DP029

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DP029   サトシとヒカリ！タッグバトルで大丈夫!? Satoshi and Hikari! Any Need to Worry in a Tag Battle!?

First broadcast Japan April 12, 2007 United States September 22, 2007

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 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu No additional credits are available at this time.

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The Champ Twins! (Japanese: サトシとヒカリ！タッグバトルで大丈夫!? Satoshi and Hikari! Any Need to Worry in a Tag Battle!?) is the 29th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 12, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with DP028, and in the United States on September 22, 2007.

Following a TV interview, Ash and Dawn challenge a pair of brothers to a tag battle for the program. Will they be able to compete with the twins' strongest combination that has allowed them to win their last 16 battles?

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

Major events

• Dawn has her first double battle with Ash against two twins.

Debuts

• Rhonda and the Sinnoh Now staff

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Ryan (Japanese: イサキ Isaki) (Seiyū: 渡辺久美子 Kumiko Watanabe)
• Bryan (Japanese: イサム Isamu) (Seiyū: 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura)
• Rhonda (Japanese: ユウカ Yūka) (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu)
• Sinnoh Now Staff (Japanese: シンオウ・ナウスタッフ Sinnoh Now Staff)
  • Voice staff (Seiyū: 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki*)
  • Timekeeper (Seiyū: 古島清孝 Kiyotaka Furushima*)
  • Cameraman
• Boy trainer A (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)
• Boy trainer B
• Boy trainer C (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Boy trainer D (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Trainers

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Quilava (Ryan's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Croconaw (Bryan's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Slakoth (Boy trainer A's)
• Lombre (Boy trainer B's)
• Nuzleaf (Boy trainer C's)
• Doduo (Boy trainer D's)
• Abra
• Growlithe
• Magnemite
• Skiploom
• Spheal
• Starly
• Bidoof
• Budew
• Shinx

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This episode returns to the preview cold open format used in earlier episodes in the Diamond & Pearl series.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and the instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~, Pokémon Symphonic Medley and the TV version of Ready Go! are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Pokémon food
  • Pokémon senryū: かくしあじ　あいじょうたっぷり　ポケモンフーズ
• The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.
• The English dub title of "The Champ Twins" is clearly a pun on another animated television show, The Cramp Twins.

Errors

• Swift cannot miss under normal conditions in the game. However, Piplup and Turtwig are both able to dodge it.

In other languages

• Italian: I gemelli imbattibili & Una squadra in perfetta sintonia

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