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Double-Time Battle Training!

DP155

EP621

ダブルバトル！マンムーとヒノアラシ！！
Double Battle! Mammoo and Hinoarashi!!

First broadcast

Japan	December 10, 2009
United States	May 1, 2010

English themes

Opening	Battle Cry - (Stand Up!)
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	ハイタッチ！ 2009
Ending	ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits

Additional credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka
Storyboard	山本珠代 Tamayo Yamamoto
Assistant director	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Animation directors	牧内ももこ Momoko Makiuchi
Animation directors	古川博之 Hiroyuki Furukawa

Screenshots on Filb.de

Double-Time Battle Training! (Japanese: ダブルバトル！マンムーとヒノアラシ！！ Double Battle! Mammoo and Hinoarashi!!) is the 155th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 621st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 10, 2009 and in the United States on May 1, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Still on their way to Dawn's next contest, the gang arrive in Brussel Town which is hosting a different contest. Meeting up with Candice, the Snowpoint City Gym Leader, the gang watch as Zoey gains her fifth ribbon. Seeing her rival qualify for the Grand Festival makes Dawn eager to train for the upcoming Daybreak Contest. With Zoey and Candice's help, Dawn prepares for the required Double Performance, hoping to avoid the mistakes that led to her early exit from the Hearthome Contest. Meanwhile, Ash finds himself in a similar situation to Dawn as he learns that his rival has moved ahead of him too...

Major events

Zoey obtains her fifth ribbon, thereby completing her requirement for the Grand Festival.
Paul is revealed to have earned the Mine Badge and collected the eight Gym Badges required for the Sinnoh League.
Zoey is revealed to have obtained a Kirlia and a Leafeon.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

Leafeon

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Trivia

Updated ending shot

Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Magby
Much like how Dawn's main rival, Zoey, has been shown in this episode to have all the ribbons necessary to enter the Sinnoh Grand Festival, Ash's main rival Paul has been shown to have the 8 badges in order to compete in the Sinnoh League in the same episode.
While Team Rocket are hiding in the bushes from the gang, James worries about how to get away without being spotted by them, and Meowth replies that, "The twerps wouldn't know us if we jumped out and said, 'Boo!'" Jessie remarks that Ash and his friends have "elevated cluelessness to an art form." This is a reference to the running gag that Ash and his friends never seem to be able to identify Team Rocket in their disguises.
Music from Jirachi Wish Maker and Destiny Deoxys, as well as an instrumental of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ and the Lilycove City theme, are used during this episode.
This episode marks one of the few times Jessie's Wobbuffet has used Mirror Coat.
Ash's Gliscor has been removed from the 'Up' ending shot of Which One ~ Is It?.

Errors

On the official Pokémon website, the summary of this episode is incorrectly stated as "Can watching Zoey give Misty the inspiration she needs to win her next Contest?" when it should say Dawn instead of Misty.
When Zoey sends out Leafeon and Kirlia, Dawn says, "You got a new Pokémon," when she really had two new additions to her roster.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		雙人對戰！象牙豬與火球鼠！！
Finnish		Tehokasta treeniä!
German		Gegensätze ziehen sich an!
Brazilian Portuguese		Treino para a Batalha em Dupla
Russian		Тренировка к двойной битве! Trenirovka k dvoynoy bitve!
Latin American Spanish		¡Entrenamiento de Batalla a Paso Veloz!