DP093

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DP093   踊るジムリーダー！メリッサ登場!! Dancing Gym Leader! Enter Melissa!

First broadcast Japan September 11, 2008 United States Febuary 7, 2009

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together2008 Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata Animation director 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Playing the Leveling Field! (Japanese: 踊るジムリーダー！メリッサ登場!! Dancing Gym Leader! Enter Melissa!) is the 93rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 559th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 11, 2008.

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

Major events

• Fantina has a battle with Zoey and wins.
• Ash has an informal battle with Fantina.
  • Fantina's Drifloon defeats Ash's Buizel.
  • Fantina's Drifloon puts Ash's Chimchar to sleep and Chimchar is recalled.
  • Fantina's Drifloon evolves to Drifblim in the battle against Ash's Pikachu and puts it to sleep. Ash then forfeits the match.

Debuts

• Fantina

Pokémon debuts

• Drifblim

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Fantina
• Juan (flashback)
• Alan (flashback)
• Enta (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Misdreavus (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Mismagius (Fantina's)
• Drifloon (Fantina's; evolves)
• Drifblim (Fantina's; newly evolved)
• Gengar (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Nosepass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Probopass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Luxray (flashback)
• Ponyta (flashback)
• Abra (flashback)

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Riolu
• The dub title is a reference to the phrase "Level the Playing Field".

Dub edits

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