DP168

Keeping In Top Forme!

DP168   EP634 飛べシェイミ！空の彼方へ！！ Fly, Shaymin! Far into the Sky!!

First broadcast Japan March 18, 2010 United States August 14, 2010

English themes Opening We Will Carry On! Ending

Japanese themes Opening サイコー・エブリディ！ Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation director 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata No additional credits are available at this time.

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Keeping In Top Forme! (Japanese: 飛べシェイミ！空の彼方へ！！ Fly, Shaymin! Far into the Sky!!) is the 168th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 634th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan as a one-hour special on March 18, 2010, along with DP169 and aired in the United States on August 14, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis On their way to Grand Festival, Ash and Dawn are practicing for their upcoming battles and contest. They meet up with Marley, a girl who was saved by Brock from an oncoming waterfall. She is harboring an injured Shaymin, saying that it was attacked by a trio of thugs who wanted to take Shaymin away. Marley asks him to escort her to the flower field where its friends are. Will they be able to return Shaymin to its friends and defeat the thugs who want to take Shaymin away?...

Major events

• Ash and friends meet Marley.

Debuts

• Marley

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Shaymin

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Marley

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Torterra (Ash's)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's; flashback)
• Arcanine (Marley's; flashback)
• Shaymin (three)
• Shroomish

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Bronzong
• Music from Celebi: Voice of the Forest, Gotta Dance, Jirachi Wish Maker, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and Giratina and the Sky Warrior is played during this episode.
• The title is a reference to the phrase 'top form'.

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