SM101

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SM101

SM101   EP1040 放て！友情のツインスパーキングギガボルト！！ Fire! The Twin Sparking Gigavolt of Friendship!!

First broadcast Japan December 16, 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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 放て！友情のツインスパーキングギガボルト！！ Fire! The Twin Sparking Gigavolt of Friendship!!) is the 101st episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,040th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 16, 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 and Dia stop the Guzzlord by sending it through an Ultra Wormhole.
• Ash and Pikachu return to Alola by battling Dia and Zeraora.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Dia

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Guzzlord (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Popplio (Lana's; memory)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form; memory)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy; memory)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's; memory)
• Tsareena (Mallow's; memory)
• Zeraora (Dia's)
• Seel (Trainer's; photo)
• Emolga (Trainer's; photo)
• Vulpix (Trainer's; photo)
• Tapu Koko (anime)
• Tapu Koko (Shiny; anime)
• Guzzlord (anime)
• Rattata (Alola Form; ×3)
• Grubbin

Trivia

• The photos that Ash finds at the ruined Pokémon School was edited in between the first preview of this episode, aired after SM100, and the actual episode.

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  The photos Ash finds in the Ultra Ruin's Pokémon School.

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  The photos as seen in the preview that aired in the previous episode. Note the lack of tarnish.

• Ash-Greninja Appears! is used as an insert song at the end of Ash and Dia's battle against Guzzlord.
• Misty, Nagisa, and Lana narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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