XY094

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XY093   EP892 Z爆誕！カロスに潜む者！！ Z's Explosive Birth! What Lurks in Kalos!!

First broadcast Japan October 29, 2015 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 金崎貴臣 Takaomi Kanasaki Assistant directors 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Animation directors 大橋藍人 Aito Ōhashi 西谷泰史 Yasushi Nishiya 新村杏子 Kyōko Niimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: Z爆誕！カロスに潜む者！！ Z's Explosive Birth! What Lurks in Kalos!!) is the 93rd episode of the XY series, and the 892nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 29, 2015, as the first episode of the XY & Z arc, and as part of a one-hour special alongside SS035.

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

Plot

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The episode starts with Zygarde, which Team Flare are trying to capture. Unfortunately for them, they immediately lose sight of Zygarde right after. Mable tells Lysandre that they lost Zygarde, and Lysandre responds with a request to search for it. Meanwhile, Ash and his friends are in the forest, while Ash is continuing his journey to Snowbelle City. Bonnie finds a Zygarde Core, which Ash tries to look up in his Pokédex, but it responds with "no data". Serena tries to look it up in her Pokédex as well, but it ends up with the same result. Ash has found a new Pokémon species, which he's very excited about. Bonnie decides to take care of the Zygarde Core and names it Puni-chan. A lot of Dodrio start running around in the forest, along with a Grovyle chasing after it. Ash and friends meet up with Sawyer again, but they have lost track of Puni-chan.

The scene cuts back to Team Flare.

Major events

• Ash and his friends find a Zygarde Core which Bonnie nicknames (Japanese: プニちゃん Puni-chan).
• Ash and his friends meet up with Sawyer again.
• Ash and his friends encounter Team Flare for the first time.
• Sawyer is revealed to have earned four more Badges.
• Sawyer tells Ash and his friends about Terminus Cave, which the group decides to visit on their way to Snowbelle City.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Team Flare
  • Celosia
  • Mable
  • Aliana
  • Bryony
  • Xerosic
  • Team Flare Grunts

Main series debuts

• Lysandre

Pokémon debuts

• Zygarde (10% and 50%)

Main series debuts

• Pyroar (Lysandre's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Cell and Zygarde Core)

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Sawyer
• Alain
• Lysandre
• Xerosic
• Celosia
• Mable
• Aliana
• Bryony
• Team Flare Grunts

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Puni-chan (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Noibat (Ash's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Eevee (Serena's)
• Grovyle (Sawyer's)
• Pyroar (Lysandre's; male)
• Houndoom (Mable's)
• Drapion (Celosia's)
• Bisharp (Bryony's)
• Houndour (Team Flare Grunts'; ×2)
• Skorupi (Team Flare Grunt's)
• Sneasel (Team Flare Grunt's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde 10% and Core; Puni-chan)
• Zygarde (Zygarde 50%)
• Dodrio (×6)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Poké TV: I Love Pikachu!
• Music from Genesect and the Legend Awakened and Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction is used in this episode.
• When Bonnie nicknames Puni-chan, Clemont makes a comment about her naming skills, paralleling how Bonnie often makes comments about the unimaginative names Clemont gives to his inventions.
• This is the first episode where Serena is shown without her waistcoat.
• XY&Z replaced Mad-Paced Getter as the Japanese opening theme.
• Puni-chan's Song replaced Roaring All-Stars as the Japanese ending theme.
• A segment called Poké TV replaces Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster in this episode.
• Serena narrates the preview of the next episode.

Errors

• When Ash, Clemont and Serena call out all of their Pokémon after escaping from Team Flare, Sawyer said that he never saw Noibat before despite being present when Ash used it against the Team Flare Grunts earlier.
  • He also seems to ignore or disregard the fact that Ash's Fletchinder has evolved into Talonflame since their last encounter.
• When Bunnelby was holding the food bowls with Serena, the inner part of its ear was brown, not pink.
• During Ash and friends' second encounter with Team Flare, when the grunts tell their Pokémon to use Dark Pulse, the male grunt on the right has his hair drawn in reverse.
• After Ash and his friends have their second encounter with Team Flare and Team Flare escapes, Frogadier disappears.

In other languages

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