DP033

DP033

DP033   スキです！ポケモンなりきり大会!! It's Love! Pokémon Cosplay Convention!!

First broadcast Japan May 10, 2007 United States

English themes Opening Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: スキです！ポケモンなりきり大会!! It's Love! Pokémon Cosplay Convention!!) is the 33rd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on May 10, 2007.

Ash and friends come to a spot where the "Pokémon Cosplay Convention", a special TV project, will be broadcasted. Hearing that the winner will be awarded with a Pokémon egg, the group enters the competition.

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

Major events

• Brock wins a Pokémon egg.

Debuts

• Palkia (fantasy, silhouette)

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Sukizō
• Yūka (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu)
• Chatot trainer (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Sinnoh Now staff
  • Title voice-over (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)
• Commercial girl (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
• Contest entrants
• Audience

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Growlithe (Officer Jenny's) (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Konishi Katsuyuki*)
• Kakuna
• Weepinbell
• Geodude
• Doduo
• Electrode
• Koffing (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Rhydon
• Gyarados
• Elekid
• Mightyena
• Makuhita
• Crawdaunt
• Swalot (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Trapinch
• Chatot (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Palkia (fantasy, silhouette)

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This is the 500th episode of the entire Pokémon anime, if Holiday Hi-Jynx and Snow Way Out are counted as episodes.
• During the first half time sequence, instead of the normal music, it's a continuation of the dialogue by Yuka who complains about being knocked down by the microphone. The microphone holder apologises.
• Music from Camp Pikachu and Gotta Dance! are used as background music.
• Gotta Dance! was played when James' Mime Jr. used Teeter Dance on Meowth and Dustox.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Budew
  • Pokémon senryū: ゆきどけの　みずにめざめる　スボミーよ
• Ash narrates the next episode preview.
• Many of Pikachu's impressions (see below) also appeared in the ending of Gotta Dance!.
• Pokémon cosplay/impressions:
  • Yūka: Cherrim
  • Nurse Joy: Chansey
  • Officer Jenny: Growlithe
  • Ash's Pikachu: Wobbuffet, Loudred, Cacnea, Seviper, Mudkip, Lotad, Buneary, Budew
  • Meowth: Weavile, Sunflora
  • James's Mime Jr.: Claydol, Chikorita
  • Brock's Croagunk: Politoed
  • Dawn's Piplup: Weedle
  • Chatot: Jigglypuff, Lapras (previous champion)
  • Mightyena: Suicune
  • Swalot: Muk
  • Koffing: Togepi
  • Weepinbell: Sunkern
  • Gyarados: Caterpie
  • Kakuna: Crawdaunt
  • Doduo: Dodrio
  • Electrode: Gastly (past year's competition)
  • Geodude: Steelix (past year's competition)
  • Trapinch: Turtwig (past year's competition)

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