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Dawn's Early Night

DP049   EP515 ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!

First broadcast Japan October 4, 2007 United States January 26, 2008

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(PopUp.Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports credited Yukihiro Makino as both storyboarder and assistant director.

Dawn's Early Night (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!) is the 49th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 515th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 4, 2007 as part of a two-hour special alongside DP050, and in the United States on January 26, 2008.

Dawn, Jessie, Zoey and Nando enter the Hearthome City Pokémon Contest, which features double appeals and double battles.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Dawn enters the Hearthome City Contest, only to find herself up against most of her rivals: Zoey, Jessie (disguised as Jessalina), and Nando. Dawn loses in the first round getting very depressed. Zoey loses to Nando in the finals.

Major events

• Ash and company learn of the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition to be hosted in Hearthome from Nando.
• Dawn loses in the appeal round.
• Nando defeats Jessie in the semifinals.
• Nando then defeats Zoey in the final round.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Nando
• Johanna
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizo
• Pokémon Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Misdreavus (Zoey's)
• Shellos (Zoey's)
• Roselia (Nando's)
• Sunflora (Nando's)
• Kricketune (Nando's)
• Psyduck
• Duskull
• Solrock
• Lunatone
• Smoochum
• Steelix
• Chansey
• Cubone
• Marowak
• Teddiursa
• Stantler
• Furret
• Sunkern

Trivia

• The opening animation is updated with all of Paul's Pokémon.
• The ending is omitted in the original broadcast, with the credits moved to the opening instead (scrolling from right to left).
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and a instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ are used as background music.
• This marks the second time that a main character lost in the appeal round. The only previous time took an extreme amount of ignorance on the part of Jessie.
• This episode is the first time Sinnoh's Pokémon Contests are referred to as Super Contests in the anime.
• The episode's dub title is a slight corruption of a lyric from The Star-Spangled Banner. This is the second time such a reference is used, after O'er the Rampardos we Watched.
• Fantina wasn't at the Gym in this episode and it did not have a replacement, despite the fact that leaving the Gym without a suitable replacement was one of the things that the Pokémon Inspection Agency can shut down a Gym for. However they might not have authority in the Sinnoh region for them to handle this issue.

Errors

During Dawn and Zoey's conversation Piplup's 'cape' was colored light blue.

In other languages

• Finnish: Dawnin pettymys
• German: Geplatzte Träume!
• Italian: La Gara di doppia performance
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La temprana decepción de Maya!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Una lección para Dawn!
• Dutch: De snelle wedstrijd van Dawn!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Um dia ruim para Dawn!
• Czech: Dawnin neúspěch
• Polish: Nie mów hop, Dawn

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