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Ill-Will Hunting!

DP045   EP511 ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ！！ Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!!

First broadcast Japan August 30, 2007 United States January 12, 2008

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 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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Ill-Will Hunting! (Japanese: ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ！！ Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!) is the 45th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 511th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 30, 2007 and in the United States on January 12, 2008.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and friends are traveling through a forest. Suddenly, an Electivire charges up to them, closely pursued by Gary Oak. As Ash introduces Dawn to Gary, Gary reveals that the Electivire is his own. Meanwhile, a few Shieldon walk up to Ash. Electivire picks up the Shieldon and begins to carry them around. Suddenly, Pokémon Hunter J appears and tries to capture the Shieldon, but Electivire picks them up and rushes off with them into the forest. J wants to sell the Shieldon. Gary criticizes Ash of being too reckless. J turns one of the Shieldon into stone and takes with her. Team Rocket sneak into J's base and get trapped. Ash and Gary hold onto the underneath of J's vehicle and manage to get inside the base for the Shieldon. Gary uses his Electivire to help release Team Rocket and mess up the base. They get the Shieldon back and leave. J's employer tells her the deal is off as Officer Jenny is nearby. J tells her second-in-command that they're not going to be doing any business with them again.

Major events

• Ash meets Gary again.
• Gary meets Dawn for the first time.
• Ash and his friends come across J again.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Shieldon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• J
• J's henchmen
  • Seiyū: 逢坂　力 Chikara Ōsaka
  • Seiyū: 仁科洋平 Yōhei Nishina
  • Seiyū: 川上貴史 Takashi Kawakami
  • Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*
• Gary Oak
• Professor Rowan
• Officer Jenny
• Rowan's assistant
• Client (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Miyake Kenta)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Blastoise (Gary's)
• Umbreon (Gary's)
• Electivire (Gary's)
• Salamence (J's)
• Drapion (J's)
• Ariados (J's)
• Golbat (J's henchmen's)
• Shieldon (four; debut)
• Beedrill (multiple)

Trivia

• The dub title is a pun of the film Good Will Hunting. This film title was also used for another Pokémon episode during the early Johto season called Good 'Quil Hunting.
• Music from Pokémon Heroes and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are used as background music.
• Dawn and Gary meet for the first time in this episode.
• Dawn assumes that Gary writes Pokémon senryū, just like his grandfather.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Cherubi
  • Pokémon senryū: チェリンボが　おひさまあびて　あかくなり Cherinbo ga, ohisama abite, akaku nari. "Cherinbo, it plays in the sun and, it turns red."
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.
• Exactly 40 episodes later, Gary appears in Sinnoh again. Coincidentally, both times Ash and his friends were on the way to Hearthome City.
• This is one of the few episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series where Dawn's Piplup does not appear.

Errors

• When Ash, Gary, Brock, and Dawn are hiding from the thieves in the forest, Gary uses his laptop to see where the thieves are. He closes his laptop, but in the next shot it is open again without the click heard before.

In other languages

• Finnish: Metsästäjää paossa
• German: Rettet Schilterus!
• Italian: Caccia allo Shieldon & Mai più nemici
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Caza mal intencionada!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡A la caza de los Shieldon!
• Dutch: Opgejaagd!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Dia da Caça!
• Czech: Zlovolný lov
• Polish: Łowczyni powraca

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