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JN109   EP1194 VSキバナ！マスターズエイトをかけた戦い！！ VS Kibana! Battle for Masters Eight!!

First broadcast Japan May 6, 2022 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 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director ウヱノ史博 Fumihiro Ueno 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: VSキバナ！マスターズエイトをかけた戦い！！ VS Kibana! Battle for Masters Eight!!) is the 109th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,194th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 6, 2022.

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 Goh visit Galar again.
• Ash meets Raihan and Leon again.
• Ash's Gengar uses Max Starfall for the first time.
• Ash has a World Coronation Series match with Raihan and wins, bringing his rank to 8 and rising him to the Master Class.
• The Masters Eight is revealed to consist of Leon, Cynthia, Steven, Lance, Diantha, Alain, Iris, and Ash.
  • In the process, Steven, Diantha, and Alain are revealed to be competing in the World Coronation Series, while Iris is revealed to have climbed into the Master Class.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris (image)
• Goh
• Lance (image)
• Steven (image)
• Cynthia (image)
• Diantha (image)
• Leon
• Raihan
• Alain (image)
• Dan
• Crowd
• Commentator

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Greninja (formerly Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's; Gigantamax)
• Lucario (Ash's; Mega Lucario in a flashback)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's; flashback)
• Dracovish (Ash's; flashback)
• Cinderace (Goh's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Duraludon (Raihan's; Gigantamax)
• Flygon (Raihan's)
• Goodra (Raihan's)
• Rotom (Raihan's; Rotom Phone)
• Aegislash (Dan's)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Sandshrew (Trainer's; Alolan)
• Magnemite (Trainer's)
• Dodrio (Trainer's)
• Slowpoke (Trainer's)
• Trapinch (Trainer's)
• Machamp (Trainer's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Goodra
• The Dare da? segment is replaced with eyecatches of Ash, Goh, and Pikachu for this episode.
• This episode marks the first time Ash's Dragonite is seen getting defeated in battle.
• Lance is referred to as the Champion of Kanto and Johto in this episode, whereas in Flash of the Titans!, he was referred to as an Elite Four member.
• Danika, Goh, Ash, Horace, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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