SM070

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SM070   EP1009 牧場を守れ！逆襲の蒼き炎！！ Protect the Ranch! The Blue Flame's Counterattack!!

First broadcast Japan April 19, 2018 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening 未来コネクション Ending ジャリボーイ・ジャリガール

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 榎本守 Mamoru Enomoto Animation directors 田之上慎 Shin Tanoue 小林ゆかり Yukari Kobayashi 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 牧場を守れ！逆襲の蒼き炎！！ Protect the Ranch! The Blue Flame's Counterattack!!) is the 70th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,009th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 19, 2018.

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

• Kiawe's Marowak performs Inferno Overdrive for the first time.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Officer Jenny
• Sima
• Rango
• Mimo
• Bourgain
• Bourgain's underlings

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Electivire (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Poipole (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Granbull (Officer Jenny's)
• Tauros (Sima's; multiple)
• Miltank (Sima's; multiple)
• Mudbray (Sima's; multiple)
• Herdier (Sima's)
• Electivire (Bourgain's)
• Boldore (Bourgain's underlings's)
• Roggenrola (Bourgain's underlings's)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What Pokémon does the Officer Jenny featured in today's episode have as a partner?
  • Host: Kiawe
  • Choices: Granbull, Growlithe, Arcanine, Manectric
  • Answer: Granbull
• At one point, Ash breaks the fourth wall by shooing away an image of Bourgain in the background. Mallow is even looking at the image as Ash shoos it away.
• Music from Pokémon X and Y wild Pokémon battle is heard in this episode.
• Ash, Mallow and Lana narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• When Kiawe is posing for Inferno Overdrive, his shadow doesn't line up with him at one point. When he punches the ground, he has his right arm straight up, but his shadow's right arm is going to his right.

In other languages

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