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| The Electrike Company!
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ラクライ訓練センター！
Rakurai Practice Center!
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First broadcast
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August 9, 2007
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December 22, 2007
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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Screenshots on Filb.de
- The above credits are from the Japanese anime magazine, Newtype. Another magazine, Animage, has different credits for this episode:
- Storyboard: 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba
- Assistant director: 牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino
- Animation director: 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita
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The Electrike Company! (Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 508th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in the United States on December 22, 2007.
Synopsis
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Ash, Brock and Dawn are sitting next to a pond, watching their Pokémon play in it. They see an Template:Type2 move explode in the sky and an Electrike comes running up. Dawn scans it on her Pokédex and Electrike zaps Ash. A man comes running up and apologizes to Ash. He introduces himself as Jaco and says that he trains Electrike. He bends down to look at Staravia as another man walks up and introduces himself as Cal. He runs a training center for Electric-types nearby, and Jaco is training one of the Electrike there. The gang go down to the school only to find it mostly abandoned, due to all the other Electrike graduating. Jaco is really disappointed with Electrike, more used to working with Template:Type2 than Electric-types. Brock and the others volunteer to help coach Jaco in training Electrike.
Team Rocket spies on the scene and figures Electrike is a good candidate to kidnap. Jessie and Meowth point out that this Electrike is unstable, and hasn't matured yet. She suggests that they wait for Ash and friends to do the work for them, then swoop in and steal it.
Ash and Dawn demonstrate how to train their Electric-type Pokémon with Pikachu and Pachirisu. Pikachu hits the target no problem, but Pachirisu overcharges and blasts Ash. Dawn gives Pachirisu a Poffin, and suceeds the second time. Later, Brock gives Jaco some advice on breeding not only Electric types, but how all different types need different treatments.
James and Meowth, getting tired from watching Electrike and Pikachu training, start to feel the bond of partnership the two have and are inspired for them to see it through. Ironically, Jessie has gotten tired to waiting despite her earlier advice and has them rush in. She tries to steal the Pokémon, but James and Meowth hold her back. She gets insulted, and runs off on her own. The others offer to keep helping Electrike, stunning Ash, Dawn and Brock.
Jessie returns later, in her own pink mecha to steal Electrike. Pikachu attacks, but her suit is insulated. While held captive in the mecha's hand, Electrike evolves into Manectric, shattering the restraint. Manectric is too big for Jessie's hands now, so she steals Pikachu instead. James and Meowth hop onto the back and hack a hole for Manectric to hit. Manectric has gained a lot of power and improved aim, able to hit the small target and blasts Team Rocket off. Manectric graduates to go off to the power generator and charge the generator.
Major events
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
- Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and an alternate cut of Together, are used as background music.
- Ash narrates the next episode preview.
- When James and Meowth blast off, they are wearing their electricity-proof jackets. In theory, the jackets could be used in later episodes for protection from Pikachu's Thunderbolt, but they have not been seen since.
- The dub name may be a reference to the Sesame Workshop show The Electric Company.
- This is one of the few episodes where Team Rocket actually wants to be blasted off by Ash and company—James and Meowth requested for Ash to blast them off while trying to hold back Jessie.
Errors
- When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash doesn't have his gloves on, but when he tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on again. After Electrike evolves, Ash's gloves are gone again.
- Pachirisu and Pikachu zap the two outer targets. When the camera pans out, it shows the target on the right undamaged and the left and center targets broken.
Dub edits
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: A Companhia Electrike!
- Chinese (Taiwan): 落雷獸訓練中心！
- Czech: Ve společnosti Electrika
- Dutch: Een Electrike onder hoogspanning
- French: Il y a de l'électricité dans l'air
- German: Eine "blitzende" Herausforderung!
- Italian: La fabbrica di energia
- Polish: Zespół Electrike'a
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: ¡La compañía Electrike!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡En compañía de Electrike!
