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Mounting a Coordinator Assault
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First broadcast
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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Mounting a Coordinator Assault (Japanese: ヒカリ!コンテストデビュー!! Hikari! Contest Debut!!) is the eleventh episode of Diamond & Pearl. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 7, 2006.
Dawn is eager to participate in her first contest and meets Zoey, another girl, whom she instantly strikes a rivalry with. However, Ash's Aipom is also very eager to enter the contest, so Ash enters as well. Will Ash end up stealing Dawn's thunder?
Synopsis
Major events
- Ash participates in an official Pokémon contest for the first time. (He previously entered an unofficial contest in Once More with Reeling.)
- Dawn participates in a Pokémon contest for the first time.
- Zoey, Jessie, Ash and Dawn compete in the first round with Misdreavus, Carnivine, Aipom and Piplup, respectively.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Aipom (Ash's)
- Starly (Ash's)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Bonsly (Brock's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Glameow (Zoey's)
- Misdreavus (Zoey's)
- Glameow (Johanna's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
- Rapidash
- Beautifly
- Buizel
- Bidoof
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
- The Buizel flying with its two tails is a possible reference to Tails from the "Sonic the Hedgehog" series, a likely source of inspiration for the Pokémon.
- Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker, an instrumental version and the ballad instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ are used as background music.
- Professor Oak's lecture: Pokémon Contest Appeal Round
- Pokémon senryū: ポケモンが かれいにまわるよ コンテスト Pokémon, oh they spin beautifully; that is a contest.
- The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.
Errors
Dub edits
Zoey's Misdreavus uses Shock Wave. In the original it was Thunder Wave. Template:Epstub Template:EpisodePrevNext
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