EP037

Ditto's Mysterious Mansion File:DittosMysteriousMansion.gif.png

EP037   メタモンとものまねむすめ Metamon and The Mimic Girl

First broadcast Japan December 9, 1997 United States October 26, 1998

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending ニャースのうた

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Animation director 酒井啓史 Keishi Sakai No additional credits are available at this time.

Ditto's Mysterious Mansion (Japanese: メタモンとものまねむすめ Metamon and The Mimic Girl) is episode 37 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 9, 1997 and in the United States on October 26, 1998.

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

Major events

• Ash & co. meet a girl named, Duplica.

Debuts

• Duplica
• Ditto

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Duplica

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Ditto

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Zubat (Brock's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Ditto (Duplica's; debut)
• Machoke (flashback)
• Voltorb (flashback)
• Electrode (flashback)

Trivia

File:AshBrockTR.png

To protect the world from devastation...

File:MistyDuplicaTR.png

To ignite all peoples within our nation...

• This is the first time that Ash and his friends mock Team Rocket's motto. They manage to make a few errors, with Duplica saying "to ignite all peoples within our nation", instead of "unite".

Errors

• Ash's gloves disappear briefly at the beginning.

Dub edits

• Ditto keeps its Japanese voice when it's transformed into Pikachu in the English version.

In other languages

• French: Le manoir mystérieux

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