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Alolan Open House!

SM024   EP963 アローラ！はじめての授業参観！！ Alola! The First Visiting Day!!

First broadcast Japan April 27, 2017 United States July 22, 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 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 鈴木龍太郎 Ryūtarō Suzuki Animation directors 藤本雄一朗 Yūichirō Fujimoto 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

Alolan Open House! (Japanese: アローラ！はじめての授業参観！！ Alola! The First Visiting Day!!) is the 24th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 963rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 27, 2017 and in the United States on July 22, 2017.

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

Blurb

Public speaking can be scary, but Ash is especially nervous about the presentation he must give in front of an audience (including his mom) at the Pokémon School’s Open House. That is, until Rotom Dex devises a way to game the system by using its voice-sampling abilities to give the speech for him…

Plot

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Family Visit Day is approaching at the Pokémon School. Ash is working hard on a speech for the occasion when his mother and Mr. Mime come to visit.

Major events

• Ash's Litten is revealed to know Scratch.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Samson Oak
• Delia
• Harper and Sarah
• Lana's mother
• Hobbes
• Sophocles's parents
• Old lady
• Tupper
• Zip
• Wrap
• Parents
• Students

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Mr. Mime (Mimey)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Vulpix (Samson Oak's)
• Mr. Mime (Delia's; Mimey)
• Salandit (Tupper's)
• Zubat (Wrap's)
• Garbodor (Zip's)
• Tauros (×3; Ride Pokémon)
• Luvdisc (×2)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: Who visits the Pokémon School?
  • Host: Samson Oak
  • Choices: Ash's mother, Kiawe's mother, Mallow's father, Team Rocket
  • Answer: Ash's mother
• An instrumental version of Alola!! is used as an insert song during Ash's presentation.
• A new version of Pose with new animation and a different verse is used as the ending theme.
• Meowth, Jessie, James, and Jessie's Wobbuffet narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Even though Mimey gets a new voice actor in this episode, the Who's That Pokemon still uses Kayzie Rogers' voice.

Errors

• During one scene, Lillie's legs are missing.

Dub edits

• The Japanese text depicting Gigavolt Havoc's name is edited out in the dub.

In other languages

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