JN028

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JN028   EP1113 めそめそメッソン Sobbing Messon

First broadcast Japan July 12, 2020 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending ポケモンしりとり（ミュウ→ザマゼンタVer.）

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 土屋理敬 Michihiro Tsuchiya Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Animation directors 八田木瀧 Taki Yatagi 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: めそめそメッソン Sobbing Messon) is the 28th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,113th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 12, 2020. It was initially intended to air in Japan on May 31, 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

• Goh catches a Sobble.
• Goh tries and fails to catch a Silicobra.
• Ash and Goh return to Vermilion City.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Morpeko (Full Belly and Hangry Mode)
• Silicobra

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Goh
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Townspeople

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Sobble

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey; flashback)
• Riolu (Ash's)
• Farfetch'd (Ash's; Galarian)
• Raboot (Goh's)
• Farfetch'd (Goh's)
• Sobble (Goh's; new)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Pelipper (Team Rocket's)
• Armaldo (Team Rocket's)
• Magnezone (Team Rocket's)
• Rotom (Team Rocket's; Rotom Phone)
• Indeedee (Nurse Joy's; male)
• Indeedee (Nurse Joy's; female)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Butterfree (×2)
• Rookidee (×2)
• Silicobra (debut)
• Oddish
• Morpeko (Full Belly Mode and Hangry Mode; debut)
• Electrike (×2; flashback)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Sobble
• This marks the first time in the anime where a main character other than Ash has owned more than one starter Pokémon from the current generation.
• This episode marks the first appearance of an Armaldo in the anime since Nando's in League Unleashed!, 464 episodes earlier.
  • This episode also marks the first appearance of an Electrike in the anime since its cameo in The Future Is Now, Thanks to Determination!, 252 episodes earlier.
• Chloe, Talia, Goh, Chloe's Yamper, Ash, Professor Cerise, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The area that Goh caught Sobble at resembles the fountain that Sobble had appeared in during the Nintendo Direct that originally revealed the Galar region's starters.

In other languages

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