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SM014   EP953 勇気の結晶、リーリエとロコン！ The Crystal of Courage, Lilie and Rokon!

First broadcast Japan February 9, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 鈴木龍太郎 Ryūtarō Suzuki Animation directors 安田周平 Shūhei Yasuda 香月麻衣子 Maiko Katsuki No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 勇気の結晶、リーリエとロコン！ The Crystal of Courage, Lilie and Rokon!) is the 14th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 953rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 9, 2017.

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

• The Egg that Ash delivered to Samson Oak hatches into a Vulpix.
• Lillie catches the Alolan Vulpix that hatched in the last episode and nicknames it Shiron.
• Lillie is able to touch her own Pokémon.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Samson Oak

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Vulpix (Alola Form) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Shiron; Alola Form; new)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Vulpix (Samson Oak's; newly hatched)
• Bewear (anime)

Trivia

• Rotom Pokédex, Professor Kukui, and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This marks the longest time between an Egg's debut and hatching in the anime, as it took Samson Oak's Vulpix Egg 14 episodes to hatch.
• Team Rocket started to expend Bewear his nest for their base.

In other languages

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