JN147

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JN147

JN147   EP1232 虹とポケモンマスター！ The Rainbow and the Pokémon Master!

First broadcast Japan March 24, 2023 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -with my friends- Ending タイプ：ワイルド

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 中田誠 Makoto Nakata Animation directors 柳原好貴 Yoshitaka Yanagihara 倉員千晶 Chiaki Kurakazu No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf

(Japanese: 虹とポケモンマスター！ The Rainbow and the Pokémon Master!) is the 11th and final episode of Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master, the 147th and final episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,232nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 24, 2023.

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

• Ash, Misty, and Brock go their separate ways.
• Ash returns to Pallet Town and meets Tracey and Gary again.
• Tracey's Venonat is revealed to have evolved into a Venomoth.
• Ash reunites with his Pidgeot.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Delia
• Gary
• Team Rocket Grunts

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Pidgeot (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Muk (Ash's)
• Tauros (Ash's; ×30)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Quilava (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Glalie (Ash's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Unfezant (Ash's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Scraggy (Ash's)
• Palpitoad (Ash's)
• Boldore (Ash's)
• Krookodile (Ash's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)-->
• Venomoth (Tracey's)
• Marill (Tracey's)
• Scyther (Tracey's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's
• Carnivine (James's
• Umbreon (Gary's)
• Bulbasaur (starter Pokémon)
• Charmander (starter Pokémon)
• Squirtle (starter Pokémon)
• Dodrio
• Pidgeotto (×2)
• Pidgey (multiple)
• Poliwag (×4)
• Poliwhirl
• Rattata (×6)
• Butterfree

Trivia

• This is the last episode of the anime to feature Ash and Pikachu as main protagonists.
• This is the only episode of Aim to Be a Pokémon Master to not feature Latias, due to her leaving with Latios in the previous episode.
• As of this episode, Max is the only one of Ash's male friends that he has not reunited with in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Tracey's Marill since The Right Place and the Right Mime, 825 episodes earlier.
• This Episode marks the First Time One of Tracey's Pokemon has Evolved under his ownership.
• As this episode, Primeape is the only Pokemon that Ash as released or left in training to reunite with him.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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