DP014

DP014 File:Leave it to Takeshi!.jpg

DP014   タケシにおまかせ! Leave It to Takeshi!

First broadcast Japan December 21, 2006 United States

English themes Opening

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu

(Japanese: タケシにおまかせ! Leave It to Takeshi!) is the fourteenth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on December 21, 2006 as a part of a one-hour special along with DP013.

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

Major events

• Brock's Bonsly evolves into Sudowoodo.

Debuts

• Brock's Sudowoodo

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Hikari
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Ash's Pikachu
• Team Rocket's Meowth
• Jessie's Wobbuffet
• James's Mime Jr.
• Ash's Mukubird
• Brock's Bonsly
• Brock's Sudowoodo (newly evolved)
• Brock's Gureggru
• Jessie's Dustox
• Jessie's Seviper
• James's Cacnea
• James's Muskippa
• Vileplume (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Seedot (colony)
• Nuzleaf (Seiyū: 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura)
• Shiftry (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Everyone shouts out the title card.
• Grasswhistle is a Pokémon move.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Pokémon senryū: エイパムが　しっぽでつかむ　サトシのハート Eipam, it seizes with its tail, Satoshi's heart.
• A teaser for Dialga vs. Palkia is broadcast after the episode as part of the special broadcast.
• The ending credited both DP013 and DP014
• Ash narrates the next episode preview, which is 1 minute long instead of the usual 30 seconds.

Errors

• In the ending, Mukubird was featured but Sudowoodo wasn't. It was still a Bonsly at the credits.

Dub edits

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