SM146

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SM146

SM146   EP1085 ありがとうアローラ！それぞれの旅立ち！！ Thank You, Alola! Respective Departures!!

First broadcast Japan November 3, 2019 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending タイプ：ワイルド

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Assistant director 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Animation directors 山﨑玲愛 Rei Yamazaki 香月麻衣子 Maiko Katsuki No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ありがとうアローラ！それぞれの旅立ち！！ Thank You, Alola! Respective Departures!!) is the 146th and final episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,085th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 3, 2019.

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

Plot

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Major events

• Team Rocket, receiving an order from Giovanni to return to the HQ, say goodbye to Bewear and Stufful, leave Mimikyu and Mareanie and their Z-Power Ring with them, and return to Kanto.
• Nebby returns to say goodbye to Ash.
• Rotom decides to stay and work at Aether Paradise.
• Lillie leaves Alola along with Gladion and Lusamine to search for Mohn.
• Ash returns to Pallet Town, leaving all of his Alolan Pokémon with Professor Kukui.
• Sophocles heads to Mossdeep City with Molayne.
• Lana leaves for the ocean survey to find Manaphy with her father.
• Shaymin turns into its Sky Forme by touching Gracidea flowers brought by Ulu, and leaves Mallow.
• Hau battles Nanu in the Ula'ula Island grand trial, but the end result is left unknown.
• Professor Burnet is revealed to be pregnant.

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
• Giovanni
• Matori
• Professor Kukui
• Professor Burnet
• Gladion
• Lusamine
• Mohn (photo in a flashback)
• Wicke
• Faba
• Hala
• Nanu
• Hau
• Guzma
• Plumeria
• Team Skull Grunts
  • Tupp
  • Rapp
  • Zipp
• Molayne
• Hobbes
• Ulu
• Lana's mother
• Lana's father
• Harper and Sarah
• Trainers
• Passengers
• Citizens

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's; stays at Kukui's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form; stays at Kukui's)
• Litten (Ash's; flashback)
• Incineroar (Ash's; stays at Kukui's)
• Melmetal (Ash's; stays at Kukui's)
• Primarina (Lana's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Sandy)
• 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)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's; flashback)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's; released)
• Mareanie (James's; released)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Munchlax (Professor Burnet's)
• Absol (Lusamine's)
• Salazzle (Lusamine's; flashback)
• Lilligant (Lusamine's; flashback)
• Milotic (Lusamine's; flashback)
• Mismagius (Lusamine's; flashback)
• Persian (Giovanni's; video hologram)
• Meowth (Matori's; Alola Form)
• Umbreon (Gladion's)
• Lycanroc (Gladion's)
• Silvally (Gladion's)
• Zoroark (Gladion's)
• Persian (Nanu's; Alola Form)
• Decidueye (Hau's)
• Lickitung (Ulu's)
• Golisopod (Guzma's)
• Salazzle (Plumeria's)
• Salandit (Tupp's)
• Garbodor (Zipp's)
• Zubat (Rapp's)
• Persian (Madame's; Alola Form; Pershie; flashback)
• Drowzee (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Raticate (Team Skull Grunt's; Alola Form)
• Yungoos (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Scraggy (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Houndour (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Spinarak (Team Skull Grunt's)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Machop (Trainers'; ×2)
• Scraggy (Trainer's)
• Smeargle (Trainer's)
• Growlithe (Trainer's)
• Chinchou (Trainer's)
• Slowpoke (Trainer's)
• Shuckle (Trainer's)
• Lillipup (Trainer's)
• Doduo (Trainer's)
• Oshawott (Trainer's)
• Larvitar (Trainer's)
• Bounsweet (Trainer's)
• Solrock (Trainer's)
• Garchomp (Ride Pokémon)
• Metang (Ride Pokémon)
• Flygon (Ride Pokémon)
• Dragonair (Ride Pokémon)
• Altaria (Ride Pokémon)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Bewear (anime)
• Solgaleo (Nebby)
• Stufful (anime)
• Shaymin (anime; Land and Sky Forme)
• Shaymin (Sky Forme; ×3)
• Magearna (anime)
• Wingull (×4)

Trivia

...and your dreams!

• This is the last episode to air in Japan before the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield.
• Unlike the final episodes of the first four series, the phrase Next Time... A New Beginning! is not used; instead, the normal To be continued is replaced with ...and your dreams! This could be a reference to the closing lines of Type: Wild, which are played as the words appear on the screen.
• This episode marks the first time Ash hasn't brought his current team back to Kanto with him, he instead left them with Professor Kukui instead.
  • This is similar to how the final episode of the XY series ended with the phrase And to our own way!.
• This episode did not display the opening credits until the start of the ending theme.
• This episode has the longest credits sequence of any episode, with the credits being displayed onscreen over a span of approximately two minutes and 30 seconds.
  • This is also the first time a main character has released a Pokémon two episodes in a row.
• Team Rocket doesn't recite their motto in this episode.
• This episode marks the first time in the anime that a character is shown displaying any physical signs of pregnancy.
• This episode features the following flashbacks of Lillie's time in Alola:
  • Being afraid to touch Pikachu when Ash tries to get rid of fear of touching Pokémon in Lillie's Egg-xhilarating Challenge!.
  • Her falling to the ground with Snowy in Getting to Know You!.
  • Celebrating after defeating Hobbes's Pom-Pom style Oricorio with Ash's Pikachu in The Ol' Raise and Switch!.
  • Her hugging her mom after Ash defeated Nihilego in 10,000,000 Reasons to Fight!.
  • Facing Pershie in Dummy, You Shrunk the Kids!.
  • Her and Ash talking about Rotom in Bright Lights, Big Changes!.
  • Watching Ash use 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt against Professor Kukui in SM144.
• This episode was followed by a preview for the new series.

Errors

• When everyone is saying goodbye to Ash and Pikachu outside the plane, Metang's horn is colored blue instead of gray.

In other languages

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