SM035

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SM035   EP974 カレーなバトル！ラランテスの舞！！ A Beautiful Curry Battle! The Dance of Rarantesu!!

First broadcast Japan July 27, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation directors 伊藤典子 Noriko Itō 八田木瀧 Taki Yatagi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: カレーなバトル！ラランテスの舞！！ A Beautiful Curry Battle! The Dance of Rarantesu!!) is the 35th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 974th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 27, 2017.

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Plot

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

Major events

• Ash's Litten performs Breakneck Blitz for the first time.
• Ash clears the trial in Lush Jungle, earning a Grassium Z from the Totem Lurantis as a reward.
• Ash becomes qualified to challenge Olivia's grand trial.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Fomantis
• Lurantis

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Kukui
• Olivia

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Lurantis (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Comfey (Nurse Joy's)
• Fomantis (multiple; debut)
• Diglett (Alola Form; ×3)
• Lurantis (Totem; debut)
• Castform (Normal and Sunny Form)
• Parasect
• Voltorb (dream)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What is the Totem Pokémon that appears in today's episode?
  • Host: Mallow
  • Choices: Wishiwashi, Tapu Lele, Lurantis, Gumshoos
  • Answer: Lurantis
• Ash, Mallow, and Lana narrate the preview for the next episode.
• At the beginning of the episode, Ash is sleeping with the white t-shirt with a Pikachu on it that looks similar to the Pokémon 20th Anniversary logo. The same shirt was seen earlier in So Long, Sophocles!.

In other languages

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