JN104

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JN104   EP1189 ハイパークラス！VS四天王ドラセナ！！ Hyper Class! VS Dracaena of The Big Four!!

First broadcast Japan April 1, 2022 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 興満録助 Rokusuke Okimitsu Animation directors 大西雅也 Masaya Ōnishi 倉員千晶 Chiaki Kurakazu 新岡浩美 Hiromi Niioka No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: ハイパークラス！VS四天王ドラセナ！！ Hyper Class! VS Dracaena of The Big Four!!) is the 104th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,189th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 1, 2022 as a one-hour special alongside JN103.

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 Goh meet Drasna for the first time and encounter Wikstrom again.
• Clemont is revealed to have battled Drasna before and lost.
• Ash has a World Coronation Series match against Drasna and wins, bringing his rank to 9.
• Ash and Goh return to Vermilion City.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Main series debuts

• Mega Altaria

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Goh
• Wikstrom
• Drasna
• Crowd

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Noivern (Drasna's)
• Altaria (Drasna's; Mega Altaria)
• Rotom (Drone Rotom)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Luxray
• This episode, along with the previous one, marks the 25th anniversary of the anime.
  • Due to this episode being aired alongside the previous one, the intro was omitted in the episode's initial release.
• The Dare da? segment is replaced with eyecatches of Ash, Goh, and Pikachu for this episode.
• Wikstrom's relationship with Ash's Sirfetch'd may be a reference to Pokémon Masters EX, where he can mention Sirfetch'd in his Pokémon Center dialogue.
• This episode marks the first time Ash has an official battle at the site of a League Conference from a previous series.
• This episode marks the first time Ash has defeated an Elite Four member.
• The opening animation is updated to include Goh's Froakie.
• Lisia, Chloe, Goh, Ash, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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