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Fighting Back the Tears!

SM058   EP997 泣かないでヒドイデ！ Don't Cry, Hidoide!

First broadcast Japan January 18, 2018 United States May 19, 2018

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Moon Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 榎本守 Mamoru Enomoto Assistant director 榎本守 Mamoru Enomoto Animation directors 田之上慎 Shin Tanoue 小林ゆかり Yukari Kobayashi 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Fighting Back the Tears! (Japanese: 泣かないでヒドイデ！ Don't Cry, Hidoide!) is the 58th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 997th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 18, 2018 and in the United States on May 19, 2018.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

It’s a most unusual love triangle when James’s Mareanie encounters another Mareanie that just happens to be its former mentor and first love. This other Mareanie swiftly becomes jealous of the affection that Team Rocket’s Mareanie feels for James, so it evolves into Toxapex to give James a severe dose of poison. When the poison-addled James wonders aloud if his Mareanie would be better off with Toxapex, Mareanie overhears and runs away in sorrow. Can James mend Mareanie’s broken heart and fend off an angry Toxapex?

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• James tries and fails to catch a Frillish.
• James tries to release Mareanie, but Mareanie chooses to stay with him.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Toxapex

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Professor Burnet
• Customers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Toxapex

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Munchlax (Professor Burnet's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Mareanie (alternate color; evolves)
• Toxapex (alternate color; newly evolved; debut)
• Frillish (female)
• Tentacruel (×2; one in a fantasy/flashback)
• Mareanie (fantasy/flashback)
• Wimpod

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What tragedy befalls James in today's episode?
  • Host: Jessie
  • Choices: Fired from Team Rocket, eaten by a Wishiwashi, captured by Officer Jenny, Mareanie runs away
  • Answer: Mareanie runs away
• James's Mareanie is confirmed to be female in this episode.
• Team Rocket's Team Song is used as an insert song when James and Toxapex are fighting.
• This is the first episode to feature none of Ash's friends or classmates outside of flashbacks or cameos since Hoenn Alone!, 723 episodes earlier.
• Lana, Ash, Mallow, and Lana's Popplio narrate the preview for the next episode.
• Jessie, James, and Meowth do the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		不要哭，好壞星！

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