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Once There Were Greenfields (Japanese: ナタネとサボネア！さよならは誰のため！ Natane and Sabonea! Farewell to Whom?!) is the 54th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 520th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 15, 2007 and in the United States on April 19, 2008.

Ash and friends arrive in Emeragrove Town and reunite with Gardenia, the Eterna City gym leader, who is organizing a Pokémon battle for children to watch. At the suggestion of Gardenia, Ash and Dawn battle against the Template:Type2 Gym Leader and James.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash's Aipom and Dawn's Pachirisu defeat James's Cacnea and Gardenia's Turtwig in a double battle.
• James's Cacnea begins to learn Drain Punch.
• James gives his Cacnea to Gardenia for training.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia
• Children
  • Seiyū: 大谷育江 Ikue Ohtani*, 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*, 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's; given to Gardenia for training)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's)

Trivia

• One of the boys calls Kojirō "Kosanji", which usually is used to refer to Kosaburō. In the dub, the boy calls James "Old man".
• The instrumental version of A Small Thing from Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Weavile
  • Pokémon senryū: ながいつめ　ニューっとひっかく　マニューラよNagai tsume, nyū 'tto hikkaku, Manyūra yo.
• Ash and Dawn narrate the next episode preview.
• Team Rocket does not blast off in this episode
• Jessie breaks the fourth wall when she says to start up the season in style with the old get-up and go strategy. This is the second episode of the season.
• Dawn has her first battle with a gym leader.
• In the Latin American dub, James's Cacnea is refered as a female Pokémon.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Latin American Spanish: ¡Qué verdes eran los pastos!

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