DP061

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DP061   ポケモンコンテスト！ズイ大会！！ Pokémon Contest! Zui Convention!!

First broadcast Japan December 20, 2007 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together (shown in DP060) Ending 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(Winter Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani 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: ポケモンコンテスト！ズイ大会！！ Pokémon Contest! Zui Convention!!) is the 61st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on December 20, 2007 along with DP060.

Dawn prepares for the Contest taking place the next day. Although the training flows smoothly, she has fierce competition this time, including Kenny and his new partner, a Breloom. Will Dawn be able to win her second ribbon despite dropping out after the first round in her last Contest?

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

Major events

• Jessie wins the Solaceon Contest with her Dustox.
• Dawn loses in the Appeal Round for the second contest in a row. The reason for this is because of Ambipom used the same move over and over again. (In this case Swift)
• Ash's Turtwig is learning Energy Ball.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy (from Solaceon Town)
• Zoey
• Kenny
• Johanna
• Marian
• Contesta
• Sukizō
• Pokémon Coordinators
• Audience

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Prinplup (Kenny's)
• Breloom (Kenny's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Rattata
• Dunsparce
• Steelix
• Exploud
• Dusclops

Trivia

• Professor Oak's lecture: Bibarel
  • Pokémon senryū: たいぼくを　かじれビーダル　はがいのち
• This is the first official contest that Jessie has ever won though she uses another name in her entry, Jesselina.
• This marks the second time that Dawn hasn't made it through the appeals round.
• This is the last episode to use 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (Winter Version) as an ending theme well as 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 in general.
• This episode is aired with DP060. As a result, the opening was shown in DP060.
• The credits are of DP060 and DP061.
• Ambipom's performance was similar to May's Skitty performance in the Grand Festival where they kept using the same move over and over again.
• Since the Kanto contests, contestants can use two different Pokémon in both rounds. Jessie only used Dustox in both rounds.

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