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(Japanese: ヤンヤンマ！ゲット作戦！！ Yanyanma! Capture Operation!!) is the 80th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on May 22, 2008.

The group meets Taisei who is chasing after a Yanma. They learn that he is a beginning Trainer, just having started his journey. He tells them that he has been running after the Yanma for three days, but the Pokémon constantly escapes. Ash and his friends agree to help Taisei make his first capture, and manage to corner the Yanma...

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Jessie captures a Yanma
• Jessie's Yanma evolves into Yanmega

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Yanmega
• Jessie's Yanmega

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Taisei
• Giovanni
• Team Rocket grunts

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Caterpie (Ash's) (flashback)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's) (flashback)
• Yanma (Jessie's) (newly caught; evolves)
• Yanmega (Jessie's) (newly evolved)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Delibird (Team Rocket)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Piplup (Champi, Taisei's)
• Yanma (Taisei's) (newly caught)

Trivia

• This episode has a similar premise to the episode Wings n' Things, though in that episode the younger Trainer wanted to recapture Yanma.
• This is one of the very few episodes in which Team Rocket successfully capture a Pokémon for Giovanni, although he sends it back to them. However, Yanma was a wild Pokémon at the time of capture, so it hadn't been stolen.
• Jessie capturing Yanma after someone else weakened it echoes how she captured her Shellder (although in that case, it was James and his Weezing that weakened the Pokémon).
• Yanma is captured and evolves in this episode. The only other main character's Pokémon to do this is Ash's Caterpie, who is referenced by Ash in this episode.
• Two background tracks from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are used as music for this episode.
• This episode is one of the few episodes since its trade in which Jessie's Wobbuffet does not appear.
• During the second encounter with Team Rocket, Face Forward Team Rocket! was played.
• This episode contains flashbacks from Ash catches a Pokémon! and Setting the World on its Buneary, the first captures of Ash and Dawn.
• Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture, the end of the episode featured a memorial to Jirachi: Wish Maker. This is part of a countdown to Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin

Errors

Dub edits

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