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| Season | Pokémon DP: Battle Dimension (Season 11) · Hearthome Collection & the Summer Academy arc (DP086–DP091) |
| Episode | Season 11, episode 34 · English episode 549 · Japanese episode 553 · Bulbapedia code DP086 |
| English title | Arriving in Style! |
| Japanese title | ヨスガコレクション！ポケモンスタイリストへの道！！ Yosuga Korekushon! Pokemon Sutairisuto e no Michi!! — “Yosuga Collection! The Road to Becoming a Pokémon Stylist!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 10 July 2008 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 20 December 2008 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Together2008 – Fumie Akiyoshi · Kaze no Messēji (Message of the Wind) – Mai Mizuhashi |
| English opening | We Will Be Heroes – Kirsten Price |
| Previous episode | Fighting Fear with Fear! (DP085) |
| Next episode | The Psyduck Stops Here! (DP087) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeHearthome Collection
Arriving in Style! is the 34th episode of Pokémon DP: Battle Dimension, the eleventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 549th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 553, Bulbapedia code DP086). It first aired in Japan on 10 July 2008 and in the United States on 20 December 2008. It falls within the season’s Hearthome Collection & the Summer Academy stretch (EP86–EP91).
Synopsis
Back in Hearthome City for Ash’s Gym battle, the group learn that Gym Leader Fantina is still away. A limousine pulls up carrying the famous Pokémon Stylist Paris and her Lopunny; she recognises Ash from the Hearthome Tag Battle Competition, while Brock insists he was there too and is promptly forgotten. Taking a liking to Dawn’s Buneary and Ash’s Pikachu, Paris invites them to enter the Hearthome Collection, a fashion show for Pokémon Stylists, and Jessie, overhearing, plans to enter too with James as her designer. At the Pokémon Center the friends meet Cocoa, a celebrity devoted to boutique fashion, who scolds Buneary when it approaches her dress, hurting Dawn’s feelings, and the designer Hermione dismisses Stylists and Coordinators as much the same before walking off. That night, while Brock finishes Ash’s outfit, Dawn struggles with her design until she remembers Zoey’s advice after Solaceon: the audience is watching the Pokémon, not the Trainer.
The next day Mayor Enta opens the show and introduces the judges, Paris and her former teacher Hermione, the editor-in-chief of Poké Chic, who is unhappy with the flashy entries and blames Paris for making Pokémon fashion gaudy. Ash and Pikachu appear as entry 18 in matching coloured wigs and striped loincloths modelled on the gods of wind and thunder, Pikachu drumming on the stage with Iron Tail and finishing with Thunderbolt, and the judges praise their originality. “Jessilina” presents Wobbuffet, but her heavy make-up and extra decorations clash with James’s design and leave the judges cold, though Brock’s praise for James’s accessories cheers him up. Cocoa’s Mismagius floats on stage as its dress unravels and creates a colourful effect with Psywave. Dawn comes last, at number 21: she and Buneary wear simple matching white dresses and necklaces, and Buneary’s Ice Beam performance earns high praise.
Ash, Dawn and Cocoa are the finalists for three awards: overall winner, best costume and most original entry. Sore losers, Team Rocket attack in a giant mecha to steal the Pokémon, but Paris’s Lopunny jams it with Hidden Power, and Lopunny and Buneary destroy it with a combined Bounce, sending the trio flying. When the ceremony resumes, Ash and Pikachu win the prize for originality and Dawn is named overall winner. Cocoa protests, but Hermione tells her she will receive only the award for accessories, since her accessories outshone her Pokémon. The judges praise Dawn for letting Buneary’s personality shine, and Paris credits Brock’s skill with the dresses. Hermione asks Dawn to start a Poké Chic collection straight away, but Dawn declines, explaining that she is a Coordinator at heart with much still to learn, and Hermione wishes her well. It was the last episode to air in Japan before Giratina and the Sky Warrior opened in cinemas.
Major Events
- Fantina is still away
- Paris and her Lopunny
- Dawn and Buneary win the fashion show
- Ash and Pikachu win the prize for originality
- Dawn turns down a Poké Chic line
- The last episode in Japan before Giratina and the Sky Warrior
- Lopunny’s TV debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Lopunny#0428 · DP086
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
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