SM051

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SM051

SM051   EP990 がんばリーリエ！決意の家出！！ Lively Lilie! A Determined Runaway!!

First broadcast Japan November 23, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤咲淳一 Jun'ichi Fujisaku Storyboard 牧野吉高 Yoshitaka Makino Assistant director 牧野吉高 Yoshitaka Makino Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: がんばリーリエ！決意の家出！！ Lively Lilie! A Determined Runaway!!) is the 51st episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 990th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 23, 2017.

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

Plot

Major events

• Lillie changes her outfit into her "Z-powered form".
• Lillie and Gladion leave for Poni Island together to look for Lusamine.
• Ash, his classmates and Professor Kukui decide to follow Lillie and Gladion to Poni Island.
• Ash visits Poni Island for the first time.
• Ash encounters the guardian deities of Ula'ula Island and Poni Island, Tapu Bulu and Tapu Fini, for the first time.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Jangmo-o
• Hakamo-o
• Kommo-o

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Lusamine (flashback)
• Gladion
• Hobbes
• Professor Burnet
• Faba
• Wicke
• Hala

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Umbreon (Gladion's)
• Silvally (Gladion's)
• Hariyama (Hala's)
• Tapu Koko (anime)
• Tapu Lele (anime)
• Cosmoem (Nebby)
• Solgaleo (flashback)
• Lunala (flashback)
• Tapu Bulu
• Tapu Fini
• Jangmo-o (debut)
• Hakamo-o (debut)
• Kommo-o (Totem; debut)
• Nihilego (flashback)
• Rowlet (statue)
• Litten (statue)
• Popplio (statue)
• Clefairy (doll)

Trivia

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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