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So Long, Sophocles!

SM026   EP965 さよならマーマネ！ Farewell, Māmane!

First broadcast Japan May 11, 2017 United States August 5, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation director 香月麻衣子 Maiko Katsuki No additional credits are available at this time.

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

So Long, Sophocles! (Japanese: さよならマーマネ！ Farewell, Māmane!) is the 26th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 965th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 11, 2017 and in the United States on August 5, 2017.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Big changes are coming to the Pokémon School when Ash’s friend Sophocles learns that his family will be moving. When Sophocles breaks the news to his classmates, they decide to send him off in style! But amid all the festivities, Sophocles learns something that he fears will ruin everyone’s celebratory mood…

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash brings Sophocles a wild Charjabug as a present.
• Sophocles catches the Charjabug.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Charjabug (Sophocles's)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Mimo
• Sophocles's parents

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Charizard (US and international), Kiawe's Poké Ride Charizard (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Lapras (Lana's; Ride Pokémon)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's; new; debut)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Pichu (Trainer's)
• Lapras (Ride Pokémon)
• Wailord

Trivia

The shirt

• Poké Problem: What do I get frightened over in today's episode?
  • Host: Sophocles
  • Choices: A blackout, Togedemaru leaving, Dieting, Moving
  • Answer: Moving
• Sophocles, Mallow, Lillie, Lana, Kiawe, Ash, and Ash's Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
• One of the T-shirts Ash considers wearing at Sophocles's farewell party (the green T-shirt) features a print design of the stock overworld/menu sprite of a plant-like Pokémon from the Generation I games. The other (the white T-shirt) has a Pikachu head logo that looks similar to the Pokémon 20th Anniversary logo.
  • Ash is seen sleeping with the white t-shirt in SM035.
• When Sophocles imagines getting some malasadas, Togedemaru breaks the fourth wall by looking at Sophocles's thought balloon and reaching out for the malasadas inside it.

Errors

• When Mimo is holding up a bouquet of flowers, her pink pigtails are mistakenly colored brown.

Dub edits

In other languages

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