DP038

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DP038   爆誕！サイクリングロード！！ Explosive Birth! Cycling Road!!

First broadcast Japan June 21, 2007 United States November 24, 2007

English themes Opening Diamond and Pearl 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 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Assistant director 山田浩之 Hiroyuki Yamada Animation director 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

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One Big Happiny Family! (Japanese: 爆誕！サイクリングロード！！ Explosive Birth! Cycling Road!!) is the 38th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on June 21, 2007 and in the United States on November 24, 2007.

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

Major events

• The egg that Brock obtained in All Dressed up with Somewhere to Go hatches into a Happiny.

Debuts

• Brock's Happiny

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Pokémon trainers (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's, newly hatched)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*)
• Chansey (Jessie's friend; flashback)
• Weedle
• Starly

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon in Jessie's fantasy

• Caterpie
• Pidgey
• Poliwag
• Alakazam
• Golduck
• Kangaskhan
• Chinchou
• Kecleon
• Larvitar
• Zigzagoon
• Lotad
• Whiscash
• Bidoof
• Shinx
• Glameow

Trivia

• Ash finally finds out that Pikachu destroyed Dawn's bike.
• Jessie remembers her Chansey/Blissey friend that was featured in Ignorance is Blissey.
• Music from Destiny Deoxys is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Bidoof
  • Pokémon senryū: パッとでた　ビッパのでっぱ　りっぱかな
• Professor Oak narrates the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

• Italian: La famiglia cresce
• Iberian Spanish: ¡Crece la familia con Happiny!

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