DP027

Settling a Not-So-Old Score!

DP027   EP493 決戦！ポッチャマVSポッタイシ!! Decisive Battle! Pochama vs. Pottaishi!!

First broadcast Japan April 5, 2007 United States September 8, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (PopUp.Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Settling a Not-So-Old Score! (Japanese: 決戦！ポッチャマVSポッタイシ!! Decisive Battle! Pochama vs. Pottaishi!!) is the 27th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 493rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 5, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with DP026, and in the United States on September 8, 2007.

With Dawn's Pokémon Contest coming to its end, she is pit up against her childhood friend, Kenny. Its Piplup vs Prinplup... But who will win?

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Dawn beats Jessie's Dustox with her Piplup in the quarterfinals of the Contest.
• Dawn narrowly beats Kenny's Prinplup in the finals.
• Dawn wins her first Contest Ribbon.

Debuts

• Kricketune

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Marian
• Contesta
• Mr. Sukizo
• Nurse Joy
• Kenny
• Johanna
• Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Alakazam (Kenny's)
• Koffing (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Kricketune (debut)
• Nidoking
• Magneton
• Magmar
• Sneasel
• Sealeo
• Solrock
• Bagon
• Buizel

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and a reduced cut of Ready Go! are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: James's Carnivine
  • Pokémon senryū: マスキッパ　きょうもはらぺこ　すきっぱら Masukippa, kyō mo hara peko, sukippara "Muskippa is also starving today: empty stomach."
• This episode's number (493) is the same as the number of Pokémon as of Generation IV.

Errors

• After Dawn's win against Jessie, Marian says that Dawn and Piplup are off to the final round, but Dawn vs. Jessie was a first round match. Piplup is later seen defeating a Bagon, and then fighting against Kenny and Prinplup in the final round.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Definindo um Placar de Velhos Amigos!
• German: Lucia´s große Chance!?
• Italian: Il primo Fiocco di Lucinda & Un avversario leale
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Ajustando una Cuenta de la Infancia!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Saldando cuentas viejas!
• Dutch: Floaroma dorp Pokémon Wedstrijd, VS Kenny!
• Czech: Vyrovnání skóre
• Polish: Pierwsze koty za płoty

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