SM104

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SM104

SM104   EP1043 ポニ島の自由研究！しまキングをさがせ！！ Poni Island Research Project! Search for the Island King!!

First broadcast Japan January 13, 2019 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending 心のノート

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤咲淳一 Jun'ichi Fujisaku Storyboard 小平麻紀 Maki Kodaira Assistant director 牧野吉高 Yoshitaka Makino Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ポニ島の自由研究！しまキングをさがせ！！ Poni Island Research Project! Search for the Island King!!) is the 104th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,043rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 13, 2019.

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 his classmates travel to Poni Island.
• Ash learns that Poni Island doesn't currently have an Island Kahuna, so he decides to find and battle Tapu Fini instead.
• Ash and his classmates meet Hapu for the first time
• Ash meets Plumeria, the Admin of Team Skull, for the first time.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Hapu
• Plumeria

Pokémon debuts

• Oricorio (Sensu Style)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Kukui
• Hapu
• Plumeria
• Tupp
• Zipp
• Rapp

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Golurk (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Nagisa)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Comfey (Nurse Joy's)
• Golurk (Hapu's)
• Mudsdale (Hapu's)
• Salandit (Tupp's)
• Garbodor (Zipp's)
• Zubat (Rapp's)
• Oricorio (Sensu Style; multiple)
• Relicanth

Trivia

• Notebook of the Heart replaces Twerp, Twerpette as the ending theme.
• As of this episode, all four variants of Oricorio have appeared in the anime.
• Hapu, Rotom, and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Ash's facial reaction to realizing that there isn't an Island Kahuna on Poni Island is similar to that of Pablo Picasso's art style.

In other languages

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