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Ill-Will Hunting!

DP045   EP511 ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ!! Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!!

First broadcast Japan August 30, 2007 United States January 12, 2008

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (PopUp.Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Ill-Will Hunting! (Japanese: ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ!! Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!) is the 45th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 511th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 30, 2007 and in the United States on January 12, 2008.

The Pokémon Hunter J returns with a group of Shieldon as her next target. Gary appears to help Ash stop her.

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

Major events

• Gary meets Ash again.
• Gary meets Dawn for the first time.
• Ash and his friends come across J again.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Shieldon

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• J
• J's henchmen
  • Seiyū: 逢坂　力 Chikara Ōsaka
  • Seiyū: 仁科洋平 Yōhei Nishina
  • Seiyū: 川上貴史 Takashi Kawakami
  • Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*
• Gary Oak
• Professor Rowan
• Officer Jenny
• Rowan's assistant
• Client (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Miyake Kenta)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Blastoise (Gary's)
• Umbreon (Gary's)
• Electivire (Gary's)
• Salamence (J's)
• Drapion (J's)
• Ariados (J's)
• Golbat (J's henchmen)
• Shieldon (four; debut)
• Beedrill (multiple)

Trivia

• The dub title is a pun of the film Good Will Hunting. This film title was also used for another Pokémon episode during the early Johto season called Good 'Quil Hunting.
• Music from Pokémon Heroes and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are used as background music.
• Dawn and Gary meet for the first time in this episode.
• Dawn assumes that Gary writes Pokémon senryū, just like his grandfather.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Cherubi
  • Pokémon senryū: チェリンボが　おひさまあびて　あかくなり Cherinbo ga, ohisama abite, akaku nari. "Cherinbo, it plays in the sun and, it turns red."
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.
• Exactly 40 episodes later, Gary appears in Sinnoh again. Coincidentally, both times Ash and his friends were on the way to Hearthome City.
• This is one of the few episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series where Dawn's Piplup does not appear.

In other languages

• Finnish: Metsästäjää paossa
• German: Rettet Schilterus!
• Italian: Caccia allo Shieldon & Mai più nemici
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Caza mal intencionada!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡A la caza de los Shieldon!
• Dutch: Opgejaagd!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Dia da Caça!
• Czech: Zlovolný lov
• Polish: Łowczyni powraca

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