DP138

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The Mother of All Battlers!

DP138   EP604 ヒカリVSママ！親子対決！！ Hikari VS Mama! Parent-Child Showdown!!

First broadcast Japan August 13, 2009 United States January 2, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending もえよ　ギザみみピチュー！

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director 古賀一臣 Kazuomi Koga Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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The Mother of All Battlers! (Japanese: ヒカリVSママ！親子対決！！ Hikari VS Mama! Parent-Child Showdown!!) is the 138th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 604th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 13, 2009 and will air in the United States on January 2, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Going back home, Dawn and her friends arrive in time for the Twinleaf Town Festival where a Contest will be held. Dawn will be facing her mother Johanna. Who will win?

Major events

• Ash and friends make it to Twinleaf Town. Ash and Brock also meet Dawn's mother, Johanna, for the first time in person.
• Dawn and Johanna have a battle and Johanna wins.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Johanna
• Noa
• Professor Oak
• Delia
• The master
• Iizō Iino
• Kane Iino
• Nayuta
• Rapidash's Trainer (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Umbreon (Johanna's)
• Bellossom (Noa's)
• Feebas
• Barboach
• Whiscash
• Crawdaunt
• Finneon
• Remoraid
• Goldeen (multiple)
• Gyarados
• Sunflora (multiple)
• Ledyba
• Heracross
• Rapidash (flashback)

Trivia

File:Johanna's Gracideas.png

Possible Gracideas

• This is the first episode of the four-part Twinleaf Festival arc.
• The flowers in Johanna's garden look strikingly similar to Gracideas.
• In Ash's flashback, he was wearing the same outfit as seen in a photo in Spell of the Unown.
• Daisuke Sakaguchi is credited for voicing Brock's Sudowoodo, even though Sudowoodo didn't appear in this episode.
• Another episode has an English title very similar to this one's.
• This is the first English episode of the 2010s.

Errors

Dawn's smaller than usual ribbons

• Dawn's ribbons appear to be far smaller than normal when she shows them off during this episode.
• The Rapidash shown in this episode is much smaller than other Rapidash shown in the anime. Its size was closer to that of a Ponyta, its pre-evolution.

Dub edits

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Diamond & Pearl series

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