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DP021   最強のコイキングと最も美しいヒンバス! The Strongest Koiking and the Most Beautiful Hinbass!

First broadcast Japan March 1, 2007 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: 最強のコイキングと最も美しいヒンバス! The Strongest Koiking and the Most Beautiful Hinbass!) is the 21st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on March 1, 2007.

On arrival in Kotobuki City, Ash Ketchum and friends learn of the B-Button Alliance, a group of trainers that aim at ultimate strength and beauty but don't evolve their Pokémon - a difficult task when training a Magikarp and a Feebas.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Hikari
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Magikarp salesman
• Hatsune (Seiyū: 小林ゆう Yū Kobayashi)
• Otone (Seiyū: 小島幸子 Sachiko Kojima)
• Female reporter (Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*)
• Pokémon professor (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• IT employee

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Mukubird (Ash's)
• Piplup (Hikari's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Magikarp (Hatsune's)
• Feebas (Otone's) (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi)

Trivia

• The B-Button Alliance is a reference to the games where the B button is used to cancel evolution.
• The title card is read by Jessie, James and Meowth.
• The educational magazine James subscribed to as a child, 実験と自習 Experimentation and Self-Study, is a parody of the magazine 科学と学習 Science and Education.
• Music from Gotta Dance! and the title theme from Pokémon 4Ever is used as background music.
• The remote control for the evolution machine is similar to Nintendo's Wii remote controller.
• Pokémon senryū: パチリスが　おめめさめたよ　パッチリす

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