DP021

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DP021   最強のコイキングと最も美しいヒンバス! The Strongest Koiking and the Most Beautiful Hinbass!

First broadcast Japan March 1, 2007 United States July 10, 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〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

Ya See We Want an Evolution (Japanese: 最強のコイキングと最も美しいヒンバス! The Strongest Koiking and the Most Beautiful Hinbass!) is the 21st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on March 1, 2007 and in the United States on July 10, 2007.

On arrival in Jubilife City, Ash Ketchum and friends learn of the B-Button League, a group of trainers that aim at ultimate strength and beauty but don't evolve their Pokémon - a difficult task when training a Magikarp and a Feebas.

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

Synopsis

Continuing on their Pokémon journey, Ash, Dawn and Brock meet the B Button League, a group of people that don't evolve any Pokémon that belong to them. To prove how strong their Pokémon are, the members of the B Button League agree to a battle. First, it's Piplup against Magikarp. Magikarp wins by using Tackle. Then, Ash battles with Pikachu against Magikarp. Assuming it's a tie, Team Rocket comes and steals Pikachu, Magikarp and Feebas. Team Rocket receives an evolution machine from the same dealer that sold James a Magikarp and a Weepinbell. It doesn't work, much to Team Rocket's chagrin. It transforms into a megabot, only to fall back over. James is happy anyway that he got to put it together.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Magikarp salesman
• Haley (Japanese: ハツネ Hatsune; Seiyū: 小林ゆう Yū Kobayashi)
• Oralie (Japanese: オトネ Otone; Seiyū: 小島幸子 Sachiko Kojima)
• Female reporter (Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*)
• Pokémon professor (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• IT employee

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Magikarp (Oralie's)
• Feebas (Haley's) (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi)

Trivia

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A Wii remote?!

• The B-Button League is a reference to the games where the B button is used to cancel evolution.
• The title card is read by Jessie, James and Meowth.
• The educational magazine James subscribed to as a child, 実験と自習 Experimentation and Self-Study, is a parody of the magazine 科学と学習 Science and Education.
• Music from Gotta Dance! and the title theme from Pokémon 4Ever is used as background music.
• The remote control for the evolution machine looks similar to a Wii remote, and even has the wrist strap. Also, when Meowth presses the button on the remote to transform the machine into the robot, just after the click, he says "Wii" or "whee".
• The robot the evolution machine transforms into looks similar to a Transformers robot.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Dawn's Pachirisu
• Pokémon senryū: パチリスが　おめめさめたよ　パッチリす Pachirisu ga / Omemesameta yo / Patchiri su
• The dub title references a lyric from The Beatles' Revolution.

Dub edits

• Originally, the reporter asked Ash if he evolved his Pikachu from a Pichu, and Ash answers no.

In other languages

• Italian: La macchina per l'evoluzione & Allenatrici convinte

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