DP076

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DP076   レストラン七つ星！タッグバトルでフルコース!! Seven Stars Restaurant! Tag Battle for a Full Course!!

First broadcast Japan April 24, 2008 United States September 13, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

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A Full Course Tag Battle! (Japanese: レストラン七つ星！タッグバトルでフルコース！！ Seven Stars Restaurant! Tag Battle for a Full Course!!) is the 76th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 542nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 24, 2008 and in the United States on September 13, 2008.

Ash and Brock have a reunion with their old friend, May, who is going to attend the Wallace Cup. They decide to have lunch in a well-known restaurant nearby, but the owner of the restaurant says that only the winners of a tag battle can enjoy the full-course meal.

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

Major events

• May makes a guest appearance.
• Dawn and May meet for the first time.
• Ash and co. visit the Seven Stars Restaurant, located near the Hotel Grand Lake resort on the Valor Lakefront.
• May's Eevee evolved into a Glaceon while in Snowpoint City.
• It is revealed in a flashback that Drew's Roselia has evolved into a Roserade.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Glaceon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• May
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Max (flashback)
• Drew (flashback)
• Harley (flashback)
• Roman
• Kylie

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Beautifly (May's)
• Blaziken (May's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Glaceon (May's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Slaking (Norman's, flashback)
• Roserade (Drew's, flashback)
• Wigglytuff (Harley's, flashback)
• Snorlax (Roman's)
• Girafarig (Roman's)
• Drifloon (Kylie's)
• Munchlax (Kylie's)

Trivia

• Much like Misty's guest appearance in The Princess and the Togepi and A Togepi Mirage, May makes a return.
• An instrumental version of I Won't Lose! ~Haruka's Theme~ is used during the battle with Team Rocket. Pokémon Symphonic Medley is also used as background music.
  • On another note, I Won't Lose! ~Haruka's Theme~ was left in the dub as the background music for the first time.
• Roman seems to be based on the Rich Boy trainer class while Kylie is based on the Lady trainer class.
• Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture, the end of the episode featured a memorial to The Power of One. This is part of a countdown to Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin.
• The dub's title is similar to the Japanese title, as, since both have the same words, A Full Course Tag Battle! and Tag Battle for a Full Course!. There appears to be no English phrase that this title references, making it the first episode since Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis! to simply be a translation of the Japanese title. This is not the first either, as Pokémon - I Choose You! had the same title in English and Japanese, as well as Clefairy and the Moon Stone.
• May was surprised when Ash said that he would be entering the Wallace Cup.
• Pikachu was the only Pokémon on Ash's party seen in this episode.
• Ash makes a reference to his own battle against the combination of fire and water.
• Though the battle called for consecutive moves, Piplup uses Whirlpool without a move from Blaziken.

Errors

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May with Ash's gloves on.

• In two scenes, one of May's gloves are colored like Ash's gloves.
• In one instance, Kylie's Munchlax is seen using Giga Impact. Munchlax cannot learn this move, though Snorlax can.
• In one scene, Drifloon was colored pink, instead of the original purple.

Dub edits

• The scene where Drifloon was mistakenly colored pink was changed into normal purple in the dub.

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