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

***Iteru*** · 24th May 2012, 05:23 AM

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...?

*Eitarou* · 24th May 2012, 05:24 AM

Nothing ever goes Burgundy's way.

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

***Musashi*** · 24th May 2012, 05:25 AM

http://sep.2chan.net/dec/18/src/1337853970771.jpg

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...

LightningKimba · 24th May 2012, 05:25 AM

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.

martianmister · 24th May 2012, 05:25 AM

Poor Cabernet...

Is that guy voiced by Narrator?

***Adyniz*** · 24th May 2012, 05:27 AM

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!

Silktree · 24th May 2012, 05:30 AM

What did Nurse Joy reveal about Opelucid Gym?

**Araragi Hakase** · 24th May 2012, 05:31 AM

This episode had a very heterosexual taste!

Yoshi-san · 24th May 2012, 05:34 AM

This episode was

but seriously this was a fun episode

*Winterdaze* · 24th May 2012, 05:35 AM

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.

Hellion · 24th May 2012, 05:38 AM

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

LightningKimba · 24th May 2012, 05:41 AM

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.