DP009

Setting the World on its Buneary
ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?
Broadcast dates
Japan	November 16, 2006
USA	June 18, 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〜
Credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama
Assistant director	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director	船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu
Screenshots on Filb.de This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.

Setting the World on its Buneary (Japanese: ミミロルとあそぼう!? Let's Play with Mimirol!?) is the ninth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on November 16, 2006.

Synopsis

Major events

• Dawn captures a Buneary.
• Buneary gains feelings for Pikachu.

Debuts

• Dawn's Buneary

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's, new) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Starly (flock)
• Torchic (Seen running around Piplup's head after getting hit by Buneary's Dizzy Punch)

Trivia

• This is the first episode that features a cold open format. It consists of scenes showing what will happen throughout the episode later on.
• Brock's Croagunk is added to Together and By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~.
• An instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is used as background music during the second Piplup vs. Buneary battle.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Gym Leaders
  • The footage in this segment is of Juan's Pokémon in his battle with Ash. Of Ash's Pokémon, only Pikachu and Swellow are shown.
• Pokémon senryū: ジムリーダー　いのちをかけて　かかってこい Jimu Riidaa, inochi o kete, kakatte koi
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

• In the beginning where Dawn was inside her tent panicking about her hair, Ash wasn't wearing any shoes . Later on, he was wearing them.
• In the beginning where Dawn learns about the multiple Officer Jennys, Brock claims two Jennys are not identicle twins because the Jenny whom they were talking to had a different length of hair and eyelashes. Identicle twins can of course have different lengths of hair.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Dutch: Mijn wereld voor een Buneary!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Meu Mundo por um Buneary!
• Italian: Un nuovo compagno di viaggio & Una conquista per Lucinda
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Ese Buneary tiene que ser mio!
• Latin American Spanish: Dándole la bienvenida a Buneary

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