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Sleepless in Pre-Battle!

DP104   EP570 クレセリアVSダークライ！ Crecelia vs. Darkrai!

First broadcast Japan December 4, 2008 United States May 2, 2009

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ Ending あしたはきっと

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Sleepless in Pre-Battle! (Japanese: クレセリアVSダークライ！ Crecelia vs. Darkrai!) is the 104th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 570th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 4, 2008 as part of a one hour special with DP105, and will air in the United States on May 2, 2009.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The group go to Canalave Gym, but a pupil tells them that the Gym Leader is not there. The other pupils are seen sleeping. At a police station, the group is told by Officer Jenny that all the people in the town are having nightmares, and that the cause of the nightmares seems to be the Pokémon Darkrai.

Major events

• Dawn's Swinub evolves into a Piloswine.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Dawn's Piloswine

TV episode debuts

• Darkrai
• Cresselia

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Gym referee

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Swinub (Dawn's, evolves)
• Piloswine (Dawn's, newly evolved)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Cresselia (debut)
• Darkrai (debut)
• Psyduck

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Flygon
• The dub version of this episode first aired in the UK on April 17, 2009.
• Music from Destiny Deoxys, Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and The Rise of Darkrai are used as background music.
• Dawn displays the Lunar Wing that she bought in the movie The Rise of Darkrai, marking the first mention of the events of that movie in the anime and thus making it at least partially canon. Ash's nightmare is very similar to the one he had in the same movie.
• This episode aired in the same week that Hungry For the Good Life!, in which Dawn captures Swinub, aired in the U.S. The same thing happened with Ash's Gliscor.

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Dawn's Piloswine as a Mamoswine

• This episode is related to the game's event where the player has to go to Fullmoon Island to get a Lunar Wing from Cresselia to stop a nightmare caused by Darkrai.
• The dub title for this episode parodies the successful romantic comedy thriller film Sleepless in Seattle.

Errors

• Mamoswine was added in the place of Swinub in the opening instead of Piloswine.

In other languages

• German: Ein legendäres Pokémon!

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Diamond & Pearl series

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