DP009

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DP009   ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?

First broadcast Japan November 16, 2006 United States June 18, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu

Screenshots on Filb.de This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.

Setting the World on its Buneary (Japanese: ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?) is the ninth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on November 16, 2006.

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

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buneary.
• Buneary has feelings for Pikachu.

Pokémon Debuts

• Dawn's Buneary

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's, new) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Starly (flock)
• Torchic (Seen running around Piplup's head after getting hit by Buneary's Dizzy Punch)

Trivia

• This is the first episode that features a cold open format. It consists of scenes showing what will happen throughout the episode later on.
• Brock's Croagunk is added to Together and By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~.
• An instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is used as background music during the second Piplup vs. Buneary battle.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gym Leaders
  • The footage in this segment is of Juan's Pokémon in his battle with Ash. Of Ash's Pokémon, only Pikachu and Swellow are shown.
• Pokémon senryū: ジムリーダー　いのちをかけて　かかってこい Jimu Riidaa, inochi wo kete, kakatte koi
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

• In the beginning where Dawn was inside her tent panicking about her hair, Ash wasn't wearing any shoes . Later on, he was wearing them.
• In Cablevision's description for this episode, the episode title was "Setting The World On Its Bunerary!" This is also true for Cartoon Network's schedule.

Dub edits

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