DP018

O'er the Rampardos we Watched File:ReturntoKuroganeGymVSRampard.jpg.png

DP018   クロガネジムふたたび！決戦ラムパルド！！ Return to Kurogane Gym! Decisive Match with Rampard!!

First broadcast Japan February 1, 2007 United States July 3, 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 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de

O'er the Rampardos we Watched (Japanese: クロガネジムふたたび！決戦ラムパルド！！ Return to Kurogane Gym! Decisive Match with Rampard!!) is the 18th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on February 1, 2007.

Ash has his rematch with Roark but now he has the evolved Rampardos to deal with as well as Geodude and Onix.

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

Major events

• Ash Ketchum returns to the Oreburgh Gym for a rematch against Roark.
  • Ash's Pikachu defeats Roark's Onix.
  • Ash's Aipom defeats Roark's Geodude.
  • Ash's Aipom is defeated by Roark's Rampardos.
  • Ash's Pikachu is defeated by Roark's Rampardos.
  • Ash's Turtwig defeats Roark's Rampardos, and Ash wins the match, earning the Coal Badge.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Roark
• Ian (Japanese: イワオ Iwao; Seiyū: 田中正彦 Masahiko Tanaka)
• Townspeople

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Geodude (Roark's)
• Onix (Roark's)
• Cranidos (Roark's; flashback)
• Rampardos (Roark's)
• Aerodactyl (flashback)

Trivia

• Music from Destiny Deoxys and Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Dawn's Buneary

The segment uses footage from Setting the World on its Buneary and Arrival of a Rival.

• Pokémon senryū: ミミロルが　みみをまるめて　みみロール Mimiroru ga, mimi wo marumete, mimi rooru "Mimirol, rolling up its ears, ear-roll."
• The next episode preview is narrated by Dawn.
• The English title references a lyric from The Star-Spangled Banner.

Errors

• In one scene, Rampardos's horns were grey.

In other languages

• Italian: La sfida contro Rampardos

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