JN075

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JN075   EP1160 クレセリア　真夏の夜の光 Cresselia - A Midsummer Night's Light

First broadcast Japan July 30, 2021 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 土屋理敬 Michihiro Tsuchiya Storyboard 高木啓明 Hiroaki Takagi Assistant director 高木啓明 Hiroaki Takagi Animation directors 斎藤香 Template:Romanizations/斎藤香 元廣和恵 Kazue Motohiro No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: クレセリア　真夏の夜の光 Cresselia - A Midsummer Night's Light) is the 75th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,160th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 30, 2021.

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 reunites with Dawn, while Goh meets her for the first time.
• Dawn encounters Matori for the first time.
• Ash, Dawn, Goh, Chloe, and Darkrai protect Cresselia from Team Rocket.
• Ash, Goh, and Chloe return to Vermilion City.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock (flasback/fantasy)
• Goh
• Jessie
• James
• Chloe
• Professor Cerise
• Matori
• Chrysa
• Ren
• Team Rocket Grunts

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Darkrai

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Cinderace (Goh's)
• Togekiss (Dawn's; flashback)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Eevee (Chloe's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Pelipper (Team Rocket)
• Dusknoir (Team Rocket's)
• Lunatone (Team Rocket's)
• Skuntank (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Toxicroak (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Purugly (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Rhyperior (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Darkrai
• Cresselia (×2; one in flashback)
• Kricketot
• Kricketune
• Bonsly
• Piplup (multiple)

Trivia

• The Japanese title of this episode is a reference to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• This episode features the following flashbacks, which have all been reanimated to match the style introduced in Pokémon Journeys: The Series:
  • Dawn's meeting with Cresselia in Sleepless In Pre-Battle!.
  • Piplup's refusal to evolve in Stopped in the Name of Love!
• Despite the move having existed since Generation II, this is the first time Moonlight is used in the anime.
• This episode marks the first time since Memories are Made of Bliss! that Dawn meets Jessie, James and Meowth in person.
  • Also, this is the first time since that same episode that Piplup uses Whirlpool.
• Ash, Goh, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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