DP174

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DP174   EP640 グランドフェスティバル開幕！炎と氷のアート！！ The Grand Festival Begins! The Art of Flame and Ice!!

First broadcast Japan April 29, 2010 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening サイコー・エブリディ！ Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard まついひとゆき Hitoyuki Matsui Assistant director 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: グランドフェスティバル開幕！炎と氷のアート！！ The Grand Festival Begins! The Art of Flame and Ice!!) is the 174th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 640th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 29, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Finally, Dawn, Ash and Brock reached the city that has the Grand Festival, which Dawn is a part of. But who will win the Grand Festival?

Major events

• Dawn enters the Grand Festival alongside Zoey and Jessilina.
• Nando, Kenny and Ursula are revealed to have earned their fifth ribbons and enter the Grand Festival as well.
• Nando is revealed to have earned seven Gym Badges.
• Nando is revealed to have acquired a Kricketot and an Altaria.
• Zoey's Shellos is revealed to have evolved into a Gastrodon while her Finneon is revealed to have evolved into a Lumineon.
• Kenny's Prinplup is revealed to have evolved into an Empoleon, and he is also revealed to have obtained a Floatzel.
• Ursula is revealed to have obtained two Eevee, which she evolves into a Vaporeon and a Flareon during her appeal.
• Dawn, Nando, Ursula, Zoey, and Jessilina successfully clear the appeals round; however, Kenny fails to make it through and is eliminated from the Grand Festival.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Kenny's Empoleon
• Kenny's Floatzel

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Zoey
• Ursula
• Nando
• Kenny
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy (x3)
• Fantina
• Rhonda
• Marian
• Mr. Contesta
• Mr. Sukizo
• Johanna
• Audience
• Coordinators

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Mamoswine (Dawn's)
• Cyndaquil (Dawn's)
• Togekiss (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Lumineon (Zoey's)
• Gastrodon (Zoey's)
• Plusle (Ursula's)
• Minun (Ursula's)
• Eevee (Ursula's; two; both evolve)
• Flareon (Ursula's; newly evolved)
• Vaporeon (Ursula's; newly evolved)
• Kricketot (Nando's)
• Altaria (Nando's)
• Empoleon (Kenny's)
• Floatzel (Kenny's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)

Coordinators'

• Blaziken
• Sceptile
• Rapidash
• Steelix
• Cleffa
• Girafarig
• Lickilicky
• Rattata
• Toxicroak
• Skuntank

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Hitmonlee
• This is the first episode of the four-part Sinnoh Grand Festival arc.
• The three stages of the appeals round are a reference to the three original games, Red, Green and Blue.
• Despite the fact that a main character and two recurring characters have each owned an Eevee that has gone on to evolve, this episode marks the first time an Eevee is shown evolving on-screen in the anime, with two Eevee undergoing separate evolutions.
• This episode marks the second time a Pokémon is seen to evolve in the middle of a contest appeal.
• Not marking his brief, non-speaking cameo in A Breed Stampede!, this episode marks the first appearance of Nando since Dawn's Early Night!, an absence of 125 episodes.
  • This is also the first in person appearance of Nando which is not animated by 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita.
• Background music from Mewtwo Strikes Back, Spell of the Unown, Jirachi: Wish Maker, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and The Rise of Darkrai is used.
• Neither Jessie or James are seen in their regular Team Rocket uniforms throughout this episode.

Errors

• Nando's Kricketot used Sing in this episode, a move that Kricketot cannot legally learn (although its evolved form can).

Dub edits

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