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A Glaring Rivalry!

SM027   EP966 出でよ！紅き眼差しルガルガン！！ Come Forth! The Red, Red Gaze of Lugarugan!!

First broadcast Japan May 18, 2017 United States August 19, 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 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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

A Glaring Rivalry! (Japanese: 出でよ！紅き眼差しルガルガン！！ Come Forth! The Red, Red Gaze of Lugarugan!!) is the 27th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 966th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 18, 2017 and is scheduled to air in the United States on August 19, 2017.

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

Plot

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A mysterious trainer with a powerful Lycanroc easily defeats Team Skull, and rumors about him spread. Then Lillie reveals that he's her brother!

Major events

• Ash meets Gladion, Lillie's older brother, for the first time.
• Ash has a battle with Gladion, but it gets interrupted by Team Rocket.
• Ash learns he can get a Rockium Z from the Island Kahuna of Akala Island.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Gladion (in person)

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Lusamine (picture)
• Gladion
• Hobbes
• Tupper
• Zip
• Wrap
• Sailor
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Lycanroc (Midnight Form) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie'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)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Eevee (Gladion's; flashback)
• Umbreon (Gladion's)
• Lycanroc (Gladion's; Midnight Form)
• Lilligant (Lusamine's; picture)
• Salandit (Tupper's)
• Zubat (Wrap's)
• Garbodor (Zip's)
• Blastoise (Sailor's)
• Abra (Trainer's; ×3)
• Eevee (Trainer's; ×2)
• Elekid (Trainer's)
• Electabuzz (Trainer's; ×2)
• Growlithe (Trainer's; ×2)
• Happiny (Trainer's)
• Herdier (Trainer's)
• Machop (Trainer's; ×3)
• Makuhita (Trainer's; ×5)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Riolu (Trainer's; ×2)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Smeargle (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Butterfree (anime)
• Wimpod
• Lillipup (picture)
• Cleffa (picture)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: Whose older brother appears in this episode?
  • Host: Rotom
  • Choices: Lillie, Kiawe, Mallow, Sophocles
  • Answer: Lillie
• Kiawe, Ash, Rotom, and a Scyther narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This is the first time an Umbreon uses a Dark-type move in the anime.
• This is the first time in the anime a Pokémon is seen being kept in an Ultra Ball.

Errors

• Briefly after the Sailor's Blastoise stands up in the fountain, its jaw is miscolored blue.
• When Ash hugs his Rockruff at night, his shirt is miscolored blue.

Dub edits

In other languages

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