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DP080   ヤンヤンマ！ゲット作戦！！ Yanyanma! Capture Operation!!

First broadcast Japan May 22, 2008 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together (2008) Ending 風のメッセージ (PokaPoka Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 田口広一 Kōichi Taguchi No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: ヤンヤンマ！ゲット作戦！！ Yanyanma! Capture Operation!!) is the 80th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on May 22, 2008.

The group meets Taisei who is chasing after a Yanma. They learn that he is a beginning Trainer, just having started his journey. He tells them that he has been running after the Yanma for three days, but the Pokémon constantly escapes. Ash and his friends agree to help Taisei make his first capture, and manage to corner the Yanma...

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

Major events

• Jessie captures a Yanma
• Jessie's Yanma evolves into Yanmega
• Taisei finally captures a Yanma

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Yanmega
• Jessie's Yanmega

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Taisei
• Giovanni
• Team Rocket grunts

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Caterpie (Ash's) (flashback)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's) (flashback)
• Yanma (Jessie's) (newly caught; evolves)
• Yanmega (Jessie's) (newly evolved)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Delibird (Team Rocket)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Piplup (Champi, Taisei's)
• Yanma (Taisei's) (newly caught)

Trivia

• This episode has a similar premise to the episode Wings n' Things, though in that episode the younger Trainer wanted to recapture Yanma.
• This is one of the very few episodes in which Team Rocket successfully capture a Pokemon for Giovanni, although he sends it back to them. However, Yanma was a wild Pokemon at the time of capture, so it hadn't been stolen.
• Jessie capturing Yanma after someone else weakened it echoes how she captured her Shellder (although in that case, it was James and his Weezing that weakened the Pokémon).
• Yanma is captured and evolves in this episode. The only other main character's Pokémon to do this is Ash's Caterpie, who is referenced by Ash in this episode.
• Two background tracks from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are used as music for this episode.
• This episode one of the few episodes since its capture in which Jessie's Wobbuffet does not appear.

Dub edits

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