DP037

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DP037   ハクタイジム！VSナタネ！！ Hakutai Gym! VS Natane!!

First broadcast Japan June 7, 2007 United States November 17, 2007

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 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Early reports credited 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada as storyboarder and assistant director and 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane as animation director.

The Grass Menagerie! (Japanese: ハクタイジム！VSナタネ！！ Hakutai Gym! VS Natane!!) is the 37th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on June 7, 2007 and in the United States on November 17, 2007.

Ash Ketchum formally challenges Gardenia, the leader of the Eterna City Gym.

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

Major events

• Ash obtains the Forest Badge.
  • Ash's Staravia defeats Gardenia's Cherubi.
  • Ash's Staravia is defeated by Gardenia's Turtwig.
  • Ash's Turtwig defeats Gardenia's Turtwig.
  • Ash's Turtwig is defeated by Gardenia's Roserade.
  • Ash's Aipom defeats Gardenia's Roserade.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia
• Yōko (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu)
• The Underground Man (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)

* 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)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's)
• Cherubi (Gardenia's)
• Roserade (Gardenia's)
• Nuzleaf (Yōko's)

Trivia

• This episode introduces The Underground of Sinnoh but only to Jessie, James and Meowth.
• Yōko strongly resembles Kumiko Yamaguchi from Gokusen, who is also voiced by 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu.
• Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Drapion
  • Pokémon senryū: ドラピオン　バトルでめざせ　チャンピオン "Drapion aims to be the battle champion".
• Brock narrates the next episode preview.
• Assistant executive animation director Yamashita Megumi is dropped from the ending credits.

In other languages

• Italian: L'esperta di Pokémon d'Erba

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