Pokémon/Episode 022

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Title
Official English Title	Abra and the Psychic Showdown
Kanji Title	ケーシィ！ちょうのうりょくたいけつ！
Rōmaji Title	Casey! Psychic Showdown!
Information
Release date	August 26th, 1997
Media	Anime
Studio or Magazine	OLM
Content
Scene Type	Bath
Sex of Bathers	Female
Length
Timestamp or Pages
Segment	Episode

Pokémon episode 22 is the first bathing scene in the Pokémon anime series.

Summary

Satoshi searches an abandoned house's Ofuro and ends up seeing a woman taking a Bubble Bath in the Drop-In Bathtub. He turns away and apologizes but Pikachu points to the Mirror and notices that the lady is really a doll. Kasumi and Takeshi come into the Changing Room to tell Satoshi that they are in a dollhouse just as Natsume pulls off the roof of the dollhouse and tries the grab the group just as the run off.

Bathers

• Unnamed Woman

Appearing Tropes

• Accidental Peeping
• Arm Stretching
• Bath
• Bath Bucket
• Bath Stool
• Bubble Bath
• Changing Room
• Drop-In Bathtub
• Mirror
• Ofuro
• Pink Towel
• Shower Head
• Soap Suds
• Towel Rack

Gallery

Release

This episode first aired in Japan on August 26th, 1997.

Trivia

• While the woman in the bathtub may appear to be a doll, episode 24 later shows that the people shrunken down into the doll house eventually get turned to dolls unable to move which implies that this doll taking a bath was a human woman at one point (likely a trainer that lost to Natsume) and decided to take a bath in the house which then the process of turning into a doll likely started happening as she was still in the tub.
  • There is a hole in this theory since after defeating Natsume in episode 24, Kasumi Yawa, Takeshi and Natsume's mother are returned to normal humans after being turned into dolls. This woman was not restored along with them. The reasons may have been because she was a minor character in only one scene, she would have been restored while completely naked only covered with a few Soap Suds since she was still in the bathtub which would have created an Ecchi scene in a show for younger audiences or that she may have actually just been a lifeless doll.

External Links

• Bulbapedia