Pikachu's Iron Tail frees all the Ride Pokémon, while Popplio manages to blow a massive water balloon to save them from falling onto the rocks. During a school fishing trip, the class's Ride Pokémon are stolen by Team Rocket. Transcription: " Ashimari, ganbarūn!" ( Japanese: シマリ、がんバルーン!)Īsh helps Lana train her Popplio to blow a water balloon large enough to enable undersea travel for people. "Yo, Ho, Ho! Go, Popplio!" (Ashimari, Do Your Balloonest!)
Ash catches Rowlet as his first Pokémon in Alola. Afterwards, Rowlet chooses to go with Ash. After Ash feeds the starving Rowlet, it returns the favor by helping him fight off Team Rocket. Transcription: " Mokurō tōjō! Arōra de Pokemon getto da ze" ( Japanese: モクロー登場! アローラでポケモンゲットだぜ!!)Īfter Ash fails to capture a Grubbin, he encounters a Rowlet that lives in a Toucannon nest with a flock of Pikipek and Trumbeak. "First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-style!" (Enter Mokuroh! I Got a Pokémon in Alola!!) Before the battle can be decided, Team Rocket are carried off by a wild Bewear. He is interrupted by Team Rocket, who have arrived on the island under their own orders to acquire new Pokémon for Giovanni Mimikyu, who despises Pikachu, willingly sides with Team Rocket to battle Ash's Pokémon. Ash goes to search for and catch his first Pokémon in Alola, finding a wild Mimikyu. Professor Kukui gives Ash a "Rotom-Dex", which is an intelligent Pokédex that is capable of human speech and powered by a Rotom. Transcription: " Yorotoshiku, boku, Rotomu Zukan roto" ( Japanese: よロトしく、ボク、ロトム図鑑ロト!) "Loading the Dex!" (Good Rotomorning, I Am the Rotom Zukan Roto!) In order to regain the power of Z-Moves, Ash decides to undergo the island challenge. Ash and Pikachu manage to unleash the Z-Move "Gigavolt Havoc", but the Z-Crystal shatters after Pikachu's immense release of power. Soon after, Tapu Koko appears and battles Ash and Pikachu in order to test their ability to use the Z-Ring. On Ash's first day at Pokémon school, Professor Kukui and the other students host a surprise welcome party for him, which includes contests against the other students' Pokémon. "The Guardian's Challenge!" (Enter the Guardian Deity Kapu-Kokeko! Let Us Attempt to Master Our Z-Move!!) With his mother's permission, Ash decides to stay in Alola and enroll in the Pokémon school to learn more about Alolan Pokémon. The night before Ash and his mother are due to return home, the Melemele Island guardian Pokémon Tapu Koko, who has been watching Ash, appears to him and gives him a Z-Ring that will enable him to perform his own Z-Moves. While helping defend the school from a group of Team Skull grunts, Ash witnesses another student, Kiawe, perform a powerful Z-Move with his Pokémon to drive the grunts away. While exploring for new Pokémon, Ash and Pikachu stumble upon the Pokémon school, of which Samson is the principal, and meets three students: Mallow, Lilie and Sophocles, and Professor Kukui. Transcription: " Arōra! Hajimete no shima, hajimete no Pokemon-tachi!!" ( Japanese: アローラ! はじめての島、はじめてのポケモンたち!!)Īsh, his mother, Mimey, and Pikachu arrive at Melemele Island in the Alola region on vacation to deliver a Pokémon egg to Professor Oak's cousin, Samson Oak. "Alola to New Adventure!" (Alola! New Islands, New Pokémon!!) Its instrumental version serves as the ending theme. The ending song is "Pose" (ポーズ, Pōzu) by Taiiku Okazaki, and the English opening song is "Under the Alolan Sun" by Jannel Candrice and The Sad Truth, featuring composer Ed Goldfarb.
The Japanese opening songs are "Alola!!" ( アローラ!!, Arōra!!) by Rika Matsumoto with Ikue Otani for 29 episodes, and "Aim to Be a Pokémon Master (20th Anniversary)" ( めざせポケモンマスター (20th Anniversary), Mezase Pokémon Masutā (20th Anniversary)) by Rika Matsumoto for 14 episodes. Prior to this, a preview of the first two episodes aired on the network on December 5, 2016.
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The season originally aired in Japan from November 17, 2016, to September 21, 2017, on TV Tokyo, and in the United States from May 12, 2017, to December 9, 2017, on Disney XD, making it the first Pokémon series to premiere on that channel.
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This season follows the continuing adventures of Ash Ketchum and Pikachu as they travel to the Alola region, go to Pokémon school with classmates (Lillie, Lana, Mallow, Kiawe, Sophocles), participate in the island trials, and learn how to use the power of Z-moves. Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon is the twentieth season of the Pokémon animated series and the first and titular season of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon ( ポケットモンスター サン&ムーン, Poketto Monsutā: San & Mūn).