AG048

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Zig Zag Zangoose!

AG048   EP322 ザングースVSハブネーク！ライバル対決!! Zangoose VS Habunake! Rival Confrontation!

First broadcast Japan October 23, 2003 United States October 23, 2004

English themes Opening This Dream Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending そこに空があるから

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 宍戸久美子 Kumiko Shishido Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Zig Zag Zangoose! (Japanese: ザングースVSハブネーク！ライバル対決!! Zangoose VS Habunake! Rival Confrontation!) is the 48th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 322nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 23, 2003 and in the United States on October 23, 2004.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Nicholai again.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Zangoose

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nicholai
• Cassidy (fantasy)

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Dewgong

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Skitty (May's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Marshtomp (Nicolai's)
• Zigzagoon (Nicolai's)
• Zangoose (Nicolai's; debut)

Trivia

• In Pokémon Trainer's Choice, all three choices are actually correct, the complete opposite of the previous episode's in which none were correct. Dewgong's Template:Type2 is effective against Ninjask's Template:Type2, Torkoal's Template:Type2 is effective against Ninjask's Template:Type2, and Nosepass's Template:Type2 is actually effective against both of Ninjask's Bug/Flying-types, which would make Nosepass the most effective choice.
• This episode aired exactly one year in Japan before it was aired in America, along with Maxxed Out!.
• In this episode, for the second time, Meowth fills in for Jessie in the Team Rocket's motto.

Errors

• When Meowth started to say the Team Rocket's motto with James, both of them act like it was the first time this has happened. However, they did this before in The Stun Spore Detour.

In other languages

• Finnish: Pokémon-pujottelun mestari
• French: La tactique zigzag
• German: Im Zick Zack zum Ziel
• Italian: Nemici naturali
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Zangoose versus Seviper!
• Brazilian Portuguese: O Ziguezague de Zangoose!
• Iberian Spanish: El zigzagueante Zangoose

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Advanced Generation series

AG049 : Maxxed Out! →

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