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JN074   EP1159 ダークライ　真夏の夜の夢 Darkrai - A Midsummer Night's Dream

First broadcast Japan July 23, 2021 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 土屋理敬 Michihiro Tsuchiya Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 中田誠 Makoto Nakata Animation directors 倉員千晶 Chiaki Kurakazu 新岡浩美 Hiromi Niioka 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: ダークライ　真夏の夜の夢 Darkrai - A Midsummer Night's Dream) is the 74th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,159th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 23, 2021.

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

• A wild Cresselia is targeted by Team Rocket's Matori Matrix.
• Ash and Goh travel to Sinnoh again, while Chloe travels to the region for the first time.
• Dawn meets Chloe for the first time.
  • In the process, Dawn is revealed to have returned from her journey in Johto.
• Dawn and Chloe encounter the wild Cresselia.

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

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Dawn
• Goh
• Jessie
• James
• Chloe
• Officer Jenny
• Professor Cerise
• Johanna (on television)
• Matori
• Chrysa
• Ren
• Talia
• Parker
• Team Rocket Grunts
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Cresselia

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey; dream)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Eevee (Chloe's)
• Yamper (Professor Cerise's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Magnemite (Ren's; Francois; dream)
• Skuntank (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Toxicroak (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Purugly (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Rhyperior (Team Rocket Grunt's)
• Bidoof (Trainer's)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Shinx (Trainer's)
• Roselia (Trainer's)
• Exeggcute (Coordinator's; on television)
• Darumaka (Coordinator's; on television)
• Cresselia
• Darkrai
• Starly (multiple)
• Drifloon (multiple)
• Drifblim (multiple)
• Budew
• Burmy (Plant Cloak)
• Rhydon

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Darkrai
• The Japanese title of this episode is a reference to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Ash makes a subtle reference to Tobias when Goh asks him if he'd met a Darkrai before, with Ash saying that it was strong in battle.
• Piplup gains a redesign, now having blue eyes like the games instead of having black eyes as it was depicted from Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl to Pokémon the Series: XY. Although this seems exclusive to Dawn's Piplup, as another Piplup shown earlier in the same series had its original design.
• Chloe attempting to take along an overpacked suitcase and Talia giving her a more reasonably sized bag instead are references to how Dawn and Johanna did the same in Following A Maiden's Voyage!.
• This episode features the staff of Cerise Laboratory doing their own version of Team Rocket's motto (in Ash and Goh's shared nightmare) with Chrysa standing in for Jessie, Ren standing in for James, Yamper and Mimey substituting for Meowth and Jessie's respectively and Professor Cerise standing in for Giovanni.
• Chloe, Dawn, Ash, Piplup, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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