DP042

The Electrike Company!
ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!
Broadcast dates
Japan	August 9, 2007
USA	December 22, 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	十川誠志 Seishi Togawa
Storyboard	日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka
Assistant director	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Animation director	岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane
Screenshots on Filb.de The above credits are from the Japanese anime magazine, Newtype. Another magazine, Animage, has different credits for this episode: Storyboard: 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director: 牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino Animation director: 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita

The Electrike Company! (Japanese: ラクライ訓練センター！ Rakurai Practice Center!) is the 42nd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in the United States on December 22, 2007.

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Jaco (Japanese: ユースケ Yūsuke) (Seiyū: 真殿光昭 Mitsuaki Madono)
• Cal (Japanese: Chief) (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Electrike → Manectric (Jaco's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Electrike (Cal's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.
• Ash narrates the next episode preview.
• When James and Meowth blast off, they are wearing their electric proof jackets. In theory, the jackets could be used in later episodes for protection from Pikachu's Thunder, but they have not been seen since.

Errors

Ash without his gloves

• When Ash, James, and Meowth are running from Electrike, Ash didn't have his gloves on. But when Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on Jessie's machine, he has his gloves on. When Electrike evolves, his gloves are gone.
• Pachirisu and Pikachu zap the two outer targets. When the camera pans out, it shows the target on the right fixed and the left and center targets broken.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: La fabbrica di energia
• Iberian Spanish: ¡La compañía Electrike!

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