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Racing to a Big Event!

SM013   EP952 アローラパンケーキ大レース！ The Big Alola Pancake Race!

First broadcast Japan February 2, 2017 United States June 10, 2017

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 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Assistant director 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation directors 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 大西雅也 Masaya Ōnishi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Racing to a Big Event! (Japanese: アローラパンケーキ大レース！ The Big Alola Pancake Race!) is the 13th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 952nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 2, 2017 and is scheduled to air in the United States on June 10, 2017.

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

Blurb

The allure of free pancakes for a year draws Ash and Pikachu to the Pokémon Pancake Race, where their biggest challenge is an Alolan Raichu! Of course, Team Rocket is interested, too. Meowth has a plan to build a robotic Bewear to enter the race. Will their invention take the cake, or will the real Bewear catch a whiff of their sneaky plan?

Plot

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Major events

• Lillie is revealed to have nicknamed the Egg she had been raising Snowy.
• The Egg that Lillie and her classmates have been taking care of hatches into an Alolan Vulpix.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Raichu (Alola Form)
• Muk (Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Alola Form)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Samson Oak
• Nina
• Announcer
• Citizens of Melemele Island

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Raichu (Alola Form)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Rockruff (Professor Kukui's; taking care of)
• Raichu (Nina's; Alola Form; debut)
• Magnezone (Announcer's)
• Machop (Trainer's; ×2)
• Pinsir (Trainer's)
• Raticate (Trainer's; Alola Form)
• Poliwhirl (Trainer's)
• Munchlax (Trainer's)
• Riolu (Trainer's)
• Makuhita (Trainer's)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Spinda (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's)
• Sudowoodo (Trainer's)
• Yungoos (Trainer's)
• Machoke (Trainer's)
• Krokorok (Trainer's)
• Espeon (Trainer's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Muk (Alola Form; multiple; debut)
• Vulpix (Alola Form; Snowy; newly hatched; debut)
• Sharpedo

Trivia

• Pokémon QR Code: Komala
• Poké Problem: What Pokémon do you think will win the Pokémon Pancake Race?
  • Host: Samson Oak
  • Choices: Bewear, Pikachu, Komala, Alolan Raichu
  • Answer: Komala
• Mallow, Ash, Sophocles, Lana, Lillie, Kiawe, and a Vulpix narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Jessie breaks the fourth wall by pushing the split screens of James and Meowth apart.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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