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

First broadcast Japan August 9, 2007 United States

English themes Opening 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 No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• (Japanese: ユースケ Yūsuke) (Seiyū: 真殿光昭 Mitsuaki Madono)
• Chief (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)

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 (Yūsuke's)
• Electrike (Chief's)

Trivia

• Music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.

Errors

When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash didn't have his gloves on. But when Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on. When Electrike evolves, his gloves are gone.

Dub edits

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