Eminai

There were some recent news about Nintendo suffering a huge fiscal loss. I wonder if all future 3DS applications, including this one, will be higher priced to make up for it.

This episode blew my mind. I can only hope that all future Gym battle episodes will have this sort of intensity. They better do all the other evolutions like this too.
Also it seems like Oshawott's cowardly lion nature is all but gone now.

Ah yes. 'My sweetheart!' -cue squeaking Foongus-
This was a nice, relaxing episode and a really nice chance to see Iris's development in her 'dragon master' career.

One of the thing I enjoy most about Best Wishes is how the Pokemon themselves are getting more definite personalities, especially the ones that belong to people outside of Ash's group. The Gothimu is incredibly creepy in my opinion in how she seems to be outright controlling Koharu (really apparent during that first battle), but at the same time, it's good that the show gave us a Pokemon character to utterly despise. With the episode's ending, I can't help but feel that Gothimu and Koharu will show up again. Maybe in the next round of 'reunion of the rival characters' episodes we'll see them.

Very entertaining. I'm now excited for the Japanese DVD.