Home/Episode Guide/The Rocket Gang Disbands!? Respective Roads! / The Adventure Division's Battle Royale with Toy Pokémon! / A Mysterious Band Comes to the Pokémon Enterprise!?/ロケット団解散!? それぞれの道! / アドベンチャー部がおもちゃのポケモンになってバトルロイヤル! / ポケモンエンタープライズにナゾのバンドが登場!?
Rocket-dan kaisan!? Sorezore no michi! / Adventure-bu ga omocha no Pokémon ni natte battle royale! / Pokémon Enterprise ni nazo no band ga tōjō!?
The Rocket Gang Disbands!? Respective Roads! / The Adventure Division's Battle Royale with Toy Pokémon! / A Mysterious Band Comes to the Pokémon Enterprise!?
The announcer introduced what was on the show. He started the show by saying: "Uh yes, we'll get you the last Pokémon Entertainment show right here on Pokémon Smash!". The episode starts with Akiyama playing a Nintendo 3DS game and then Golgo asks if they had done their homework. Trying to avoid answering Golgo, Golgo decides to give them a stack of Pokémon letter tracing books.
After the Pokémon Library episode, the International divison girls showed up with Yadon tails on and a bunch of extra ones. On August 11th, 2011, Super Pokémon Scramble (スーパーポケモンスクランブル) will be released in Japan. One of the modes in the game is called Battle Royale. It features a bunch of Pokémon in an every man for himself arena. The Pokémon Smash crew took this idea and did their own Pokémon Battle Royale. Each crew member wore the tail and the last person remaining with their tail on was the winner. It was similar to flag football where other players were trying to pull the tail off.
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Yamamoto was the first out as Maria caught his tail. Misaki was the next one out as Hana got her tail. Akiyama then knocked Maria's tail off and then Professor Red got Shoko-tan tail. While Baba was trying to get Hana's tail Golgo snuck in behind and took Baba's tail. Akiyama tried to be fancy with his moves but his tail fell off leaving just Red, Golgo, and Hana. Hana ended up getting Professor Red's tail leaving just Golgo and Hana. Golgo farted to try to distract Hana and then while imitating a batter's stance, Hana rushed in and stole his tail making her the winner of the Battle Royale.
Robert then went out on an Adventure Division Battle Royale with Toy Pokémon! This episode segment was similar to the Robert Investigates 'Melee! Pokémon Scramble' in Pokémon Sunday #262. Yamamoto dressed up as Kibago, Akiyama dressed up as his standard Victini and Baba dressed up as Waruvile. They all went to the Pokémon Quiz Area where they would defeat Pokémon by answering a trivia question. A bunch of people showed up to emulate the Pokémon that would be in an area in Pokémon Scramble. Each of them had a question card on them. If one of the members of Robert answered the question correctly, that person (Pokémon) would be defeated. If they answered incorrectly, that member of Robert would be out and would be hit by the fan that the people were carrying.
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The first quiz questions where just getting the Pokémon type right. Like in the games, at the end of each area there is a boss. Hayashi Katsuji (林 克治) and Yashiro Hiroyuki(家城 啓之) of the comedy duo Kalika (カリカ) were the boss for this area. Yashiro Gamageroge and Hayashi Minezumi proved to be hard types for Robert to figure out. Baba and Akiyama both got their types right. Yamamoto was able to figure out their types though to clear the area and they joined Robert in a Battle Royale. In the Battle Royale, each person had an item that the members of Robert had to identify the item they had like a hat, bucket, Pokémon Pan, ect. Yashiro Gamageroge and Hayashi Minezumi also took turns. There was also a boss at the end of the Battle Royale round, Voltolos (ボルトロス). It wasn't until Baba finally answered Volumbrella (かさボル) that they defeated the boss.
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They showed quick interviews of people who had just finished watching the new 14th Pocket Monsters movies at the theater. The announcer also reminded the audience that Zekrom and Reshiram were both being distributed at Japanese theaters for players that brought their Pokémon Black or White games. Zekrom and Reshiram both have the OT of Satoshi (サトシ). Players that brought Pokémon Black to the theater got Zekrom while players that brought Pokémon White received Reshiram. Detailed information about Satoshi's Zekrom and Satoshi's Reshiram are available in the Event database.
Continuing the Adventure Division's Battle Royale with Toy Pokémon, the did a Charge Battle (とつげきバトル). Akiyama ran in front with a flag just like in the game to show where they would be charging to. In the game, player charge by rapidly pressing the A button and the group of Pokémon with the most charged energy wins. They then played a bumping butts game where the object was to knock the opponent over. Robert's team ended up winning the first round. The next round featured a bunch of sumo wrestlers dressed as Buffron. They did a wrestling round where Robert ended up loosing. They then negotiated to do a rematch round where instead of wrestling they would try to push the other over by high fiving. Robert ended up just barely winning that round as Akiyama Victini proved to be very agile.
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Super Pokémon Scramble - Pokémon Smash Password
To celebrate the games release, 2 codes were announced on the show to unlock Pokémon Smash Mijumaru and Pokémon Smash Zoroark. Below are the details.
A mysterious band showed up at the Pokémon Enterprise and sang the song Battle Gene M (バトル遺伝子M). Misaki was not around to watch the band sing the song and most of the Smash crew though that the mysterious lead singer was Misaki. The girl identified herself as Battle Woman M (バトルウーマンM) instead. She then said she was part of the group MTM (Mystery Thunder Mask). The song she sang was based of the Pocket Monsters Black and White background music track Battle! Shirona (戦闘!シロナ) which is track 50 on CD #3 of the soundtrack.
After Pokémon Smash 43 finished airing, a clip was posted on the official TV Tokyo YouTube page. The clip contained extra footage that was not aired in the episode which explains the transformation of Misaki into the battle woman M. The clip also contains a music video of the song Pokemon Smash! 『battle gene M』 (ポケモンスマッシュ!バトルテーマソング『バトル遺伝子M』) by MTM (mystery thunder mask) with battle woman M. The BW heart shaped neckless transforms Misaki into battle woman M. BW stands for 'Battle Woman' but similarities to Black/White and Best Wishes are also prevalent. The songs lyrics are by Akihito Toda, the original Music is by Junichi Masuda and the Arrangement was done by Shinji Miyazaki.
Title: Re: Smash 43: ロバートと相撲レスラーがバトルロイヤル!?/Robert to sumō wrestler ...
The production value on this episode of Pokemon Smash is probably one of the highest its ever been with the song, the rumble skit, ect. A very entertaining and original episode of the series. Enjoyed watching this episode.
Title: Re: Smash 43: ロバートと相撲レスラーがバトルロイヤル!?/Robert to sumō wrestler ...
Definitely one of the best episodes in quite a while. The Scramble segment was really entertaining, especially the part where Yamamoto proved to be really knowledgeable when it comes to Pokémon types, as well as the face-off between Victini Akiyama and the sumo wrestler, where Akiyama proved to be really agile and managed to avoid all of his opponent's moves.
It was kinda surprising seeing Misaki sing for the first time on Smash as Battle Woman M, but I enjoyed the song and would be really happy if it finally replaced Takeshi Tsuruno's "Can you say the Pokémon? BW" as Smash's ED. (Seriously, that song needs to be declared illegal due to causing heavy ear-bleeding :P) Overall, a great and really enjoyable episode.
The preview at the end also made me really psyched to watch the next episode, which is bound to be interesting, what with the airing of the first few minutes of one of the two movies, as well as the comparison between the two versions of M14.