SM098

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SM098

SM098   EP1037 コンビ解散！？サトシとロトム Splitting Up the Combination!? Satoshi and Rotom

First broadcast Japan November 25, 2018 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 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 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director ウヱノ史博 Fumihiro Ueno Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: コンビ解散！？サトシとロトム Splitting Up the Combination!? Satoshi and Rotom) is the 98th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,037th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 25, 2018.

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Plot

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

Major events

• Ash tries and fails to catch Rotom.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Laki
• George
• Assistant director
• Cast
• Film crew

Pokémon

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

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Torracat (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Smeargle (Laki's)
• Chatot (on TV)

Trivia

The clapperboard

• The clapperboard that Mallow holds up has the number "98" written on it, which could be a reference to this episode being the 98th episode of the Sun & Moon series.
• Harper, Sarah, Lana, Pikachu, and an Eevee narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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