Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl · Diamond and Pearl arc
DP011 · Mounting a Coordinator Assault!
ヒカリ！コンテストデビュー！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Inside the Jubilife Pokémon Center, Dawn shows off her new dress to Ash, Brock, and Pikachu, while her mother is on the video phone. Dawn thanks her mom for the dress, who reveals that she is missing the matching choker.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's DP011 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · DP001-DP052
Diamond and Pearl.
Ash arrives in Sinnoh, meets Dawn and her Piplup, reunites with Brock. Picks Turtwig from Rowan; the Sinnoh badge run begins. Paul introduced as a foil.
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Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Diamond and Pearl.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.