DP026

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DP026   ポケモンコンテスト！ソノオ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Sonoo Tournament!!

First broadcast Japan April 5, 2007 United States September 1, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka 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.

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Getting the Pre-Contest Titters (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！ソノオ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Sonō Tournament!!) is the 26th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 5, 2007 as part of a two-hour special with DP027, and in the United States on September 1, 2007.

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

Major events

• Dawn's Piplup learns Whirlpool.
• Dawn meets a childhood friend, Kenny, who has a Prinplup.
• Dawn, Kenny, and Jessie enter the Floaroma Pokémon Contest.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Kricketune

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizō
• Nurse Joy
• Kenny
• Zoey (flashback)
• Coordinators
• Audience
• Children (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Glameow (Zoey's, flashback)
• Smeargle (nail salon's)
• Clefairy
• Magneton
• Rapidash
• Koffing
• Chansey
• Beautifly
• Sealeo
• Bidoof
• Kricketune

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and the instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: James's Mime Jr.
  • Pokémon senryū: かわいいね　マネネまねする　きみのマネ

Dub edits

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