DP073

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DP073   さよならドクケイル！ Goodbye, Dokucale!

First broadcast Japan April 3, 2008 United States August 23, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 風のメッセージ (PokaPoka Version)

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by executive producer Kunihiko Yuyama.

Crossing Paths (Japanese: さよならドクケイル！ Goodbye, Dokucale!) is the 73rd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 3, 2008, along with Pika and Goliath! as a one-hour special and in the United States on August 23, 2008

Team Rocket arrives at a lakeside Pokémon Center. Jessie's Dustox sees a Template:Shiny2 Dustox and follows it to the lake.

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

Major events

• Jessie releases her Dustox.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Austin
• Astin (flashback)
• Jessie's idol-wannabe friends (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's; leaves)
• Cascoon (Jessie's; flashback)
• Wurmple (Jessie's; flashback)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Dustox (Austin's; Template:Shiny2)
• Dustox (multiple)
• Pidgey (multiple)

Trivia

• Together With the Wind is used as background music.
• This is the first time a main character purposely damages one of the Poké Balls of one of their Pokémon. Jessie does so, shattering Dustox's completely, in order to release it, as Dustox refused to leave her.
• Jessie's reason for releasing Dustox is very similar to the reason why Ash released his Butterfree. Also, Dustox's yellow ribbons could be seen as a reference to Butterfree's yellow scarf.
• The Japanese opening is updated with the evolutions of Dawn's Ambipom and Paul's Honchkrow, as well as the captures of Ash's Gligar and Paul's Magmar.
• When Jessie is shown as a young girl in her flashback, her hair style is similar to that of her mother, Miyamoto.
• When the dub title was first revealed, several sources incorrectly believed it to be the dub title for the first half of the Ranger 2 special.
• In the dub, this is the first episode not to have an exclamation point in its title since Throwing the Track Switch. This excludes Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! Parts One and Two since they will be aired later.

Errors

• When Ash calls out "everybody" from his party to help stop the lake from draining, the only Pokémon he calls out are Buizel, Chimchar, and Turtwig. Gligar and Staravia weren't called out and Pikachu, of course, was already out.

Dub edits

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