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Fighting Back the Tears!
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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.
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
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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
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Jessie
- James
- Professor Kukui
- Professor Burnet
- Customers
Pokémon
- 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 read out the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the dub.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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Mandarin Chinese | 不要哭,好壞星! | |
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- Sun & Moon series episodes
- Episodes focusing on James
- Episodes in which an alternately colored Pokémon appears
- Episodes written by Ayumi Sekine
- Episodes storyboarded and directed by Mamoru Enomoto
- Episodes by multiple animation directors
- Episodes animated by Makoto Tanoue
- Episodes animated by Yukari Kobayashi
- Episodes animated by Izumi Shimura
- Episodes in which a main character attempts to release a Pokémon