DP122

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DP122

DP122   EP588 進化！その時ポッチャマは！？ Evolution! This Time for Pochama!?

First broadcast Japan April 2, 2009 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

(Japanese: 進化！その時ポッチャマは！？ Evolution! This Time for Pochama!?) is the 122nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 588th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 2, 2009, as part of a one-hour special along with DP121.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Continuing to the next town, Dawn's Piplup starts displaying signs of evolution. The gang then meet up with Kenny and Jun, and their respective Prinplup and Empoleon. Dawn and Piplup are faced with a dilemma as to whether it is right to evolve, but before they can decide, Team Rocket attacks, hoping to capture the evolutionary line.

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Jun and Kenny again.
• The gang learns about an upcoming Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament which Jun is planning to enter.
• Dawn gives her Piplup an Everstone that she got from Nurse Joy, thereby preventing its evolution.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Jun
• Kenny
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Mamoswine (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Empoleon (Jun's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Ariados (×8)
• Budew
• Jigglypuff

Trivia

File:Piplup web 121.png

Piplup on another web

• Darkrai and Giratina replace Dialga and Palkia respectively in their appearance before and after the preview of the next episode.
• Dawn and Piplup underwent through the same experience when they first met in this episode, the same experience that helped Piplup trust Dawn.
• This episode is similar to Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, where Ash's Bulbasaur was in the process of evolving and ultimately decided not to evolve.
• It is also similar to Electric Shock Showdown as both Piplup and Pikachu encounter their evolved forms and both are given a stone by the local Nurse Joy.

Dub edits

← DP121

Diamond & Pearl series

DP123 →

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