Pokémon Horizons: The Series
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- This article is about the animated TV series. For the manga series, see Pokémon Horizon.
- This article is about the eighth series of the Pokémon animated series. For its eponymous first season, see Pokémon Horizons: The Series (season).
Pokémon Horizons: The Series (Japanese: ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters) is the eighth series of the Pokémon animated series in Japan and Asia and the second animated series of the Pokémon animated series in the West. The series is based on the core series games, including Pokémon and characters from the Generation IX games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. It succeeds Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and, in the West, Pokémon the Series as a whole. It premiered on April 14, 2023 in Japan with a one-hour special, and on March 7, 2024 in the United States.
The series features dual protagonists Liko and Roy, who join together with a group of adventurers known as the Rising Volt Tacklers and set out to travel the Pokémon world with them, visiting various regions introduced in the core series from Kanto to Paldea. Liko also finds herself targeted by the mysterious Explorers organization, which is after her equally mysterious pendant. During the series, Dot, another member of the Rising Volt Tacklers, joins the group of main characters and begins traveling with Liko and Roy as they enroll in Naranja Academy to learn to use the Terastal phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the Pokémon animated series, Pokémon Horizons: The Series features a completely new cast of characters and a more linear plot without many ties to previous series.
Episodes in Pokémon Horizons: The Series are numbered with the prefix HZ on Bulbapedia. For a complete episode listing, see the list of Pokémon Horizons: The Series episodes.
Japanese seasons
Pokémon Horizons: The Series is divided into multiple chapters in the Japanese release, with each part of the story given its own subtitle:
- Liko and Roy's Departure (リコとロイの旅立ち) (HZ001 - HZ025)
- The Sparkling of Terapagos (テラパゴスのかがやき) (HZ026 - HZ045)
- Terastal Debut (テラスタルデビュー) (HZ046 - HZ067)
- Rayquaza Rising (レックウザライジング) (HZ068 - present)
Pocket Monsters: Liko and Roy's Departure logo
Pocket Monsters: The Sparkling of Terapagos logo
Pocket Monsters: Terastal Debut logo
Pocket Monsters: Rayquaza Rising logo
Dub seasons
When Pokémon Horizons: The Series came to be dubbed into English and other languages, it was divided into seasons, with one so far:
- Pokémon Horizons: The Series (HZ001 - Ongoing)
Pokémon Horizons: The Series logo
Gallery
- For more images, please see artwork from Pokémon Horizons: The Series on the Bulbagarden Archives.
Posters
First Japanese poster
Second Japanese poster
Third Japanese poster
Fourth Japanese poster
Fifth Japanese poster
Sixth Japanese poster
First English poster
Second English poster
Third English poster
Fourth English poster
Characters
Main characters
Supporting characters
Rising Volt Tacklers
Naranja Academy
Paldea League
Others
Antagonists
Explorers
Manga adaptations
- Anime Pocket Monsters: Liko and Roy's Adventure
- Pocket Monster: Liko's treasure
- Pocket Monsters ~Pucchigumi SP~
- Pocket Monsters ~The Detouring Volt Tacklers!!~
- Pocket Monsters: What Are You Looking For, Terapagos?
Staff
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| Production supervisor スーパーバイザー |
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| Associate producers アソシエイトプロデューサー |
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| Published by 掲載 |
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| Series construction シリーズ構成 |
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| Animation coordinator アニメーションコーディネーター |
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| Script coordinator シナリオコーディネーター |
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| Character designer キャラクターデザイン |
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| Additional character designs サブキャラクターデザイン |
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| Action director アクションディレクター |
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| Art director 美術監督 |
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| Color keys 色彩設計 |
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| Director of photography 撮影監督 |
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| Editor 編集 |
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| Sound recording director 音響監督 |
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| Music 音楽 |
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| Theme song producers[a] 主題歌プロデュース |
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| Music collaboration 音楽協力 |
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| Collaboration 協力 |
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| Creative producer クリエイティブプロデューサー |
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| Animation producers アニメーションプロデューサー |
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| Line producer ラインプロデューサー |
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| Producers プロデューサー |
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| Creative director クリエイティブディレクター |
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| Directed by 監督 |
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| Executive director 総監督 |
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| Setting assistance 設定協力 |
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| Creative assistance 原案協力 |
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| Character concept キャラクター設定 |
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| Conceptual character artists キャラクター原案 |
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| Written by 脚本 |
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| Chief animation directors 総作画監督 |
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| Main animator メインアニメーター |
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| Deputy director 副監督 |
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| Picture book design 絵本デザイン |
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| Anime Pokémon design アニメポケモンデザイン |
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| Screenplay collaboration[b] 脚本協力 |
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| Airship design 飛行船デザイン |
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| Design collaboration デザイン協力 |
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| Color script カラースクリプト |
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| Casting assistance キャスティング協力 |
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| Photography[c] 撮影 |
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| Line photography 線撮影 |
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| CGI supervisor CGIスーパーバイザー |
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| CGI director CGIディレクター |
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| CGI designers CGIデザイナー |
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| CGI cooperation CGI協力 |
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| Modeling supervisor モデリングスーパーバイザー |
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| Toon model supervisor トゥーンモデル スーパーバイザー |
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| Modeling モデリング |
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| Modeling coordinator モデリングコーディネーター |
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| Rigging supervisor リギングスーパーバイザー |
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| Rigging coordinators リギングコーディネーター |
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| CGI production coordinator CGIプロダクションコーディネーター |
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| CGI production manager CGIプロダクションマネージャー |
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| CGI producer[d] CGIプロデューサー |
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| 3D art 3D美術 |
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| Editorial assistant 編集助手 |
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| Video editing ビデオ編集 |
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| Music composition 一部原曲・作曲 |
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| Rap assistance ラップ協力 |
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| Sound recording producers 音響プロデューサー |
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| Sound recording manager 音響制作担当 |
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| Recording coordination サウンドミキサー |
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| Recording assistants サウンドエディター |
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| Sound effects supervisors 音響効果技師 |
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| Music & sound effects production 音響制作 |
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| Assistant producers アシスタントプロデューサー |
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| Broadcast advancement 放送進行 |
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| Program business 番組事業 |
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| Business manager 事業管理 |
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| Globalization グローバライズ |
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| Program publicity 番組宣伝 |
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| Publicity collaboration 宣伝協力 |
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| Animation production アニメーション制作 |
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| Production manager 制作デスク |
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| Staging coordinators 設定制作 |
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| 3D production 3D制作 |
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| Executive production 製作 |
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Notes
Trivia
- In Asian territories where The Pokémon Company holds distribution rights, the first season of this series is numbered as season 26 and is treated no different than the previous series in the Pokémon animated series.[1][2][3] However, The Pokémon Company International refers to this series as a new, separate animated series different than the previous animated series. This includes referring to the show as the "new Pokémon animated series" in pre-release material, and starting the dub season from season 1.[4][5]
- This is the second series to feature the 2D "Pocket Monster" logo, though with a new design.
- Both the Japanese logo and the English logo have a split color design, with blue and red coloring. The Japanese and Korean logo is split horizontally, with blue on the top half and red on the bottom half, and the English logo is split vertically, with blue on the left half and red on the right half.
- This is the first series:
- To not feature Ash Ketchum and Pikachu as protagonists.
- To not feature the Team Rocket trio as antagonists.
- To not have a narrator (with the exception of the "World of Pokémon" intro at the beginning of The Pendant That Starts It All (Part One)).
- To feature a female and male duo.
- To have both a Creative and Action Director as a staff position.
- To have none of the protagonists participate in a major competition.
- To feature main characters in the series titles.
- Where the dub uses the same footage for their opening theme as the Japanese opening theme.
- In which no main character is based on a game character.
- In which a main character has a Grass-type first partner Pokémon as their first Pokémon.
- In which the concurrent generation's Water-type first partner Pokémon is not owned by a main character.
- To feature human characters that are not part of the main cast in eyecatches and foreshadow Pokémon captures by the main characters.
- It is also the series with the most versions of eyecatches.
- To have the Japanese names be the same in the dub.
- To be collaborated with the Trading Card Game.
- To have all concurrent generation first partner Pokémon be given a game distribution.
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- The original series:
- That did not premiere within the same month of the newly released core series games.
- In which the concurrent first partner Pokémon are obtained in Pokédex order.
- Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl to use more than one title card.
- Pokémon the Series: Black & White to have all three of the concurrent first partner Pokémon have their genders confirmed.
- Pokémon the Series: XY to have three of the characters, main or recurring, have one of the concurrent first partner Pokémon each. However, unlike the previous series, gender ownership has been reversed.
- The original series:
- Like Ash in the original series through Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Liko reads the episode title.
- Liko also replaces the role of the narrator from previous series, similar to Ash and Lillie in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon.
- In some flashbacks (i.e. in Flying Pikachu, Rising Higher and Higher!), the aspect ratio 21:9 is used instead of the usual 16:9.
- To promote the third arc of Pokémon Horizons, Terastal Debut, the animated series's official Twitter profile released a series of videos called LikoRoy Channel showing their attempts to become content creators like Dot. The videos can be found at:
In other languages
| Language | Title | |
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 Arabic
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آفاق البوكيمون: المسلسل | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 寶可夢地平線：系列 Pokémon Deihpìhngsin: Haihliht |
| Mandarin | 寶可夢地平線：系列 Pokémon Dìpíngxiàn: Xìliè* 宝可梦地平线 Pokémon Dìpíngxiàn* | |
 Czech
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Pokémon: Horizonty – seriál | |
 Danish
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Pokémon horisonter: Serien | |
 Dutch
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Pokémon Horizons: De serie | |
 Finnish
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Pokémon: Taivaanranta – Sarja | |
 European French
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La série : Pokémon, les horizons | |
 German
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Pokémon Horizonte: Die Serie | |
 Hebrew
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פוקמון: אופקים: הסדרה | |
 Indonesian
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Seri Pokémon Horizon | |
 Italian
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Orizzonti Pokémon | |
 Korean
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포켓몬스터 Pocket Monsters | |
 Norwegian
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Pokémon horisonter: Serien | |
 Polish
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Pokémon Horyzonty: Seria* Pokémon: Horyzonty – Seria* | |
| Portuguese |  Brazil
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Pokémon: Horizontes* A Série Pokémon: Horizontes* |
 Portugal
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A série Pokémon: Horizontes | |
 Russian
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Сериал Покемон: новые горизонты Serial Pokémon: novyye gorizonty | |
| Spanish |  Latin America
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La serie Horizontes Pokémon* Horizontes Pokémon: La serie* |
 Spain
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La serie Horizontes Pokémon* Horizontes Pokémon: La serie* | |
 Swedish
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Pokémon Horisonter: Serien* Pokémon – Horisonter: Serien* | |
 Thai
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โปเกมอน เดอะซีรีส์ สุดขอบฟ้า Pokémon the Series: Sutkhopfa | |
 Turkish
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Pokémon Yeni Ufuklar: Dizi | |
Liko and Roy's Departure
| Language | Title | |
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 Japanese
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リコとロイの旅立ち Liko to Roy no Tabidachi | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 莉可與羅伊的啟程 Leihhó yúh Lòhyī dīk Káichìhng |
| Mandarin | 莉可與羅伊的啟程 Lìkě yǔ Luóyī de Qǐchéng | |
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리코와 로드의 모험 Riko-wa Rodeu-ui Moheom | |
The Sparkling of Terapagos
| Language | Title | |
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テラパゴスのかがやき Terapagos no Kagayaki | |
| Korean
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테라파고스의 빛 Terapagoseu-ui Bit | |
References
External links
- Official site (Japanese)
- Official site (English)
- Official list of seasons page (English)
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