AG020

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AG020   ムロジム！波乗りジムリーダー・トウキ登場！ Muro Gym! Enter Touki the Surfing Gym Leader!

First broadcast Japan April 10, 2003 United States February 7, 2004

English themes Opening I Wanna Be A Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening アドバンス・アドベンチャー Ending ポルカ・オ・ドルカ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami 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

Brave the Wave (Japanese: ムロジム！波乗りジムリーダー・トウキ登場！ Muro Gym! Enter Touki the Surfing Gym Leader!) is the 20th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 294th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 10, 2003 and in the United States on February 7, 2004.

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

Synopsis

Ash and company are currently on Dewford Island. Ash is pretty eager to get his second Gym Badge in the Hoenn League. When he gets to the gym, he finds Brawly as more of a surfer dude than a Pokemon trainer, saying that he teaches surfing to his Pokemon. Still, Brawly eventually ends up accepting the challenge. What will happen next?

Major events

Debuts

• Brawly
• Makuhita
• Hariyama

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Brawly

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Delibird

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Makuhita (Brawly's, evolves; debut)
• Hariyama (Brawly's, newly evolved; debut)
• Machop (Brawly's)

Trivia

• This is the last dub episode until AG146 to feature Ken Gates as the narrator.
• This is one of the few times where Ash lashes out at one of his friends after a loss. When Brock tries to give him advice about what he should have done, he yells "Shut up!" at him before storming out of the room. Though, he just may have been upset because Treecko and Taillow got hurt so badly.
• In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.

Errors

• Brawly said that Hariyama managed to defeat Ash's Taillow and Treecko, although Hariyama only defeated Ash's Treecko. Brawly's Machop is the one who defeated Ash's Taillow.

In other languages

• European Portuguese: Enfrentar a Onda!
• French: A l'assaut des vagues
• Italian: Sull'onda dell'entusiasmo
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Toma la ola!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Domando as Ondas
• Spanish: Que gozada de ola

This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.