DP040

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DP040   チャンピオン・シロナ登場！ Enter Champion Shirona!

First broadcast Japan July 19, 2007 United States December 8, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(PopUp.Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Top-Down Training! (Japanese: チャンピオン・シロナ登場！ Enter Champion Shirona!) is the 40th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 506th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 19, 2007 and in the United States on December 8, 2007.

Paul challenges the Champion of the Pokémon League, Cynthia, to a battle.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Ash, Brock, Dawn and Paul meet Cynthia, the Sinnoh League Champion.
• Paul battles Cynthia.
• Cynthia defeats Paul using only her Garchomp.
• Paul's starter Pokémon is revealed to have been Turtwig.
• Paul is revealed to have traveled through Hoenn, Johto, and Kanto and participated in their respective leagues.
• The Lustrous Orb is discovered near Celestic Town.

Debuts

• Cynthia

Pokémon debuts

• Garchomp
• Torterra

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Cynthia
• Paul
• Nurse Joy
• Lucian (on TV)
• Rhonda
• Announcer (Seiyū: 堀川　仁 Jin Horikawa)
• Sinnoh Now staff
• Boys
  • Boy 1 (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*)
  • Boy 2 (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu*)
  • Boy 3 (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Pokémon trainers

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's; debut)
• Ursaring (Paul's)
• Torterra (Paul's; debut)
• Weavile (Paul's; new)
• Chimchar (Paul's)
• Murkrow (Paul's; new)
• Bronzong (Lucian's; on TV)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Furret
• Unown (Inscription)

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Cynthia with next to a tablet that has Unown on it

Trivia

• No Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture was aired; instead, a promotion for Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai aired.
• The tablet that Cynthia was reading before battling Paul had Unown on it. The inscription is the Japanese version of the inscription in Solaceon Ruins. The inscription is in Rōmaji, and is as follows (note that some parts of the inscription do not match the standard Hepburn romanization system):

FRIEND
SUBETE NO
INOCHI HA
BETSU NO
INOCHI TO DEAI
NANIKA WO UMIDASU

They inscription translates to: Friends: all lives bring forth something from different lives and meetings. In the dubbed version, Cynthia says When every life meets another life, something will be born.

• Paul said that the battle would be 6-on-6; however, he only used 4 Pokémon. This is because he gave up the battle.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music.
• The music that plays in the background during the battle between Paul's Chimchar and Cynthia's Garchomp is the same music played in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl when the player faces Cynthia after defeating the Elite Four.
• Dawn narrates the next episode preview.

Errors

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The error

• Right before Torterra is hit by Garchomp's Brick Break and by the end of the episode, the top half of Torterra's face was brown, instead of the normal green.

Dub edits

• The dub places the setting of the episode as Amity Square, while the Japanese version just places it in a nature park that is unique to the anime.

In other languages

• Italian: Il coraggio di Paul
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Una entrenadora de primera!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Entrenamiento especial!
• Dutch: Opkomst van Kampioen Cynthia!

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