DP145

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

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Diamond & Pearl series

DP146 : Dressed for Jess Success! →

A Rivalry to Gible On!

DP145   EP611 フカマル…ゲットだぜ！ Fukamaru...Got It!

First broadcast Japan October 1, 2009 United States February 20, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 新城真 Makoto Shinjō 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

A Rivalry to Gible On! (Japanese: フカマル…ゲットだぜ！ Fukamaru...Got It!) is the 145th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 611th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan as a 1 hour special on October 1, 2009, along with Dressed for Jess Success! and will air in the United States on February 20, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis As Ash and co. travel to Lilypad Town and Dawn's next contest with their new friends Kazunari and Kotone, they encounter a wild Gible. Kazunari and Ash have both set their sights on capturing it, but who will emerge the victor?

Major events

• Ash and Kazunari attempt to catch the same Gible with the latter succeeding.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Gible

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Kotone
• Kazunari
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Team Rocket grunts fantasy)
• Giovanni's employees (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Monferno (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Marill (Kotone's)
• Totodile (Kazunari's)
• Gible (Kazunari's; newly caught)
• Eevee
• Mankey
• Farfetch'd
• Sharpedo
• Trapinch
• Diglett (multiple)
• Dugtrio (multiple)
• Onix
• Golbat (multiple)
• Zubat (multiple)

Trivia

• As displayed in this episode a new visual effect has been introduced for when a Poké Ball is used to capture a Pokémon, as it will now let off several sparkles when the capture succeeds, similar to the games.
• This episode has a very similar Japanese title to a future episode which is just 12 episodes later.

Dub edits

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Diamond & Pearl series

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