HZ059

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HZ059   EP1291 おどれクワッス！碧きチャンプルステップ！！ Dance, Kuwassu! Blue Chanpuru Steps!!

First broadcast Japan July 26, 2024 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Will Ending Let me battle feat. 缶缶

Credits Animation Team Kumemura Screenplay 福島直浩 Naohiro Fukushima Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director ウヱノ史博 Fumihiro Ueno Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara Additional credits

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: おどれクワッス！碧きチャンプルステップ！！ Dance, Kuwassu! Blue Chanpuru Steps!!) is the 59th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,291st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 26, 2024.

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

• Liko, Roy, and Dot properly meet Larry for the first time.
• Dot's Quaxly evolves into Quaxwell.
• Dot has a Terastal battle with Larry and loses.
• Dot passes her second test at Terastal Training and receives her second stamp.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Dudunsparce (Two-Segment Form)
• Quaxwell (Dot's)

Characters

Humans

• Liko
• Roy
• Dot
• Larry
• Coral (flashback)
• Diva
• Okami

Pokémon

• Floragato (Liko's)
• Fuecoco (Roy's)
• Rotom (Roy's; Rotom Phone)
• Quaxly (Dot's; evolves)
• Quaxwell (Dot's; newly evolved; Terastallized)
• Tinkatink (Dot's)
• Rotom (Dot's; Rotom Phone)
• Dudunsparce (Larry's; Two-Segment Form; debut)
• Staraptor (Larry's; Terastallized)
• Oricorio (Diva's; Baile Style)
• Wigglytuff (Trainer's)
• Steenee (Trainer's)
• Bounsweet (Trainer's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)
• Smeargle (Trainer's)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Magnemite (Trainer's)
• Mankey (Trainer's)

Trivia

• The first eyecatch for this episode features Dot and Quaxly, and the second one features Larry and his Staraptor.
• Roy, Liko, Fuecoco, Floragato, and Dot narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This episode marks the first time that:
  • A first partner Pokémon evolves while battling a Gym Leader.
  • Glare has been used in the anime since The Dunsparce Deception.
  • A Pokémon other than Noivern uses Boomburst in the anime.

In other languages

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