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Acting True to Form!

SM062   EP1001 悪のニャースはアローラニャース！？ The Evil Nyarth is an Alolan Nyarth!?

First broadcast Japan February 15, 2018 United States July 23, 2018

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Moon Ending

Japanese themes Opening 未来コネクション Ending ジャリボーイ・ジャリガール

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Assistant director 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Animation directors 大橋藍人 Aito Ōhashi 村田理 Osamu Murata No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Acting True to Form! (Japanese: 悪のニャースはアローラニャース！？ The Evil Nyarth is an Alolan Nyarth!?) is the 62nd episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,001st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 15, 2018 and is scheduled to air in Canada on July 14, 2018, and in the United States on July 23, 2018.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• James is revealed to own a Great, Ultra, Premier, Dusk, Heal, and Quick Ball.
• Team Rocket learns that they need a Z-Ring in order to use their Darkinium Z.
• An Alolan Meowth joins Team Rocket and travels to the Team Rocket HQ in Kanto, where it is appointed as Matori's assistant.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Meowth (Alola Form)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Matori
• Professor Kukui

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Meowth (Alola Form) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Meowth (Matori's; Alola Form; new; debut)
• Bewear (anime)
• Oranguru (anime)
• Morelull
• Shiinotic

Trivia

• Poké Problem: My rival appears in this episode. Who is it?
  • Host: Meowth
  • Choices: Alolan Persian, Alolan Raticate, Alolan Ninetales, Alolan Meowth
  • Answer: Alolan Meowth
• When demonstrating how to perform Z-Moves, Alolan Meowth briefly does the transformation pose of Kamen Rider 1 before switching to the pose for Breakneck Blitz.
• This episode marks the anime debut of Quick Balls.
• Masked Royal and Incineroar narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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