BW123

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Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!

BW123   EP780 さらばイッシュ！新たなる船出！！ Farewell, Isshu! Setting Sail Once Again!!

First broadcast Japan April 25, 2013 United States July 27, 2013

English themes Opening It's Always You and Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening 夏めく坂道 Ending 手をつなごう

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Assistant director 山口頼房 Yorifusa Yamaguchi Animation director 片山みゆき Miyuki Katayama No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures! (Japanese: さらばイッシュ！新たなる船出！！ Farewell, Isshu! Setting Sail Once Again!!) is the 123rd episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 780th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 25, 2013 and in the United States on July 27, 2013.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis After defeating Team Plasma, Ash decides to return to Kanto, and Iris and Cilan decide to come with him so they can continue pursuing their goals to become a Dragon Master and Pokémon Connoisseur, respectively. Professor Juniper offers them a cruise around the Decolore Archipelago. However, Ash and company are tricked by Team Rocket to their abandoned ship, so they can lock them up and steal their Pokémon…

Major events

• Ash, Iris and Cilan leave Unova for Kanto, via the Decolore Archipelago.
• Professor Juniper prepares to send the Pokémon she has been keeping for Ash to Professor Oak.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Porter

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Professor Juniper
• Giovanni
• Porter

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Zekrom (US and international) Muk (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Muk (Ash's; at Oak's Lab)
• Excadrill (Iris's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Amoonguss (James's)
• Persian (Giovanni's)
• Reshiram (dream)
• Zekrom (dream)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Karrablast
• This episode marks the beginning of the Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure arc in Japanese and the retitling of the season as Adventures in Unova and Beyond in English.
  • This episode's segment of Who's That Pokémon still uses the previous title, Adventures in Unova.
• Be an Arrow! 2013 is replaced by Summerly Slope as the Japanese opening, while Let's Join Hands replaces Sakura Go-Round as the ending.
  • The English opening It's Always You and Me is updated to a new version, which uses footage from Summerly Slope.

Meowth's ear error

• This episode marks Giovanni's first appearance since leaving Unova in Unova's Survival Crisis! 26 episodes earlier.
• The lettering on the magazine Ash reads in the cabin closely resembles the English alphabet.
• This is the first time the Team Rocket trio has received credit and praise from Giovanni — in this case, for defeating Team Plasma.

Errors

• In a shot of the water rising through the ship, Meowth's ears are colored cream like the rest of his body instead of black.
• When meeting Porter for the first time, Ash addresses him by his Japanese name, Parker. Closed-captions of the scene call him by Porter, meaning that Ash's line was recorded before the change from Parker to Porter was finalized.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		再見了合眾！新的乘船之旅！！

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