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(Japanese: 最強のコイキングと最も美しいヒンバス! The Strongest Koiking and the Most Beautiful Hinbass!) is the 21st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on March 1, 2007.

On arrival in Kotobuki City, Ash Ketchum and friends learn of the B-Button Alliance, a group of trainers that aim at ultimate strength and beauty but don't evolve their Pokémon - a difficult task when training a Magikarp and a Feebas.

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Hikari
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Magikarp salesman
• Hatsune (Seiyū: 小林ゆう Yū Kobayashi)
• Otone (Seiyū: 小島幸子 Sachiko Kojima)
• Female reporter (Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*)
• Pokémon professor (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• IT employee

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Mukubird (Ash's)
• Piplup (Hikari's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Magikarp (Hatsune's)
• Feebas (Otone's) (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi)

Trivia

• The B-Button Alliance is a reference to the games where the B button is used to cancel evolution.
• The title card is read by Jessie, James and Meowth.
• The educational magazine James subscribed to as a child, 実験と自習 Experimentation and Self-Study, is a parody of the magazine 科学と学習 Science and Education.
• Music from Gotta Dance! and the title theme from Pokémon 4Ever is used as background music.
• The remote control for the evolution machine is similar to Nintendo's Wii remote controller.
• Pokémon senryū: パチリスが　おめめさめたよ　パッチリす

Errors

Dub edits

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