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HZ013   EP1245 ピクニックは突然に A Sudden Picnic

First broadcast Japan July 14, 2023 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ドキメキダイアリー Ending RVR〜ライジングボルテッカーズラップ〜[ランドウVer.]

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松澤くれは Kureha Matsuzawa Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 月野正志 Masashi Tsukino Animation directors Revival Revival Guan Peng Guan Peng Liu Ding Fu Liu Ding Fu Zhou Pei Ming Zhou Pei Ming Xu Chuang Xu Chuang Chen Jie Qiong Chen Jie Qiong Liu Jun Liu Jun 羽野広範 Hironori Hano 高添響 Hibiki Takazoe 忍田雄介 Yusuke Oshida 海老沢咲希 Saki Ebisawa 松本めぐみ Megumi Matsumoto 中矢利子 Toshiko Nakaya 柳原好貴 Yoshitaka Yanagihara Additional credits

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(Japanese: ピクニックは突然に A Sudden Picnic) is the 13th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,245th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 14, 2023.

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

• Roy encounters a wild Wattrel.
• Spinel beings his attack on the Brave Asagi.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Wattrel
• Shroodle

Characters

Humans

• Liko
• Roy
• Friede
• Mollie
• Orla
• Ludlow
• Murdock
• Dot
• Spinel
• Ann (flashback)
• Students (flashback)

Pokémon

• Sprigatito (Liko's)
• Rotom (Liko's; Rotom Phone; flashback)
• Fuecoco (Roy's)
• Rotom (Roy's; Rotom Phone)
• Charizard (Friede's)
• Pikachu (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
• Chansey (Mollie's)
• Elekid (Orla's)
• Rotom (Orla's; Rotom Phone)
• Rockruff (Murdock's)
• Quaxly (Dot's)
• Rotom (Dot's; Rotom Phone)
• Nosepass (Rising Volt Tacklers')
• Magneton (Spinel's; multiple)
• Umbreon (Spinel's)
• Oshawott (Ann's; flashback)
• Rayquaza (Lucius's; Shiny; flashback)
• Wattrel (multiple; debut)
• Shroodle (debut)
• Marill
• Yanma
• Skiploom
• Deerling (Summer Form)
• Magnemite (×3)

Trivia

• Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar: "What is affected by Magneton's magnetic force?"
  • Choices: TVs, washing machines, refrigerators
  • Answer: All the above
• The first eyecatches features Liko and her Sprigatito and the second one features Dot and her Quaxly.
• During the picnic, Roy chooses the Heroic Sword Pick for his sandwich. Based on the game's description of the item, this could reference his dream of becoming like the ancient adventurer.
• This marks the first main series appearance of Deerling since Celebrating the Hero's Comet!, 451 episodes earlier.
• The initial TV airing of this episode did not feature Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar. However, it was later available in streaming.

Errors

• When Roy takes a selfie of himself and Liko, Liko's right collar line is not properly drawn in and is colored white instead of turquoise. In the same shot, her bag strap is also colored white instead of yellow.

• 
  The coloring errors

In other languages

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