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Ill-Will Hunting!
ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ!! Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	August 30, 2007
USA	January 12, 2008
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	藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita
Storyboard	古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga
Assistant director	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Animation director	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Screenshots on Filb.de

Ill-Will Hunting! (Japanese: ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ!! Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!) is the 45th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on August 30, 2007 and in the United States on January 12, 2008.

The Pokémon Hunter J returns with a group of Shieldon as her next target. Gary appears to help Ash stop her.

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

• Gary meets Ash again.
• Gary meets Dawn for the first time.

Debuts

• Shieldon

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• J
• J's henchmen
  • Seiyū: 逢坂　力 Chikara Ōsaka
  • Seiyū: 仁科洋平 Yōhei Nishina
  • Seiyū: 川上貴史 Takashi Kawakami
  • Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*
• Gary Oak
• Professor Rowan
• Officer Jenny
• Rowan's assistant
• Client (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Miyake Kenta)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Electivire (Gary's)
• Blastoise (Gary's)
• Umbreon (Gary's)
• Salamence (J's)
• Drapion (J's)
• Ariados (J's)
• Golbat (J's henchman's)
• Shieldon (four)
• Beedrill (multiple)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• The dub title is a pun of the film Good Will Hunting. The film title was also used for another Pokémon episode during the early Johto season called Good 'Quil Hunting.
• Music from Pokémon Heroes and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are used as background music.
• Dawn and Gary meet for the first time in this episode.
• Dawn assumes that Gary writes Pokémon senryū, just like his grandfather.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Cherubi
  • Pokémon senryū: チェリンボが　おひさまあびて　あかくなり
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: Caccia allo Shieldon & Mai più nemici
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Caza mal intencionada!