XY138

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life!

XY138   EP937 サトシとラストバトル！セレナの選択！！ The Last Battle with Satoshi! Serena's Choice!!

First broadcast Japan October 13, 2016 United States December 25, 2016* January 7, 2017*

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 高橋知也 Tomoya Takahashi Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 直井由紀 Yuki Naoi 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life! (Japanese: サトシとラストバトル！セレナの選択！！ The Last Battle with Satoshi! Serena's Choice!!) is the 138th episode of the XY series, and the 937th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 13, 2016, in Canada on December 31, 2016, in Australia on January 1, 2017, and in the United States on January 7, 2017. However, this episode was released via Canada's Teletoon on Demand service on December 15, 2016.

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

Blurb

Lumiose City is nearly back to normal, and Serena has an idea for a celebration. With Professor Sycamore’s help, she and Shauna put on a special performance for everyone! They’re soon joined by their Master Class rival Jessilee, and the show is a huge success!

Serena wants to keep pursuing her performance goals, but she’s not sure about her next step. With the support of Ash and her mom, she finally decides to turn down Palermo’s offer so she can keep improving on her own. But Palermo has a surprising response: she suggests that Serena travel to the Hoenn region to try her hand at Pokémon Contests!

Plot

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Following the rebuilding of Lumiose City and the reopening of Prism Tower, Serena is thinking about her future and remembers the offer that Palermo made to her as Bonnie draws their attention to the TV where a news report on the reopening of Prism Tower is showing and mention that there are still many wounds to be healed in Lumiose City but the light of Prism Tower is sure to guide everyone on the path to recovery as Bonnie says that lighting up the tower was great and everyone enjoyed it as Clemont calls it the first steps to recovery which gives Serena an idea. Outside Professor Sycamore's lab, Serena is speaking with Professor Sycamore who says her idea is a great idea and agrees to help as Serena thanks the Professor for his support.

The next day, Serena laeds Ash, Clemont and Bonnie towards the center of Lumiose City who have no idea what is going on. A large crowd has gathered as Professor Sycamore greets them who explains there is a Performance Exhibition taking place today which was Serena's idea as Shauna arrives with Trevor, Tierno and Sawyer.

Major events

• Ash and Serena have a battle, which is eventually called off.
• Serena declines Palermo's earlier offer, having decided to continue traveling in order to increase her skills.
• On Palermo's advice, Serena decides to head to Hoenn to compete in Pokémon Contests.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Sycamore
• Alain
• Mairin
• Sawyer
• Tierno
• Trevor
• Shauna
• Meyer
• Grace
• Palermo

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Hoppip (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Braixen (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Sylveon (Serena's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's; Super Size)
• Inkay (James's)
• Metagross (Steven's; Shiny; Mega Metagross; flashback)
• Ivysaur (Shauna's)
• Flabébé (Shauna's)
• Chespin (Mairin's; Chespie)
• Cubchoo (Trainer's; ×3)
• Teddiursa (Trainer's; ×3)
• Igglybuff (Trainer's; ×3)
• Jigglypuff (Trainer's; ×2)
• Purrloin (Trainers; x4)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Patrat (Trainer's; ×2)
• Litwick (Trainer's)
• Scraggy (Trainer's; ×2)
• Ditto (Trainer's)
• Sentret (Trainer's)
• Swirlix (Trainer's)
• Bonsly (Trainer's)
• Umbreon (Trainer's ×2)
• Oddish (Trainer's)
• Helioptile (Trainer's; ×2)
• Spewpa (Trainer's)
• Furfrou (Trainer's; ×3; 2 Natural Forms and 1 Diamond Trim)
• Fletchling (Trainer's)
• Gothorita (Trainer's; ×2)
• Espurr (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)
• Sandshrew (Trainer's)
• Hoppip (Trainer's)
• Medicham (Trainer's)
• Gothita (Trainer's)
• Heliolisk (Trainers; ×2)
• Smeargle (Trainer's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)
• Ralts (Trainer's)
• Panpour (Trainer's)
• Kyogre (Primal Kyogre; flashback)
• Groudon (Primal Groudon; flashback)

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Poké Love TV" focusing on Braixen.
• Clips from A Performance Pop Quiz!, Master Class Choices!, and Master Class Is in Session! are reused in this episode during Serena, Shauna and Jessie's performance.
• The English dub was leaked via Canada's Teletoon on Demand service on December 15, 2016, 16 days before the episode aired in Canada and 23 days before the episode aired in the United States.
  • It was also released on iTunes and Amazon Video on December 25, 2016, 13 days before the episode aired in the United States. The same occurred for all episodes in Volume 4 of Pokémon the Series: XYZ that aired after an all-day marathon of Teen Titans Go! on November 26, 2016, and before January 11, 2017, when the error was fixed (The Right Hero for the Right Job! through Till We Compete Again!).
• In one scene, when Tierno is infatuated by Serena, Shauna pulls him away from her by the ear, a reference to the running gag of how Misty and Max used to pull Brock away from the beautiful girls he was attracted to.
• As stated by Ash himself, the battlefield where he and Serena have their battle is the same one where Ash had his first battle with Clemont on his first day in Kalos.
• Despite still being with him, Ash's Goodra is not seen during the Showcase performance with his other Pokémon.
• In the Japanese airing, this episode was followed by a preview for the Sun & Moon series.
• DreamDream is used as an insert song and as the ending theme for this episode, with this version being sung by Serena's Japanese voice actress, Mayuki Makiguchi.
  • The insert song version uses the first half of the song while the ending version uses the second half.
• Xerosic, Clemont, and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• At the beginning of Serena and Shauna's performance when Serena commands Braixen to use Flamethrower, the position of her Pokémon change from being (from left to right) Pancham, Sylveon and Braixen with Serena standing to their right to Braixen, Sylveon and Pancham with Serena standing in between Braixen and Sylveon.
  • This is due to the fact that the clip was reused from an earlier episode.
• When Serena and Shauna walk up to Jessie after she and her Gourgeist make their entrance, Shauna's Flabébé is initially shown to be floating behind Shauna, but when the shot changes, Flabébé is in front of Shauna.
• During Ash and Serena's battle, Braixen began executing its Fire Blast before Serena could finish calling out the attack.

Dub edits

• In the English dub, during the beginning of the performance, Shauna's Ivysaur doesn't cry when it launches its Solar Beam.

In other languages

Language		Title
Danish		Den første dag i resten af dit liv!
Dutch		De eerste dag van de rest van je leven!
Finnish		Loppuelämäsi ensimmäinen päivä!
European French		Le premier jour du reste de ta vie !
German		Der erste Tag vom Rest deines Lebens!
Italian		Il primo giorno di una nuova vita!
Norwegian		Den første dagen i resten av ditt liv!
Polish		Pierwszy dzień dalszego życia!
Portuguese	Brazil	O primeiro dia do resto da sua vida!
	Portugal	O primeiro dia do resto da vossa vida!
Russian		Первый день оставшейся жизни!
Spanish	Latin America	¡El primer día del resto de tu vida!
	Spain	¡El primer día del resto de tu vida!
Swedish		Den första dagen i resten av ditt liv!
Thai		การต่อสู้ครั้งสุดท้ายกับซาโตชิ! ทางเลือกของเซเรน่า!!

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