DP095

Battling the Generation Gap!

DP095   EP561 ポケモンコンテスト！カンナギ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Kannagi Tournament!!

First broadcast Japan September 25, 2008 United States February 21, 2009

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together2008 Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume Additional credits

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Battling the Generation Gap! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！カンナギ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Kannagi Tournament!!) is the 95th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 561st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 25, 2008, as a part of a one-hour special with Doc Brock! and in the United States on February 21, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Arriving in Celestic Town, Dawn is eager to enter the Pokémon Contest. However, Dawn discovers that an old friend of her mother's will also be entering. How will Dawn cope against a talented, seasoned Coordinator?

Major events

• Dawn wins her third Contest Ribbon.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Cherrim

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Johanna
• Lila
• Wallace (poster)
• Contesta
• Sukizo
• Nurse Joy
• Marian
• Lila's coworkers

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Swinub (Dawn's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Delcatty (Lila's)
• Cherrim (Lila's; debut)
• Milotic (Wallace's) (poster)
• Nosepass
• Crawdaunt
• Delibird
• Donphan
• Swinub (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
• Stantler (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
• Butterfree (×2) (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)
• Magikarp (Lila's Tiger Lily Smile)

Trivia

• The song "Oración", music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and The Rise of Darkrai are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Starly
• Jessie, disguised as Jessalina, dresses up like Fantina for this episode's contest. She also uses a French accent similar to Fantina's.
• Dawn's appeal corresponds May's Appeal in Lessons In Lilycove as it was their third contest and both had some type of unintentional effect in the appeal.
• James and Meowth wore the same outfits they wore in Gymbaliar!.
• This is the first time Dawn wins a ribbon in which the events of the contest take place in one episode.
• This episode contains the anime's first representation of Substitute, an attack that has existed since Generation I.
• The dub title for this episode is a reference to the phrase "bridging the generation gap".

Errors

• The status ailment Attraction does not wear off on its own in the games: the afflicted Pokémon must be switched out or the one who inflicted it must be removed from battle.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Dutch: De Strijd Tegen De Generatiekloof!
• German: Zwei Generationen - Eine Gegnerin!
• Korean: 빛나! 엄마의 라이벌을 만나다!
• Italian: Generazioni a confronto!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Peleando Con La Brecha Generacional!
• Czech: Zápas napříč generacemi

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