SM038

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SM038   EP977 ミミッキュのばけのかわ！ Mimikkyu's Disguise!

First broadcast Japan August 17, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- 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 榎本守 Mamoru Enomoto Animation directors 門智昭 Tomoaki Kado 田之上慎 Shin Tanoue No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: ミミッキュのばけのかわ！ Mimikkyu's Disguise!) is the 38th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 977th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 17, 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

• Ash and Lycanroc perform Continental Crush for the first time.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Characters

Humans

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Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Professor Kukui
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Murkrow (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Vulpix (Trainer's; Alola Form)
• Bewear (anime)
• Murkrow (multiple)
• Lycanroc (Midday and Midnight Form; images)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: Which Pokémon steals my malasada in today's episode?
  • Host: Jessie
  • Choices: Murkrow, Twerp, Rowlet, Meowth
  • Answer: Murkrow
• Mallow and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
• One of Mimikyu's disguises show real world animals – A starfish and a shell appears in a beach bucket.
• The opening animation is updated to include a shot from this episode where Ash commands his Lycanroc to use Continental Crush, replacing the shot of Ash commanding his Pikachu to use Quick Attack, from Lulled to La-La Land!.

In other languages

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