XY060

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XY060   EP859 目指せカロスクイーン！セレナ、デビューです！！ Aim to be the Kalos Queen! Serena Makes her Debut!!

First broadcast Japan February 12, 2015 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ゲッタバンバン Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Assistant director 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Animation director 堤舞 Mai Tsutsumi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 目指せカロスクイーン！セレナ、デビューです！！ Aim to be the Kalos Queen! Serena Makes her Debut!!) is the 60th episode of the XY series, and the 859th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 12, 2015.

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

Major events

• Ash and his friends encounter Shauna again.
• Serena and Jessie participate in their first Pokémon Showcase.
• Shauna wins the Coumarine Rookie Class Showcase and her first Princess Key.
• Serena cuts her hair short and starts wearing new clothes, including the blue ribbon she received in the previous episode.
• Ash and his friends head back to Lumiose City for Ash's Gym battle with Clemont.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy (flashback)
• Professor Sycamore (flashback)
• Grace (flashback)
• Shauna
• Monsieur Pierre
• Yashio
• Performers
  • Armelle
  • Blanche
  • Clarisse
• Attendants

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Klefki (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Fennekin (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Pumpkaboo (Jessie's)
• Wigglytuff (Nurse Joy's; flashback)
• Rhyhorn (Grace's; flashback)
• Fletchling (Grace's; flashback)
• Bulbasaur (Shauna's)
• Flabébé (Shauna's; Orange Flower)
• Klefki (Monsieur Pierre's)
• Furfrou (Armelle's; Pharaoh Trim)
• Meowstic (Blanche's; ×2; male and female)
• Fletchling (Clarisse's)
• Swirlix (Participant's)
• Roserade (Participant's)
• Psyduck (Participant's)
• Heliolisk (Participant's)
• Furret (Participant's)
• Sylveon (Participant's)
• Swanna (Participant's)
• Vileplume (Participant's)
• Scizor (Participant's)
• Dragonite (Participant's)
• Kirlia (Participant's)
• Marill (Participant's)
• Pidgey (Participant's; image; neon)
• Goldeen (Participant's; image; neon)
• Ninetales (Participant's; image; neon)
• Flareon (Participant's; image; neon)
• Rhyhorn (multiple; flashback)
• Skiddo (x2; flashback)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Serena.png

The title card segment focuses on Serena for this episode

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Mawile
  • Instead of Pokémon Holo Caster, Professor Oak announces the quiz in which the viewers can answer and win the Pokémon Tretta coins with Ash's Pikachu and Serena's Pancham, which feature Serena's new design.
• The ending animation is updated to include Serena with her short hair at the end, while everything else looks the same.
• Team Rocket didn't recite their motto and blast off in this episode.
• This episode features the following flashbacks of Serena during the scene when she is about to cut her hair.
  • Fletchling waking Serena up from Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!.
  • Serena feeding Rhyhorn from Lumiose City Pursuit!.
  • Serena leaving the house to start her Pokémon journey and meet Ash, then meeting Professor Sycamore to pick up her first starter Pokémon from A Battle of Aerial Mobility!.
  • Serena choosing Fennekin as her first Pokémon, Fennekin using Ember on a wild Vespiquen to protect Serena, and giving her hat back from A Shockingly Cheeky Friendship!.
  • Serena joining in Ash and the others' journey, Rhyhorn licking her, and Serena giving Ash the cookies she made from Giving Chase at the Rhyhorn Race!
  • Serena brushing Fennekin's tail on the dock near the Pokémon Summer Camp from Summer of Discovery!.
  • Serena encountering a wild Pancham and capturing it from Dreaming a Performer's Dream!.
  • Serena practicing with her Pokémon for the Pokémon Showcases, then racing with her mom to prove she wants to become a Pokémon Performer from A Race for Home!.
  • Serena losing her first round in the Pokémon Showcases from this episode.
• This is the first time a VS screen appeared that wasn't for a Pokémon Battle. For this case, it was for a Pokémon Performance.
• Shauna's Bulbasaur wearing a heart-shaped pattern painted on its forehead could be a reference to May's Bulbasaur, who had natural heart-shaped marks on her head.

Errors

• During the montage showing the remaining Pokémon Performers's performances, there was a segment featuring a Swirlix, a Sylveon, and a Swanna. When they were being judged to see who would move on, Swirlix was to the left, Sylveon was in the middle, and Swanna was to the right. When the Performer with the Sylveon was revealed to have won, Swirlix and Swanna (along with their trainers) swapped places.

In other languages

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