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Setting the World on its Buneary (Japanese: ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?) is the ninth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on November 16, 2006.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buneary.
• Buneary has feelings for Pikachu.

Pokémon Debuts

• Dawn's Buneary

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's, new) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Starly (flock)
• Torchic (Seen running around Piplup's head after getting hit by Buneary's Dizzy Punch)

Trivia

• This is the first episode that features a cold open format. It consists of scenes showing what will happen throughout the episode later on.
• Brock's Croagunk is added to Together and By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~.
• An instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is used as background music during the second Piplup vs. Buneary battle.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gym Leaders
  • The footage in this segment is of Juan's Pokémon in his battle with Ash. Of Ash's Pokémon, only Pikachu and Swellow are shown.
• Pokémon senryū: ジムリーダー　いのちをかけて　かかってこい
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

• In the beginning where Dawn was inside her tent panicking about her hair, Ash wasn't wearing any shoes but soon afterwards he was wearing them.
• In Cablevision's description for this episode, the episode title was "Setting The World On Its Bunerary!"

Dub edits

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