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The Electrike Company!

DP042   EP508 ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!

First broadcast Japan August 9, 2007 United States December 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 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de The above credits are from the Japanese anime magazine, Newtype. Another magazine, Animage, has different credits for this episode: Storyboard: 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director: 牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino Animation director: 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita

The Electrike Company! (Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 508th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in the United States on December 22, 2007.

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

Major events

Electrike evoled into Manectric

Debuts

Electrike Manectric

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Jaco
• Cal

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Electrike → Manectric (Jaco's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Electrike (Cal's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and an alternate cut of Together, are used as background music.
• Ash narrates the next episode preview.
• When James and Meowth blast off, they are wearing their electricity-proof jackets. In theory, the jackets could be used in later episodes for protection from Pikachu's Thunder, but they have not been seen since.
• The dub name may be a reference to the Sesame Workshop show The Electric Company.
• This is one of the few episodes where Team Rocket actually wants to be blasted off by Ash and company—James and Meowth requested for Ash to blast them off while trying to hold back Jessie.

Errors

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Ash without his gloves

• When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash doesn't have his gloves on, but when he tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on again. After Electrike evolves, Ash's gloves are gone again.
• Pachirisu and Pikachu zap the two outer targets. When the camera pans out, it shows the target on the right undamaged and the left and center targets broken.

In other languages

• German: Eine "blitzende" Herausforderung!
• Italian: La fabbrica di energia
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La compañía Electrike!
• Latin American Spanish: En compañía de Electrike
• Dutch: Een Electrike Organisatie!
• Brazilian Portuguese: A Companhia Electrike!
• Czech: Ve společnosti Electrika
• Polish: Zespół Electrike'a

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