BW 080 "Pokémon Sommelier Showdown! Tasting Battle!!" Review Thread

Pokémon Sommelier Showdown! Tasting Battle!!


Animation - Team Kato
Screenplay - Junki Takegami
Storyboard - Kazuomi Koga
Assistant director - Kazuomi Koga
Animation director - Tatsuya Annoura


While on the way to Souryuu City for Satoshi's final badge, a man who had been searching for Dent appears! Before they know it, Satoshi and his friends find themselves shoved into a car and taken to Chikakuno Town ("Nearby Town"). They're taken to the Hattori Manor where a young girl named Momotchi is struggling to choose a starter pokemon that will help her become an A-Class Pokemon Sommelier. Another member of the Hattori family, Pinot Noir, shows up and suggests she goes with the "Bulb Pokemon" Turine, but Momotchi still looks worried. Suddenly, an S-Class Sommelier named "Tabernet" also enters the room! But hasn't Dent seen him before...?

Nothing ever goes Burgundy's way.

She's the new Team Rocket. Hell, she even blasted off.

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I have no words to describe this episode.

Ok, I will say this episode felt like Junki Takegami was crying out how he missed the Rockets. The whole Dent being captured and dragged off to a mansion, not to mention Cabernet blasting off...

Cilan was the last bastion of heterosexuality, and Pinot Noir should be in the anime. Forever. He's definitely now one of my favorite characters of the day.

Poor Cabernet...

Is that guy voiced by Narrator?

As a die hard Sommelier fan, I absolutely LOVED the episode and enjoyed every single moment.

Probably one of the detailed Best Wishes episodes, for me at least. EXQUISITE!

What did Nurse Joy reveal about Opelucid Gym?

This episode had a very heterosexual taste!

This episode was

but seriously this was a fun episode

I am now utterly convinced that Sommeliers are just escaped mental patients. Why are they sniffing people? O_o
CTabernet made this episode as usual, maybe if she spent less time stalking people from the bushes she'd be B-rank by now...

The battle sucked though, Dent get yourself some new strategies please.

This episode... this episode... this episode...

I laughed. I liked it a lot and had a blast watching it. Cabernet, never change you adorable psycho! XD I liked how much detail Dent gave about his process. I like Pinot Noir (did he really match a guy into marrying his Gothiruselle, lol), he and his Choroneko were lulzy. The battle was the only point where I thought the episode could be improved, that and more Cabernet. XD

Burgundy merely wanted to make the episode more heterosexual, but upon the reveal that, instead of being an S Rank Sommelier, she were merely a C Rank one, she clearly did not have the skills to preserve any male-on-male in.

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Originally Posted by Silktree

What did Nurse Joy reveal about Opelucid Gym?

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I agree, what was said? And I thought I heard something at the end of the episode about a gym, what was that?

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Originally Posted by Hellion

I like Pinot Noir (did he really match a guy into marrying his Gothiruselle, lol),

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It certainly appeared that way...

Dear god.. Burgundy is a joke she's still a C rank Sommelier. The writers need to give Cilan a competent rival not a complete joke.