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SM113

SM113   EP1052 新番組！？小さなコイキングのメロディ A New Program!? Melody of the Small Koiking

First broadcast Japan March 17, 2019 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending 心のノート

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 平出尚人 Naoto Hiraide 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.

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

(Japanese: 新番組！？小さなコイキングのメロディ A New Program!? Melody of the Small Koiking) is the 113th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,052nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 17, 2019.

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

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Laki (flashback; picture)
• Anna
• George Charanpino
• Kuwashi
• Rinka and Kenichi
• Manager
• Director
• Film crew
• Trainers
• Quiz host

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Magikarp (Koi-chan) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Eevee (Lana's; Nagisa)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; flashback)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's; flashback)
• Smeargle (Laki's; flashback; pictures)
• Pikipek (Kuwashi's)
• Muk (Trainer's; Alola Form)
• Crabrawler (Trainer's)
• Oricorio (Trainer's; Pa'u Style)
• Machamp (Trainer's)
• Hitmonlee (Trainer's)
• Hitmonchan (Trainer's)
• Gurdurr (Trainer's)
• Makuhita (Trainer's)
• Shaymin (anime)
• Magikarp (Koi-chan; evolves)
• Gyarados (Koi-chan; newly evolved)
• Machamp
• Comfey
• Yungoos
• Kirlia (flashback)
• Magikarp (on television; flashback)
• Froslass (flashback)
• Abomasnow (flashback)

Trivia

The Bruce Lee reference

• Poké Problem: Where do we go in today's episode?
  • Host: Lana
  • Choices: Paradise Resort, Kiawe's family ranch, TV station, Poipole's world
  • Answer: TV station
• The Japanese title of the episode is a reference to the Japanese title of the 1971 British film Melody, which was a huge hit in Japan.
• The number of the episode on the clapperboard seen during the episode of (Japanese 小さなコイキングのメロディ The Small Koiking's Melody) that was filmed in this episode is "#113", referencing this episode's number.
• (Japanese: サンサン三人はアローラドリンキュン SanSan Trio Alola DrinKyun), the show Mallow, Lana, and Lillie appear in, takes cues from magical girl anime and manga, such as the Sailor Moon and Pretty Cure franchises.
• The opening animation is updated to include Ash's Meltan.
• When being proposed a role in a TV show, Lillie references her role in the school play from Lillier and the Staff!.
• The man surrounded by Fighting-type Pokémon and wearing a yellow jumpsuit is a reference to actor Bruce Lee and the jumpsuit he wore in the incomplete martial arts film Game of Death.
• When Jessie is summoned for her auditions, she is referred to as "number 634". Using a type of Japanese wordplay called Goroawase, these numbers can be read as "mu-sa-shi", spelling out Jessie's Japanese name. A similar wordplay was used in The Ultimate Test.
• Jessie, James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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