SM018

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SM018   EP957 マジィ！？マオのお料理大作戦！ Really!? Mao's Great Cooking Operation!

First broadcast Japan March 16, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 関根アユミ Ayumi Sekine Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: マジィ！？マオのお料理大作戦！ Really!? Mao's Great Cooking Operation!) is the 18th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 957th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 16, 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

• Team Rocket completes the construction of their base in Bewear's den.
• Mallow's Bounsweet evolves into Steenee and learns Double Slap and Magical Leaf.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Oricorio (Baile Style)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Mallow's father
• Mallow's brother (flashback)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Bounsweet (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Poké Ride)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Shiron)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Bounsweet (Mallow's; evolves)
• Steenee (Mallow's; newly evolved)
• Lickitung (Mallow's brother's; flashback)
• Bewear (anime)
• Pikipek (x3; anime)
• Trumbeak (anime)
• Toucannon (anime)
• Oricorio (×2; Pom-Pom and Baile Style; Baile Style changes to Pom-Pom Style)
• Golbat (multiple)
• Murkrow (×2)
• Wingull (×4)
• Pelipper
• Butterfree (×2)
• Ledyba (×3)

Trivia

Team Rocket's base

• Pokémon QR Code: Steenee
• Poké Problem: Which of these Oricorio will drink from the Yellow Nectar?
  • Host: Mallow
  • Choices: Sensu Style, Baile Style, Pa'u Style, Pom-Pom Style
  • Answer: Pom-Pom Style
• This is the first Sun & Moon series episode to feature an Evolution.
  • Also, a new Evolution effect is introduced in this episode.
• Music from the original series is used in this episode.
• Ash's Rowlet briefly reunites with its foster relatives Pikipek, Trumbeak, and Toucannon.
• Ash's Rowlet is confirmed male in this episode, which Ash's Rowlet is fall in love for Mallow's Steenee.
• Ash, Sophocles, and Rotom Pokédex narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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