The Ultimate Test
Also known as: Pokémon Certification Test!?
Foreign title: Pokemon Rigu Kenteishiken!?
Series title: Indigo League
- Studio
- Nintendo Co. Ltd., OLM-Animation Studio, Shogakukan Inc., Summit Media Group, TV Tokyo
- Animation studio
- SOFTX
- Distributor
- 4 Kids Entertainment
Synopsis
While traveling, Ash notes it has been a long time since his last Badge, so Todd suggests he takes the Pokémon League exam. Passing the exam would get him an immediate entry into the competition. But Ash being over confident of himself of passing the exam he totally fails in the first and second tests. In the third test, Team Rocket interferes the match and uses their given Pokémon to take revenge on the examinator for giving them a hard time on the first and second tests. In the end the examinator commands their given Pokémon to attack Team Rocket instead of himself, which sends them blasting off again.
Characters
Ash Ketchum, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Squirtle, Tracy, Gary, Professor Oak, Todd.
Team Rocket: Jessie, James, Meowth
Team Rocket: Jessie, James, Meowth
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Kunihiko Yuyama, Masamitsu Hidaka, Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Producing
- Producer
- Tsunekazu Ishihara (Executive Producer, Japan)
- Executive Producers, English version
- Alfred R. Kahn, Norman J. Grossfeld
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Shunya Yamada
Voices
- Voice
- Rachel Lillis (Misty, Jessie), Eric Stuart (Brock, James), Eric Stuart (Squirtle), Stan Hart (Professor Oak), Adam Blaustein (Meowth)
Music
- Music
- Junji Miyazaki
Crew
- Created by
- Satoshi Tajari
- Designer
- Satoshi Tajiri
Production notes
Season 1: Indigo League.
Pokémon is the Americanization of the Japanese "Pocket Monster." The series first began airing in Japan in April of 1997.
Pokémon is the Americanization of the Japanese "Pocket Monster." The series first began airing in Japan in April of 1997.