DP077

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みんなライバル！ミクリカップ!! Everyone's A Rival! Mikuri Cup!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	May 8, 2008
USA
Theme songs
Opening
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together
Ending	風のメッセージ (PokaPoka Version)
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka
Assistant director	古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga
Animation director	田口広一 Kōichi Taguchi
More credits
Screenshots on Filb.de

(Japanese: みんなライバル！ミクリカップ！！ Everyone's A Rival! Mikuri Cup!!) is the 77th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on May 8, 2008 alongside DP078 as part of a one-hour special.

Ash and his friends have arrived at the Lake Resort where the Wallace Cup will take place. They reunite with Zoey who has caught a Finneon. Dawn becomes nervous and has trouble keeping her composure. Meanwhile, May decides to enter with Wartortle, and Ash with Buizel...!

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash, Dawn, Zoey, Jessie and May participate in the Wallace Cup.
• May meets Zoey.
• May's Squirtle has evolved into a Wartortle during her travels in Johto.
• Zoey has caught a Finneon.
• Jessie loses in the Appeal Round.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• May's Wartortle

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• May
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Paul
• Kenny
• Zoey
• Sukizō
• Marian
• Contesta
• Nurse Joy
• Wallace
• Max
• Drew
• Harley
• Solidad
• Norman
• Caroline
• Rhonda
• Sinnoh Now Staff
• Kaito
• Pokémon Coordinators
• Wallace's fans

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's) (flashback)
• Wartortle (May's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Finneon (Zoey's)
• Milotic (Wallace's)
• Cloyster (Kaito's)

Trivia

Sakura and Tomoyo lookalikes.

• This is the first Pokémon Contest in which Ash and May have competed in costume. Ash has already participated in a Sinnoh region contest, but did not dress up.
• Both May and Dawn had most of their rivals appear in the episode either in cameos or throughout the course of the episode: Drew, Solidad, and Harley for May; and Zoey and Kenny for Dawn. It should be noted that Ash's rival, Paul, also had a brief appearance. Nando was the only one of Dawn's main rivals not to appear.
• Drew, Harley and Solidad are watching the Wallace Cup in Ecruteak City
• Two girls near the beginning of the episode look like Sakura Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidōji from Cardcaptor Sakura.
• One of the other coordinators had a strong resemblance to Oscar from The Bicker The Better.
• Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture, the end of the episode featured a memorial to Spell of the Unown. This is part of a countdown to Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin.

Errors

• When Croagunk drags Brock away from the woman selling food, May's gloves disappear.

Dub edits

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