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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg arc (AG001–AG003) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 3 · English episode 276 · Japanese episode 279 · Bulbapedia code AG003 |
| English title | There’s No Place Like Hoenn |
| Japanese title | トウカジム！VSヤルキモノ！ Tōka Jimu! Tai Yarukimono! — “Touka Gym! VS Yarukimono!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 5 December 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 15 November 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Cleffa (US) |
| Previous episode | A Ruin with a View (AG002) |
| Next episode | You Never Can Taillow (AG004) |
Plot episodeMax joinsUnofficial loss to Norman
There’s No Place Like Hoenn is the 3rd episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 276th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 279, Bulbapedia code AG003). It first aired in Japan on 5 December 2002 and in the United States on 15 November 2003. It falls within the season’s A new region: Littleroot to Petalburg stretch (EP1–EP3).
Synopsis
Ash arrives at the Petalburg City Gym only to find out that he needs three pokémon in order to challenge the gym leader, Norman. He meets Max who is Norman’s son and May’s little brother. Norman battles Ash unofficially with a vigoroth. Max is given permission to travel with Ash and May, and is given a PokéNav in order to help find their way around Hoenn.
Major Events
- Petalburg Gym
- Ash loses an unofficial battle to Norman’s Vigoroth because he has only Pikachu
- Max joins with a PokéNav
- Norman gives Ash and May Badge cases and points them to Rustboro City
- Max, Norman, Caroline and Vigoroth debut
- The Kids’ WB Badge-case paint edit begins
Pokémon making their anime debut
Vigoroth#0288 · AG003
Trivia
- The English title plays on "there’s no place like home".
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- 2 s of James running with his head on fire, 3 s of Max on fire, a sad-Torchic shot, 1 s of the Gym pan and 2 s of the final pan cut
- Badge-case paint edit begins: the Poké Ball design on Ash’s and May’s Badge cases is painted over with rectangles every time a case appears in the Hoenn saga (Kids’ WB and the first two North American home-video releases only)
- Kids’ WB version zoomed in, losing the outer border of each shot (the UK version was not)
- Max calls Ash “Alf” (Japanese: “Satoru”)
- May’s kinoko/hinoko (mushroom/Ember) mix-up becomes “Amber!”
- First Japanese use of an instrumental Advance Adventure as action music
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