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Mimikyu Unmasked!

SM038   EP977 ミミッキュのばけのかわ！ Mimikkyu's Disguise!

First broadcast Japan August 17, 2017 United States November 4, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 榎本守 Mamoru Enomoto Animation directors 門智昭 Tomoaki Kado 田之上慎 Shin Tanoue 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

Mimikyu Unmasked! (Japanese: ミミッキュのばけのかわ！ Mimikkyu's Disguise!) is the 38th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 977th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 17, 2017 and in the United States on November 4, 2017.

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

Blurb

When Team Rocket pounces, Ash is excited to show off his new Z-Move, but Lycanroc can’t quite make it work. After Kiawe steps up to send the villains blasting off again, Jessie and Mimikyu land in a shopping mall—and Mimikyu’s disguise is torn!

Jessie thinks this is the perfect opportunity to get Mimikyu a new outfit, but it just isn’t interested in changing its look. She finally agrees to mend the ripped cloth, and when they battle again, Mimikyu actually listens to Jessie’s commands! Unfortunately for them, Lycanroc has been training hard, and it performs a perfect Z-Move that sends them blasting back to Bewear!

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 Lycanroc perform Continental Crush for the first time.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Professor Kukui
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Lycanroc (Dusk Form) (US and international), Murkrow (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Vulpix (Trainer's; Alola Form)
• Bewear (anime)
• Murkrow (multiple)
• Lycanroc (Midday and Midnight Form; images)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: Which Pokémon steals my malasadas in today's episode?
  • Host: Jessie
  • Choices: Murkrow, Twerp, Rowlet, Meowth
  • Answer: Murkrow
• Mallow and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
• A starfish and a shell, which are real world animals, are attached to a beach bucket that Jessie's Mimikyu briefly wears during the dressing room scene.
• The opening animation is updated to include a shot from this episode where Ash commands his Lycanroc to use Continental Crush, replacing the shot of Ash commanding his Pikachu to use Quick Attack from Lulled to La-La Land!.
• The Bewear themed outfits in the Poké Problem segment are the same ones which Team Rocket wear for their food truck job in the next episode.
• Team Rocket read out the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.

Errors

Dub edits

• The Japanese text depicting Inferno Overdrive and Continental Crush's names are edited out in the dub.
• The scene after Meowth frolicking in a field of flowers where it shows his "dead body" has been removed from the dub.
• In the scene where it shows Meowth's soul going back into his body, the soul is completely removed from the dub, although the sound effect of the soul returning is still intact.

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  Shot cut from the dub

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  Scene from the original showing

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  Scene edited in the dub

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		謎擬Q的畫皮！
German		Mimigmas Enttarnung!
Brazilian Portuguese		Mimikyu desmascarado!
Latin American Spanish		¡Mimikyu desenmascarado!
Thai		ผ้าคลุมผีของมิมิคคิว!

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