JN138

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JN138   EP1223 サトシVSカスミ！うみべのいっきうち！！ Satoshi VS Kasumi! Seaside One-on-One!!

First broadcast Japan January 20, 2023 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -with my friends- Ending ひゃくごじゅういち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 中田誠 Makoto Nakata Assistant director 中田誠 Makoto Nakata Animation directors 伊藤京子 Kyōko Itō 大西雅也 Masaya Ōnishi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: サトシVSカスミ！うみべのいっきうち！！ Satoshi VS Kasumi! Seaside One-on-One!!) is the second episode of Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master, the 138th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,223rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 20, 2023.

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Plot

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Resuming his journey, Ash and Pikachu stopped by the sea. Deciding to relax, Ash took out his pokeballs, sending out Corphish, Totodile, Leavanny, and Rowlet. While Ash’s other pokemon are relaxing, corphish in particular is excited to go into the sea, causing it to crash into the others. Ash worried, asking if the others were alright, they were fine. Corphish continues to swim happily in circles, Ash tells him to come back but was happy to see that corphish was having fun.

A shadow appears underneath the water, piquing Pikachu’s interest by using his tail as a fishing lure. The antennas of a Clauncher can be seen. While Ash was doing his own thing, he and the other pokemon heard Pikachu’s frantic cry. A Clauncher’s claw was attached to Pikachu’s tail. Pikachu uses his body to lift the Clauncher then uses an electric move, letting go of his tail. Pikachu got hit by its Water Gun, whilst hitting Ash to the ground. Corphish can be seen swimming toward, attacking the Clauncher, but the Clauncher avoided his attack. At this moment, Corphish developed a rivalry with the Clauncher. Ash saw how strong the Clauncher was against Corphish. So It was decided, he was going to catch it. But before he could catch it, a lure was wrapped around his wrist. A silhouette above him turns out to be Misty. Misty declared that she would catch it first, but not until it escape by creating a smokescreen with its Water Gun. Corphish upset ran towards the edge calling Clauncher for a rematch. Later, Pikachu can be seen running towards Misty for a hug, leaving out Psyduck, and his attempt for a hug from Pikachu. Ash’s Leavanny cheering him up. While Ash’s and Misty’s Pokemon are having fun. Misty congratulates and acknowledges Ash’s rank as a World Champion. Misty told Ash that she will be the one to catch the Clauncher, she explained that before ash arrived, when using her “Misty Lure,” she had encountered it many times, she believed it was a fate encounter, getting hit by it’s Water Gun multiple times, but fails to catch it. She called the Clauncher cool. Afterwards, they argued to see who would be the ones to catch the Clauncher through a fishing battle. Ash got bored eventually, while misty was patient. Later, both were bickering and calling each other annoying.

The Team Rocket trio were inside a Magikarp Submarine. Jessie, James were expressing how hungry they were, afterwards Mewoth was too. Misty lure got pulled and she tried to reel it in. Simultaneously, The trio witnessed what’s happening, Jessie said that Clauncher looked delicious. Both Misty and ash were pulled into the water after their attempts to reeling the Clauncher. Both failed but agree they would have to battle for it.

Latias was shown again flying above, observing Ash. Misty joins ash along on his journey.

Major events

• Ash reunites with Misty.
• Misty reveals she has set out on a new journey and left the Cerulean Gym under the care of her sisters.
• Ash is revealed to have obtained a fishing lure from Cilan.
• Ash's Corphish is revealed to have learned Metal Claw and Aqua Jet.
• Misty's Politoed is revealed to have learned Bounce, Focus Blast, and Hydro Pump.
• Ash and Misty have a battle over a wild Clauncher, with Misty winning.
• Misty catches the Clauncher.
• Ash and Misty decide to travel together again.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Misty's Clauncher

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• The Sensational Sisters (fantasy)
  • Daisy
  • Violet
  • Lily

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Corphish

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Leavanny (Ash's)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Politoed (Misty's)
• Azurill (Misty's)
• Clauncher (Misty's; new)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Rotom (Team Rocket's; Rotom Phone)
• Latias (anime)
• Remoraid (multiple)
• Wishiwashi (Solo Form; multiple)
• Mantyke
• Gorebyss
• Huntail

Trivia

• Team Rocket Expedition which stands by the evils of love and truth: Miraidon
• The plot of this episode is similar to that of The Totodile Duel, where Ash and Misty fish and battle over who gets to keep a Water-type Pokémon.
  • Additionally, the Pokémon they fought over was Totodile, who appears in this episode.
• This episode marks the first time that Ash has lost to one of his traveling companions since his loss to Iris in Club Battle Finale: A Hero's Outcome!, 524 episodes earlier.
  • This episode also marks the first time Ash has lost a Trainer battle since Trials of a Budding Master!, 87 episodes earlier, thus making this Ash's longest Trainer battle winning streak in the anime.
• If excluding Drone Rotom, this episode marks the first time that a Pokémon acts as a referee in a battle.
• Shinji Miyazaki's music from the original series and Pokémon the Series: Black & White is reused as background music in this episode.
• This episode marks the first appearance of both Misty's Politoed and Azurill in the main series since Gotta Catch Ya Later! and A Real Cleffa-Hanger, 950 and 815 episodes earlier, respectively.
• This episode marks the first time a unique visual effect is used when Totodile emerges from his Lure Ball.
• Ash uses Cilan's fishing lure in this episode, which was previously seen in Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open! and A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!.
• Misty catching Ash on the arm with her fishing pole is a reference to how she and Ash first met.
  • Also, Misty sneaking up on Ash before asking to travel with him near the end of the episode is a reference to Ash Catches a Pokémon, where she does the same.
• As of this episode, May is the only one of Ash’s female friends that he has not reunited with in Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
• This episode marks Misty’s first onscreen Pokémon capture since A Corsola Caper!, 1,010 episodes earlier.
• This episode marks the first appearance of a Clauncher in the anime since the species's debut in Going for the Gold!, 402 episodes earlier.
• This episode is one of the rare instances where Misty doesn’t show fear towards a Bug-type Pokémon, since Leavanny was present without Misty showing any fear of him.
• This is one of the few episodes to mention that Pokémon can be used for food, as Team Rocket wanted to catch Clauncher to eat its claws.
• Ash, Misty, Brock, Cilan, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• Ash's fishing lure changes into a red and yellow lure instead of the Cilan lure throughout the episode.

In other languages

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