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HZ013   EP1245 ピクニックは突然に A Sudden Picnic

First broadcast Japan July 14, 2023 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ドキメキダイアリー Ending RVR〜ライジングボルテッカーズラップ〜[ランドウVer.]

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松澤くれは Kureha Matsuzawa Storyboard 齋藤徳明 Noriaki Saitō Assistant director 月野正志 Masashi Tsukino Animation directors 羽野広範 Hironori Hano 高添響 Hibiki Takazoe No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ピクニックは突然に A Sudden Picnic) is the 13th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,245th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 14, 2023.

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Plot

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Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Wattrel
• Shroodle

Characters

Humans

• Liko
• Roy
• Friede
• Mollie
• Orla
• Ludlow
• Murdock
• Dot
• Spinel
• Ann (flashback)
• Students (flashback)

Pokémon

• Sprigatito (Liko's)
• Rotom (Liko's; Rotom Phone; flashback)
• Fuecoco (Roy's)
• Rotom (Roy's; Rotom Phone)
• Charizard (Friede's)
• Pikachu (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
• Chansey (Mollie's)
• Elekid (Orla's)
• Rotom (Orla's; Rotom Phone)
• Rockruff (Murdock's)
• Quaxly (Dot's)
• Rotom (Dot's; Rotom Phone)
• Magneton (Spinel's)
• Umbreon (Spinel's)
• Oshawott (Ann's; flashback)
• Rayquaza (Lucius's; Shiny; flashback)
• Wattrel (debut; multiple)
• Shroodle
• Marill
• Yanma
• Skiploom
• Deerling (Summer Form)
• Magnemite (×3)

Trivia

• The first eyecatches features Liko and her Sprigatito and the second one features Dot and her Quaxly.
• During the Picnic, Roy chose the Heroic Sword Pick for his sandwich, and based on the game's description it could reference his dream of becoming an ancient adventurer.
• This episode did not feature Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar after the credits had ended

Errors

• Liko's right collar line was not properly drawn in and was colored white instead of turquoise. Her bag strap was colored white instead of yellow.

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  Collar line was not properly drawn in and wrong coloring

In other languages

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