Pokémon: Following a Maiden Voyage!

In Twin Leaf Village, a 10 year old girl named Dawn beings her Pokémon Journey! So like most trainers in the Sinnoh Region, they star off in Professor Rowan's lab with either with Turtwig (Grass-Type), Chimchow (Fire-Type), or Piplup (Water-Type). Well Dawn not only gets herself lost, but some of the Pokémon end up getting out of Rowan's lab!? So Dawn ends up going to the forest to help find them! And ends up having to fight an Ariados to save Piplup, but in turn Piplup also saves her. And when they get back to the lab, Dawn finally selects her Pokémon, and do to her little encounter in the forest, Dawn chooses Piplup, and Dawn starts on her new Journey!

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Episode Info

Episode number: 10x1
Production Number: 1001
Airdate: Friday April 20th, 2007

Director: (Unknown)
Writer: (Unknown)

Guest Stars

Hilary Thomas voiced Johanna Recurring	Jimmy Zoppi voiced Professor Rowan Recurring
Michele Knotz voiced Rowan's Assisstant Recurring	Rich Mcnanny voiced Rowan's Assisstant Recurring
Sean Reyes voiced Rowan's Assisstant Recurring	Clyde Hunter voiced Chef

Recap

The scene is brought to the inside of a house. A Nyruma is sleeping next to a window, and an alarm is beeping from upstairs. A girl named Dawn shuts it off. She pulls the bed sheet over her head. The narrator states that Dawn will be getting her first Pokémon today. Dawn opens the window and looks outside. Then Dawn gets dressed for her big day. Her mother comes in and makes sure that Dawn is awake. She notices that Dawn is up unusually early this morning. Dawn says hello to Nyruma who just sleeps on Dawn's bed...

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Episode Notes

The series is now called Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl.

This is marks the first appearances for Dawn, Dawn's Mother, and Prof. Rowan.

This episode mainly based around Dawn and not Ash. Ash and Team Rocket only appear in the final scene.

Brock does not appear in this episode.

The starter Pokemon for the Sinnoh Region are: Turtwig, Piplup, and Chimchar

Jessiebelle makes a cameo in James' thoughts.

Dawns Starly clock appears to be a Shiny Starly.

Beginning with this episode, Kayzie Rogers no longer voices Wobbuffet. Instead the show now uses archived voices of Wobbuffet from the past 6 seasons.

This episode sets a record for the least amount of screen time Ash has ever had in an episode.

When this episode aired as part of the Season 10 sneak-peek it was aired along with the Season 10 theme song. In all future airings, the song is replaced with the season logo.

Pokémon Debuts: Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Starly, Staravia, Staraptor, Bidoof, Mesprit, Bibarel, Budew, Glameow.

Dawn reads the episode title instead of Ash.

This is the first time that a Route is cleary mark in the show (with this case being Route 201). However, Brock did mention Route 24 in Episode 11.

This episode aired as a Season 10 sneak-peak on Cartoon Network on Friday April 20, 2007 along with Two Degrees of Separation! and When Pokémon Worlds Collide!

Dawn begins her journey to become a master of Super Contests, and chooses Piplup as her starter.

Dawn and Piplup see the Legendary Pokémon Mesprit at Lake Verity.

The part where Dawn thinks about having each of the Sinnoh starters echoes Ash's dream in the first episode. Incidentally, Ash's first choice for a starter was the Water-type of his region, Squirtle.

Piplup's behavior when Dawn offered it food is exactly as described in the Pokédex: Piplup have high pride and hate to receive food from people.

Dawn seeing Mesprit is mentioned in Dawn of a New Era! where Ash links it to his seeing Ho-Oh as a starting trainer, though the scene is more similar to his seeing Suicune on the way to New Bark Town.

Ash later encounters Azelf at Lake Valor in a later episode in the same way that Dawn encountered Mesprit. Much speculation as to who will encounter Uxie is being made at the current time, with major candidates being Brock and Paul.

The eyecatches are of Dawn alone.

In other languages
French: Une aurore nouvelle
Dutch: Een nieuwe Dawn
Brazilian Portuguese: Seguindo a Viagem de Estréia
Latin American Spanish: Siguiendo el Viaje de una Novata
Italian: Un inizio burrascoso & La scelta di Lucinda
Korean: Saeroun Yeohaeng! Sincham Trainer Na Bitna!
Chinese (Taiwan): Setting Off!? From Shuangxíe Village to Zhensha Village!
Iberian Spanish: ¡Una doncella inicia viaje!

Episode Quotes

Dawn: Are you talking to me sir?
Rowan: Well you are the only one here and you look lost.

Episode Goofs

After the narrator finishes the introduction in the beginning of the episode, the English opening theme is aired instead, skipping the 8-second part that shows the English logo for the 10th season. In future airings, the English theme isn't shown for the first episode for reasons unknown.

After the narrator finishes introducing Dawn, the episode title was cut out.

After Team Rocket is seen blasting off near the ending, the remaining part is cut out. After the commercial break, it moves on to the next episode.

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