Pokemon Best Wishes! 22 Pokemon Best Wishes! Episode 22

Ash, Delia and Professor Oak went to new region of Isshu. After they arrive, Team Rocket again stole Pikachu from Ash. In the midst of the battle, Zekrom appears, and its huge lightning bolt zapped Pikachu, freeing him. Professor Araragi shows up and escorts them to her lab, where Ash meets his rival named Shooty.

After a losing battle against him, Ash noticed that Pikachu is unable to use its electricity due to Zekrom's thunderbolt. Zekrom appears once again and he gave Pikachu back his electricity. Now seeing a Legendary Pokemon again, Ash decides to go on a journey and compete in the Isshu Pokemon League. Later on, he met a Jungle girl named Iris and one of the leaders of the Sanyou Gym named Dent. Now...the three of them travel together in a world filled with mysterious creatures known as Pokemon.

Genres: adventure, comedy, tournament
Themes: monsters


With the release of the second season, Kyo kara Maoh! can boast a total of 78 scheduled episodes, making it one of the few non-fighting shows of such length to make it stateside. And it isn't hard to see why, since it's exactly the kind of low-intensity light entertainment that is the bread and butter of many an entertainment industry.

Of course, like any good anime, it attempts to ratchet up the tension occasionally, but those concerned that it had taken a permanent turn for the serious with the four-boxes, Conrad's-arm business at the end of season one can rest easy, as this volume finds the show getting back to what it does best: having fun. By that measure, this volume starts off with a bang, introducing a potential fiancé for Yuri, which immediately devolves into a series of very silly romantic reversals. And of course there are more weird animals (an aquatic equivalent of the Boney Tribe), more of Anissina's crazed inventions (magical-powered banana boat anyone?), more of Yuri's hilariously inelegant magic, and—of course—more borderline boys-love hijinks. And while nothing in this volume quite approaches the dragon-hunting RPG-brutalization from earlier in the series, the creators still delight in skewering fantasy clichés. In what other show can you see the Demon King playing shogi with his own Demon Sword?