BW070

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BW070   EP727 ドンナマイト開幕！ ズルッグVSヤナッキー！！ The Donamite Gets Underway! Zuruggu VS Yanakkie!!

First broadcast Japan March 15, 2012 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 七色アーチ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ドンナマイト開幕！ ズルッグVSヤナッキー！！ The Donamite Gets Underway! Zuruggu VS Yanakkie!!) is the 70th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 727th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 15, 2012.

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

Major events

• Ash, his friends, and Stephan arrive in Toaru Town and reunite with Bianca, Burgundy, Georgia, and Trip, all entering the Donamite tournament.
• Trip's Gurdurr is revealed to have evolved into Conkeldurr.
• Stephan defeats Edmond and advances to the second round.
• Cilan defeats Flora and advances to the second round.
• Ash's Scraggy learns Focus Blast.
• Ash defeats Akkie and advances to the second round.
• Iris and Burgundy begin their battle.

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

Debuts

• Masaomi

Pokémon debuts

• Simisage
• Conkeldurr

TV episode debuts

• Throh

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Don George
• Trip
• Bianca
• Stephan
• Burgundy
• Georgia
• Freddy O'Martian
• Masaomi
• Edmond
• Flora
• Akkie
• Bakkie
• Chakkie
• Grace
• Domon
• Referee

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Simisage (Japan)

Dare da?

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Scraggy (Ash's)
• Excadrill (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Gurdurr (Trip's; flashback)
• Conkeldurr (Trip's; debut)
• Dewott (Burgundy's)
• Sawk (Stephan's)
• Throh (Masaomi's)
• Simisage (Akkie's; debut)
• Gothorita (Flora's)
• Seismitoad (Edmond's)
• Pignite (fantasy)
• Mienfoo (fantasy)
• Gurdurr (fantasy)
• Scrafty (fantasy)
• Sawk (fantasy)

Trivia

• Iris and Georgia narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

File:Donamite Tournament.png

The error

• During the final shot of all the Donamite competitors, the side of Throh's nose is colored red instead of black and Scraggy's arms are orange.

Dub edits

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