Project Mew

Project Mew (Japanese: プロジェクト・ミュウ Project Mew) is a research project in the anime, which recruits Trainers from around the world, aiming to find Mew. The Project Mew was first introduced in Advice to Goh!.

Description

Objective

The official members of Project Mew, are attempting to find Mew in order to figure out the origins of Pokémon and it is led by Professor Amaranth.

Members

The highest rank a person can get in Project Mew is the rank of Chaser. The only known Chasers in the anime are Danika and Quillon, their role is to distribute missions and evaluate the performance of other Project Mew participants.

In Project Mew there is a category of Trainers who receive challenges and must fulfill them through Trial Missions. This category is known as Challengers and those who manage to complete the missions can reach the rank of Chaser.

List of known Challengers

Trainer	Tokens
Gary	5 or more
Horace	4 or more
Goh	5

Trial Missions

As an initiation process, a challenger must fulfill a mission assigned to him and fulfill it within a certain period. Upon completion of this mission, he begins to participate in Project Mew as a Challenger.

In order to continue to participate in Project Mew, a Trainer must pass certain Trial Missions assigned for them. The Trainer taking on Trial Missions receives a list with three missions divided by colors and must choose only one of them to fulfill. Once the mission objective has been achieved and verified, the Trainer will earn a special token on their Rotom Phone as proof. The challengers with the most tokens become Chasers.

During evaluations, a Challenger can receive more Tokens than others for the way he conducts the mission; acted as a leader, in a more strategic way, among others. The items collected during Trial Missions are brought to be verified by a Corviknight.

List of Trial Missions

Mission	Description	Region	Episode	Trainer	Reward
Collect a Moltres feather	Locate a Moltres and collect a feather from it.	Kanto	Advice to Goh!	Gary	1 Project Mew Token
Collect Volcarona's golden scales	Locate a Shiny Volcarona and collect scales from it.	Unova	Trial on a Golden Scale!	Goh	1 Project Mew Token
Catch a wild Kingdra	Locate a wild Kingdra and catch it.	Hoenn	Looking Out for Number Two!	Goh	1 Project Mew Token
Raid Battle against Articuno	Locate a wild Articuno and catch it.	Kanto	JN102	Goh Gary Horace	1 Project Mew Token (Goh) 4 Project Mew Tokens (Gary) 4 Project Mew Tokens (Horace)

Other missions

Those who wish to become challengers in Project Mew and take on Trial Missions must first pass a qualification mission.

Mission	Description	Region	Episode	Trainer
Catch an Alolan Ninetales	Catch an Alolan Ninetales at Mount Coronet within six hours.	Sinnoh	Leaping Toward the Dream!	Goh

Pokémon

Corviknight

Debut	Advice to Goh!

Corviknight is a Pokémon used by Project Mew to deliver items.

None of Corviknight's moves are known.

Previously handled

During the research work, Project Mew is responsible for rescuing several Pokémon, protecting them, and later returning them to wild.

Alolan Ninetales

Voice actors
Debut	Leaping Toward the Dream!
Japanese	Risa Shimizu

After catching this Alolan Ninetales for his first Project Mew mission, Goh turned it in to Professor Amaranth so it could be returned to its home in Mount Lanakila, fufilling the promise he made to it when he caught it.

Ninetales's known moves are Ice Beam, Blizzard, Dazzling Gleam, and Aurora Veil.

Galvantula

Debut	Trial on a Golden Scale!

Galvantula is Nito's former Pokémon. Once Nito found a batch of Larvesta Eggs, Nito had Galvantula trap Ash and Goh with Sticky Web. Galvantula was defeated when two Larvesta came to save the Eggs.