SM112

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SM112   EP1051 新種発見！メルタン、ゲットだぜ！！ Discovering a New Species! Get, Meltan!!

First broadcast Japan March 10, 2019 United States

English themes Opening The Challenge of Life Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending 心のノート

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤咲淳一 Jun'ichi Fujisaku Storyboard 小平麻紀 Maki Kodaira Assistant director 小平麻紀 Maki Kodaira Animation directors 村田理 Osamu Murata 安田周平 Shūhei Yasuda No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 新種発見！メルタン、ゲットだぜ！！ Discovering a New Species! Get, Meltan!!) is the 112th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,051st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 10, 2019.

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 catches a Meltan.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Professor Kukui
• Professor Burnet
• Old woman

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Clefable (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Torracat (Ash's)
• Meltan (Ash's; new)
• Brionne (Lana's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Nagisa)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Vikavolt (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Clefable (Lusamine's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Bewear (anime)
• Stufful (anime)
• Meltan (anime; multiple)
• Shaymin (anime)
• Luvdisc (×2)
• Cutiefly (×2)
• Murkrow
• Comfey
• Klefki
• Sandygast
• Combee (multiple; fantasy)
• Xatu (multiple; fantasy)
• Natu (fantasy)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What type is the new Pokémon in today's episode?
  • Host: Professor Burnet
  • Choices: Flying, Ground, Psychic, Steel
  • Answer: Steel
• When Rowlet tries to give Meltan a replacement for its hexagonal nut, a Nintendo Game Boy is shown as a fantasy.
• This marks the first time a main character has officially caught a Mythical Pokémon, as well as the first time when Ash has caught a Steel-type Pokémon.
• Kiawe, Sophocles, and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• After Rowlet puts Meltan back in Ash's bag, its bowtie is colored the same as its feet until just before it lands on the floor.
• When the class talks about their battling partners, Tsareena's arms are colored white.

• 

  Tsareena's white arms

In other languages

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