Enter Iris & Axew (661)

[CyberCubed]

But Ash is an experienced trainer and traveler- there is no excuse for his screwing up that first attempt at a capture in that manner.

And...Ash has done this before. With Treecko and other captures. He gets excited about new pokemon.

You would think a 40+ year old adult woman would understand how a kids show works. I also find it laughable you only find two characters grating out of every main character the show had. Obviously you're probably allergic to change, which is why again you're whining about Best Wishes only 2-3 episodes in. I think the writers are well aware which characters and Pokemon are popular.

[Snegy]

You would think a 40+ year old adult woman would understand how a kids show works. I also find it laughable you only find two characters grating out of every main character the show had. Obviously you're probably allergic to change, which is why again you're whining about Best Wishes only 2-3 episodes in. I think the writers are well aware which characters and Pokemon are popular.

Well, how is that since YOU can't do that yourself? Just look at how ridiculously deplorable your threads are. Obviously, you're the one who can't accept/understand a lot of things here - and, mostly, the one who takes this "silly kid's show" too seriously.

Please.

[CyberCubed]

I think its perfectly understandable that Ash gets excited to capture new Pokemon he never saw before, and throw the Pokeball excitedly.

As others have said, the same thing happened in both AG and DP, so I don't understand why people are acting like this is new.

In fact, May scolded Ash almost the same way Iris did when he did that. Do people lack memory of the older arcs? I can understand if they never watched them, but that's a different story.

[9Tales]

Hope TR's Pokemon are okay. Team Rocket often abuse Pokemon by experimenting on them, right?

[Juputoru]

As amusing is it to watch two people arguing over something they're both taking far too seriously...cut it out, Cybercubed & Snegy. Episode discussion is fine. Episode arguing & flaming is not.

[Battra]

Oh my god I don't know what's more surprising that TR left Wobbuffet in Kanto or the fact that were on the 2nd episode and Pikachu has yet to destroy a bike. Well not surprising Ash picked himself up one of the local bird Pokemon, he's definitely gotten alot of positive results from his past ones & i'm sure Mamepato will do just as well. Really like the reasoning behind leaving all of TR's Pokemon back in Kanto, though i'd think they'd be safer at one of James many mansion's than at TR HQ. I'm glad they gave Joy a redesign, it was getting boring just looking at the same model over & over again, the redesign look's alot cuter than the original's.

[Cazak]

I agree that they did a good job on Joy's design. My eyes were frankly getting tired to see the same old one before. Although I hoped that they did a little more coverage on Zekrom as to why it returned Pikachu's electricity all of a sudden. I hope this gets referenced later on.

[Mijumaru23]

Iris is amazing.

[Cazak]

Iris is amazing.

In what sense? So far she hasn't done anything noticeable apart from calling Ash a kid, and not able to catch a single poke'mon.

[RickHoenn]

Iris is amazing.

Yeah! she's incredible, I love her personality and that she looks slightly like Brocky. :P

[Mijumaru23]

In what sense? So far she hasn't done anything noticeable apart from calling Ash a kid, and not able to catch a single poke'mon.

Like Rick said, amazing personality.

Dawn and May were sort of flat and just did their own thing.

Iris has a quality to her?

[Cazak]

I guess that makes sense. She does leave a mark deeper than Dawn so far.

[CyberCubed]

Iris can be summed up by, "cute" so far, but she really hasn't done anything all that memorable yet.

Until Iris starts developing, right now she isn't really anything to write home about.

[Krizor]

This episode was a little better than the first, but once again, the pacing was just way too fast.

Iris's introduction was comical and different. I like the fact that she wasn't a new trainer like the previous 2 girls and was vocal about Ash's blunders. Her progression will be interesting to see.

I didn't like that TR just sent away their Pokemon and Jessie caught a Koromori off screen. Wobbuffet definitely deserved a send off episode because of it's long history with them, and Koromori deserved an on screen capture because it's now an important Pokemon that will be involved in BW's story.

[Caseydia]

Iris can be summed up by, "cute" so far, but she really hasn't done anything all that memorable yet.

Until Iris starts developing, right now she isn't really anything to write home about.

Oh stop it. This is how all the girls start out. But the thing is that instead of watching Iris getting a starter Pokemon, she'll already have a Pokemon. So this focuses on mostly other things that might be important.

[G50]

Japanese Subbed version comments - This episode was very cool. Kibago is really cute! When Ash tried to throw a Pokeball to catch a Kibago mistaking Iris for it was I couldn't stop laughing. It was really cool seeing Ash catch Mamepeto as his 1st Isshu region Pokemon. Too bad he couldn't catch that Shikijika, I really like that Pokemon... Koromori was really cool. The way Mijumaru saved Pikachu and Kibago was really cool!

[ShadeAce]

Dumb move Ash

[ShadeAce]

Ax-yew?? weird pronounciation?

[The Eleventh]

Ax-yew?? weird pronounciation?

I've always pronounced it like that, so that's good to know! I can't wait to see this episode!!!

[MidnightMelody]

Holy Crap! the new motto was like a direct translation!