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DP131

DP131   EP597 フルバトル！シンジVSサトシ！！(前編) Full Battle! Shinji VS Satoshi!! (Part 1)

First broadcast Japan June 11, 2009 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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(Japanese: フルバトル！シンジVSサトシ！！(前編) Full Battle! Shinji VS Satoshi!! (Part 1)) is the 131st episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 597th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 11, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Ash, Brock and Dawn meet Paul again at Lake Acuity and the battle that Reggie suggested Ash and Paul should have just begun. Who will claim victory?

Major events

• Ash and company reach Lake Acuity.
• Ash and Paul begin their full battle as suggested by Reggie in DP128.
• Paul's Magmar is revealed to have evolved into a Magmortar.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Magmortar (Paul's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Paul
• Nurse Joy
• Reggie
• Osabaki
• Cynthia (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Grotle (Ash's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Torterra (Paul's)
• Electabuzz (Paul's)
• Weavile (Paul's)
• Honchkrow (Paul's)
• Magmortar (Paul's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)

Trivia

Scoreboard as of the end of this episode

• Music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used as background music.
• This is the first time Pikachu was chosen to battle Paul since When Pokémon Worlds Collide!
• The disguises used by Jessie, James and Meowth in this episode are the same that were used in Holy Matrimony!, which first aired in Japan exactly eleven years before the debut Japanese airing of this episode.
• This is the first episode in which Paul's Weavile is seen using a move which is not an Template:Type2.
• This episode also marks the first time Croagunk and another Pokémon hurt Brock when he flirts with a girl.
• When Ash, Dawn, and Brock arrive at Lake Acuity, there is no snow by the lake despite it being surrounded by snow in the games and in May and Zoey's flashback in Pruning a Passel of Pals!.

Errors

Dub edits

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