HZ043
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(Japanese: エクスプローラーズからの果たし状 A Letter of Challenge from the Explorers) is the 43rd episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,275th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 15, 2024.
Plot
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Major events
- Liko's Sprigatito is revealed to have Overgrow as her Ability.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Sprigatito (Liko's)
- Hatenna (Liko's)
- Rotom (Liko's; Rotom Phone)
- Fuecoco (Roy's)
- Charizard (Friede's)
- Pikachu (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
- Chansey (Mollie's)
- Metagross (Orla's)
- Quagsire (Ludlow's)
- Rockruff (Murdock's)
- Quaxly (Dot's)
- Tinkatink (Dot's)
- Glalie (Coral's)
- Rotom (Coral's; Rotom Phone)
- Garganacl (Sidian's)
- Aerodactyl (Sidian's)
- Pawmi (Rising Volt Tacklers')
- Shuckle (Rising Volt Tacklers')
- Snorunt (Rising Volt Tacklers')
- Maushold (Rising Volt Tacklers'; Family of Four)
- Terapagos (anime; Normal Form)
- Wiglett (Trainer's)
- Rotom (Trainers'; Rotom Phone; ×2)
- Cutiefly (Trainer's)
- Finizen (×; image)
Trivia
- For the initial airing of this episode, Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar was replaced by a preview of the next two episodes and a preview of the next arc, Pocket Monsters: Terastal Debut.
- The first eyecatch features Sidian and his Garganacl, and the second features Coral and her Glalie.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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Categories:
- Undubbed episodes
- Episode articles with incomplete plot summaries
- Stubs
- Episode stubs
- Anime stubs
- Pokémon Horizons: The Series episodes
- Episodes written by Naruki Nagakawa
- Episodes storyboarded by Hiromasa Amano
- Episodes storyboarded by Daiki Tomiyasu
- Episodes by multiple storyboarders
- Episodes directed by Yoshihiko Iwata
- Episodes animated by Yoshitaka Yanagihara
- Episodes animated by Keita Hagiwara
- Episodes by multiple animation directors
- Episodes in which a Legendary Pokémon appears