DP111

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DP111   鋼鉄島の遺跡！ The Ruins of Steel Island!

First broadcast Japan January 22, 2009 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending あしたはきっと

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka 山本珠代 Tamayo Yamamoto Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

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(Japanese: 鋼鉄島の遺跡！ The Ruins of Steel Island!) is the 111th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 577th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on January 22, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis A man named Riley, who had rescued Ash and his friends from the Steel Pokémon's attacks, and his partner Lucario are both "aura users" who are able to manipulate their "aura". With their help, Ash and the others figure out that the cause of all the Pokémon's outbursts are some low-frequency waves that are being emitted after an accident. Ash and his friends search for the source of these waves...

Major events

• James's Carnivine learns Vine Whip.
• Mars attempts to blow up Iron Island using bombs but is stopped by Riley and his Lucario.

Debuts

• Pluto

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Jun
• Riley
• Mars
• Cyrus
• Saturn
• Jupiter
• Pluto
• Reggie
• Yuzo
• Professor Rowan
• Professor Karashina
• Team Galactic Template:Las
• Scientists

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Lucario (Riley's)
• Purugly (Mars's)
• Empoleon (Jun's)
• Magnemite (multiple)
• Magneton (multiple)
• Steelix
• Skarmory (multiple)
• Aggron
• Lairon (multiple)
• Aron (multiple)
• Geodude (multiple)
• Golbat (Team Galactic's; multiple)
• Dialga (statue)
• Palkia (statue)
• Staraptor (Reggie's)
• Kricketot
• Bidoof

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Skarmory
• The way Carnivine learned Vine Whip is quite similar to how Arbok and Weezing evolved.
• This episode marks the first time in the anime that one of Team Rocket's Pokémon is seen learning a new move.
• This is the first time since Ash's battle with Maylene that Staravia has used Brave Bird.

Dub edits

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