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Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis!
ポケモンレンジャー！デオキシス・クライシス!! Pokémon Ranger! Deoxys Crisis!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	April 13, 2006
USA	October 28, 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 Iguchi
Screenplay	十川誠志 Seishi Togawa
Storyboard	大山和弘 Kazuhiro Ōyama
	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Assistant directors	大山和弘 Kazuhiro Ōyama
	渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe
Animation directors	広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka
	船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu
	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
	岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane
Screenshots on Filb.de The Animation was originally only credited to Izumi Shimura and Toshihito Hirooka

Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis! (Japanese: ポケモンレンジャー！デオキシス・クライシス!! Pokémon Ranger! Deoxys Crisis!!) is episode 171 of Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation. It first aired in Japan on April 13, 2006 and in the United States, first as an hour-long special on October 28, 2006.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 2.1.1 Pokémon 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

• Ash and his friends meet up with their Pokémon Ranger friend Solana and encounter the legendary Pokémon Deoxys.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Deoxys (Speed form)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Solana
• Giovanni (Team Rocket fantasy)
• Pokémon Center employee (female)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Plusle (Solana's)
• Deoxys (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Miltank (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)
• Swablu (many)
• Altaria (many) (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara)
• Nuzleaf
• Seedot
• Azurill
• Zigzagoon
• Pidgeot
• Shroomish

Trivia

• In some areas of Japan, this episode was broadcast in two parts instead of as a one-hour special; the opening changes in AG172 debut in this episode instead. The English dub also originally broadcast as a special.
• This episode is directed by 須藤典彦 Norihiko Sudō, who replaces 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka.
• This episode was aired as a special to coincide with the release of Pokémon Ranger for the Nintendo DS. When dubbed, Sceptile's evolution had only happened in an episode that aired that morning in America.
• This episode marks the third time that a Pokémon speaks through Meowth. The first time was by a giant Tentacruel in Tentacool and Tentacruel and the second was with Haunter and Gastly in A Shipful of Shivers.
• Although most if not all genderless Pokémon are referred to as male in the Latin American dub, the episode calls Deoxys a female Pokémon, with the use of "ella" by all characters.
• Pokémon Ranger's sequel, Pokémon Ranger Batonnage, also got an anime special in the form of DP071 and DP072.

Errors

May commanded Combusken to use Flamethrower instead of Fire Spin.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Le Visiteur de l'Espace
• Italian: Un Deoxys in crisi
• Latin American Spanish: La crisis de Deoxys