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Dawn of a New Era!! (Japanese: ポッチャマ対スボミー！ヒカリ初バトル!! Pochama vs. Subomie! Hikari's First Battle!!) is the fourth episode of Diamond & Pearl. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 5, 2006.

Ash and Dawn have started travelling together; however, they do not really fit each other. Wanting to get Ash to acknowledge her power, she challenges Pokémon minstrel Nando to a battle!

Synopsis

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Nando (Japanese: ナオシ Naoshi; Seiyū: 中井和哉 Kazuya Nakai)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Starly (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Budew (Nando's, evolves)
• Roselia (Nando's, newly evolved) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Turtwig (unnamed trainer's)
• Chimchar (unnamed trainer's)
• Prinplup (unnamed trainer's; debut)
• Gastly
• Hoothoot
• Noctowl
• Wooper
• Quagsire
• Misdreavus
• Ho-oh (flashback)
• Duskull
• Chimecho
• Kricketot (debut)
• Burmy
• Buneary
• Mesprit (flashback)

Trivia

• At the time the title was revealed, Budew was not yet known, as it had not yet been revealed.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music.
• The eyecatches feature Ash (wearing his Diamond and Pearl outfit), Dawn and Brock. The first shot shown just before the commercial is a close up of them, while the second shot shown right after the commercials shows their whole bodies. These would be the same shots for the rest of the series.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Pokémon Centers
  • Most of the scenes in this segment are of the Pokémon Center Ash stayed at while preparing for his Battle Pyramid rematch, though the Center from Two Degrees of Separation is also shown.
• Pokémon senryū: ジョーイさん　あいたくなったら　ポケモンセンター Jōi-san aitaku nattara, Pokémon sentā. "When I want to meet Nurse Joy, Pokémon Center."
• Nando's harp is shaped like Mew.

Errors

Dub edits

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* In other languages

• Italian: Il nuovo mondo di Lucinda & L'alba di una nuova era

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