DP009

Setting the World on its Buneary File:Let'sPlaywithMimirol!.jpg

DP009   ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?

First broadcast Japan November 16, 2006 United States June 18, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu

Screenshots on Filb.de This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.

Setting the World on its Buneary (Japanese: ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?) is the ninth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on November 16, 2006.

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

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buneary.
• Buneary gains feelings for Pikachu.

Debuts

• Dawn's Buneary

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's, new) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Starly (flock)
• Torchic (Seen running around Piplup's head after getting hit by Buneary's Dizzy Punch)

Trivia

• This is the first episode that features a cold open format. It consists of scenes showing what will happen throughout the episode later on.
• Brock's Croagunk is added to Together and By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~.
• An instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is used as background music during the second Piplup vs. Buneary battle.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gym Leaders
  • The footage in this segment is of Juan's Pokémon in his battle with Ash. Of Ash's Pokémon, only Pikachu and Swellow are shown.
• Pokémon senryū: ジムリーダー　いのちをかけて　かかってこい Jimu Riidaa, inochi o kete, kakatte koi
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

• In the beginning where Dawn was inside her tent panicking about her hair, Ash wasn't wearing any shoes . Later on, he was wearing them.
• In the beginning where Dawn learns about the multiple Officer Jennys, Brock claims two Jennys are not identicle twins because the Jenny whom they were talking to had a different length of hair and eyelashes. Identicle twins can of course have different lengths of hair.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Meu Mundo por um Buneary!
• Italian: Un nuovo compagno di viaggio & Una conquista per Lucinda
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Ese Buneary tiene que ser mio!
• Latin American Spanish: Dándole la bienvenida a Buneary

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