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| Season | Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors (Season 13) · The semi-final & farewells arc (DP189–DP191) |
| Episode | Season 13, episode 34 · English episode 653 · Japanese episode 658 · Bulbapedia code DP191 |
| English title | Memories are Made of Bliss! |
| Japanese title | 想い出はパール！友情はダイヤモンド！！ Omoide wa Pāru! Yūjō wa Daiyamondo!! — “Memories are Pearls! Friendship is a Diamond!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 9 September 2010 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 5 February 2011 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Saikō – Everyday! (The Greatest – Everyday!), Band Version – Fumie Akiyoshi with The Greatest-Band · Kimi no Mune ni LaLaLa (In Your Heart, LaLaLa), full version – MADOKA. |
| English opening | We Will Carry On! – Adam Elk |
| Previous episode | The Brockster Is In! (DP190) |
Plot episodeSeries finaleDawn stays in Sinnoh
Memories are Made of Bliss! is the 34th episode of Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors, the thirteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 653rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 658, Bulbapedia code DP191). It first aired in Japan on 9 September 2010 and in the United States on 5 February 2011. It falls within the season’s The semi-final & farewells stretch (EP189–EP191).
The series finale aired on Saturday 5 February 2011, the same day Cartoon Network premiered Zoroark: Master of Illusions and two days after Japan’s two Diamond & Pearl specials; Pokémon: Black & White began a week later, on 12 February 2011.
Synopsis
Ash, Dawn and Brock spend a last day together in Twinleaf Town before Ash and Brock return to Kanto and Dawn stays in Sinnoh. Ash invites Dawn to come to Kanto, but Johanna reveals that Buneary has been chosen as a model for Poké Chic magazine, so Dawn must stay.
Upset that the group is splitting up, Piplup runs off in tears; Pikachu and Meowth end up crying with him, until Team Rocket net Pikachu and Piplup. Staraptor’s Brave Bird bursts their balloon, Torterra frees the captives, and Hydro Pump and Volt Tackle blast the trio off. Team Rocket, meanwhile, have been contacted by Giovanni’s new secretary, Matori, who tells them they are promoted and summoned for a special mission.
That afternoon the friends watch Cynthia’s Garchomp defeat Flint’s Infernape for the Championship, and Brock announces he will train as a Pokémon Doctor. At the port, Dawn waves goodbye as Ash and Brock sail away. In Kanto, Ash and Brock part at a crossroads, and Ash and Pikachu run down the hill towards Pallet Town and home.
Major Events
- Series finale. Dawn stays in Sinnoh when Buneary is chosen to model for Poké Chic
- Team Rocket are promoted by Giovanni’s new secretary, Matori
- Cynthia beats Flint on TV
- Ash and Brock return to Kanto and Ash runs home to Pallet Town
- The only series finale so far to introduce a recurring human character
- Matori’s debut
Trivia
- The English title plays on Dean Martin’s “Memories Are Made of This”, with a nod to Blissey, the evolution of Brock’s new Chansey.
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Sinnoh storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- 1 minute 21 seconds are cut: the full Japanese ending, In Your Heart, LaLaLa, with its montages of Dawn, Brock and Ash
- The Kanto arrival and parting scenes, which follow the ending in Japan, are moved before the English credits
- The magazine PokéKyan becomes Poké Chic
- The evening becomes “this afternoon”
- Ash’s line about the Champion League implies that winning it would make him a Pokémon Master
- Hoothoot keeps its Japanese voice
- The full version of In Your Heart, LaLaLa, cut from the dub
- Together 2007 under Flint and Cynthia’s battle — replaced in the dub by an extended We Will Carry On!
- Sora no Hanataba into the credits, dropped from the dub
- Generation V music during Team Rocket’s call, before the Black & White anime had premiered
- Instrumentals of the ending and of Friends’ Anniversary
Part of our Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.