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(Japanese: 旅立ち！フタバタウンからマサゴタウンへ!! Departure! From Futaba Town to Masago Town!!) is the first episode of Diamond & Pearl, and the 469th episode of the overall meta-series. It aired in Japan September 28, 2006, the same day as the Japanese release of the Nintendo DS games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

This episode begins the journey of Hikari, a ten-year-old girl living in the Sinnoh region. On this day, she travels to Professor Nanakamado's laboratory and obtains her first Pokémon, a Pochama.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Hikari receives Pochama from Professor Nanakamado.
• Ash Ketchum reaches Sinnoh, only to have Pikachu taken away and lost by Team Rocket, who followed him to the region.

Debuts

• Hikari
• Ayako
• Professor Nanakamado
• Yūzō
• Hikari's Pochama
• Ayako's Nyarmar

Pokémon debuts

• Naetle
• Hikozaru
• Mukkuru
• Mukubird
• Mukuhawk
• Bippa
• Bīdaru
• Subomie
• Mimirol
• Nyarmar
• Emrit (outline)

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Hikari
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Professor Nanakamado
• Ayako
• Momoan (fantasy)
• Nurse Joy (fantasy)
• Contesta (fantasy)
• Sukizo (fantasy)
• Yūzō (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Professor Nanakamado's assistant (Seiyū: 逢坂力 Chikara Ōsaka)
• Ramen shop operator (Seiyū: 仁科洋平 Yōhei Nishina)
• Audience (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Pochama (Hikari's, new; debut)
• Nyarmar (Ayako's; Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Weedle
• Pidgey
• Rattata
• Magikarp
• Ariados (Seiyū: 川上貴史 Takafumi Kawakami)
• Dunsparce
• Mantine
• Zigzagoon
• Ninjask
• Naetle (Seiyū: うえだゆうじ Yūji Ueda*)
• Hikozaru (Seiyū: 津村まこと Makoto Tsumura*)
• Mukkuru
• Mukubird
• Mukuhawk
• Bippa
• Bīdaru
• Subomie
• Mimirol
• Perap (flock)
• Tamanta
• Emrit

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This originally aired aired as a two-hour special on September 28, 2006, together with DP002 and DP003.
• An instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ is played as background music.
• Pochama's behavior when Hikari offered it food is exactly as described in the Pokédex: Pochama have high pride and hate to receive food from people.
• Hikari seing Emrit is mentioned in DP004 where Ash links it to his seeing Ho-oh as a starting trainer, though the scene is more similar to his seeing Suicune on the way to New Bark Town.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Sinnoh starter Pokémon.
  • All of the scenes in this segment come from this episode.
• Pokémon senryū: シンオウで　たびがはじまる　ポケモンと In Sinnoh, a journey begins with Pokémon.

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