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The opening animation has two versions, composed of clips from the corresponding Japanese openings, GET BACK and Iolite, respectively. The ending animation has three versions, composed of clips from the corresponding Japanese endings, Ready Go, YUU, and Asleep or Awake, respectively.
In the Asian English release of Pokémon Horizons: Season 3—Rising Hope, Evolving Again is replaced as an opening theme by GET BACK, while the instrumental version of Evolving Again is replaced as an ending theme by Ready Go.
Lyrics
TV version
We awoke from our dream Where we knew Anything was possible Now that seems so long ago And what's coming? I don't know
Just when I feel like I'm making New friends Everything changes Could this be The end? Or are we evolving again? We're evolving We're evolving again!
Full version
We awoke from our dream Where we knew Anything was possible Now that seems so long ago And what's coming? I don't know
Just when I feel like I'm making New friends Everything changes Could this be The end? Or are we evolving again?
I'm always growing, changing Revising, Rearranging I know that this may never end
And so I greet tomorrow Already come so far and Prepared to now evolve again
Now that seems so long ago And what's coming? I don't know
Just when I feel like I'm making New friends Everything changes Could this be The end? Or are we evolving again? We're evolving We're evolving again!
At sunset, the Brave Olivine flies as Liko and Meowscarada walk on the bridge. A series of images appear one by one – Roy exchanging fist bumps with Skeledirge, Dot and Quaxwell looking at the former's Rotom Phone, Ult and Sableye keeping each other in check, Liko sitting on a swing under a tree with Meowscarada and Pagogo, Roy and Lucario standing back to back and Gimmighoul resting on Dot's head while she holds a Gimmighoul Coin.
On a yellow background with rotating Poké Ball symbols, a Poké Ball flies into view before showing Roy tossing it in the air repeatedly and looking to the side while walking alongside Skeledirge toward the camera against an orange background. Liko and Meowscarada face forward while walking together against a blue background. Dot and Quaxwell walk backwards against a purple background.
The screen splits into four sections featuring the younger members of the Rising Volt Tacklers performing the same actions, overlaid with the same colors as the backgrounds from earlier. Cap runs in a straight line across the bottom of the screen from right to left, then across the top from left to right in the opposite direction. Amethio is gazing into the distance with Ceruledge by his side at night.
Liko smiles at Cap, which it returns with one of its own. The younger members exchange looks before turning. It is shown the four Trainers and their Pokémon have assembled together on the bridge.
Don't Give Up, Crocalor! - present: The animation is updated to include Roy's Skeledirge; Ult's backpack is added in the scene where the younger members are together in the bridge.
This opening theme features one of the leitmotifs from the soundtrack of the dubbed version of Pokémon the Series: XY, specifically the one used during Mega Evolution.
The BBC iPlayer credits of HZ090 and HZ091 with darker-outlined font
In the first and second version of the animation, the verse Now that seems so long ago features a similar animation; in the first variant it shows a transition of Liko's Meowscarada through different stages of evolution, meanwhile the second variant shows Liko at different moments of her life.
Don't Give Up, Crocalor! - present
Don't Give Up, Crocalor! - present
Don't Give Up, Crocalor! - present
