JN143

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JN143   EP1228 ラプラスにのって♪ Riding on Laplace♪

First broadcast Japan February 24, 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 ラプラスにのって

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 向山鶴美 Tazumi Mukaiyama Animation director 岡昭彦 Akihiko Oka No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ラプラスにのって♪ Riding on Laplace♪) is the seventh episode of Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master, the 143rd episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,228th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 24, 2023.

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 reunites with his Lapras again.
• Ash's Torterra is revealed to have learned Frenzy Plant.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Kingler (Ash's)
• Lapras (formerly Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Torterra (Ash's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Gyarados (Misty's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Lapras (anime; multiple)
• Latias (anime)
• Wailmer (×6, one evolves)
• Wailord (newly evolved)
• Tentacool
• Tentacruel
• Mantine
• Alomomola
• Mantyke
• Remoraid

Trivia

• The Japanese title of this episode shares its name with the sixth original series ending, Riding on Lapras, which is used as the ending theme for this episode.
• Excluding Pikachu, Meowth and Latias, all the Pokémon that appear in this episode are either Grass-Type or Water-Type Pokémon.
• Like in JN141 and JN142, the previous two episodes, there was no Dare Da? segment in the initial airing of the episode, instead having the series logo on the screen before and after the commercial break.
• This episode marks the first physical appearance of Ash's Lapras since Lapras of Luxury, 971 episodes earlier.
  • This episode also marks the first appearance of Brock's Marshtomp since Home is Where the Start Is!, 762 episodes earlier.
• This is the first episode of Aim to Be a Pokémon Master in which Ash is shown with a full team of six Pokémon on hand.
• Misty, Brock, Ash, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
  • The narration part where Brock spoke to Nurse Joy and got attacked by his Croagunk synced up with a shot from the episode where the same thing happened.

In other languages

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