AG165

King and Queen for a Day File:KingBonslyandQueenManene.jpg

AG165   ウソハチキングとマネネクイーン!? Usohachi King and Manene Queen!?

First broadcast Japan February 23, 2006 United States November 11, 2006

English themes Opening Battle Frontier

Japanese themes Opening バトルフロンティア Ending GLORY DAY 〜輝くその日〜 ③

Credits Animation Team Ota 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

Screenshots on Filb.de

King and Queen for a Day (Japanese: ウソハチキングとマネネクイーン!? Usohachi King and Manene Queen!?) is the 165th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 439th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on February 23, 2006 and in the United States on November 11, 2006.

Another Team Rocket attack ends with Munchlax's Metronome causing a Sandstorm which separates Pikachu, Meowth, Bonsly, and Mime Jr. from their trainers.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Spenser (flashback)
• Drama staff
  • Director (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)
  • Fat man (Seiyū: 坂口候一 Kōichi Sakaguchi)
  • Old man (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
  • Young man (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Men in black
  • Man A (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
  • Man B (Seiyū: 坂口候一 Kōichi Sakaguchi*)
  • Man C (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Woman (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Female fans
  • Fan A (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)
  • Fan B (Seiyū: 半場友恵 Tomoe Hanba*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Heracross (Ash's; flashback)
• Swellow (Ash's; flashback)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Shiftry (Spenser's, flashback)
• Venusaur (Spenser's, flashback)
• Claydol (Spenser's, flashback)
• Bonsly King
• Mime Jr. Queen

Trivia

The director and Kunihiko Yuyama

• The director of the drama resembles executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.
• Polka O Dolka was featured in this episode for the first time with Meowth singing English lyrics of the song. This happened when James' Mime Jr. used Teeter Dance. This is the second Japanese song used after Advance Adventure.

In other languages

• French: Une vie de star
• Italian: Re per un giorno
• Latin American Spanish: Rey y reina por un día

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