Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Specials

Card Slinger J

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How come they were never translated as an English Dub? If you don't know what I'm talking about there's a couple of Special Episodes after Ash's Sinnoh League Tournament where they show Brock back in Pewter City helping his brother Forrest at the Pewter City Gym in Kanto while Dawn is on a journey by herself in Sinnoh or Hoenn with a new female partner. I think in one of the episodes Brock helps Dawn out with her contests from time to time or something.

They were only aired in Japan but surprisingly due to the rush to get into Generation 5 with Black & White I guess Pokemon USA never had the time to dub it in English from Japan. Then the other problem was that whoever was in charge of the Pokemon Anime in Japan took too long with Generation 4 spanning 4 years and released Gen 5 at the last minute. So that was why the Diamond/Pearl Specials never aired in the U.S. Sure it's not like anything significant happened but they were filler episodes that were interesting to watch.

I've would've wanted to see how Brock's brother Forrest grew as a Gym Leader replacing Brock as the Gym Leader of Pewter City since he's already changed his goals on becoming a Pokemon Doctor instead of a Pokemon Breeder like he originally did. As with Dawn well not much is happening really, she still travels around with her Piplup so yeah...
 
Who knows. Maybe they'll air them as special episodes sometime in the future. If Dawn and or Brock visits Hoenn to see Ash, maybe they could air the dub specials near those episodes. That or they could air them in an hour block between the seasons in the dub, since there aren't any seasons in the japanese version. Or they do Pokemon Chronicles again

Also, Cyndaquill evolved so I wouldn't call that episode a filler and Dawn decided to do contests in Hoenn. In Brock's episode, Forrest is now the official gym leader, so I wouldn't call that filler either. Who knows, they might never air.
 
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