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DP034

DP034   ブイゼル！最強への道!! Buoysel! Road to Being the Strongest!!

First broadcast Japan May 17, 2007 United States

English themes Opening 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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 誌村宏明 Hiroaki Shimura Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: ブイゼル！最強への道!! Buoysel! Road to Being the Strongest!!) is the 34th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on May 17, 2007.

Ash and friends hear about an incredibly strong Buizel. Wanting to capture it, the group heads for the river where it lives. On the way, Dawn meets her rival Nozomi.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buizel

Debuts

• Dawn's Buizel

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nozomi
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Fisherman (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Young man (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Reporters (fantasy)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's, debut, newly captured)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Glameow (Nozomi's)
• Prinplup (Kengo's, flashback)
• Bellsprout (young man's)
• Zigzagoon (fisherman's)

Trivia

• Misty's special lure makes an appearance. Misty gave it to Ash in The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing.
• Pokémon Symphonic Medley is used as insert music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Shinx
  • Pokémon senryū: コリンクの　おめめくりんと　かわいいな

Errors

Dub edits

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