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This article is about an episode of the Pokémon animated series that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
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パフュートン仲良し大作戦! Operation Perfuton Friendship!
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First broadcast
Japan
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January 19, 2024
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United States
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
Animation
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Team Kato
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Screenplay
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福島直浩 Naohiro Fukushima
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Storyboard
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尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano
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Assistant director
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ウヱノ史博 Fumihiro Ueno
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Animation director
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篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara
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Additional credits
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(Japanese: パフュートン仲良し大作戦! Operation Perfuton Friendship!) is the 36th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,268th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 19, 2024.
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
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar: Which traits is linked to Oinkologne's sweet scent?
- Choices: Gourmet palate, neatness, heat sensitivity
- Answer: Gourmet palate
- The first eyecatch of this episode features Nidothing and her Quaxly, while the second features Liko and her Sprigatito.
- The premise of this episode is very similar to Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?, and shares several parallels to it.
- Both episodes star a pair of characters of the day, Yuno and Renta and Ralph and Emily, who have known each other since childhood. They have an outwardly contentious relationship with each other but appear to also have feelings for each other deep down, which Misty and Liko successfully notice, but Ash and Roy fail to.
- Both pairs own a male and female of the same species, Nidoran and Oinkologne respectively, both nicknamed by their Trainers. Their Pokémon have affection for one another, and the premise of the episodes involves Misty and Liko respectively stepping forward to help the two Trainers and their Pokémon come together and ultimately ends in a situation that requires both characters of the day to work together.
- With the exception of those owned by the Rising Volt Tacklers, every Pokémon appearing in this episode is at least partially based on a pig.
- Roy's Fuecoco and Dot's Quaxly are both confirmed to be male in this episode, while Liko's Sprigatito is confirmed to be female.
- This episode marks the first time that all three concurrent starter Pokémon had their genders revealed since Snivy Plays Hard to Catch!, 604 episodes earlier.
- Much like in the aforementioned episode, the Grass-type starter Pokémon was confirmed female, while the Fire- and Water-type starters were confirmed male.
- This is also the first time since that episode that a Grass- and Water-type starter Pokémon had a confirmed gender.
- This episode marks the first time that a starter Pokémon has been confirmed female since Serena's Fennekin was confirmed in A Pokévision of Things to Come!, 448 episodes earlier.
- This episode marks the first appearance of an Emboar since Mission: Defeat Your Rival!, 507 episodes earlier.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages