JN039

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JN039

JN039   EP1124 サトシ対サイトウ！ 攻略たこがため！！ Satoshi VS Saitou! Conquer the Octopus Hold!!

First broadcast Japan September 27, 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 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane 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: サトシ対サイトウ！ 攻略たこがため！！ Satoshi VS Saitou! Conquer the Octopus Hold!!) is the 39th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,124th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 27, 2020.

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

• Bea's World Coronation Series ranking is revealed to have risen to 193.
• Ash and Goh visit Johto again and re-encounter Bea.
• Ash meets Chuck again, while Goh meets him for the first time.
• Ash is revealed to have battled his way back into the Great Class.
• Ash has a World Coronation Series rematch battle against Bea, which ends in a tie, resulting in no change to their respective rankings.
• Goh catches a Chinchou.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Goh
• Professor Cerise
• Chuck
• Bea
• Leon (fantasy)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Grapploct

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Raboot (Goh's)
• Bayleef (Ash's; flashback)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Riolu (Ash's)
• Farfetch'd (Ash's; Galarian)
• Sobble (Goh's)
• Chinchou (Goh's; new)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone; ×2)
• Poliwrath (Chuck's)
• Grapploct (Bea's)
• Hawlucha (Bea's; flashback)
• Hitmontop (Bea's)
• Rotom (Bea's; Rotom Phone)
• Rotom (Drone Rotom)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Hitmontop
• This is the last episode to air in the Sunday 6:00 PM time-slot. Starting from the next episode, the episodes air on Fridays at 6:55 PM.
• There are 915 episodes between Chuck's first appearance in Machoke, Machoke Man! and this one, which is the longest time between a particular human character's first and second physical appearances within the anime.
• Bea's ranking in this episode is the same number as her uniform number.
• Professor Cerise, Ash, Goh, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
• A special preview for future anime events was aired after this episode.

Errors

Bulbapedia, please put in Ash's Riolu page, "In JN039, Ash used Riolu as his second Pokemon in his World Coronation Series rematch against Bea. Riolu faced Grapploct again, after it defeated Pikachu. Riolu was able to hit Grapploct with Vacuum Wave, stopping a Liquidation, and move along the movements while being trapped in Octalock and escape by hitting Grapploct with a powerful Force Palm. Despite this, both Pokemon hit each other with Close Combat and Force Palm, knocking both of them out, and resulting the match as a draw, leaving Ash's rank unchanged."

In other languages

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