MINCCINO - NEAT AND TIDY!
"That's a pokemon connoisseur for you... whatever he just said."
Score: 5/10
The heroes are traveling along a river to Nacrene City when they are stopped by Bianca, who trips and crashes into Ash and Cilan. Wow, a clumsy moe girl who apologizes and bows a lot in an anime? I've never seen one of those before. You really have to wonder what is it in the Pokemon world that makes girls think traveling through forests in long skirts that nearly reach their ankles is a good idea.
Bianca shows Ash her cell phone watch (I refuse to call it anything else) and calls up Professor Juniper to introduce her. Bianca has been sent to give Ash his badge case, which is unfortunately very dirty because Bianca’s purse is apparently filled with nothing but dust. A wild Minccino appears and steals the badge case, because dammit, we haven't had nearly enough episodes where Ash's badges are stolen. The heroes follow it and watch it clean up the badge case, and Bianca decides that, since she is naturally messy, Minccino would be the perfect pokemon for her. You can tell Bianca is messy because her skirt is pure white and completely clean after hours of traveling through a forest.
Ash is ready to attack Minccino, but Bianca insists on fighting it first and sends out a Pignite. I love how Cilan calls Bianca a "fierce battler," only for Pignite to get its ass kicked by hyper voice and tickle so that Bianca has to recall it. Ash just sends out Pikachu, but Oshawott insists on coming out and battling for him - at one point, Bianca tries to command Oshawott, and the distraction allows Minccino to defeat it. I hope trying to command other peoples’ pokemon doesn’t become a thing with her. Minccino has now had enough and runs off, and Ash tells Bianca that this is her fault. She just ignores him and insists he help her catch Minccino because… because, I guess.
Eventually, the heroes find it again, so Ash sends out Snivy on the grounds that it's probably been his most competent pokemon so far. Somehow this turns into a conversation about Bianca's overprotective father where she uses a Valley Girl accent she did not have in previous scenes, and will have randomly throughout the rest of the episode. As someone who has lived in the Valley for most of his life, whose sisters were and are cheerleaders who talk about American Idol and how much their butts hurt from practicing tumbling, who has had to spend hours around their five hundred visually identical friends who are all also cheerleaders, I can tell you that actual Valley Girls sound nothing like Bianca.
Snivy uses attract, but Minccino just dodges it and uses attract itself. Snivy can't resist the allure of an ultra-sexy Minccino and is soundly defeated, so Ash sends out Pikachu... again. Pikachu decides that since the episode is almost over, it will just defeat Minccino easily, but Bianca stops Ash from finishing it off because she wants to catch it herself. She wastes everyone’s time so that Minccino is about to escape, when she finally takes out a dusty pokeball, which causes it to clean it with its tail, accidentally tripping the button on the pokeball and catching itself. Bianca celebrates catching Minccino as if she had anything to do with its capture, and Ash gets his badge back.
At a pokemon center, Bianca challenges Ash to a battle, so they agree to a one versus one. Pignite versus Pikachu. Despite Pignite landing like twelve hits and Pikachu landing one, Pikachu wins, and everyone acts like Bianca isn’t an incompetent fool.
Seriously, I have no opinion about Bianca in the game, but she does nothing in this episode except act like a dumbass.
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Started: July 6, 2005