JN136

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JN136

JN136   EP1221 サトシとゴウ！あらたなる旅立ち！！ Satoshi and Go! Embark on a New Journey!!

First broadcast Japan December 16, 2022 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening None Ending １・２・３

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation directors 山崎玲愛 Rei Yamazaki 柳原好貴 Yoshitaka Yanagihara No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: サトシとゴウ！あらたなる旅立ち！！ Satoshi and Go! Embark on a New Journey!!) is the 136th and final episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,221st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 16, 2022.

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 Goh's Raid Battle against Lugia ends in it being called off.
• Ash sees Ho-Oh again, while Goh sees it for the first time.
• Ash and Goh leave the Cerise Laboratory and go their separate ways.
• Goh meets Misty for the first time.
• Ash reunites with his Butterfree.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Goh
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni
• Chloe
• Delia
• Professor Oak
• Professor Cerise
• Chrysa
• Ren
• Talia
• Parker
• Halta
• Camille
• Walker

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Ho-Oh

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Butterfree (Ash's)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Lucario (Ash's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Cinderace (Goh's)
• Inteleon (Goh's)
• Trapinch (Goh's)
• Suicune (Goh's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Absol (Goh's)
• Panpour (Goh's)
• Morpeko (James's; Hangry Mode)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Eevee (Chloe's)
• Yamper (Professor Cerise's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Ho-Oh (anime)
• Lugia

Trivia

• This is one of the few episodes storyboarded by the original executive director and for this series creative supervisor Kunihiko Yuyama.
• Shinji Miyazaki's music from I Choose You! is reused as background music in this episode.
• This episode marks the only physical appearance of Giovanni's Persian in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
  • This episode also marks the only appearance of the recurring Jigglypuff in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
• This is the first time Ash and Pikachu has seen Ho-Oh in the main series since Battling the Enemy Within!.

In other languages

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