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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Contests, Wurmple & the Trainers’ School arc (AG013–AG015) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 15 · English episode 288 · Japanese episode 291 · Bulbapedia code AG015 |
| English title | Gonna Rule the School! |
| Japanese title | 勉強します！ポケモントレーナーズスクール！！ Benkyō-shimasu! Pokemon Torēnāzu Sukūru!! — “Try to Study! Pokémon Trainer’s School!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 6 March 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 10 January 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Aya Matsui |
| 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? | Croconaw (US) |
| Previous episode | All in a Day’s Wurmple (AG014) |
| Next episode | The Winner by a Nosepass (AG016) |
Plot episodeRoxanne debutsMax’s first battle
Gonna Rule the School! is the 15th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 288th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 291, Bulbapedia code AG015). It first aired in Japan on 6 March 2003 and in the United States on 10 January 2004. It falls within the season’s Contests, Wurmple & the Trainers’ School stretch (EP13–EP15).
Synopsis
Ash and company attend the Pokémon Trainers School as observers where Roxanne, the Rustboro City gym leader is a teacher. Max and several of the regular students learn the value of friendship and teamwork instead of rivalry. May sits in on a pokémon coördinators class and is trying to think of a way to get out of the gym battle. (Okay, Ash is too focused to notice, but you would think Brock and Max would have caught on by now.)
Major Events
- Rustboro’s Pokémon Trainers’ School
- Roxanne debuts and the Gym battle is set
- Max meets Professor Oak by videophone and fights his first battle, with a school Poliwag against Tommy’s Magby
- First use of Protect
- The vocal Advance Adventure plays as an insert song
- Typhlosion’s TV debut completes every Johto starter form
Pokémon making their anime debut
Typhlosion#0157 · AG015
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Aya Matsui.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- The vocal Advance Adventure plays as an insert song
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