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**A New Beginning** (Japanese:) is the 1st episode of Season 1 and the 1st episode of the *Jim and Ellie's Magical Adventure* series overall.

## Major Events

* Nanette Daisy, Marina Daisy, Mikey Evoli, Ellie Porter and Chloe Porter begin their Pokémon journeys, while Jim begins his second adventure.
	+ 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.
	+ Ellie starts her journey with a Ralts she names Gardi-chan.
	+ Chloe starts her journey with an energetic Scorbunny she names Scorry.
* Nanette, Marina, Jim, Ellie and Chloe go to the Kanto region.
* Nanette catches a Pidgey she names Pidge.
* Nanette, Marina, Mikey, Ellie and Chloe state their wishes and they, along with Jim, 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.
	+ The wishes of Ellie and Chloe are (on the writers' part) 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)
* Jim Porter (debut)
* Ellie Porter (debut)
* Chloe Porter (debut)

### Pokémon

* Snivy (photo; debut)
* Tepig (photo; debut) (Nanette's; Gigi; new)
* Oshawott (photo; debut)
* Totodile (Marina's; Chompy; new; debut)
* Eevee (Mikey's; Volley; new; debut)
* Pidgey (Nanette's; Pidge; new; debut)
* Spearow (multiple; debut)
* Ralts (Ellie's; Garde-chan; new; debut)
* Scorbunny (Chloe's; Scorry; new; debut)

### Secondary Characters

* Queen Cosmica (debut)
* Elis Daisy (debut)
* Professor Aurea Juniper (debut)
* 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.

### 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).