SM111

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SM111

SM111   EP1050 アローラ上陸！タルタルメタルパニック！！ Arrival in Alola! Dripping Metal Panic!!

First broadcast Japan March 3, 2019 United States

English themes Opening The Challenge of Life Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending 心のノート

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 関野昌弘 Masahiro Sekino Assistant director 関野昌弘 Masahiro Sekino Animation directors 酒井裕未 Hiromi Sakai 柳原好貴 Yoshitaka Yanagihara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: アローラ上陸！タルタルメタルパニック！！ Arrival in Alola! Dripping Metal Panic!!) is the 111th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,050th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 3, 2019.

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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, his classmates, and Team Rocket encounter a group of wild Meltan, one of whom strikes a friendship with Ash's Rowlet.

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
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Professor Kukui

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Meltan (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Muk (Ash's)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Nagisa)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Clefable (Lusamine's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Stufful (anime)
• Meltan (anime; multiple)
• Shaymin (anime)
• Rattata (Alola Form)
• Magneton
• Murkrow

Trivia

• The episode's Japanese title is a reference to the series Full Metal Panic.
• The logo for OLM, Inc., the company that animates the Pokémon anime, can be seen on the bottlecap James picks up after discovering his bottlecap collection was eaten.
• When James makes an angry face at the Meltan, his face resembles that of Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia.
• James, Meowth, Jessie, and Wobbuffet narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The logo on one of James's bottle caps in his collection looks very similar to the OLM logo.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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