JNS05

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JNS05

JNS05   ポケットモンスター 遥かなる青い空 Pocket Monsters: The Distant Blue Sky

First broadcast Japan December 23, 2022 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening None Ending None

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

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

(Japanese: ポケットモンスター 遥かなる青い空 Pocket Monsters: The Distant Blue Sky) is the fifth special episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series. It first aired in Japan on December 23, 2022.

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 tries and fails to catch a Gyarados.
• Delia hands Ash a new hat given to him by his father.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Delia
• Ren
• Haruto (ghost/flashback/photo)
• So and Sae

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Machamp (Ren's)
• Blastoise (Trainer's)
• Poliwag (×5)
• Goldeen
• Seaking
• Gyarados
• Caterpie
• Butterfree (multiple)
• Beedrill (multiple)
• Spearow (multiple)
• Pikachu (multiple)
• Vileplume (multiple)
• Paras
• Diglett
• Bellsprout (multiple)
• Weepinbell
• Victreebel
• Doduo (multiple)
• Dodrio
• Nidoran♀
• Nidoran♂
• Mankey (×4)

Trivia

• This special takes place in the alternate continuity from I Choose You!, The Power of Us, and Secrets of the Jungle.
• This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by the original executive director Kunihiko Yuyama.
• Shinji Miyazaki's music from Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, Pokémon the Series: Black & White, Pokémon the Series: XY, and Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon is reused as background music in this special.
• A Mankey stealing a hat from Haruto and Ash is a reference to Ash getting his hat stolen from a Mankey in Primeape Goes Bananas.
  • Ash also mentions this event with Mankey during the episode, which means that part of the events in said episode also happened in this timeline.
  • Ash receives a new hat from Delia at the end of this special, which is the same Pokémon League Expo hat that Ash wore in the original series.
• This is the fourth time that Ash's father has been mentioned in the anime.
• Unshō Ishizuka was added into the credits for this episode, with archived audio of his voice being used for the narrator.
• Jessie's Wobbuffet is the only Pokémon introduced after Generation I to be featured in this special.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		寶可夢 旅途 遙遠晴空
Indonesian		Langit biru jauh di sana
Thai		โปเกมอน เจอร์นีย์ ท้องฟ้าสีครามอันแสนไกล

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