DP054

Once There Were Greenfields
ナタネとサボネア！さよならは誰のため！ Natane & Sabonea! Farewell to Whom?!
Broadcast dates
Japan	November 15, 2007
USA	April 19, 2008
Theme songs
Opening	We Will Be Heroes
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (Winter Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	十川誠志 Seishi Togawa
Storyboard	於地紘仁 Kōjin Ochi
Assistant director	宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara
Animation director	たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
Screenshots on Filb.de

Once There Were Greenfields (Japanese: ナタネとサボネア！さよならは誰のため！ Natane and Sabonea! Farewell to Whom?!) is the 54th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on November 15, 2007 and in the United States on April 19, 2008.

Ash and friends arrive in Emeragrove Town and reunite with Gardenia, the Eterna City gym leader, who is organizing a Pokémon battle for children to watch. At the suggestion of Gardenia, Ash and Dawn battle against the Grass-type Gym Leader and James.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash's Aipom and Dawn's Pachirisu defeat James's Cacnea and Gardenia's Turtwig in a double battle.
• James's Cacnea begins to learn Drain Punch.
• James gives his Cacnea to Gardenia for training.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia
• Children
  • Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*, 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*, 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's; given to Gardenia for training)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's)

Trivia

• One of the boys calls Kojirō "Kosanji", which usually is used to refer to Kosaburō. In the dub, the boy calls James "Old man".
• The instrumental version of A Small Thing from Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Weavile
  • Pokémon senryū: ながいつめ　ニューっとひっかく　マニューラよ
• Ash and Dawn narrate the next episode preview.
• Team Rocket does not blast off in this episode

Errors

Dub edits

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