Pokémon: The Original Series · The Johto Journeys arc
EP146 · Gettin' the Bugs Out
ヒワダジム! もりのバトルフィールド!!
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his friends walk along Palmpona's waterfront admiring the sea view. They see a young Trainer instructing his Wobbuffet to stand up straight. Ash looks Wobbuffet up on his Pokédex and the boy introduces himself as Benny.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP146 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.