The Best Episodes Written By Takeshi Shudo

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(30 votes)

   #1 - Pokémon - I Choose You!

   S1:E14/1/1997

   Meet Ash Ketchum, a 10-year-old boy full of imagination, confidence, and dreams that are almost too big for his village of Pallet Town—plus the desire to become a Pokémon Master!

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   7.9/10(12 votes)

   #2 - Go West Young Meowth

   S1:E7211/12/1998

   Ash and his friends go to Hollywood (although only a small nearby town) to see the premiere of the movie their Pokémon were cast in. Team Rocket follows them to find out that Meowth has history in this town; It is here where he was a member of a gang of street Meowths led by the Persian. He learned to speak and walk upright to win the heart of a female Meowth who was abandoned by her owner. Upon returning, he challenges Persian who was once his mentor for the female Meowth he thought he lost years before.

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   7.6/10(23 votes)

   #3 - Pokémon Emergency!

   S1:E24/8/1997

   Ash rushes into Viridian City with his gravely wounded Pikachu. The city's on high alert for Pokémon thieves-thieves like Jessie, James, and Meowth of Team Rocket, a group of bad guys dedicated to stealing valuable Pokémon.

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   7.5/10(15 votes)

   #4 - The Ghost of Maiden's Peak

   S1:E208/12/1997

   After leaving Acapulco in search of Saffron City, our heroes finally arrive at a small port town in the middle of celebrating a summer festival.

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   7.5/10(13 votes)

   #5 - Island of the Giant Pokémon

   S1:E177/22/1997

   As our heroes and Team Rocket beat the odds by surviving the sinking ship, they are dragged into another potentially deadly situation when they are attacked by the ferocious Pokémon, Gyarados.

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   7.3/10(15 votes)

   #6 - Mystery at the Lighthouse

   S1:E136/24/1997

   A tremendously large shadow begins to take form in the sea mists, but this possible discovery could be hindered due to the infamous Team Rocket lurking in the background cooking up another one of their schemes.

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   7.3/10(14 votes)

   #7 - Dig Those Diglett!

   S1:E3110/28/1997

   Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu are lost deep in the mountains. As they press forward on a rough road not even shown on their map, they suddenly hear a large explosion.

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   7.2/10(16 votes)

   #8 - The School of Hard Knocks

   S1:E95/27/1997

   While searching for firewood in the foggy woods, Ash and Pikachu discover a bunch of prep-school kids bullying a classmate named Joe.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #9 - The Birth of the 13th Fleet

   S1:E31/10/1989

   In Heinessen (capital planet of the Free Planets Alliance), a memorial for the soldiers who died at the battle of Astarte is held. The warmongering speech of Job Trüniht, the Secretary of Defence, is interrupted by Jessica Edwards, whose fiancé was killed in the battle: she asks him why the advocates of war always sacrifice the lives of others while hiding in safer places. While going home, she is attacked by members of the Patriotic Knights Corps (P.K.C.), a nationalistic organization secretly led by Trüniht. She is rescued by her friends Yang and Dusty Attenborough and barely escapes death. The next day, Yang is promoted to rear admiral in command of the newly formed 13th Fleet. His mission: to take the Iserlohn fortress, a powerful space station which has repelled every attack.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - In the Eternal Night

    S1:E112/21/1988

    January 1, 796 S.C. / 487 I.C.: in the Astarte star system, a 20 000 spaceships Imperial fleet under Reinhard von Lohengramm's command is about to be cornered by three Alliance fleets of 13 000 spaceships each. Against the advice of his subordinates, Reinhard decides to strike first in order to defeat each fleet before they can join. The Allied commanders, trusting the overall odds of 2 to 1, don't anticipate this and rebuff Yang Wen-li's advice to quickly regroup their forces.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - The Battle of Astarte

    S1:E212/28/1988

    After the destruction of the 4th and 6th fleets, Reinhard's fleet engages the 2nd Fleet. When its commander is wounded, Yang takes command and manages to escape utter destruction. In Phezzan, Adrian Rubinsky, administrator of the planet, and Nikola Boltik, his main adviser, make comments on the battle and note that it won't change the strategic situation.

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