JNS02

This article is about a special episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

JNS02

JNS02   ヒードラン爆進！！ Explosive Heatran!!

First broadcast Japan January 21, 2022 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ポケットモンスターＢＧＭ Ending ポケットモンスターＢＧＭ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ヒードラン爆進！！ Explosive Heatran!!) is the second episode of The Arceus Who is Known as a God and the second special episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series. It was first released in Japan on January 21, 2022 alongside JNS01 on Amazon Prime Video.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash and Dawn reunite with Brock, with Goh meeting him for the first time.
• Brock's Chansey is revealed to have evolved into Blissey.
• Team Galactic begins to open a portal to bring back Cyrus.
• Saturn's Heatran goes on a rampage and escapes.
• Ash, Brock, and Dawn encounter Team Galactic again, while Goh encounters them for the first time.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Brock's Blissey

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Goh
• Nurse Joy (flashback)
• Cynthia (flashback)
• Cyrus (flashback)
• Saturn
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Charon (flashback)
• Team Galactic Grunts

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's; flashback)
• Blissey (Brock's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's; flashback)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's; flashback)
• Toxicroak (Saturn's)
• Heatran (Saturn's; leaves)
• Purugly (Mars's)
• Skuntank (Jupiter's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Uxie (anime)
• Mesprit (anime)
• Azelf (anime)
• Arceus
• Chingling (multiple)
• Bronzong

Trivia

• This special aired between JN093 and JN094 in Japan.
• This episode marks the first time since Memories are Made of Bliss! that Ash, Brock, and Dawn have physically appeared together.
  • This also marks the first time that an entire group of Ash's friends, excluding ones from the original series, have reunited outside of their main series.
• Despite them having debuted in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, this is the first time the lake guardians have received Pokédex entries in the anime.
• During the flashback to The Battle Finale of Legend!, the portal simply vanishes after Cyrus leaps into it, instead of being destroyed by Dialga and Palkia. It is unclear whether this is merely a continuity error, or if it is meant to be a retcon of the original event.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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