DP143

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DP143

DP143   EP609 ジョウトフェスタ！ チコリータとワニノコ登場！！ Jōto Festa! Chicorita and Waninoko Appear!!

First broadcast Japan September 17, 2009 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 十川誠志 Masashi Sogo Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation directors 古川博之 Hiroyuki Furukawa 牧内ももこ Momoko Makiuchi No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ジョウトフェスタ！ チコリータとワニノコ登場！！ Jōto Festa! Chicorita and Waninoko Appear!!) is the 143rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 609th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan as a 1 hour special on September 17, 2009, along with DP144.

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Synopsis

Major events

• Ash and friends meet Kotone and Kazunari, two Pokémon Trainers from Johto.
• Dawn has a battle with Kotone during the Johto Festa and wins an egg.
• Dawn's egg hatches into Cyndaquil.
• Kotone and Kazunari join the group.

Debuts

• Kotone
• Kazunari

Pokémon debuts

• Dawn's Cyndaquil

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Kotone
• Kazunari
• Kazunari's father
• Clair (Kotone's introduction)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Cyndaquil (Dawn's; hatched)
• Marill (Kotone's)
• Chikorita (Kotone's)
• Totodile (Kazunari's)
• Ampharos (Amphy; Kotone's introduction)
• Dragonair (Clair's; Kotone's introduction)
• Teddiursa
• Ursaring (Multiple)
• Celebi (Dream)
• Lugia (Dream)
• Entei (Dream)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's's; flashback)
• Chikorita (Ash's|Chikorita; flashback)
• Totodile (Ash's Totodile; flashback)

Trivia

• Kotone's Johto introduction showed Clair in her Generation IV clothes.
• This is the first time that a main character receives an egg in which it hatches in the same episode.

Errors

Dub edits

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