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Going Ashore and Neighboring Akala Island (Japanese: 上陸！！となりのアーカラじま！ Disembarking!! The Neighboring Akala Island!) is the eighth round of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

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• Moon receives Rowlet from Professor Kukui.
• Sun receives a task to deliver special Mirage Berries to each of Alola's guardian deities, which he accepts after learning he will be paid.
• Hala is revealed to have taken Sun's Sparkling Stone in order to fix it into something.
• The Rotom Pokédex is revealed to be the Rotom Moon transported to Alola after it combined with a spare Pokédex.
• Moon takes the Rotom Pokédex for herself while Sun is given his usual Pokédex back.
• Gladion travels to the Ruins of Conflict, only to find Guzma there instead of Tapu Koko.
• Guzma enlists Gladion as a member of Team Skull as an Enforcer.
• Sun, Moon, and Professor Kukui arrive at Heahea City on Akala Island.
• Professor Kukui heads off to talk to his wife, Professor Burnet.
• Sun and Moon meet Lana, Kiawe, and Mallow, the Trial Captains of Akala Island.
• Kiawe challenges Sun to a battle to see if he's worthy enough of doing the island challenge.
• The battle ends without a winner, but Kiawe accepts Sun.
• Lana, still unconvinced about Sun, tells everyone to follow her to Brooklet Hill.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the history page.

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Debuts

Humans

• Lana
• Kiawe
• Mallow

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Sun
• Moon
• Professor Kukui
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Mallow
• Hala
• Olivia (fantasy)
• Nanu (fantasy)
• Guzma
• Gladion
• Team Skull Grunts

Pokémon

• Meowth (Cent; Alolan; Sun's)
• Litten (Dollar; Sun's; flashback)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex; Moon's; newly obtained)
• Rowlet (Moon's; newly obtained)
• Marowak (Alolan; Kiawe's)
• Bewear (Hala's)
• Type: Null (Gladion's)
• Pyukumuku (Grunt A's)
• Salandit (Team Skull Grunts')
• Tapu Koko (fantasy)
• Tapu Lele (fantasy)
• Tapu Bulu (fantasy)
• Tapu Fini (fantasy)

Trivia

• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc, this round was collected in Volume 3.

Errors

• In the VIZ Media translation, Hala incorrectly refers to the Sparkling Stone as the "Cool Jewel".

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.