SM128

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SM128

SM128   EP1067 開幕！アローラポケモンリーグ！！ The Curtain Rises! The Alola Pokémon League!!

First broadcast Japan June 30, 2019 United States

English themes Opening Ending

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

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi 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: 開幕！アローラポケモンリーグ！！ The Curtain Rises! The Alola Pokémon League!!) is the 128th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,067th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 30, 2019.

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

• Ash and his classmates arrive at the now-complete Manalo Stadium.
• Ash, his classmates, Team Rocket, Gladion, Ilima, Guzma, and Hau all enter the Manalo Conference.
• The Manalo Conference begins.
• Ash meets up with Hau again, while Ash's classmates meet Hau for the first time.
• Hau's Dartrix is revealed to have evolved into a Decidueye.
• Hau is revealed to have obtained a Z-Ring and a Z-Crystal.

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
• Officer Jenny
• Professor Kukui/the Masked Royal
• Samson Oak
• Gladion
• Hala
• Ilima
• Hau
• Guzma
• Plumeria
• Team Skull Grunts
  • Tupp
  • Rapp
  • Zipp
• Ulu
• Ilima Girls
• Trainers

Pokémon

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

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Torracat (Ash's)
• Meltan (Ash's)
• Primarina (Lana's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Sandy)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Vikavolt (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Lycanroc (Gladion's; Midnight Form)
• Decidueye (Hau's)
• Salandit (Tupp's)
• Garbodor (Zipp's)
• Zubat (Rapp's)
• Raticate (Team Skull Grunt's; Alola Form)
• Ekans (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Houndour (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Rattata (Team Skull Grunt's; Alola Form)
• Spinarak (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Drowzee (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Stufful (Trainer's)
• Eevee (Trainers'; ×2)
• Dratini (Trainer's)
• Poliwag (Trainers'; ×2)
• Parasect (Trainer's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)
• Psyduck (Trainers'; ×2)
• Pichu (Trainers'; ×3)
• Growlithe (Trainers'; ×2)
• Machop (Trainer's)
• Slowpoke (Trainers'; ×2)
• Chansey (Trainer's)
• Teddiursa (Trainer's)
• Snivy (Trainer's)
• Drifloon (Trainers'; ×2)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's)
• Lapras (Trainer's)
• Happiny (Trainer's)
• Bewear (anime; flashback)
• Stufful (anime; flashback)
• Shaymin (anime)
• Wingull (multiple)

Trivia

• This episode begins the Manalo Conference arc.
• This episode aired exactly three years from the original airing of A League of His Own!, which marked the beginning of the Lumiose Conference.
• Jessie, James, Wobbuffet, and Meowth narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This episode marks the first appearance of a Snivy since The Dream Continues!, 267 episodes earlier.

Errors

• When Hau is running towards Ash, the hole in his T-shirt is colored the exact same color as his T-shirt.
• In one scene, James's Mareanie is smaller than Meowth.

Dub edits

In other languages

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