DP040

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DP040   チャンピオン・シロナ登場！ Enter Champion Shirona!

First broadcast Japan July 19, 2007 United States December 8, 2007

English themes Opening 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 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

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Top-Down Training! (Japanese: チャンピオン・シロナ登場！ Enter Champion Shirona!) is the 40th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on July 19, 2007 and in the United States on December 8, 2007.

Paul challenges the Champion of the Pokémon League, Cynthia, to a battle.

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

Major events

• Paul battles Cynthia.
• Cynthia beats Paul using only her Garchomp.
• Paul's starter Pokémon is revealed to have been Turtwig.
• Paul is revealed to have traveled through Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn and participated in the leagues of each.

Debuts

• Cynthia

Pokémon debuts

• Garchomp
• Torterra

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Cynthia
• Paul
• Nurse Joy
• Lucian (on TV)
• Rhonda
• Announcer (Seiyū: 堀川　仁 Jin Horikawa)
• Sinnoh Now staff
• Boys
  • Boy 1 (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*)
  • Boy 2 (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu*)
  • Boy 3 (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Pokémon trainers

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's; debut)
• Ursaring (Paul's)
• Torterra (Paul's; debut)
• Weavile (Paul's; new)
• Chimchar (Paul's)
• Murkrow (Paul's; new)
• Bronzong (Lucian's; on TV)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Furret
• Unown (on tablet; many)

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Cynthia with next to a tablet that has Unown on it

Trivia

• No Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture was aired; instead, a promotion for Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai aired.
• The tablet that Cynthia was reading before battling Paul had Unown on it. The inscription is the Japanese version of the inscription in Solaceon Ruins. The inscription is in Rōmaji, and is as follows (note that some parts of the inscription do not match the strandard Hepburn romanization system):

FRIEND
SUBETE NO
INOCHI HA
BETSU NO
INOCHI TO DEAI
NANIKA WO UMIDASU

They inscription translates to: Friends: all lives bring forth something from different lives and meetings. The dubbed version says that when one living thing meets another living thing, something is born.

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music.
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

• Paul said that the battle would be 6-on-6. However, Paul only used 4 Pokemon.

Dub edits

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