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Double-Time Battle Training!

DP155   EP621 ダブルバトル！マンムーとヒノアラシ！！ Double Battle! Mammoo and Hinoarashi!!

First broadcast Japan December 10, 2009 United States May 1, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka 山本珠代 Tamayo Yamamoto Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation directors 牧内ももこ Momoko Makiuchi 古川博之 Hiroyuki Furukawa Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Double-Time Battle Training! (Japanese: ダブルバトル！マンムーとヒノアラシ！！ Double Battle! Mammoo and Hinoarashi!!) is the 155th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 621st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 10, 2009 and in the United States on May 1, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Still on their way to Dawn's next contest, the gang arrive in Brussel Town which is hosting a different contest. Meeting up with Candice, the Snowpoint City Gym Leader, the gang watch as Zoey gains her fifth ribbon. Seeing her rival qualify for the Grand Festival makes Dawn eager to train for the upcoming Daybreak Contest. With Zoey and Candice's help, Dawn prepares for the required Double Performance, hoping to avoid the mistakes that led to her early exit from the Hearthome Contest. Meanwhile, Ash finds himself in a similar situation to Dawn as he learns that his rival has moved ahead of him too...

Major events

• Zoey obtains her fifth ribbon, thereby completing her requirement for the Grand Festival.
• Paul is revealed to have earned the Mine Badge and collected the eight Gym Badges required for the Sinnoh League.
• Zoey is revealed to have obtained a Kirlia and a Leafeon.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Leafeon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Candice
• Marian
• Raoul Contesta
• Mr. Sukizo
• Nurse Joy
• Rhonda (On T.V.)
• Paul (On T.V.)
• Rebecca

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Mamoswine (Dawn's)
• Cyndaquil (Dawn's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Abomasnow (Candice's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Kirlia (Zoey's)
• Leafeon (Zoey's)
• Shellos (Zoey's; flashback)
• Shuckle (Rebecca's)

Trivia

Updated ending shot

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Magby
• Much like how Dawn's main rival, Zoey, has been shown in this episode to have all the ribbons necessary to enter the Sinnoh Grand Festival, Ash's main rival Paul has been shown to have the 8 badges in order to compete in the Sinnoh League in the same episode.
• While Team Rocket are hiding in the bushes from the gang, James worries about how to get away without being spotted by them, and Meowth replies that, "The twerps wouldn't know us if we jumped out and said, 'Boo!'" Jessie remarks that Ash and his friends have "elevated cluelessness to an art form." This is a reference to the running gag that Ash and his friends never seem to be able to identify Team Rocket in their disguises.
• Music from Jirachi Wish Maker and Destiny Deoxys, as well as an instrumental of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ and the Lilycove City theme, are used during this episode.
• This episode marks one of the few times Jessie's Wobbuffet has used Mirror Coat.
• Ash's Gliscor has been removed from the 'Up' ending shot of Which One ~ Is It?.

Errors

• On the official Pokémon website, the summary of this episode is incorrectly stated as "Can watching Zoey give Misty the inspiration she needs to win her next Contest?" when it should say Dawn instead of Misty.
• When Zoey sends out Leafeon and Kirlia, Dawn says, "You got a new Pokémon," when she really had two new additions to her roster.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		雙人對戰！象牙豬與火球鼠！！
Finnish		Tehokasta treeniä!
German		Gegensätze ziehen sich an!
Brazilian Portuguese		Treino para a Batalha Dupla
Russian		Тренировка к двойной битве! Trenirovka k dvoynoy bitve!
Latin American Spanish		¡Entrenamiento de Batalla a Paso Veloz!

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