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Journey to the Unown!

DP060   EP526 ズイの遺跡のアンノーン！ Unknown of the Zui Ruins!

First broadcast Japan December 20, 2007 United States June 7, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

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

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 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa Additional credits

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Journey to the Unown! (Japanese: ズイの遺跡のアンノーン！ Unknown of the Zui Ruins!) is the 60th episode of Diamond & Pearl series, and the 526th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 20, 2007 along with Team Shocker!, and in the United States on June 7, 2008.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Dawn and Aipom are training for the Solaceon contest. During the training, they use Focus Punch in fast succession to make it look like Aipom has two tails. Brock tells her that is actually Double Hit and Aipom is close to evolving after that move. Kenny appears and tells her it is Ambipom. He was a bit surprised that she didn't know what Aipom's evolved form was and calls her DeeDee. Ash asks why he calls her that, but Dawn insists him not to go there. Ash decided to finish their battle in Floaroma Town, but Kenny declines, saying he was going to see Dialga & Palkia.

Meanwhile, at the Solaceon Ruins, Saturn and the two grunts enter the ruins for unknown purposes. Team Rocket notices them and remembers their first encounter with them. Saturn sends out his Bronzor to use Flash to guide them through the ruins. Team Rocket, convinced there is treasure inside, decide to follow them without them seeing them.

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Solaceon Town and meet with Kenny again.
• Kenny and Ash have a battle and the former agrees to help teach Turtwig Energy Ball with the help of his Breloom (Though Turtwig does not perfect it till Riding the Winds of Change!)
• Dawn's Aipom learns Double Hit and later evolves into Ambipom.
• Saturn steals a cube from the Solaceon Ruins.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Bronzor

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Kenny
• Saturn
• Team Galactic Grunts
  • Male (Seiyū: 古島清孝 Kiyotaka Furushima*)
  • Female (Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Meowth)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Aipom (Dawn's, evolves)
• Ambipom (Dawn's, newly evolved; debut)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Breloom (Kenny's)
• Bronzor (Saturn's; debut)
• Unown (multiple)
• Quagsire
• Murkrow
• Elekid
• Skitty
• Munchlax
• Dialga (statue)
• Palkia (statue)

Trivia

The tablet found below the statue of Dialga.

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Spiritomb
  • Pokémon senryū: ミカルゲよ　じっとがまんの　ごひゃくねん Mikaruge yo, jitto ga man no, go hyaku nen.
• Saturn is listed as おとこ Man in the credits.
• The same Unown writing from Top-Down Training is shown again in this episode. It's now written in four lines instead of six:

FRIEND
SUBETE NO INOCHI HA
BETSU NO INOCHI TO DEAI
NANIKA WO UMIDASU

In the dub, Dawn reads it as When every life meets another life, something will be born.

• The coin toss application in Dawn's Pokétch makes its second appearance.
• Not including the third and tenth movies, this is only the second appearance of the Unown species, the first being Address Unown. Despite being created after the introduction of the new forms, however, "!" and "?" Unown do not appear in this episode.
• The three plates Team Galactic used to obtain the cube from the Solaceon Ruins (Splash Plate, Iron Plate, and Draco Plate) correspond to the three types of Dialga and Palkia combined. However, the Splash Plate, associated with Palkia's Template:Type2, was placed on the side of the pattern resembling Dialga's diamond and the Iron Plate, associated with Dialga's Template:Type2 was placed on the side of the pattern resembling Palkia's pearl.
• Even though Aipom evolved, she was not shown like that in the Japanese ending theme By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~, which was featured in this episode.

Errors

• In the original airing, Unown was spelt "Unknown" in the title. This was corrected in future airings.
• In the scene where Ash saves Ambipom, Ambipom's feet are colored a light tan, like an Aipom's. They should be purple.
  File:Tan Feet.jpg

  In the top left of the picture, Dawn's Ambipom has tan feet, like an Aipom's.
• After the landing from the fall, Ambipom's Japanese voice can be heard.

Dub edits

• At the point after Bronzor uses Confuse Ray, Saturn commanding it to use Teleport is edited out.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Viagem ao Desconhecido!
• Chinese (Taiwan): 隨意遺跡的未知圖騰
• Czech: Cesta do neznáma
• Dutch: Reis naar de Unown!
• Finnish: Symbolinen matka!
• French: D'étranges Zarbi
• German: Eine Reise - Icognito!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Viaje a lo desconocido!
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La confusión de los Unown!
• Italian: Viaggio nell'Unown!
• Polish: Podróż w nieznane

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