DP034

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DP034   ブイゼル！最強への道!! Buoysel! Road to Being the Strongest!!

First broadcast Japan May 17, 2007 United States October 27, 2007

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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 誌村宏明 Hiroaki Shimura Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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Buizel Your Way out of This (Japanese: ブイゼル！最強への道!! Buoysel! Road to Being the Strongest!!) is the 34th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on May 17, 2007 and in the United States on October 27, 2007.

Ash and friends hear about an incredibly strong Buizel. Wanting to capture it, the group heads for the river where it lives. On the way, Dawn meets her rival Zoey.

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

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buizel

Debuts

• Dawn's Buizel

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Fisherman (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Young man (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Reporters (fantasy)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's, newly captured)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Glameow (Zoey's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura**)
• Prinplup (Kenny's, flashback)
• Bellsprout (young man's)
• Zigzagoon (Fisherman's)

**: Chinami Nishimura was previously listed as voicing Johanna's Glameow.

Trivia

• Brock's egg is added to the opening and ending animation.
• Misty's special lure makes an appearance. Misty gave it to Ash in The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing.
• Music from Destiny Deoxys and the instrumental of Advance Adventure from Jirachi: Wish Maker and Pokémon Symphonic Medley are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Shinx
  • Pokémon senryū: コリンクの　おめめくりんと　かわいいな Kolink, it turns phosphorus, it is lovely.
• The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.
• Just like in Cooking Up A Sweet Story, Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan, a cold open intro is aired first, then the opening theme, and the real intro of the episode in both the English dub and the Japanese version.

Errors

File:Anizoeyerror.jpg

Zoey's missing left arm.

• Though it is not noticeable unless the episode is viewed in slow motion or frame by frame, one can see that for a split second there is an animation error in Zoey's left arm.

In other languages

• Italian: Il ladro di canne da pesca & Mostro, ti catturerò!

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