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A Seasoned Search!

SM018   EP957 マジィ！？マオのお料理大作戦！ Really!? Mao's Great Cooking Operation!

First broadcast Japan March 16, 2017 United States July 1, 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 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara 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

A Seasoned Search! (Japanese: マジィ！？マオのお料理大作戦！ Really!? Mao's Great Cooking Operation!) is the 18th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 957th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 16, 2017 and in the United States on July 1, 2017, as part of a three-hour special.

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

Blurb

Ash and friends are visiting Mallow’s family restaurant to try her legendary Alolan stew! But the key ingredient is missing, and substituting Pikachu’s Thunderbolt for the rare Yellow Nectar doesn’t work out so well.

So Ash and Mallow go out to find some! The nectar is Oricorio’s favorite food, so Bounsweet lures one in with its Sweet Scent, and it leads them to a hidden meadow. But Team Rocket is waiting to scoop everyone up in a net—everyone except Bounsweet, who evolves into Steenee and sends them blasting off again.

The new recipe is a big hit, and Mallow decides to offer it as a seasonal special!

Plot

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Ash helps Mallow search for a legendary ingredient so she can recreate a traditional Alolan recipe, but Team Rocket is also on the prowl.

Major events

Team Rocket's completed base

• Ash meets Abe, Mallow's father, for the first time.
• Team Rocket completes the construction of their base in Bewear's den.
• Mallow's Bounsweet evolves into Steenee and learns Double Slap and Magical Leaf.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Oricorio (Baile Style)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Abe
• Mallow's brother (flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Bounsweet

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's; evolves)
• Steenee (Mallow's; newly evolved; debut)
• Lickitung (Mallow's brother's; flashback)
• Bewear (anime)
• Pikipek (×3; anime)
• Trumbeak (anime)
• Toucannon (anime)
• Oricorio (×2; Pom-Pom and Baile Style; Baile Style changes to Pom-Pom Style)
• Golbat (multiple)
• Murkrow (×2)
• Wingull (×4)
• Pelipper
• Butterfree (×2)
• Ledyba (×3)

Trivia

• Pokémon QR Code: Steenee
• Poké Problem: Which of these Oricorio will drink from the Yellow Nectar?
  • Host: Mallow
  • Choices: Sensu Style, Baile Style, Pa'u Style, Pom-Pom Style
  • Answer: Pom-Pom Style
• This is the first Sun & Moon series episode to feature an Evolution.
  • Also, a new Evolution effect is introduced in this episode. However, in A Shivering Shovel Search!, the evolution animation from the two previous series is reused.
• Ash's Rowlet briefly reunites with its foster relatives Pikipek, Trumbeak, and Toucannon.
• Ash, Sophocles, Rotom, and Ash's Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Ash, Mallow, and Rotom read the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.
• The ending animation is updated to include Mallow's Steenee, instead of Bounsweet.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		不會吧！？瑪奧的烹飪大作戰！
Dutch		Een pittige zoektocht!
French		Un nectar de saison!
German		Eine köstliche Suche!
Brazilian Portuguese		Uma busca temperada!
Latin American Spanish		¡En busca del condimento!
Thai		จริงหรือ!? อาหารของมาโอะ การท้าทายครั้งใหญ่!

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