DP093

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not yet been aired dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

踊るジムリーダー！メリッサ登場!! Dancing Gym Leader! Enter Melissa!
Broadcast dates
Japan	September 11, 2008
USA
Theme songs
Opening
Japanese theme songs
Opening	Together2008
Ending	風のメッセージ
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Assistant director	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director	木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita
More credits
Screenshots on Filb.de

(Japanese: 踊るジムリーダー！メリッサ登場!! Dancing Gym Leader! Enter Melissa!) is the 93rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 559th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 11, 2008.

Synopsis

Major events

• Fantina has a battle with Zoey and wins.
• Ash has an informal battle with Fantina.
  • Fantina's Drifloon defeats Ash's Buizel.
  • Fantina's Drifloon puts Ash's Chimchar to sleep and Chimchar is recalled.
  • Fantina's Drifloon evolves to Drifblim in the battle against Ash's Pikachu and puts it to sleep. Ash then forfeits the match.

Debuts

• Fantina

Pokémon debuts

• Drifblim

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Fantina
• Juan (flashback)
• Alan (flashback)
• Enta (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Misdreavus (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Mismagius (Fantina's)
• Drifloon (Fantina's; evolves)
• Drifblim (Fantina's; newly evolved)
• Gengar (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Nosepass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Probopass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Luxray (flashback)
• Ponyta (flashback)
• Abra (flashback)

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Riolu.

Errors

Dub edits

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