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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Battle (Season 8) · Mossdeep City: the Mind Badge & Drake arc (AG099–AG101) |
| Episode | Never broadcast · produced for the eighth season · Bulbapedia code AG101 (unaired) |
| English title | Shaking Island Battle! Dojoach vs. Namazun!! |
| Japanese title | ゆれる島の戦い！ドジョッチVSナマズン！！ Yureru Shima no Tatakai! Dojotchi Tai Namazun!! — “Shaking Island Battle! Dojoach VS Namazun!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | Never aired |
| First aired (US) | Never aired |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Challenger!! – Rica Matsumoto · GLORY DAY ~Kagayaku Sono Hi~ (That Shining Day) – GARDEN |
| Previous episode | Solid as a Solrock (AG100) |
| Next episode | Vanity Affair (AG101) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeUnaired – banned worldwideCancelled after the Chūetsu earthquake
Shaking Island Battle! Dojoach vs. Namazun!! is an episode produced for Pokémon: Advanced Battle, the eighth season of the Pokémon anime, that was never broadcast anywhere (Bulbapedia code AG101 (unaired)). It falls within the season’s Mossdeep City: the Mind Badge & Drake stretch (EP99–EP101).
Never aired anywhere: the episode was cancelled in Japan after the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake and was never supplied for dubbing. Read more about the unaired episode.
Synopsis
Scheduled for 4 November 2004 but never shown anywhere, this Whiscash story was cancelled after the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake. Planned as the episode after Ash’s Mind Badge victory, Shaking Island Battle! Dojoach vs. Namazun!! would have taken the group to Jojo Island, where Chōta and a Barboach face a Whiscash that is causing the island’s earthquakes; the screenplay was by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi, with storyboards by Yoshito Hata, direction by Shigeru Ōmachi and animation direction by Yūsaku Takeda. On 23 October 2004 the Chūetsu earthquake struck Niigata Prefecture, nearly a week before Solid as a Solrock first aired, and TV Tokyo first postponed the episode and then discontinued it, moving Vanity Affair (originally the following week’s episode) up into its slot so that the weekly run shows no gap. It was never broadcast, rebroadcast or released on video and was never supplied for dubbing, which makes it the only Ruby and Sapphire episode banned in every country; Bulbapedia files it as “AG101 (unaired)” and treats it as non-canon. Barboach’s debut moved to The Great Eight Fate! (AG110), Ash is never shown learning where the eighth Gym is, and all that has surfaced online is a next-episode preview, probably aired by mistake on some stations.
Major Events
- Chōta and a Barboach against a Whiscash causing earthquakes
- Scheduled for 4 November 2004 and cancelled after the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake
- Vanity Affair moved up to fill its slot
- Never broadcast, rebroadcast, released on video or dubbed
- Banned in every country
- Barboach’s planned debut moved to AG110
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Hoenn story.
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