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A Trainer and Child Reunion!

DP099   EP565 四天王リョウ！出会いと別れの森！ Elite Four Ryou! Forest of Meeting and Separation!

First broadcast Japan October 23, 2008 United States March 28, 2009

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka 山本珠代 Tamayo Yamamoto Assistant director 細谷秋夫 Akio Hosoya Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

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A Trainer and Child Reunion! (Japanese: 四天王リョウ！出会いと別れの森！ Elite Four Ryou! Forest of Meeting and Separation!) is the 99th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 565th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on October 23, 2008 and in the United States on March 28, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis During their journey, Ash and his friends stop by a town and where they see a large crowd. They hear that Aaron from the Elite Four is having a public practice session. The group, which decides to watch the practice, is unexpectedly invited to Aaron's training center where various Template:Type2 Pokémon live comfortably. In the center, Dawn finds a picture of a young Aaron together with a Wurmple. Aaron tells the group that the Wurmple was his first capture and his best friend.

Major events

• Ash and friends meet Aaron, a member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
• Aaron reveals he is battling Cynthia for the title of Sinnoh League Champion.

Debuts

• Aaron

Pokémon debuts

• Skorupi

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Sinnoh Elite Four
  • Aaron
  • Bertha (memory)
  • Flint (memory)
  • Lucian (memory and flashback)
• Cynthia (flashback)
• Nurse Joy (flashback)
• Officer Jenny
• Aaron's fans

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Butterfree (Ash's) (flashback)
• Buizel (Dawn's) (flashback)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Vespiquen (Aaron's)
• Skorupi (Aaron's; debut)
• Drapion (Aaron's)
• Wurmple (Aaron's) (flashback)
• Beautifly (Aaron's; evolved)
• Butterfree (pink) (flashback)
• Beedrill (multiple)
• Combee (multiple)
• Kricketot (multiple; flashback)
• Butterfree (multiple; flashback)
• Burmy (multiple; flashback)
• Venomoth (flashback)
• Kakuna (photo)
• Metapod (photo)
• Venonat
• Kricketot
• Ledyba
• Ledian
• Surskit
• Mothim
• Munchlax

Trivia

File:Aaron's Signature.jpg

Aaron's signature

• Details of this episode were made known in K-Zone, a children's magazine, before any official Japanese episode listing. However, the magazine stated that Aaron would appear before Celestic Town, suggesting that it was moved to fit in the one-hour specials at Celestic.
• Aaron's signature was shown in this episode. It was his Japanese name in romaji, Ryou. This was not changed in the dubbed version.
• This marks the second time that Ash's Butterfree is seen in a flashback in the Diamond & Pearl series. The first was in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! as a Caterpie.
• The dub title is a reference to the 1972 Paul Simon song "A Mother and Child Reunion".
• Professor Oak's lecture: Charmander

In other languages

• German: Wiedersehen mit Freunden und Trainern!
• Korean: 사천왕 충호! 만남과 이별의 숲!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Reencuentro de Pokémon Y Entrenador!
• Czech: Setkání s přítelem z minulosti

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