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What I Did for Love
大一番！ハルカVSタケシ!! Decisive Game! Haruka VS Takeshi!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	March 9, 2006
USA	November 18, 2006
Theme songs
Opening	Battle Frontier
Japanese theme songs
Opening	スパート！
Ending	GLORY DAY 〜輝くその日〜 ③
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	しのゆきひろ Yukihiro Shino
Assistant director	渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe
Animation director	広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka
Screenshots on Filb.de

What I Did for Love (Japanese: 大一番！ハルカVSタケシ!! Decisive Game! Haruka VS Takeshi!!) is episode 167 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 9, 2006 and in the United States on November 18, 2006.

May takes part in a contest to earn her fourth ribbon but her rival is none other than Brock, wanting to impress a breeder who compliments him on his Bonsly.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Brock enters a Pokémon Contest for the first time.
• May defeats Brock's Marshtomp using her Eevee and wins the Abelia Ribbon.
• May's Eevee learns Dig.
• Brock's Marshtomp learns Protect.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Lilian
• Contesta
• Sukizo
• Yuma (Seiyū: 川村万梨阿 Maria Kawamura)
• Mollie (Seiyū: 半場友恵 Tomoe Hanba*)
• Team Rocket booth customers
• Coordinators
• Audience

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Raticate (Mollie's; Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Absol (Mollie's; Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Arbok
• Sableye
• Manectric
• Marill
• Azumarill
• Snorunt
• Bellsprout
• Koffing
• Furret
• Ninetales
• Lombre
• Taillow
• Poochyena
• Persian
• Mareep
• Spinda
• Hoppip
• Oddish
• Mudkip
• Loudred
• Bulbasaur
• Azurill
• Beautifly
• Kirlia
• Mawile
• Grumpig
• Vulpix
• Lotad
• Marowak
• Caterpie
• Venonat
• Venomoth
• Growlithe

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• 私、負けない！ 〜ハルカのテーマ〜 I won't lose! ~Haruka's theme~ was used as an insert song for the second time.
• The baseball scene was a parody of the sports anime/manga, Star of the Giants (巨人の星).
• Team Rocket narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Par amour
• Italian: Cosa non si fa per amore
• Latin American Spanish: Lo que se hace por amor