Pokémon: The Original Series · The Johto Journeys arc
EP130 · The Whistle Stop
レディバのふえ!
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his friends arrive at Violet City, where Ash hopes to earn his first Johto League Badge at the local Gym. While wandering through the city, Pikachu stops to smell some flowers, only to be attacked by two schoolchildren that want to play with him.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP130 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · EP119-EP160
The Johto Journeys.
Misty rejoins, Brock returns, Tracey takes the Prof. Oak assistant job. The original trio travels Johto. Pace is slower than Kanto; the arc lingers on creature design and side characters.
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Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in The Johto Journeys.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.