Hooked On Onix
Also known as: The Kingdom of Iwark!!
Foreign title: Iwaku no Okoku!!
Series title: Advanced Battle
- Studio
- Nintendo Co. Ltd., OLM-Animation Studio, Shogakukan Inc., Summit Media Group, TV Tokyo
- Animation studio
- SOFTX
- Distributor
- 4 Kids Entertainment
Synopsis
When Team Rocket fools a King Onix, some Geodudes, Gravelers and Golems into believing that Ash wants to capture them, it spells disaster for Ash, Brock, May and Max as one by one, they and their Pokémon are captured and imprisoned by the Rock Pokémon. Ash, unwilling to let his own friends take the blame and realizing he can't make the Rock Pokémon see sense, asks King Onix if there is a way he can convince him. King Onix challenges Ash to a battle, in a deal that if he is able to defeat him, all the Rock Pokémon will believe what Ash is saying. Having gotten a chance to free his friends and their Pokémon, Ash chooses Grovyle to battle against Onix. But due to Onix's high level, can Ash pull of a victory from Onix's grip and also convince him and the Rock Pokémon that Team Rocket are the ones who have been lying to them all along?
Characters
Ash Ketchum, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Squirtle, Tracy, Gary, Professor Oak.
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
- Writer
- Atsuhiro Tomioka, Takeshi Shudo, Hideki Sonoda, Junji Takegami
- Created by
- Satoshi Tajari
Voices
- Voice
- Rachel Lillis (Misty, Jessie), Eric Stuart (Brock, James), Eric Stuart (Squirtle), Stan Hart (Professor Oak), Adam Blaustein (Meowth)
Music
- Music
- Junji Miyazaki
Animation
- Animator
- Shunya Yamada
Art Department
- Designer
- Satoshi Tajiri
Production notes
Season 8: Advanced Battle.
Pokémon is the Americanization of the Japanese "Pocket Monster."
Pokémon is the Americanization of the Japanese "Pocket Monster."