JN088

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JN088

JN088   EP1173 トライアルミッション！深海潜水調査団！！ Trial Mission! The Deep Sea Diver Research Team!!

First broadcast Japan November 19, 2021 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 又野弘道 Hiromichi Matano Animation directors 新城真 Makoto Shinjō 升谷有希 Yuki Masutani No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf

(Japanese: トライアルミッション！深海潜水調査団！！ Trial Mission! The Deep Sea Diver Research Team!!) is the 88th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,173rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 19, 2021.

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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 and Goh visit Hoenn again.
• Ash meets Drake again, while Goh meets him for the first time.
• Goh catches a Sharpedo and a Kingdra.
• Goh's Inteleon is revealed to have learned Liquidation.
• Goh completes his second Project Mew Trial Mission, earning a Project Mew token.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Goh
• Professor Cerise
• Drake
• Chrysa
• Ren
• Danika
• Quillon

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kingdra

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Lucario (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Mantyke (Goh's)
• Dewgong (Goh's)
• Inteleon (Goh's)
• Chinchou (Goh's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Sharpedo (Goh's; new)
• Kingdra (Goh's; new)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Shelgon (Drake's)
• Weavile (Quillon's)
• Azumarill (Danika's)
• Feebas
• Alomomola
• Luvdisc (multiple)
• Corsola
• Corphish
• Cloyster
• Clamperl
• Crawdaunt
• Wailord
• Gorebyss
• Seadra
• Regirock

Trivia

• The eyecatchers of Ash, Goh, and Pikachu was used instead of the Dare da? segment.
• This episode premiered the same day Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were released.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Drake in the anime since Vanity Affair, 798 episodes earlier.
• Ash, Dawn, Goh, James, Meowth, Jessie, Chloe, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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