Pearlshipping Day

Oh that's awesome with the comics. I mean I'm terrified of spoilers even if there aren't any in there, but I bookmarked that for later viewing. One more to the thousands of bookmarks related to Pokémon as a whole I have for later. 

I more recently found out that the Japanese DP episodes I had for years are Dubtitles (using the Dub's dialogue script) with only a few lines actually translated. It turns out there are many episodes of DP left untranslated, though there are recent efforts of getting it done. I could've sworn back years ago, when I was watching DP for the first time, I watched the Recap episodes (Japanese-only) subtitled but I could not find an old version anywhere. There was a translation done either this year or last though, so I guess I jumped in right on time. I don't like skipping episodes for any show, even if they are recaps. Though I will say it is boring when they straight up only show scenes from previous episodes and nothing else. The first DP recap I liked since it wasn't JUST a recap, Ash and Dawn commented on scenes.

And speaking of Japanese episodes, I don't know what it was I saw that made me think this. I've not read any DP fanfics. DP122, Piplup prevents himself from evolving a few times. Dawn doesn't understand why he's doing that until the end of the episode. For some reason, all these years, I believed the Dub and Sub versions of this reason were different. I thought the reason he didn't want to evolve was because he saw what happened with Mamoswine, with it disobeying and even attacking Dawn. I thought he didn't want to evolve because he didn't want that to happen to him; he didn't want to attack/hate Dawn. But apparently the reason given in the Japanese version is exactly the same as the Dub, and it's not even close to this. Oh well, I thought it was a pretty cool idea too.