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**The Story Begins** (Japanese:) is the 1st episode of Season 1 and the 1st episode of the *Pokémon the Series: A Starry Miracle* series overall.

## Major Events

* Nanette Daisy meets Kyubey and Nijimia.
* Nanette, Marina Daisy, Mikey Evoli, Glorysia Melody and Ash Ketchum begin their Pokémon journeys.
	+ Nanette starts her journey with a Tepig she names Gigi.
	+ Marina starts her journey with a Totodile she names Chompy.
	+ Mikey starts his journey with a disobedient Eevee he names Volley.
	+ Glorysia starts her journey with a Fennekin she names Skylinda.
	+ Ash starts his journey with a disobedient Pikachu he names Thunders.
* Nanette, Marina and Glorysia go to the Kanto region.
* Nanette catches a Pidgey she names Pidge.
* Nanette, Marina, Mikey, Ash and Glorysia state their wishes and they make a contract with Kyubey.
	+ Nanette's wish is to be able to protect the world and stay strong.
	+ Being into fashion and the ocean, Marina's wish is to make the most fabulous water-themed dress, complete with seashells.
	+ Mikey's wish is simply to be a hero so that his brothers can be happy.
	+ Ash's wish is to always successfully catch Pokémon.
	+ On her creator's part, Glorysia's wish is yet to be decided.
* The magical warriors battle some Vertex for the first time and successfully defeat them.
* The magical warriors and their Pokémon become friends.
* The magical warriors see a mysterious Pokémon.
* The magical warriors reach Viridian.

## Characters

### Magical Warriors

* Nanette Daisy (debut)
* Marina Daisy (debut)
* Mikey Evoli (debut)
* Glorysia Melody (debut)
* Ash Ketchum (debut)

### Allies

* Nijimia (debut)
* Kyubey

### Pokémon

* Snivy (photo; debut)
* Tepig (photo; debut) (Nanette's; Gigi; new)
* Oshawott (photo)
* Totodile (Marina's; Chompy; new; debut)
* Eevee (Mikey's; Volley; new)
* Fennekin (Glorysia's; Skylinda; new; debut)
* Pikachu (Ash's; Thunders; new; debut)
* Pidgey (Nanette's; Pidge; new; debut)
* Spearow (multiple; debut)

### Secondary Characters

* Queen Cosmica (debut)
* Elis Daisy
* Professor Aurea Juniper
* Professor Samuel Oak (debut)

## Scripts

* English
* Japanese

## Trivia

* The **Harmony Color** announced before the start of the episode is **Daisy Purple**.
* The episode starts a little differently from the canon version, removing the opening League Battle entirely. The dream is also changed.
* This episode reveals that Spearow see in black and white.
* This is the only episode of the first season in which the Team Rocket Trio does not appear.
* Unlike the canon episode...
	+ The attempt of catching Rattata doesn't happen
	+ Volley ultimately returns to his Poké Ball, but comes back out when he goes into his owner's magic warrior weapon

### Dub Edits

* The Japanese version of the scene with Mikey talking with Volley (only to Nanette to slap Mikey and Kyubey to slap Volley) on Route 1 contains an untranslatable pun. When Taichi asks Vuivui to talk (話) to him, Vuivui purposely misunderstands this as him saying he has "no teeth" (歯なし), thus opening his mouth to show Taichi that he indeed does have teeth, only for both Trainer and Pokémon to get themselves slapped. In the dub, Mikey asks Volley to open his mouth and tell him what's wrong, to which Volley responds to by literally opening his mouth wide open, but the slap scene is kept *ONLY* for Kyubey and Volley since the human slap included physical violence. In the next scene, Mikey can clearly be seen rubbing his red, sore cheek and Nanette has her hand in the air.
	+ Aurea slapping Nanette and Marina was also cut for the same reason.

### Easter Eggs

* The legendary bird the magical warriors saw at the end of the episode was Ho-Oh.
* Marina's wish would not really be granted until "Beauty and the Beach," 20 episodes later.
* The way the dream ends and then transitions to a stormy night back in reality is similar to what happens to the player at the beginning of the *Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers* games. However, the transformation into a Pokémon is opted out, especially since the series is not a PMD-based one.
* During the shot of the whole television and Nanette moving her head into view, Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott have their names written in Modern runes below their pictures.
	+ Notably, the "v" in "Snivy" uses the normal letter V since the Modern rune form of the letter was unseen in the origin anime of the runes.
* When the team of Trainers wonder how they were able to get out of the river without dying, Nanette indirectly mentions her ancestor by saying "S-senpai...!", causing Marina to tell her that she might be seeing things (to her absolute annoyance).