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Tears For Fears!

DP053   EP519 ヒコザルの涙！ Hikozaru's Tears!

First broadcast Japan November 8, 2007 United States April 12, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 広岡歳仁 Toshihito Hirooka Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Tears For Fears! (Japanese: ヒコザルの涙！ Hikozaru's Tears!) is the 53rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 519th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was originally scheduled to air in Japan on November 1, 2007, but was delayed to November 8 due to baseball. It aired in the US on April 12, 2008. This episode is the start of the eleventh season, Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension.

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

Synopsis

The episode starts with Ash and friends eating in the morning. Ash's newly obtained Chimchar is confused on what to do since everyone is in a happy mood. While Team Rocket have their respective Pokémon out of their Poké Balls eating with them Seviper notices that three Zangoose are heading their way. They begin fighting furiously and Seviper, despite attacking with venom at its mortal enemies, finds itself outnumbered and outmatched. Jessie returns Seviper to its Poké Ball but it refuses to give up and comes straight back out. Jessie continually tries to get Seviper back into the Poké Ball but to no avail. Then the wild Zangoose send Team Rocket "blasting off again" with Meowth landing in a different area from Jessie and James.

With most of their Pokémon lounging about, Ash and Dawn go for a sparring match all watched by Meowth as he looks for his teammates. Ash uses his Pikachu and Dawn uses her Buizel. After a tough match, they decide to use different Pokémon. Then Ash uses his Chimchar to battle against Dawn's Piplup. Despite putting up a tough fight against Piplup, Chimchar loses the battle causing it to be reminded of losing in the Tag Battle Tournament and being cruelly released by Paul. Ash picks up Chimchar who expects to be criticized, however instead Ash congratulates it on a good battle. This is followed up by compliments from Dawn and Brock as well as cheering from all the other Pokémon. Chimchar is left very nervous and confused, and starts crying since it can't handle the drastic change from a negative owner to positive people. Ash is confused as to why Chimchar would cry when it's getting complimented, and Brock muses that Chimchar mustn't have got many chances to show any emotion while under Paul's ownership. Ash understands, and holds Chimchar while the Chimp Pokémon sobs its heart out. Meowth is also moved by this emotional display and, with tears in his eyes, leaves without incident to continue looking for Jessie and James.

Later, at night, Chimchar has a nightmare about having to fight under Paul's command battling a Graveler. Graveler jumps out against Chimchar and uses Rock Throw, sending boulders flying. Paul orders Chimchar not to move, as his way of trying to force Chimchar to access Blaze. Chimchar's nightmare then switches to the Zangoose fight when it was captured, still with Paul's screaming voice in its head. Chimchar wakes up and, unable to get back to sleep, goes for a walk.

Meowth is still looking for the rest of Team Rocket, when he crosses paths with Chimchar. After convincing it he doesn't want to fight, Meowth tells Chimchar that he knows what it's like to worry, and he dreams of the time when he and the others are finally able to successfully capture Pikachu as then he wouldn't have anything to worry about. Meowth then tells Chimchar it should stop worrying about the past, and instead look to the new, brighter future because it's a very lucky Pokémon. Meowth states to Chimchar that its new friends would do anything, even "give the clothes off their backs" if it really needed it before he leaves. Chimchar is left thoughtful at this new outlook. The next morning, all of the Pokémon start helping out preparing for a meal, and Chimchar is once again left unsure of what to do. Ash calls over to it, asking for help carrying some water from the nearby river to which Chimchar happily agrees to.

Later, in the daytime, Team Rocket is then shown in their balloon, holding Meowth on his rear end with a "plunger". Which Team Rocket state that they were going to steal Ash's Pokémon and that meeting Meowth was just a coincidence. Team Rocket goes through with their plan to capture Ash and his friend's Pokémon. Which they actually capture all of the Pokémon that are out of their Poké Balls and begin to fly off. Dawn tries to make her Pokémon return by using the Poké Ball but this fails. Meowth says the containers are protected from that possibility. So Dawn sends out her Piplup and commands it to use BubbleBeam while Brock orders Croagunk to use Poison Sting. This also fails.

Seviper gets out of its Poké Ball because it senses the three Zangoose once again. The gang of Zangoose climb up a tree to get to the level of Team Rocket's Balloon. Team Rocket's Balloon falls so Team Rocket ironically hide themselves within the containers that they stole Ash, Dawn, and Brock's Pokémon. However this backfires, as the wild Zangoose attack the container attempting to get to Seviper and pushing it close to the edge of a nearby cliff. Ash and Chimchar arrive back and see what's happening, and Ash tells Chimchar to help. However Chimchar is too frightened to fight the wild Zangoose. So Ash gives a little pep-talk to Chimchar, telling it that while he understands Chimchar is scared, the other Pokémon really need help. Chimchar is reminded of the kindness shown by Ash and the others, and Meowth telling it that the group would do anything to help it if they needed to. As a result, Chimchar becomes motivated to battle against his fear, the Zangoose. Chimchar uses Dig a few times to confuse the Zangoose and then uses Flamethrower to finish them off.

Team Rocket open the container from the inside and try to escape but Ash and Dawn command Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, Chimchar to use Flamethrower, Turtwig to use Razor Leaf, Piplup to use BubbleBeam, and Buneary to use Ice Beam to attack Team Rocket ending the episode by sending Team Rocket blasting off for the second and final time in the episode. Chimchar joins the other Pokémon in their cheering, and can now look forward to far happier future with Ash...

Major events

• Chimchar overcomes its fear of Zangoose.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Paul (flashback and nightmare)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Elekid (Paul's; flashback)
• Zangoose (wild, group of three)
• Graveler (from Chimchar's nightmare)

Trivia

• Both the opening and ending animations have updated to move Chimchar to Ash's group, while Paul's Electabuzz has replaced Elekid in the opening.
• An instrumental version of Meowth's Song, music from Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and an alternate cut of Together are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Garchomp
  • Pokémon senryū: ガブリアス　ガブリとくるぞ　かみくだく Gaburiasu, gaburi to kuruzo, kamikudaku
• James, Gardenia and Meowth narrate the next episode preview.
• This is the third episode where a character bleeds. The first was way back in Wake Up, Snorlax! when Misty scratched her shoulder while trying to get through the thorny bushes, and the second was in Ignorance is Blissey.
• This episode's dub title is a reference to the musical group Tears for Fears. It is the second time that the anime has referenced the group, the first being in Hocus Pokémon.
• Kayzie Rogers returns after the hiatus that she went on after Following a Maiden's Voyage!.
• This is the first episode to be dubbed at DuArt Film & Video.

Errors

Ash with scratches on his shoulder

• Ash's scratch disappears in the next scene.
• In the dub, the narrator says, "With the Eterna City Contest and Tag Battle behind them..." The group has just left from a Contest in Hearthome City, not Eterna. This may be due to script confusion, as the next episode features the Eterna Gym Leader, Gardenia.
• Jessie's Seviper's Japanese voice can be heard during the brawls against Zangoose.
• Meowth looks like he has an eyelash while he is in the tube with the rest of Team Rocket along with their Pokémon.
• In Chimchar's flashback of the Hearthome contest, Chimchar remembers Paul saying, "You are out of here!", when Paul really said, "You're out of here!"

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		小火焰猴的眼淚！
Czech		Slzy strachu
Danish		Tårer og frygt!
Dutch		Tranen van angst!
Finnish		Pelonkyyneleitä
European French		Les larmes de Ouisticram !
German		Tränen der Vergangenheit!
Hebrew		הדמעות של צ'ימצ'אר
Indonesian		Air Mata Chimchar!
Italian		Lacrime di paura!
Korean		불꽃숭이! 눈물이여, 안녕!
Norwegian		Tårer av frykt!
Polish		Łzy Chimchara
Portuguese	Brazil	Lágrimas de Chimchar!
	Portugal	O Medo do Sucesso!
Romanian		Lacrimi de Supărare
Spanish	Latin America	¡Enfrenta tus temores!
	Spain	¡Lágrimas de Miedo!
Swedish		Skräckens tårar

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