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| The Search for the Diamond Flower! | |
| Dub | The Search for the Diamond Flower! |
| Name Translation | Seize the Treasure! The Girl with the Scorpion Zoid |
| Japanese Name | 掴めお宝！サソリゾイドの女 |
| Romanization | Tsukame otakara! Sasorizoido no on'na |
| Japanese Opening | Starting Over |
| Japanese Ending | Shōnen no Boku e |
| English Opening | Zoids Wild |
| English Ending | Zoids Wild (instrumental) |
| Season | Zoids: Wild |
| Episode (season) | 005 (Zoids: Wild) |
| Episode (series) | 005 (Wild series) |
| Episode (lifetime) | 174 (Zoids) |
| Japanese Airdate | August 04, 2018 |
| English Airdate | August 14, 2020 (Netflix) |
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The Search for the Diamond Flower! is the fifth episode of Zoids: Wild. It first aired in Japan on August 04, 2018.
Overview[]
This episode introduces Battalia, pilot of Needle.
Arashi goes searching for the Ancient Treasure Z, and following rumours ends up meeting Battalia. She points out Arashi's naivety, specifically that he leaks his information about the Treasure. He had heard stories of "Diamond Flowers" nearby in a place nobody has visited. Battalia immediately set out, and Arashi follows.
She uses her Zoid to use logs and construct a bridge to cross a crevasse, destroying it behind her thinking Arashi won't follow. But Arashi just uses the Liger to jump across.
Here Battalia notices lack of maintenance on the Wild Liger.
Her specialty is Zoid customisation, she is able to do at least basic repairs to the Liger. Arashi is surprised that the Liger even allows her near it. As such, he tries to invite her onto his team.
She laughs at his poor attempt at a team name and logo. Being a designer, she replaces his logo and applies it to the Liger. When asked about "team stretchy" Arashi tells her his team should have the freedom to stretch out. Penne responds by re-naming the team "Freedom", which immediately gets Arashi's praise.
As they go on, they find that the treasure they were looking for is not the Ancient Treasure Z, but instead a grove of flowers that animals visit to heal.
But before they can leave, bandits arrive. They had followed the leaking oil from the Liger. While there is no treasure for them to steal, they start to trash the grove.
Arashi uses his Wild Blast and defeats them.
Battalia quizzes Arashi about the Blast, initially thinking it's a Dark Blast. But she is reassured when Arashi explains he is not part of the Dark Metal Empire.
At the end of the episode, Arashi and Battalia part ways. It's not necessary for team members to be together 100% of the time, as mentioned by Quade and his team Supreme.
Trivia[]
- Aside from Arashi, Battalia is the only other person to have touched the Liger thusfar.
- Team Freedom's logo has its tongue sticking out. In the Manga and early concepts for Arashi, he's often seen with his tongue sticking out. However, this rarely happens in the anime. As such, when Battalia designs the logo for team Freedom, she adds the tongue, without actually having seeing Arashi do it.
- In the Japanese version, Arashi gets his information from a village that has a quirk of spanking people frequently. In the English version, the butt-slapping is removed.
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