SM057

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SM057

SM057   EP996 ロトム、フォルムチェンジが止まらない！ Rotom, Can't Stop the Form Change!

First broadcast Japan January 11, 2018 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 金崎貴臣 Takaomi Kanasaki Assistant director 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Animation directors 難波功 Isao Nanba 宮田忠明 Tadaaki Miyata No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ロトム、フォルムチェンジが止まらない！ Rotom, Can't Stop the Form Change!) is the 57th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 996th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 11, 2018.

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

Plot

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Marshadow

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Kukui
• Professor Burnet
• Harper and Sarah
• Hobbes
• Sophocles's mom
• Laki (on television)
• Oluolu (on television)
• Maid
• Delivery man
• Pokémon Base players (on television)
• News anchors (on television)
• Meteorologist (on television)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Rotom (Wash Rotom) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex; all forms)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Oricorio (Hobbes's; Pom-Pom Style)
• Machoke (Delivery man's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Rotom (Wash Rotom)
• Luvdisc (×2)
• Marshadow
• Mudbray
• Druddigon (on television)

Trivia

• Meowth and a Toxapex narrate the preview of the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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