The above credits are from the Japanese anime magazine, Newtype. Another magazine, Animage, has different credits for this episode:
Storyboard: 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba
Assistant director: 牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino
Animation director: 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita
The Electrike Company! (Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 508th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in the United States on December 22, 2007.
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Template:Incomplete synopsisAsh, Brock and Dawn are sitting next to a pond, watching their Pokémon play in it. They see and Template:Type2 move explode in the sky and an Electrike comes running up. Dawn scans it on her Pokédex and Electrike zaps Ash. A man comes running up and apologizes to Ash. He introduces himself as Jaco and says that he trains Electrike. He bends down to look at Staravia as another man walks up and introduces himself as Cal.
When James and Meowth blast off, they are wearing their electricity-proof jackets. In theory, the jackets could be used in later episodes for protection from Pikachu's Thunder, but they have not been seen since.
This is one of the few episodes where Team Rocket actually wants to be blasted off by Ash and company—James and Meowth requested for Ash to blast them off while trying to hold back Jessie.
When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash doesn't have his gloves on, but when he tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on again. After Electrike evolves, Ash's gloves are gone again.
Pachirisu and Pikachu zap the two outer targets. When the camera pans out, it shows the target on the right undamaged and the left and center targets broken.
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In other languages
German: Eine "blitzende" Herausforderung!
Italian: La fabbrica di energia
Iberian Spanish: ¡La compañía Electrike!
Latin American Spanish: ¡En compañía de Electrike!
