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| Season | Pokémon DP: Battle Dimension (Season 11) · Chimchar’s fresh start & the road to Solaceon arc (DP053–DP059) |
| Episode | Season 11, episode 6 · English episode 521 · Japanese episode 525 · Bulbapedia code DP058 |
| English title | Nosing ‘Round the Mountain! |
| Japanese title | ダイノーズ！熱き魂！！ Dainōzu! Atsuki Tamashii!! — “Dainose! Burning Spirit!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 6 December 2007 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 24 May 2008 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Together – Fumie Akiyoshi · Kimi no Soba de ~Hikari no Tēma~ (By Your Side ~Hikari’s Theme~), Winter Version – GRIN |
| English opening | We Will Be Heroes – Kirsten Price |
| Previous episode | Bibarel Gnaws Best! (DP057) |
| Next episode | Luxray Vision! (DP059) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeNosepass evolves into Probopass
Nosing ‘Round the Mountain! is the 6th episode of Pokémon DP: Battle Dimension, the eleventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 521st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 525, Bulbapedia code DP058). It first aired in Japan on 6 December 2007 and in the United States on 24 May 2008. It falls within the season’s Chimchar’s fresh start & the road to Solaceon stretch (EP53–EP59).
Synopsis
On a rocky trail near Solaceon Town, Ash’s Turtwig battles a Trainer named Alan and his Nosepass, dodging a barrage of Zap Cannons until one blast knocks it onto a rock at the edge of the path. When Ash suggests moving somewhere safer, Alan refuses: he wants to battle near Mount Coronet, whose special magnetic field, as Brock explains, is what makes Nosepass evolve. Ash agrees to carry on. Turtwig dodges a Rock Slide and trades Tackles with Nosepass until both are badly hurt, and then Nosepass glows and evolves into Probopass. Dawn checks it with her Pokédex and Ash congratulates Alan, but before the match can resume, a helmet drops onto Probopass’s head and covers its eyes, and its Mini-Noses turn on Alan. Team Rocket reveal that they are controlling Probopass by remote, make it break up the ground and fly off with it, leaving Alan in despair until Ash and his friends urge him not to give up.
By a river, Jessie and James build more helmets, Jessie daydreaming about an army of stolen Probopass. Brock tracks the missing Pokémon with his compass, whose needle swings as the magnetic field shifts, and the friends find the trio’s camp. Alan wants to charge straight in, but Brock warns that he would only be attacked, so Ash sends Buizel across the river to steal the remote. Buizel fumbles it, Wobbuffet wrestles him for it and Staravia knocks it into the air, but as Ash leaps for it, Dustox’s Whirlwind dumps him in the water. The remote lands on Probopass’s antenna and explodes, sending Probopass berserk: it blasts Team Rocket away with Zap Cannon and turns on Ash’s group. Pikachu’s Thunderbolt only drives it off, so Alan climbs onto his rampaging partner and asks Pikachu to shock them both, but even that fails to break the helmet’s control.
Spotting a river below, Alan signals for a combined Thunderbolt and Water Gun. As Probopass halts at a cliff edge, Pikachu’s Thunderbolt, Buizel’s Water Gun and Pachirisu’s Discharge knock Probopass and Alan over into the water. Probopass sinks to the riverbed, where Alan pries the helmet off, and Buizel dives in after them when Alan fails to resurface. Team Rocket return with a net launcher that Pikachu’s Thunderbolt cannot stop and send out Seviper and Carnivine, but Alan, Probopass and Buizel surface with Alan’s fighting spirit restored. Buizel’s SonicBoom cuts the group free, Probopass’s Magnet Bomb knocks out Seviper and Carnivine, Pikachu adds Volt Tackle, and a combined Discharge and Zap Cannon from Pachirisu and Probopass blasts Team Rocket off again. Ash and Alan then pick up their interrupted battle. The episode is the anime’s first mention of location-based evolution, a mechanic introduced in the Generation IV games.
Major Events
- Alan’s Nosepass evolves into Probopass, the anime’s first location-based evolution
- Team Rocket’s mind-control helmet
- Probopass’s Magnet Bomb and Zap Cannon
- Probopass’s TV debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Probopass#0476 · DP058
Captures and evolutions
- Nosepass → Probopass#0476 · Alan · in Mount Coronet’s magnetic field
Trivia
- The English title plays on “She’ll Be Coming ’Round the Mountain”, for a Nosepass evolving near Mount Coronet.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The Hindi MarvelHQ dub cuts Jessie’s bikini close-ups and the first blast-off
- Japanese voices can still be heard under the English ones
- The Pokémon Symphonic Medley
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