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JN132   EP1217 ファイナルⅣ　「相棒」 The Finals IV: "Partner"

First broadcast Japan November 11, 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 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 冨安大貴 Daiki Tomiyasu Assistant directors 大賀まこと Makoto Ōga 森山愛弓 Ayumi Moriyama Animation director 安田周平 Shūhei Yasuda No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ファイナルⅣ　「相棒」 The Finals IV: "Partner") is the 132nd episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,217th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 11, 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 holding the World Coronation Series trophy

• Eternatus restores energy to Leon and Ash's Dynamax Bands and returns to the wild.
• Brock is revealed to have met Alexa and reunited with Cilan.
• May and Max are revealed to have met Serena.
• The Full Battle between Ash and Leon ends in Ash's victory, making him the new Monarch.
• Dawn meets Leon for the first time.
• The World Coronation Series Masters Eight Tournament ends.
• Ash returns to Vermilion City.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Gigantamax Cinderace

Main series debuts

• Brock's Blissey

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• May
• Dawn
• Iris
• Serena
• Brock
• Tracey
• Max
• Cilan
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Goh
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Delia
• Gary
• Nurse Joy
• Cynthia
• Diantha
• Professor Kukui
• Gladion
• Professor Burnet
• Chloe
• Leon
• Alexa
• Sonia
• Horace
• Professor Magnolia
• Lei
• Lisia
• Todd Snap
• Hop
• Rose
• Oleana
• Dan
• Announcer
• Crowd

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's; World Cap; Gigantamax)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Butterfree (Ash's; fantasy)
• Pidgeot (Ash's; fantasy)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's; fantasy)
• Kingler (Ash's; fantasy)
• Primeape (Ash's; fantasy)
• Muk (Ash's; fantasy)
• Tauros (Ash's; ×30)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey; fantasy)
• Lapras (Ash's; fantasy)
• Snorlax (Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's; fantasy)
• Bayleef (Ash's)
• Quilava (Ash's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's; Shiny; fantasy)
• Donphan (Ash's; fantasy)
• Swellow (Ash's; fantasy)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Torkoal (Ash's)
• Glalie (Ash's; fantasy)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Torterra (Ash's; fantasy)
• Infernape (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's; fantasy)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Unfezant (Ash's; female; fantasy)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Scraggy (Ash's; fantasy)
• Leavanny (Ash's; fantasy)
• Palpitoad (Ash's)
• Boldore (Ash's; fantasy)
• Krookodile (Ash's)
• Greninja (Ash's; fantasy)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Goodra (Ash's; fantasy)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Incineroar (Ash's)
• Naganadel (Ash's; fantasy)
• Melmetal (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Lucario (Ash's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Gyarados (Misty's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Blissey (Brock's)
• Glaceon (May's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's; fantasy)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Sylveon (Serena's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Sandy)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alolan; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Tsareena (Mallow's)
• Morpeko (James's; Full Belly Mode and Hangry Mode)
• Eevee (Chloe's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Charmander (Leon's; flashback)
• Charizard (Leon's)
• Cinderace (Leon's; Gigantamax)
• Eternatus (Leon's)
• Helioptile (Alexa's)
• Altaria (Lisia's; Ali)
• Rookidee (Sonia's; flashback)
• Aegislash (Dan's)
• Rotom (Team Rocket's; Rotom Phone)
• Larvitar (anime; fantasy)
• Solgaleo (Nebby; fantasy)
• Zigzagoon (Galarian; ×3)
• Manectric
• Meowstic
• Dottler
• Gossifleur (×3)
• Rotom (Rotom Drones; multiple)

Trivia

• Ash and Leon read out this episode's title card.
• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Cinderace
• This is the last episode to air in Japan before the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
• There are no eyecatches in this episode.
• This episode concludes the thirteen-part Masters Eight Tournament arc.
• Shinji Miyazaki's music from Pokémon the Series: Black & White and Pokémon the Series: XY is reused as background music in this episode.
• Aim to Be a Pokémon Master's original 1997 version is used as an insert song.
• This episode marks the first physical appearance of several human characters in the anime after long absences:
  • Todd Snap, whose last appearance was in Freeze Frame, 1,028 episodes earlier.
  • May and Max, whose last main series appearance was in Strategy with a Smile!, 670 episodes earlier.
  • Cilan, whose last main series appearance was in Best Wishes Until We Meet Again!, 419 episodes earlier.
  • Alexa, whose last main series appearance was in A Towering Takeover!, 286 episodes earlier.
• As of this episode, every main character has physically appeared during Pokémon Journeys: The Series.
  • This episode features twenty human main characters, the highest amount in any episode up to this point.
  • This episode marks the first time outside of openings and endings that every human main character up to this point has physically appeared since The Right Place and the Right Mime, 810 episodes earlier.
• This episode marks the first time outside of openings and endings that every one of Ash's Pokémon up to this point has appeared since Mystery at the Lighthouse, 1,204 episodes earlier.
  • This episode marks the first appearance of several of Ash's Pokémon after long absences:
    • Lapras, who last appeared in Lapras of Luxury, 960 episodes earlier.
    • Pidgeot and Primeape, who both last appeared in The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!, 444 episodes earlier.
    • Goodra, who last appeared in Till We Compete Again!, 278 episodes earlier.
  • This episode also marks the first time Ambipom is seen since To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!, 627 episodes earlier. She, however, was seen as an Aipom in a flashback in Friends, Rivals, Lend Me Your Spirit!.
  • The only Pokémon Ash has owned which didn't appear in this episode are ones he owned for less than an episode and Haunter (who was never officially captured).
• This episode marks the first time that Leon is defeated in an onscreen battle.
• This episode marks the first appearance of a Manectric in the anime since Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, over 6 years prior.
• This is the first time Pikachu has Gigantamaxed since The Climb to Be the Very Best!, 119 episodes earlier.
• This episode marks the first time a Trainer is seen Gigantamaxing more than one Pokémon in a single battle, as well as the first time a Pokémon is seen using more than a single power-up—in this case, using a Z-Move and Gigantamaxing—in a single battle.
• Despite being present in all but one episode of the arc, this is the first episode in which Morpeko turns into Full Belly Mode during the Masters Eight Tournament. The form change may reflect the conclusion of the tournament.
• Since Brock and Cilan were shown watching Ash's battle together, it's most likely they have learned they are both mutual friends of his after failing to do so in BWS01.
• The painting on the wall of Ash's room at the Cerise Laboratory is similar to "A sailing ship on a high sea by moonlight" by Ivan Aivazovsky.
• Unsho Ishizuka was added into the credits for this episode.
• Danika, Danika's Azumarill, Gary, Goh, Horace, Quillon, and Grookey narrate the preview for the next episode.

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