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Tag! We're It...!
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全員参加!タッグバトル!! All Members Participate! Tag Battle!!
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First broadcast
Japan
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October 4, 2007
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United States
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February 1, 2008
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
Animation
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Team Iguchi
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Screenplay
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冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
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Storyboard
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山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada
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Assistant director
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山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada
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Animation directors
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夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume
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新城真 Makoto Shinjō
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No additional credits are available at this time.
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Tag! We're It...! (Japanese: 全員参加!タッグバトル!! All Members Participate! Tag Battle!!) is the 50th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on October 4, 2007 as part of a two-hour special alongside DP049, and in the United States on February 1, 2008.
The group enter a tag battle tournament where they must cooperate with a randomly chosen competitor to progress. While Brock and Dawn quickly become acquainted with their partners, Ash has to battle alongside Paul...
SynopsisMajor events
- Dawn is entry number 28 (given by Ash) and is partnered with the 9th entrant, Conway and his Slowking.
- Brock is entry number 16 and is partnered with the 21st entrant, Holly and her Wingull.
- Ash is entry number 15 and is partnered with the 5th entrant, Paul and his Chimchar.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash Ketchum
- Brock
- Dawn
- Jessie
- James
- Paul
- Conway (Seiyū: 三戸耕三 Kōzō Mito)
- Holly (Seiyū: 小笠原亜里沙 Arisa Ogasawara)
- Enta (Seiyū: 三宅健太 Kenta Miyake)
- Researcher (Seiyū: 仁科洋平 Yōhei Nishina)
- Elite Trainer (Seiyū: 逢坂 力 Chikara Ōsaka)
- Giant (Seiyū: 堂坂晃三 Kōzō Dōzaka)
- Trainer 1 (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
- Trainer 2 (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*)
- Audience
* No official credit was given for this character.
Pokémon
Trivia
- This is part one of a three episode arc.
- This episode features the following pairings:
- Ash and Paul with Pikachu and Chimchar
- Dawn and Conway with Piplup and Slowking
- Brock and Holly with Sudowoodo and Wingull
- The ending was omitted in the original broadcast, with the credits moved to the opening instead.
- Music from Pokémon Heroes and Jirachi: Wish Maker, and the instrumental version of Advance Adventure are used as background music.
- Dawn's partner, Conway, seems to have a crush on her.
- Conway appears to be based off of the Super Nerd Trainer class.
- Other than Pokémon League Conferences, this is the second time Ash and a rival participated in the same competition. The first time this happened was when Ash and Gary took part in an extreme Pokémon race where Ash won a Pokémon egg (Phanpy). This time, Ash and Paul take part and were teamed up together.
- This episode, along with DP051 and DP052 aired as a 90 minute special on Feburary 1st on Cartoon Network.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
- Italian: Il torneo di doppi incontri & Spirito di squadra
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