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A Rivalry to Gible On!

DP145   EP611 フカマル…ゲットだぜ！ Fukamaru...Got It!

First broadcast Japan October 1, 2009 United States February 20, 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 Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 新城真 Makoto Shinjō 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

A Rivalry to Gible On! (Japanese: フカマル…ゲットだぜ！ Fukamaru...Got It!) is the 145th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 611th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan as a 1 hour special on October 1, 2009, along with Dressed for Jess Success! and in the United States on February 20, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis As Ash and co. travel to Lilypad Town and Dawn's next contest with their new friends Khoury and Lyra, they encounter a wild Gible. Khoury and Ash have both set their sights on capturing it, but who will emerge the victor?

Major events

• Ash and Khoury attempt to catch the same Gible with the latter succeeding.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Gible

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Lyra
• Khoury
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Team Rocket grunts (fantasy)
• Giovanni's employees (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Monferno (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Marill (Lyra's)
• Totodile (Khoury's)
• Gible (Khoury's; new)
• Eevee
• Mankey
• Farfetch'd
• Sharpedo
• Trapinch
• Diglett (multiple)
• Dugtrio (multiple)
• Onix
• Golbat (multiple)
• Zubat (multiple)
• Murkrow (two)
• Wingull (multiple, fantasy)

Trivia

• As displayed in this episode a new visual effect has been introduced for when a Poké Ball is used to capture a Pokémon, as it will now let off several sparkles when the capture succeeds, similar to the games.
• This episode has a very similar Japanese title to a future episode which is just 12 episodes later.
• Music from Pokémon Heroes is used.

Errors

File:Sixfingeredgiovanni.png

Giovanni with six fingers.

• In one scene, Giovanni has six fingers.
• After Ash and Lyra get blown away by by Gible's Sandstorm, one of Ash's gloves is colored orange.

Dub edits

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