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AG 175 (452): May VS Jessie! The Final Contest!!
Title in Kana: 「ハルカＶＳムサシ！最後のコンテスト！！」

Airdate: May 4, 2006

Art director: Izumi Shimura

The summaries of this episode and the previous one indicate that Harley will be in both eps, with "Harley & Team Rocket! ..." being the set-up episode for the Contest.

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I don't feel like posting these in their five respective threads or something, but if anyone wants to know about who's going to direct the other episodes that haven't aired yet:

The Deoxys Two-Parter will be directed by Izumi Shimura and Toshihito Hiro'oka, AG 174 (the Sudowoodo ep) by Masa'aki Iwane and the Harley episode by Masa-something Yamamoto (Edit: Masafumi Yamamoto - thanks, Gravy^^).

 

[Torkoal Stu]

I wonder who'll win this x.x; At least a Jessie vs May battle, if Jessie wins I hope she'll give it to May and that Team Rocket don't cheat.

But knowing the writers they will, May will win and TR blast off again, even though in Saffron Jessie didn't cheat and she even got Character development. (Or was that a different contest against May?)

 

[Torchic23]

I wonder who'll win this x.x; At least a Jessie vs May battle, if Jessie wins I hope she'll give it to May and that Team Rocket don't cheat.

But knowing the writers they will, May will win and TR blast off again, even though in Saffron Jessie didn't cheat and she even got Character development. (Or was that a different contest against May?)

That was the Yuzihura Contest

Sounds like a good episode, I'm guessing May wins this one, and that means that....Yay!! Kanto Grand Festival, that is, if May can beat Harley as well, and here's hoping she does ^^

 

[The Benmeister]

Eh? May vs. Jessie? Final contest? Where the hell did this come from?

Whilst it may sounds interesting, you would think that it being the 'final contest' May would have to win and get her fifth ribbon. Unless, of course, there is a suprise twist and May never gets to participate in the Grand Festival. Who knows?

 

[jolteonjak]

This brings up the question, which pokemon will Jessie use? She's used all her Pokemon, James' Pokemon, and Meowth. Will she reuse some (hopefully Seviper for battle)? ...or will she catch a new one prior to this?

 

[Kakashi-Sharingan Warrior]

hmm... May vs Jessie?

maybe this contest involves May, Jessie and Harley, and maybe Harley gets knocked out early on, and May and Jessie fight in the final?

I would like to see Jessie win though, she needs to win a contest, however, we probably will never see her win.

 

[Gravy]

...and the Harley episode by Masa-something Yamamoto (does anyone know his first name?)

Masafumi
The new director who was in charge of the Jynx episode I think?


If Jessie is going to be Haruka's final opponent in the contest, then I presume that this time around she'll be putting up a much better fight. And if I'm not mistaken, everyone and their grandmother has been waiting for Jessie to put up a decent battle in a contest scuffle. And with the 3 pokémon she owns all being excellent choices for both battling and appeal rounds, this is going to be good. And then some.
Wobbuffet needs any sort of battle. Seviper's one and only Contest resulted in an embarrassing failure. Dustox could do with some oxygen. Take yer' pick.


Izumi is going to be directing this? Whoot indeed. It's about time they took a break from the mediocre to lackluster stuff that's been all too abundant as of late.
It's also good to know that the Sudowoodo ep is going to Iwane. He gets some great expressions out of the characters and manages to throw in some pretty impressive battle scenes too.

 

[Jo-Jo]

At the end of the May vs. Brock episode, Jessie said something about having a great idea for the next contest. Perhaps she'll enlist Harley's help to pull it off - or maybe Harley and TR are only joining forces so that they can take out May.

 

[Joe]

*coughNewPokemoncough*

^_^; Since it's 'The Final Contest', I'm guessing May will have to win this or she won't get another chance for a ribbon. 0o If so, she'll almost definitely win it, the writers wouldn't have a Grand Festival/other contest tournament without May. Or, maybe Jessie could have miraculously got 4 other ribbons from somewhere, and she qualifies instead!

 

[CyberCubed]

It says, "Final Contest" right in the title. You don't need to go to Graduate school to know that Jessie has no chance of winning this one.

This is the last Contest episode, May needs her 5th ribbon, that's all there is to it. As Gravy said though, Jessie will probably put up a great fight (after some training with Harley, ha!) so it should be fun.

So when Harley was said to be in a "2 parter", it just meant that he had an episode to himself plus he'll be cheering for Jessie in this one. This also semi-confirms that Harley already has all 5 ribbons, but you don't need to go to Law school to discover that either.

 

[Kabuto]

Wow, the writers are really going way out with May's contests. First Brock enters a contest, then Harley teams up with TR, now this? Well, its a welcome change.

 

[JazzJazz]

This brings up the question, which pokemon will Jessie use? She's used all her Pokemon, James' Pokemon, and Meowth. Will she reuse some (hopefully Seviper for battle)? ...or will she catch a new one prior to this?

Perhaps something will happen during Team Rocket's time aligned with Harley that will set Jessie up for the contest... perhaps she'll pinch one of his pokemon (yes, I know it won't happen, but I can hope).

 

[Jo-Jo]

Perhaps she'll catch Manyula ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!!!111!

 

[Lupin]

Because of the fact that it has "Final Contest" in the title, we can fairly assume that May is going to win. Even if Jessie did win, its not likely that she would give her first ever contest ribbon away.

 

[Kabuto]

Well May already used all her pokemon as well so I don't see why they wouldn't use old pokemon.

 

[Heracross]

About time really. It's unfortunate that Musashi will have to lose in order for Haruka to obtain her last ribbon, but it should be an excellent episode regardless. This makes me all the more eager to see what goes on in the two Harley episodes as well.

 

[Yamato-san]

Hah! I knew this would happen. Look in the episode discussion for the "Haruka vs. Takeshi" contest if you don't believe me. Anyway, not much else I can say other than what wasn't already. Hope Musashi puts up a good fight, maybe Habunake could finally do something decent in a contest and Dokucale could finally... do something..., hoping for some character development for Musashi (I just love those rare moments with Rocket characterization ^^), etc. etc.

 

[packerdan]

Like it's already been stated before, it's pretty obvious that May will win this one. It would be good to see Jesse actually battle for once, we haven't see her battle fiercly in quite some time. My hopes are that Combusken and Dustox get appeals, and Eevee and Seviper get battles. Let's keep Squirtle far away from this entire ordeal, please.

My question is though, if May is on her last contest and Ash has only the Battle Pyramid to go through, shouldn't that mean that they will be on their way to the next region soon? With all the new pokemon and such? That would be pretty cool. Hopefully they stop by the Sevii islands first and disband Team Rocket once and for all.

 

[Kabuto]

I want Munchlax vs. Seviper for the battle since Munchlax was the only one who lost.

 

[Pokeballs]

I'm guessing on Eevee appeal and Munchlax for battle sadly :x
Eevee never got an appeal yet and Munchlax needs to "make up" for its loss... sadly
unless the writers are gonna save it for the GF maybe