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HZ006   EP1238 いにしえのモンスターボール The Ancient Monster Ball

First broadcast Japan May 12, 2023 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ドキメキダイアリー Ending RVR〜ライジングボルテッカーズラップ〜[モリーVer.]

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松澤くれは Kureha Matsuzawa Storyboard 野田泰宏 Yasuhiro Noda Assistant director 野田泰宏 Yasuhiro Noda Animation directors 岡昭彦 Akihiko Oka 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 新岡浩美 Hiromi Niioka 山田俊也 Toshiya Yamada 中矢利子 Toshiko Nakaya Additional credits

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(Japanese: いにしえのモンスターボール The Ancient Monster Ball) is the sixth episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,238th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 12, 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

• Roy's Ancient Poké Ball opens to reveal a Shiny Rayquaza, which flies away.
• Roy catches Fuecoco, making it his first Pokémon.
• Roy joins the Rising Volt Tacklers.
• Gibeon removes Amethio from the mission to obtain Liko's pendant and assigns it to Spinel instead.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

Humans

• Spinel
• Gibeon (voice)

Characters

Humans

• Liko
• Roy
• Friede
• Mollie
• Orla
• Ludlow
• Murdock
• Amethio
• Conia
• Zir
• Hamber
• Spinel
• Gibeon (voice)
• Explorers Admins
• Nidothing (video)
• Roy's grandfather
• Citizens

Pokémon

• Sprigatito (Liko's)
• Rotom (Liko's; Rotom Phone)
• Fuecoco (Roy's; new)
• Charizard (Friede's)
• Pikachu (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
• Rotom (Friede's; Rotom Phone)
• Rockruff (Murdock's)
• Ceruledge (Amethio's)
• Corviknight (Amethio's)
• Skarmory (Conia's)
• Skarmory (Zir's)
• Quaxly
• Rayquaza (Shiny)
• Scyther
• Krabby (×2)
• Pidgey (×3)
• Tentacool (×2)
• Shellder

Trivia

• Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar: What flows out of Ceruledge's swords when it cuts?
  • Choices: Moisture, nutrition, life force
  • Answer: Life force
• The first eyecatch of this episode features Amethio and his Ceruledge, while the second one features Roy and his Fuecoco.
• Despite Rayquaza having made its main series debut in Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!, 630 episodes earlier, this is the first time one has received a Pokédex entry in the anime.
• The commercial break for the episode occured around the first quarter of the episode, instead of the halfway point.

In other languages

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