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Drifloon On the Wind! (Japanese: フワンテと北風の使い! Fuwante and the Messenger of the North Wind!) is the 28th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 12, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with DP029, and in the United States on September 15, 2007

The group arrive at at a Pokémon Center run by a Nurse Joy and her daughters, Marnie and Paige. Paige takes Ash to a cave in the forest where a secret friend of her and her sister lives.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash meets up with Suicune again.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Drifloon

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Marnie (Japanese: サヤカ Sayaka) (Seiyū: 能登麻美子 Mamiko Noto)
• Paige (Japanese: マイ Mai) (Seiyū: 日笠山亜美 Tsugimi Higasayama)
• Karsten (Japanese: カズオ Kazuo) (Seiyū: 川島得愛 Tokuyoshi Kawashima)
• Woman
• Girl

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Drifloon (Marnie's (3) and Paige's (1)) (Seiyū: 伊東久美子 Kumiko Itō; 上田純子 Junko Ueda; 阪田伊都 Ito Sakata)
• Ampharos (Karsten's) (Seiyū: 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki*)
• Sandshrew
• Bellsprout
• Gastly
• Goldeen
• Furret
• Bellossom
• Wooper
• Quagsire
• Teddiursa
• Suicune (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Zigzagoon
• Whiscash

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• It was revealed that "Joy" is the nurse's family rather than given name. Marnie's full name is Marnie Francis Lynnette Joy (Sayaka François Joy in Japan), and Paige's full name is Paige Francis Lynnelle Joy (Mai François Joy in Japan).
• Pokettari Monsutari and music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Destiny Deoxys are used as background music.
• The episode contains many references to My Neighbor Totoro, with Sayaka (Marnie) = Satsuki and Mai (Paige) = Mei.
• Pokémon senryū is about Poffin making: かきまぜろ　こがさずこぼさず　ポフィンづくり Stir it, without burning or spilling: Poffin-making.
• Nurse Joys keep their surname in marriage.
• The name of Paige and Marnie's father is never mentioned in the dubbed version of the episode. The only references to Karsten's name occur in the closed captioning.

Errors

Dub edits

• In the Japanese version, the opening scene starts out with Ash, Brock and Dawn heading to the nearest Pokémon Center. In the English dub, this was cut for reasons unknown. Instead, a cold open format (possibly made up by Pokémon USA like in Leave It to Brocko!) shows Paige getting carried away by the wind, along with the Drifloon.

In other languages

• Italian: Due ragazze simpatiche & Suicune, il Pokémon leggendario

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