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First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-style!

SM004   EP943 モクロー登場！アローラでポケモンゲットだぜ！！ It's Mokuroh! Catching Pokémon in Alola!!

First broadcast Japan November 24, 2016 United States

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 牧野吉高 Yoshitaka Makino 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant directors 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 一石小百合 Sayuri Ichiishi 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima No additional credits are available at this time.

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

First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-style! (Japanese: モクロー登場！アローラでポケモンゲットだぜ！！ It's Mokuroh! Catching Pokémon in Alola!!) is the fourth episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 943rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 24, 2016 as a one-hour special alongside SM003 and is scheduled to air in Canada on April 8, 2017.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Plot

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In the Melemele Island marketplace, Litten receives some berries from a stallholder when a flock of Pikipek fly overhead led by a Trumbeak as a Rowlet tries to keep up. The Pikipek swoop down on the market and grab food as the stallholder explains to Litten that they come every year and the stallholders are happy to provide food. The flock fly off back to the next.

Ash and Pikachu are battling a Grubbin hoping to make it their first capture in the Alola region as his classmates look on. Rotom Pokédex provides Ash with information about Grubbin as Pikachu weakens Grubbin, Ash throws a Poké Ball but Grubbin is able to escape. Grubbin uses Dig to go underground and comes back up scaring Lillie. Pikachu continues the attack but Grubbin escapes once Pikachu is unable to continue. Mallow shows Ash the way to the Pokémon Center as the others head back to school to let Professor Kukui know what has happened.

Bewear is outside its den whilst Team Rocket are inside. Jessie throws a Poké Ball at Mimikyu but Mimikyu swats the ball away and another that Jessie throws at it.

Major events

• Ash tries and fails to catch a Grubbin.
• James is revealed to own a Luxury Ball.
• Jessie uses James's Luxury Ball to catch the Mimikyu Team Rocket encountered earlier.
• Ash catches a Rowlet.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Pikipek
• Trumbeak
• Toucannon
• Comfey (Nurse Joy's)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Rowlet (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's; new; debut)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's; new)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Comfey (Nurse Joy's; debut)
• Parasect (Trainer's)
• Sudowoodo (Trainer's)
• Machamp (Trainer's)
• Machoke (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's; ×2)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Litten (anime)
• Bewear (anime)
• Pikipek (multiple; anime; debut)
• Trumbeak (anime; debut)
• Toucannon (anime; debut)
• Growlithe
• Psyduck
• Grubbin
• Blissey (fantasy)
• Sableye (fantasy)

Trivia

• Pokémon QR Code: Mimikyu
• The first airing in Japan didn't include a Poké Problem as it aired as a one-hour special alongside SM003, only including the first Poké Problem. But it was included on other stations that aired the episode in delay and VOD services (Amazon Video, Netflix and Hulu).
• Poké Problem: In today's episode, which of these Pokémon will Ash catch?
• Viewers could answer the Poké Problem with their remotes during the airing of SM003 and SM004 to take part in a lottery of five Pokémon Z-Ring & Z-Crystal Special Sets.
• During the first airing on TV Tokyo as one-hour special viewers could take part in a four-characters keyword quiz, in which 10 viewers could win a New Nintendo 3DS XL Pikachu Edition and copies of Pokémon Sun and Moon.
• This episode marks the first time a Pokémon has been caught by a main character in a Poké Ball variant since Misty captured Corsola in A Corsola Caper!, 730 episodes earlier.
• Lana, Ash, Kiawe, Lillie, Sophocles, and Mallow narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This trivia section has officially been WRECKED by a clear-and-obvious sock of PokemonGamer.

Errors

• When Grubbin breaks out of the Poké Ball, the Poké Ball is shown to be closed. However, when Grubbin escapes, the Poké Ball is shown to be open.

Dub edits

In other languages

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