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This article is about an 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.
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輝け星舟テッカグヤ！
The Shining Starship Tekkaguya!
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First broadcast
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April 12, 2018
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| United States
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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Team Kato
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| Screenplay
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米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
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| Storyboard
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尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano
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| Assistant director
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毛利和昭 Kazuaki Mōri
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| Animation directors
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香月麻衣子 Maiko Katsuki
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| 山崎玲愛 Rei Yamazaki
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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(Japanese: 輝け星舟テッカグヤ！ The Shining Starship Tekkaguya!) is the 69th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,008th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 12, 2018.
Plot
Sophocles and his parents are enjoying the view of the Full Moon in the middle of a bamboo field that they are camping in. Once his parents have gone to bed, Sophocles heads out with Togedemaru and Charjabug to get a better look at the full moon, which inspires him to tell the legend of Starship Kaguya.
In this version of the story, there was once a mysterious object that fell from the sky, and an old man and woman discovered what looked like a large bamboo shoot with a charming, infant-like face. They named the creature "Kaguya" and cared for it, though as it grew it caused the other plants around it to wither and die. The other villagers were outraged by this and tried to attack Kaguya, but as the old couple protected her, Kaguya transformed once again into a large ship and flew back to the moon, leaving a prosperous bamboo grove behind.
While his Pokemon don't seem too impressed by the story, they spot an odd clearing without any bamboo which Togedemaru, and soon Sophocles and Charjabug, tumble into. Here. Sophocles finds a metal point sticking out of the ground and starts digging, soon discovering that buried a bit deeper is a face. The face, belonging to the currently unknown Celesteela, proves to be alive when it smiles upon seeing the light of the full moon.
Sophocles brags to his friends the next morning that he discovered the Starship Kaguya, based on Celesteela's Bamboo-shaped arms. While they initially don't believe him, Ash and friends agree to take a look after school. While still skeptical that the discovery is the Starship Kaguya of legend, Sophocles provides everyone with shovels to begin digging. While upset that they were clearly tricked into helping him dig Celesteela out, they agree to help and spend the day excavating her, with the help of their Pokemon and a swarm of Grubbin that Charjabug calls on. Throughout this, Celesteela remains motionless and indifferent, only smiling once the moon rises.
Once Celesteela is free, The Rotomdex states that the mysterious creature is not in the Pokedex, causing Kiawe to suggest that they might have unearthed an Ultra Beast. Sophocles is upset when Lillie says they should inform her mother and begs for more time to research Celesteela, who he has taken to calling "Kaguya". He continues his research, finding that Celesteela had been buried there for a whopping two hundred years.
However, Celesteela is spotted by someone the next morning and the call for the Ultra Guardians goes up. Once inside their base, Ash and co learn that Celesteela is a confirmed Ultra Beast, which surprises everyone. Wicke states that they were also inspired by the Kaguya legend and named the creature "Tekkaguya". They also state that it has been storing flammable gas during the time it was buried which would allow it to take off like a rocket, causing untold devastation from its burning fuel, which requires it be removed.
While Sophocles is distraught over this, the Ultra Guardians sortie to Celesteela's location. Team Rocket is nearby harvesting Bamboo shoots when they overhear that the Ultra Guardians are there to capture a "Rocket Pokemon". Team Rocket decides that any "Rocket Pokemon" should belong to them for obvious reasons.
Ash and co discover that Celesteela's roots are buried too deep to allow capture via Beast Ball, and that she is mere minutes from takeoff. It is at this moment that Team Rocket attacks in a Meowth-shaped Mecha to capture Celesteela.
Now fighting off Team Rocket while Celesteela's engines fire up, Ash and Kiawe try to hold off the robot while Lillie and the others use their Ride Pokemon's attacks to create a barrier of ice and stone to try to contain Celesteela's blast radius. After building the barrier, they retreat. Team Rocket sees it as a chance to capture Celesteela and fire off a "Team Rocket Punch" at it. It is at this moment that Celesteela's engines ignite and the force blows the Team Rocket Fist away, heavily damaging the Meowth Mecha in the process. However, Bewear arrives riding the Team Rocket Fist to rescue them before they are blown away.
Celesteela manages to take off while leaving the grove unharmed. Sophocles watches bittersweetly as Celesteela disappears into the atmosphere.
Major events
- Ash and his classmates go on their second Ultra Guardians mission.
- The Ultra Guardians try and fail to capture a Celesteela, due to it being rooted down at the time.
- The Ultra Guardians help free the Celesteela from being trapped underground, allowing it to fly back home.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Celesteela (Japan)
Trivia
- Poké Problem: Where is the Ultra Beast that features in today's episode?
- Host: Sophocles
- Choices: The ocean floor, The flower field, The bamboo grove, The city
- Answer: The bamboo grove
- Ash, Kiawe, Pikachu, Mallow, Sophocles, and Kiawe's Marowak narrate the preview for the next episode.
- Pose is used as an insert song during the montage of Ash and his classmates digging up the Celesteela.
- The story of Starship Kaguya is a modified version of the Story of the Old Bamboo Cutter, where a human child is found inside a stalk of bamboo and grows to be so beautiful that she gets suitors from around the country. However Kaguya turns them all down as she will soon have to return to her true home: The Moon.
Errors
- Sophocles originally offers his classmates to select from four shovels and two spades to help dig out Celesteela, but when they start digging, three of them use a shovel each and the other three use spades.
Dub edits
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