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Faced with Steelix Determination
爆走ハガネール！ビッパの村を守れ!! Roaring Haganeil! Protect the Bipper Village!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	March 15, 2007
USA	July 12, 2007
Theme songs
Opening	Diamond and Pearl
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	十川誠志 Seishi Togawa
Storyboard	日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka
Assistant director	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Screenshots on Filb.de

Faced with Steelix Determination (Japanese: 爆走ハガネール！ビッパの村を守れ!! Roaring Haganeil! Protect the Bipper Village!!) is the 23rd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on March 15, 2007 and in the United States on July 12, 2007.

While continuing his journey in the Sinnoh region, Ash Ketchum and friends must protect a village of Bidoof from an out-of-control Steelix.

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

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Bidoof (stray) (Seiyū: 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura)
• Bidoof (leader) (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Ken Miyake)
• Bidoof (pack)
• Steelix (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Destiny Deoxys and Jirachi: Wish Maker, and an alternate cut of Spurt! are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Jessie's Seviper
  • The footage in this segment is from A Tail with a Twist, Like it or Lup It and Leave It To Brocko.
• Pokémon senryū: あかいキバ　わわるとアブネー　ハブネーク Akai kiba / Wawaru to abunē / Habunēku "The red fangs, it's dangerous to touch them; Habunake."

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: Uno Steelix infuriato & Il coraggio di Bidoof