Battle Frontier (dub)

If you were looking for the Japanese song with the same name, see Battle Frontier (song).

If you were looking for the Dub season with the same name, see Pokémon: Battle Frontier.

Battle Frontier
Dub OP 9 Artist Jason Appleton Lyrics Composer John Loeffler David Wolfert Arrangement
KOCH Records Title Pokémon X Catalog no.

Battle Frontier is the opening theme to the ninth season of the English-language Pokémon dub, Pokémon: Battle Frontier. It was used from AG146 to AG192.

The opening animation featured footage from the tenth Japanese opening, Spurt!.

Lyrics

Pokémon!
It's a battle, win or lose
It's the friends you make, it's the road you choose

You've got the right stuff
So make your mind up
Find the courage inside of you

If you're strong you'll survive
And you'll keep your dream alive
It's the Battle Frontier
Pokémon!

Be the best you can be
And find your destiny
It's the master plan
The power's in your hand
Pokémon!

You've got the
Strength to win it
|So stay in it
If you're smart you can take it all

If you're strong you'll survive
And you'll keep your dream alive
It's the Battle Frontier
Pokémon!

Be the best you can be
And find your destiny
It's the master plan
(It's the master plan!)
The power's in your hand
Pokémon!

Opening animation spoilers

• Ash's Phanpy evolving into a Donphan.
• May receiving an egg, which hatches into an Eevee.
• All the Frontier Brains Ash will battle.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• May
• Max
• Drew
• Harley
• Noland
• Greta
• Tucker
• Lucy
• Spenser
• Anabel
• Brandon

Pokémon

Ash's Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Butterfree (Ash's)
• Pidgeot (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Kingler (Ash's)
• Primeape (Ash's)
• Muk (Ash's)
• Tauros (Ash's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Snorlax (Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Donphan (Ash's)
• Larvitar (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Torkoal (Ash's)
• Glalie (Ash's)

May's Pokémon

• Combusken (May's)
• Beautifly (May's)
• Skitty (May's)
• Bulbasaur (May's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)

Others

• Hariyama (Greta's)
• Swampert (Tucker's)
• Arcanine (Tucker's)
• Skarmory
• Tyranitar (Larvitar's mother)

Trivia

• This is the first opening not to include Team Rocket. However, in the extended version of the opening, they appear on a joker card and dressed up as magicians in the following scene.
• This song, along with I Wanna Be a Hero, This Dream and Diamond and Pearl are the only songs in the series that aren't the theme songs of the corresponding movie.
• This is currently the shortest dub opening at 30 seconds long (however, a one-minute version is available on the Pokémon X CD)
• This song was featured in Another One Gabites the Dust! with slightly modified lyrics. The line, "It's the Battle Frontier", was changed to, "Let the battle begin".
  • For the same episode the song featured in Brazilian Portuguese and Iberian Spanish dub was this opening without any change in the lyrics.
  • The English dub for this opening was featured in the episode Another One Gabites the Dust! for the Italian dub.
  • For the episode Another One Gabites the Dust! in Latin American Spanish was shown with a new vocalist and lyrics as they changed dubbing company.
• The Dutch version is sung by Herman van Doorn.

In other languages

Language		Title
Dutch		Battle Frontier
German		Über Grenzen gehen
Hebrew		חזית הקרב khazit hakrav
Portuguese	Brazil	Batalha da Fronteira
	Portugal	Fronteira de Batalha
Spanish	Latin America	Batalla de la Frontera
	Spain	Frente de Batalla

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