless*

In recap, loved the Dento stuff, the Don George moment and the TR badassery, the rest was meh.

[dman_dustin]

It didn't really look luck-based. I think it was apparant that she gave some sort of clue and even her hand was, I think, placed in front of the book they needed to find. Though Ash didn't really seem to even try and figure it out.

It does look kind of like that, but then the book case looks like a "green screen background" with Aloe being the only thing that seems to be normal animated. So its kind of hard to judge. But I guess giving a clue would make sense.

[Afrojisiac-19]

Mijumaru is officially my favorite Unova starter...Ash's Mijumaru (I really don't wanna call him Ohawatt or whatever) has so much personality, and was giving sass to Ash in that battle, like he really didn't wanna battle the big gopher lookin pokemon LOL!

[Ashfangirl22]

I like that Ash lost, cuz now it means he gets to train more. Though I did think he did a good job in it.

[Froakie]

This whole Oshawott thing is just not funny to me anymore. It's done it too many times now.

[Afrojisiac-19]

This whole Oshawott thing is just not funny to me anymore. It's done it too many times now.

PLEASE! Mijumaru is clearly Ash's most interesting pokemon in BW thus far, aside from Tsutarja, the rest of them are bland, like paint drying on the wall compared to him! He's got personality, style, he's such a lively very animated pokemon! I approve!

[dman_dustin]

This whole Oshawott thing is just not funny to me anymore. It's done it too many times now.

Being dragged out of its Poke ball forcefully by a move, especially when it didn't want to come out has been done too many times?

[Froakie]

PLEASE! Mijumaru is clearly Ash's most interesting pokemon in BW thus far, aside from Tsutarja, the rest of them are bland, like paint drying on the wall compared to him! He's got personality, style, he's such a lively very animated pokemon! I approve!

Sorry - I just don't like him. The whole 'yawn, battling' and over the top facial expressions aren't my favourite thing. He annoys me.

[garrison-san]

Oh god, what was up with Miju's expression when he got up and laughed after being knocked down? He looked like he was freakin' possessed with his pupils obscured like that. (Note to self: must make animated gif later this evening.)

Miruhoggu is one of my favourite Generation V-ers, so I've been looking forward to this one for a while. Loved seeing the mean-looking meerkat/woodchuck thing in action.

[Eitarou]

So, I wonder how much money Ash lost for losing to Aroe...

They don't do that in the anime

Does Ash even carry money?

[Grave-E]

I thought Mijumaru being forced into battle and being quite non-chalant about the whole situation was pretty amusing, personally. It's usually pretty headstrong about jumping into the fray, but here it was like 'Yeah...whatever. I'll fight when I FEEL like it'.
I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but the way this little guy thinks gives me the impression he might have been kicked in the head by an electric zebra at a young age.

Mirhog was cool, as expected, and it's like these guys are desperately trying to make me warm up to pokemon I was indifferent to before, 'cause Yorterry was ridiculously adorable.

Other than that...eh. I wasn't really feeling this one.

[Tsutarja]

Oh and, I really like Iris and all but she's in a desperate need for screentime, especially Kibago. Dento got more to say due his talk with Aloe while Iris, just stood there. Not to mention Kibago spoke like two times.

[garfield15]

COMPLETELY FABULOUS

Oh god, what was up with Miju's expression when he got up and laughed after being knocked down? He looked like he was freakin' possessed with his pupils obscured like that. (Note to self: must make animated gif later this evening.)

I think I can translate

"Oh jeez...a battle. *sigh* might as well, Water Gun *Low Kick'ed* heh..heheh...HAHAHAHA! OKAY YOU WANNA GO? ALRIGHT LET'S GO! LET'S FREAKING DO THIS."

[Froakie]

It's usually pretty headstrong about jumping into the fray

Oh, like when he hid behind Pikachu right?