JN108

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JN108

JN108   EP1193 ルカリオとゲッコウガ！運命の波導！！ Lucario and Gekkouga! The Wave Guidance of Destiny!!

First broadcast Japan April 29, 2022 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 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 碇由衣 Yui Ikari Animation directors 柳原好貴 Yoshitaka Yanagihara 左加田愛子 Aiko Hidarikata No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: ルカリオとゲッコウガ！運命の波導！！ Lucario and Gekkouga! The Wave Guidance of Destiny!!) is the 108th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,193rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 29, 2022.

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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

• Goh's Froakie evolves into Frogadier.
• Ash and Goh visit Kalos again.
• Ash reunites with his Greninja.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Goh's Frogadier

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Goh
• Chloe
• Alain (flashback)
• Leon (TV; flashback)
• Raihan
• Professor Cerise
• Chrysa
• Ren
• Raihan's fans
• TV announcer
• Reporters (TV; flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Greninja

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Froakie (Ash's; flashback/fantasy)
• Frogadier (Ash's; fantasy)
• Greninja (formerly Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Lucario (Ash's; Mega Lucario)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Cinderace (Goh's)
• Grimer (Goh's)
• Morelull (Goh's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Bellsprout (Goh's)
• Froakie (Goh's; evolves)
• Frogadier (Goh's; newly evolved)
• Eevee (Chloe's)
• Charizard (Alain's; Mega Charizard X; flashback)
• Duraludon (Raihan's)
• Spewpa (×2; flashback)
• Scatterbug (flashback)
• Sentret (flashback)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Greninja
• This episode marks the first appearance of Ash's Greninja since Till We Compete Again!, 254 episodes earlier.
  • This episode also marks the first appearance of its species in the anime since then.
• This episode marks the first time one of Ash's released Pokémon makes a physical appearance outside of the series it was released in.
• This episode features the following flashbacks, which have all been reanimated to match the style introduced in Pokémon Journeys: The Series:
  • Ash catching Froakie as his first Kalos Pokémon in Lumiose City Pursuit!.
  • Ash and Greninja spending a night together at the Winding Woods in Seeing the Forest for the Trees!.
  • Ash and Greninja facing Alain and his Mega Charizard X in the Lumiose Conference finals in Down to the Fiery Finish!.
  • Ash releasing Greninja in Facing the Needs of the Many!.
    • Flashbacks to scenes that featured Ash-Greninja are changed to feature regular Greninja instead.
• Shinji Miyazaki's music from Pokémon the Series: Black & White and Pokémon the Series: XY is reused as background music in this episode.
• The opening animation is updated to include Goh's Frogadier and Raihan.
• Ash, Goh, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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