DP027

Settling a Not-So-Old Score!
決戦！ポッチャマVSポッタイシ!! Decisive Battle! Pochama vs. Pottaishi!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	April 5, 2007
USA	September 8, 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〜 (PopUp.Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Assistant director	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Screenshots on Filb.de

Settling a Not-So-Old Score! (Japanese: 決戦！ポッチャマVSポッタイシ!! Decisive Battle! Pochama vs. Pottaishi!!) is the 27th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 5, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with DP026, and in the United States on September 8, 2007.

Synopsis

With Dawn's Pokémon Contest coming to its end, she is pit up against her childhood friend, Kenny. Its Piplup vs Prinplup... But who will win?

Major events

• Dawn wins her first contest ribbon.
  • Dawn beats Jessie's Dustox with her Piplup in the quarterfinals of the contest.
  • Dawn narrowly beats Kenny's Prinplup in the finals.

Debuts

• Kricketune

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizō
• Nurse Joy
• Kenny
• Johanna
• Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Alakazam (Kenny's)
• Nidoking
• Magneton
• Koffing (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Magmar
• Sneasel
• Sealeo
• Solrock
• Bagon
• Kricketune
• Buizel

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and a reduced cut of Ready Go! are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: James's Carnivine
  • Pokémon senryū: マスキッパ　きょうもはらぺこ　すきっぱら Muskippa is also starving today: empty stomach.

Errors

After Dawn's win against Jessie, Marian says that Dawn and Piplup are off to the final round, but Dawn vs. Jessie was a first round match, Piplup is later seen defeating Bagon and then fighting against Kenny and Prinplup in the final round.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: Il primo Fiocco di Lucinda & Un avversario leale
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Ajustando una Cuenta de la Infancia!

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