Professor Kodama

Professor Kodama (Japanese: コダマ博士 Doctor Kodama) is the character of the day in DP149. He is voiced by 柴田秀勝 Hidekatsu Shibata in Japanese and Herb Lawrence in English.

Professor Kodama

Kodama had created a machine that made Template:Type2 Pokémon and Template:Type2 Pokémon become inseparable. Two of the Pokémon affected were Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Piplup. However, his Quagsire and Magnemite seemed to despise each other when the machine was turned on.

He had hired Team Rocket to help him work on the machine. They eventually decided to steal it along with Pikachu and Piplup. Professor Kodama attempted to stop them and managed to turn off the machine. This allowed his Quagsire and Magnemite to help him. It also allowed Pikachu and Piplup to come back to their senses and send Team Rocket blasting off.

Brock explained to Professor Kodama that perhaps the machine had the opposite effect on Magnemite and Quagsire because they were dual-typed Pokémon, with Quagsire's secondary type being Ground and Magnemite's secondary type being Steel.

Pokémon

Professor Kodama's Quagsire		Quagsire
		Quagsire is one of Professor Kodama's assistant Pokémon, however it seemed to have an intense dislike of Professor Kodama's other assistant, a Magnemite, a dislike that was more than mutual and as a result the two Pokémon were always arguing and would occasionally attack each other. After Professor Kodama created the machine that was designed to make Electric and Template:Type2 Pokémon inseparable, Quagsire and Magnemite were still constantly fighting as it emerged that as Quagsire was part Template:Type2 it was immune to the machine's power. Despite this, Quagsire and Magnemite were able to put their problems behind them to team up and help defeat Team Rocket. Quagsire's only known attack is Water Gun.
Debut	Sticking With You Know Who!

Professor Kodama's Magnemite		Magnemite
		Magnemite was Professor Kodama's other assistant and returned the hatred that Quagsire felt for it. Magnemite was also immune to the machine Professor Kodama developed due to being part Template:Type2. Despite this, it was able to team up with Quagsire to defeat Team Rocket which help resolve some of their issues with each other. Magnemite's only known attack is Thunderbolt.
Debut	Sticking With You Know Who!

Trivia

• Interestingly, Kodama's Japanese name is the name of one of the three Toukai line Shinkansen trains. The other two trains are named Hikari and Nozomi.

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