DP086

Arriving in Style!

DP086   EP552 ヨスガコレクション！ポケモンスタイリストへの道!! Yosuga Collection! The Road to Becoming a Pokémon Stylist!!

First broadcast Japan July 10, 2008 United States December 20, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together (2008) Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Arriving in Style! (Japanese: ヨスガコレクション！ポケモンスタイリストへの道!! Yosuga Collection! The Road to Becoming a Pokémon Stylist!!) is the 86th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 552nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 10, 2008 and in the United States on December 20, 2008.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and his friends have returned to Hearthome City to challenge the local Gym Leader who had been absent during their last visit. However, they hear that the Gym Leader is still gone, making Ash unable to have his Gym Battle.

The group meets an Idol Pokémon stylist named Paris and her Lopunny. Upon seeing Dawn's Buneary, the woman suggests her to enter the so-called "Pokémon Collection", a famous fashion show...

Major events

• Ash and co. return to Hearthome City and learn that the Gym Leader still has not returned.
• Ash, Dawn, and Jessie participate in the Hearthome Collection Contest.
• Dawn wins the Hearthome Collection Contest while Ash receives a special award for unique performance.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Lopunny

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey (flashback)
• Nurse Joy
• Enta
• Paris
• Hermione
• Cocoa
• Other stylists
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Lopunny (Paris's; debut)
• Mismagius (Cocoa's)
• Bellossom
• Chikorita
• Magikarp
• Toxicroak
• Roselia
• Arcanine

Trivia

• Details of this episode were made known in K-Zone, a children's magazine, before any official Japanese episode listing.
• Ash's Gliscor and Dawn's Swinub were added to the opening and ending.
• The outfit Ash and Pikachu wear for the Collection are based on Fūjin and Raijin, the Japanese gods of wind and thunder, respectively.
• The Toxicroak here is shown to be the same color as Saturn's Toxicroak.
• This was the last episode to air before Giratina and the Sky Warrior premiered in Japanese theaters.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew can be heard.
• Just like the last time they arrived at Hearthome, Fantina did not have a substitute trainer running the gym despite the fact that the Cerulean Gym was almost shut down due to there not being someone present to run the gym by the Pokémon Inspection Agency. However they might not have authority in the Sinnoh region for them to handle this issue.

Errors

• After Buneary touched Cocoa's dress, her feet are brown.
• After Cocoa was shocked that she lost, her crown fell off her head. However, in the next scene, it is still on her head.
• While Lopunny goes to attack Team Rocket for the first time, Buneary's voice is heard.

Dub edits

In other languages

• German: Poké-Style!
• Polish: Stylowe wejście
• Italian: Questione di stile!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Chegando com Estilo!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Llegando con estilo!
• Iberian Spanish: Una Pasarela con Estilo
• Dutch: Arriveren In Stijl!
• Czech: Stylový příchod

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