The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Dance, Waninoko! Do the Step of Love!! / The Announcement of a New Pokémon! / Professor Red Increases his Luck at Battling (おどれワニノコ！あいのステップを!! 新ポケモン発表！ レッド博士のバトル運をアップさせよう), aired today in Japan.

The anime rerun episode for this week was the original series episode Dance, Waninoko! Do the Step of Love!! (おどれワニノコ！あいのステップを!!). The episode featured Satoshi's Waninoko falling in love with Hibari's Marill while Takeshi gives Waninoko pointers on how to impress it.

During today's Pokémon Daisuki Project, Robert realize that Professor Red is currently very unlucky. During the last few Pokémon Battles that Professor Red has been in, he has been easily defeated. Robert decide that something must be done about Professor Red's current unlucky state and decide to do a bunch of different things to increase his luck.

In the first scene, Robert and Professor Red are seen together in a hot tub discussing Red's bad luck streak and how they are going to break that streak. Yamamoto points up to a mural of Mt. Fuji above the hot tub which was the first luck point ( 開運ポイント１) for Professor Red. Looking at Mount Fuji is considered good luck. (富士山を見ると運がよくなる) The picture is of Mount Fuji during a morning sunrise in a season where the is no snow on the mountain. (雪がない季節に土が朝日にそまっ富士山)。This raised Professor Red's luck points. (さらに運を上げるポイントも！)

While they were all still in the hot tub, Baba brought up the second luck point which was a proverb "Luck comes to those who smile" (笑う門には福きたる) Robert then began splashing Red with a lot of water to test him if he could continue smiling, but instead of increasing his luck point meter, it decreased significantly because he got mad as water was being splashed in his face. Robert stopped splashing him and Yamamoto began reciting the beginning of the proverb to Professor Red and he replies by finishing off the proverb while smiling and laughing which increased his luck meter a bit.

After getting out of the hot tub, Robert gave Professor Red a stuffed Lucky (ラッキー Chansey) to wear around his neck for good luck. Lucky obviously must be 'lucky'! The third luck point was 'Going to popular site will bring luck'. (人気スポットに行くと運がよくなる) Robert brought Professor Red to the Tobu Animal Park while wearing his stuffed Lucky to ride a roller coaster. (東武動物公園 カワセミ)

After the Pokémon Daisuki Project, Shoko-tan finally revealed the new Pokémon that Jun'ichi Masuda hinted at by revealing a silhouette in Pokémon Sunday 277. Shoko removed the cover over two easels, revealing Zorua (ゾロア), is the Evil Fox Pokémon, a Dark-type Pokémon which is 0.7m tall and 12.5kg. She also revealed Zoroark (ゾロアーク), is the Monster Fox Pokémon, a Dark-type Pokémon which is 1.6m tall and 81.1kg.


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It was also announced that the Capture Styler (キャプチャー・スタイラー) can now be level upped using RP (Ranger Points). Ranger Points can be collected throughout the game. Some of the Capture Styler upgrades shown on the screenshot that can receive a level up (plus プラス) are: Energy (エネルギー), Power (パワー), Line (ライン), Defense (ぼうぎょ), Dodge (ヂャージ), Recovery (リカバリー) and Reserve Energy (そこぢから).


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During the Pokémon Game Arena segment, the downloadable missions for the upcoming game Pokémon Ranger: Paths of Light (ポケモンレンジャー　光の軌跡) were announced. Detailed information about the missions are also available on the official website. A page listing all the missions has also been added to our website.


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During last weeks new Pokémon Ranger Corner and during this weeks Pokémon Game Arena segment, the Deoxys' Mysterious Temple (デオキシスとナゾのしんでん) mission was announced and it will be available from March 6th, 2010 to May 17th, 2010. During the last segment of today's episode, Professor Red, Shoko-tan, Yamamoto and Baba demonstrated the four-player mode for the Deoxys Mission. The clips showed the 4 players wandering around the level as well as performing captures.


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Pictures and characters from this episode have been added to the episode guide. You can can also comment and discuss this episode. Also be sure to rate this and other episodes in the episode guide.

That four player co-op mission looks kind of awesome. Sort of sucks though that only the leader can capture Deoxys at the end.

I\'m getting more and more excited for Ranger 3. It looks like they\'ve done quite a bit to expand the Ranger games some more this time.