Island of the Giant Pokémon is an episode of Liam's Adventures of Pokemon the Series.
Plot[]
After the attack caused by a group of Gyarados in the last episode, Ash and his friends end up on an island, where they realize that four of Ash's Pokémon, including Pikachu, are missing. On another side of the island, Jessie and James are awakened by a Krabby to find their Pokémon, including Meowth, are missing. They try to call for help in a phone booth, but they soon remember they don't have any money. On another part of the island, a separated Pikachu finds the Poké Balls of the separated Pokémon and releases Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. They then see a Slowpoke fishing in the sea with its tail. Pikachu and Charmander decide to ask for help but with little result while Bulbasaur and Squirtle relax on the beach.
While trying to find Ash and the others, Ash's Pokémon are found by Team Rocket's Pokémon, Koffing, Ekans and Meowth. Meowth tells Koffing and Ekans to attack Ash's Pokémon, only to find out they won't battle for him because he is not their master. They also tell him that they are not bad guys and only take bad orders from their masters, much to Meowth's dismay, leaving him unable to battle Ash's Pokémon. Each side tells the other about their missing Trainers and Koffing and Ekans get visibly upset when Bulbasaur mentions that their Trainers may have abandoned them. Pikachu immediately refutes the very idea, telling Bulbasaur that Ash would never do something like that. The two sets of Pokémon join together to find their Trainers. Meanwhile, Meowth is tied up for what he has done to Pikachu and the others in the past. While they are eating, a giant Rhydon frightens them. The Pokémon escape, accidentally leaving Meowth tied up. Pikachu unties Meowth so he can escape. Meowth shows no gratitude for Pikachu's action, instead pushing him and saying that he could have got out himself. At the same time, Ash, Misty and Brock are being chased by a giant Zapdos. They soon elude it and decide to rest for the night. Ash vows to find his Pokémon no matter what. Meanwhile, Jessie and James are being chased by a huge Moltres. They run into a sign and are both knocked out, causing them to escape the Moltres.
The next day, Team Rocket runs back to the phone booth and Jessie makes a phone call. When James tells her that they don't have money, she says they are calling the boss by collect. They annoy him with their motto, causing him to hang up on them. Jessie and James then use a wire to get help by pulling on it while inside, hoping it will lead to the phone company. They see a Pikachu and decide to catch it, not realizing until it is too late that it is in fact a giant Pikachu. At the same time, Ash and company run behind a rock after being attacked by a giant Charizard. Meanwhile, the Pokémon, still searching for Ash and Team Rocket (and having agreed to a truce until they find them), come across a giant Blastoise. Squirtle is forced to ask it for directions by the other Pokémon, something that it's not too happy to do. Squirtle tries to start up a conversation with the giant Blastoise but it gets attacked by its Hydro Pump. They then see a Venusaur and Squirtle this time asks Bulbasaur to seek help from it as Squirtle thinks it's one of Bulbasaur's relatives. Bulbasaur is too afraid to ask the giant Venusaur and so says that it's an orphan and has no family, to which Squirtle decides to call it a "coward." Team Rocket, still pulling the telephone wire, are now being chased by a huge Kabutops. They decide to jump into a rail cart to get away. It starts moving but begins to head backwards toward the Kabutops, rather than away from it. It gets its foot tied in the wire and is dragged after Team Rocket. Then Ash and friends find the giant Pikachu, which is then knocked down because of Team Rocket and the trailing wire on the rail cart. Ash and friends fall into the cart with Team Rocket inside. Then they see their Pokémon chased by a giant Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur. The Pokémon manage to jump to their Trainers and are at last reunited. Then the cart is sent flying into the air because of a giant loop in the rail tracks causing them to fly and crash into the giant Zapdos which they then discover to be robotic. Soon all the other giant robot Pokémon crash into each other and lie broken in a massive pile on the beach. Then the rail cart crashes into the water. A Gyarados shaped boat approaches the island. Inside, a woman introduces what appears to be tourists on the boat to Pokémon Island, however on noticing the damaged Pokémon, apologizes and then makes a call. It is revealed that the island is actually an attraction park owned by Team Rocket's boss, Giovanni, who isn't too happy with the destruction of Pokémon Land.
Ash and his friends continue on, ending up in Porta Vista. Meanwhile, the Slowpoke from earlier in the episode is still sitting on the rocks. It stands up, revealing a Shellder attached to its tail. The newly evolved Slowbro looks forward and says its name proudly.
Major events[]
- Jessie and James reveal that Ekans and Koffing were given to them as chūgen (the Ghost Festival) and oseibo (Year-End gift giving) presents, respectively. But in the English dub of the episode, they say they got their Pokémon as presents on their birthday and Christmas, respectively.
- Mio is revealed to own a Sewaddle nicknamed Nana.
- Floaroma finds a Sachet due to the separation.
- Tsumugi's Spritzee, Floaroma, evolves into Aromatisse.
- Nodoka Manabe is revealed to have been in the island of Giant Pokémon for clues.
- After the Pokémon were reunited with their Trainers, Nodoka Manabe decides to join the group.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Ash Ketchum
- Misty
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Liam
- Ben
- Yui Hirasawa
- Ritsu Tainaka
- Mio Akiyama
- Tsumugi Kotobuki
- Azusa Nakano
- Ui Hirasawa
- Jun Suzuki
- Sawako Yamanaka
- Nodoka Miyazaki
- Nodoka Manabe (debut)
- Negi Springfield
- Yue Ayase
- Asuna Kagurazaka
- Konoka Konoe
- Haruna Saotome
- Setsuna Sakurazaki
- Makie Sasaki
- Leafa
- Asuna
- Kirito
- Lisbeth
- Silica
- Ayaka Yukihiro
Pokémon[]
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Bulbasaur (Ash's)
- Charmander (Ash's)
- Squirtle (Ash's)
- Ekans (Jessie's)
- Koffing (James's)
- Persian (Giovanni's)
- Charmeleon (Liam's)
- Oddish (Liam's)
- Spearow (Liam's)
- Poliwag (Liam's)
- Glaceon (Yui's; Glaciar)
- Sliggoo (Yui's; Huggy)
- Pichu (Ritsu's; Chupy)
- Ralts (Mio's; Darling)
- Sewaddle (Mio's; nicknamed Nana; debut)
- Spritzee (Tsumugi's; Floaroma; evolves)
- Aromatisse (Tsumugi's; Floaroma; debut; newly evolved)
- Vanillite (Tsumugi's; Van-Lily)
- Skitty (Azusa's; Cadel)
- Sylveon (Azusa's; Vivian)
- Espurr (Azusa's; Snowbelle)
- Clefairy (Ui's; Bella)
- Lillipup (Jun's; Didi)
- Ralts (Nodoka Miyazaki's)
- Oddish (Nodoka Manabe's; Shiny nicknamed Radish; debut)
- Slowpoke (evolves; debut)
- Slowbro (newly evolved; debut)
- Krabby
- Rhydon (giant robot)
- Zapdos (giant robot)
- Moltres (giant robot)
- Pikachu (giant robot)
- Kabutops (giant robot)
- Venusaur (giant robot)
- Blastoise (giant robot)
- Charizard (giant robot)
Trivia[]
- As of this episode, All of the original K-ON protagonist are part of the group.
- Azusa breaks the fourth wall in this episode, after she overhead what the narrator said about her.
- This is the only episode where subtitles were used to translate what the Pokémon were saying.
- In some non-English dubs, the Pokémon used human language or voice-overs and the English subtitles were kept, while in some dubs, the English subtitles were translated into subtitles of the respective languages.
- In the Japanese version of this episode, some Pokémon had their genders revealed through the subtitles: Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Ekans were implied to be male due to using a first person pronoun almost exclusively used by males.
- This is the first episode where the Who's That Pokémon? segment is different in the English version than the Japanese version.
- The picture used during the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the Japanese version shows a real fish biting Slowpoke's tail.
- Bulbasaur and Meowth appeared to get drunk at the stand, which is backed up by somebody talking to a "barkeep" in the original episode.
- The music that plays during Pokémon Land- tour is the same that plays when S.S. Anne leaves the port in the game.
- The robotic Moltres that chased Team Rocket and the robotic Rhydon were the only giant Pokémon that were not seen to be destroyed, although Giovanni's phone call implied that they were indeed destroyed as well.
- The book adaptation, however, does have the robotic Rhydon being tripped alongside the other robotic Pokémon as well.
- Even though Ash was never shown to find Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle's Pokéballs, he doesn't seem to have lost them.
- Slowbro says "Slowpoke" at the end of the episode, before realizing it had evolved. This implies that even Pokémon without training are able to say some things that aren't their own name, at the very least the names of their previous forms. However, this is probably just an example of Slowpoke and Slowbro being slow-witted.
- This episode is featured on Volume 4: Squirtle from Viz Media's Pokémon All-Stars series.
- This episode was partially adapted into the book Island of the Giant Pokémon.
- More Pokémon's Poké-rap images come from this episode than any other episode, providing the images for Meowth, Rhydon, Zapdos, Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, Kabutops, and Slowbro. Out of these, only Slowbro and Meowth were actual Pokémon.
- In India, when this episode aired on CN, the Pokémon were given voice overs even though the subtitles were kept. When it was aired on Hungama, the Pokémon did not receive voice overs even though the subtitles were removed. This made it difficult to understand the Pokémon speech.
- Despite Ekans explicitly stating that there was no such thing as an evil Pokémon in this episode, future episodes disproved that idea, most notably Togepi in Where No Togepi Has Gone Before! and Malamar in Pokémon the Series: XY.
- This episode contains one of the few instances of Pokémon eating humans being mentioned (by Squirtle, who jokingly claimed that Ash, Misty and Brock may have been eaten by wild Pokémon, which Pikachu and Charmander didn't find funny at all and told him to stop talking that way).
- The plot of Ash and his friends washing up on an island, supposedly filled with giant Pokémon could be a reference to the film Mysterious Island, where people get stranded on an island, with creatures, which have been genetically enhanced to be giant.
- What Jessie says about the sand in the Japanese version near the start of the episode is a reference to the poem "A Handful of Sand" by famous Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa.
- This episode was skipped in Brazil during the 2018 rotation of the anime on RedeTV!