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Pokémon’s Team Rocket blasts off for what may be the final time

Jessie and James say their goodbyes... for now

by Nicole Carpenter

Team Rocket’s iconic villains Jessie and James have spent decades chasing after Ash and his Pikachu, and getting up to all sorts of double trouble. With Ash retiring , I guess there’s no better time for Jessie, James, and Meowth to break up the band.

The latest episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series aired in Japan last week, and that’s where Ash foiled Team Rocket’s hijinks for the last time. Naturally, Team Rocket had to go out big — trying to catch Pikachu. All of Team Rocket’s past Pokémon return for a big reunion battle, after which Team Rocket ultimately gets blasted off into the sunset for what appears to be the last time: All three — Jessie, James, and Meowth — agree that it’s time to move on without each other.

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It’s a shock to see Team Rocket submitting to defeat; the group has had decades of failures and kept coming back. There are still two episodes to come, and there’s a chance that Team Rocket’s disbandment may be short-lived. But the series is coming to an end after this Pokémon Master arc, and the next series, with new protagonists , will likely bring in a new enemy.

Pokémon fans on social media are taking this episode as Team Rocket’s final blast-off, and saying their goodbyes to the team. Just like Team Rocket says, it’s time.

Replies to the tweet above, which includes four screenshots that depict Team Rocket’s goodbye, have turned into a mix of a memorial for the group and a thread of speculation that the goodbye was way too abrupt to be an actual disbandment.

There are still two episodes left, airing on March 17 and March 24 in Japan. There’s no release date just yet for the English dub. The latest batch of Pokémon anime episodes dropped on Netflix on Feb. 24 — up to the 117th episode in the series overall. For reference, the Team Rocket episode that was released in Japan last week is the 145th episode in the series.

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• Episode #1 Enter Pikachu!
• Episode #2 Legend? Go! Friends? Go!
• Episode #3 Ivysaur’s Mysterious Tower!
• Episode #4 Settling the Scorbunny!
• Episode #5 Mind-Boggling Dynamax!
• Episode #6 Working My Way Back to Mew!
• Episode #7 Serving Up the Flute Cup!
• Episode #8 The Sinnoh Iceberg Race!
• Episode #9 Finding a Legend!
• Episode #10 A Test in Paradise!
• Episode #11 Best Friend...Worst Nightmare!
• Episode #12 Flash of the Titans!
• Episode #13 The Climb to Be the Very Best!
• Episode #14 Raid Battle in The Ruins!
• Episode #15 A Snow Day for Searching!
• Episode #16 A Chilling Curse!
• Episode #17 Kicking It from Here Into Tomorrow!
• Episode #18 Destination: Coronation!
• Episode #19 A Talent for Imitation!
• Episode #20 Dreams Are Made of These!
• Episode #21 Caring for a Mystery!
• Episode #22 Goodbye, Friend!
• Episode #23 Panic in the Park!
• Episode #24 A Little Rocket R & R!
• Episode #25 A Festival Reunion!
• Episode #26 Splash, Dash, and Smash for the Crown! / Slowking's Crowning!
• Episode #27 Toughing It Out!
• Episode #28 Sobbing Sobble!
• Episode #29 There's a New Kid in Town!
• Episode #30 Betrayed, Bothered, and Beleaguered!
• Episode #31 The Cuteness Quotient!
• Episode #32 Time After Time!
• Episode #33 Trade, Borrow, and Steal!
• Episode #34 Solitary and Menacing!
• Episode #35 Gotta Catch a What?!
• Episode #36 Making Battles in the Sand!
• Episode #37 That New Old Gang of Mine!
• Episode #38 Restore and Renew!
• Episode #39 Octo-Gridlock at the Gym!
• Episode #40 A Crackling Raid Battle!
• Episode #41 Pikachu Translation Check… Up to Your Neck!
• Episode #42 Sword and Shield, Slumbering Weald!
• Episode #43 Sword and Shield: The Darkest Day!
• Episode #44 Sword and Shield: From Here to Eternatus!
• Episode #45 Sword and Shield…The Legends Awaken!
• Episode #46 Getting More Than You Battled For!
• Episode #47 Crowning the Chow Crusher!
• Episode #48 A Close Call… Practically!

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Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Pokémon Journeys: The Series (Japanese: ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters ) is the seventh series of the Pokémon animated series in Japan and Asia and the eighth and final series of Pokémon the Series in the West. The series is based on all of the core series games , including the Generation VIII games Pokémon Sword and Shield . It follows Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon and was succeeded by Pokémon Horizons: The Series . It premiered between November 17, 2019 and March 24, 2023 in Japan (although the first episode had a special screening two days earlier) and between June 12, 2020 and September 8, 2023 in the United States .

The series features "double protagonists" Ash Ketchum and Goh , along with their respective partners Pikachu and Cinderace . Similar to Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon , Ash is based in a single location, alongside Goh, and together they travel around the world , specifically all regions that have appeared in the core series (from Kanto to Galar ), and meet Pokémon living in each region while pursuing their respective goals. Ash continues his pursuit of becoming a Pokémon Master by entering the World Coronation Series , a competition used to decide the world's strongest Pokémon Trainer , with the hopes of one day having an official match with the reigning Monarch, Leon . Goh, having had a fateful encounter with Mew when he was six, dreams of one day catching the Mythical Pokémon , and aims to complete his Pokédex while participating in the Project Mew research project in the hopes that they will get him closer to his dream. The series also features as supporting characters a young girl named Chloe , and her father Professor Cerise , who runs the Cerise Laboratory in Vermilion City , which works as Ash and Goh's base of operations for most of the series.

As with the previous three series of the animated series, this series introduces a new art style. For instance, Ash's eyes (both the irises and the overall eyes) are drawn larger, and Team Rocket 's eyes are drawn sharper than in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon . Overall, the characters are drawn more similarly based on Ken Sugimori's more recent character art. Characters are also consistently drawn with fingernails, like in Pokémon the Series: XY .

Pokémon Journeys: The Series features the return of many characters that have appeared over the course of Pokémon the Series , from main characters (like Brock , Iris , and Dawn , for example) to recurring characters (like Gary , Korrina , and Paul , among others), far more than any of the previous series. In addition to this, Pokémon Journeys: The Series concludes several storylines created over the years within the animated series, such as the story of Mohn , Butch and Cassidy 's rivalry with Jessie and James , and Ash's story with Cynthia .

Pokémon Journeys: The Series is the first series to feature episodes split into two different story segments, something that started in Splash, Dash, and Smash for the Crown! / Slowking's Crowning! and continued with Pikachu Translation Check... / Up to Your Neck! and A Rollicking Roll… / Eyes on the Goal! . These episodes have a more comical and "loose" plot from the main story. This is also the first series to have special episodes released directly for streaming, with a four-part arc related to Pokémon Legends: Arceus , titled Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles , released directly on Japan's Prime Video service. [1]

After airing the first 136 episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series in Japan, on December 16, 2022, an eleven-episode miniseries focused on Ash and Pikachu which takes place after the events of those episodes called (Japanese: ポケットモンスター めざせポケモンマスター Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master ) was announced worldwide. [2] In the dub, this miniseries was combined with the special episode Distant Blue Sky! to form the final batch of Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series , titled Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master . In this miniseries, Ash reunites with his old friends Brock and Misty on a tour to see the world while making new friends and reuniting with old ones.

Episodes in Pokémon Journeys: The Series are numbered with the prefix JN on Bulbapedia . For a complete episode listing, see the list of Pokémon Journeys: The Series episodes .

• 2 Japanese seasons
• 3 Dub seasons
• 5.1 Japanese DVD releases
• 6.1 Posters
• 6.2.1 Protagonists
• 6.2.2 Antagonists
• 6.2.3.1 Masters Eight
• 6.2.4 Supporting characters
• 9 In other languages
• 10 External links
• 11 References

Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum has a new plan: see the world! But first, he and his partner Pikachu are headed to the opening of the Cerise Laboratory, a research facility dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of Pokémon in every region. Ash meets Goh, another boy with boundless curiosity about Pokémon, and both are overjoyed when Professor Cerise asks them to become official research fellows. With Ash as determined as ever to become a Pokémon Master, and Goh aiming to catch one of every Pokémon (including the Mythical Mew), our heroes are in for adventure and excitement as they explore the wide world of Pokémon!

Japanese seasons

Pokémon Journeys: The Series has been divided into multiple parts in the Japanese release:

• Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター) ( JN001 - JN136 )
• Pocket Monsters: Arceus, the One Called God (ポケットモンスター 神とよばれし アルセウス) ( JNS01 - JNS04 )
• Pocket Monsters: The Distant Blue Sky (ポケットモンスター 遥かなる青い空) ( JNS05 )
• Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master (ポケットモンスター めざせポケモンマスター) ( JN137 - JN147 )

Pocket Monsters logo

Pocket Monsters: Arceus, the One Called God logo

Pocket Monsters: The Distant Blue Sky logo

Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master logo

Dub seasons

When Pokémon Journeys: The Series came to be dubbed into English and other languages, it was divided into three seasons:

• Pokémon Journeys: The Series ( JN001 - JN048 )
• Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series ( JN049 - JN090 )
• Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master ( JN137 - JN147 , JNS05 )

Pokémon Journeys: The Series logo

Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series logo

Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series logo

Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master logo

• Secrets of the Jungle

Home video releases

Japanese dvd releases.

• List of Japanese language new series home video releases

First Japanese poster

First Japanese main artwork

Second Japanese main artwork

Third Japanese main artwork

Second Japanese poster

Third Japanese poster

Fourth Japanese poster

Fifth Japanese poster

Sixth Japanese poster

Seventh Japanese poster

Eighth Japanese poster

Ninth Japanese poster

Tenth Japanese poster

Pocket Monsters: The Distant Blue Sky Japanese poster

Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master Japanese poster

Golden Fridays poster

English poster for Pokémon Journeys: The Series

English poster for Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series

English poster for Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series

English poster for Pokémon: To Be a Pokémon Master

English poster for Distant Blue Sky!

Protagonists

Antagonists

Masters Eight

Supporting characters

Professor Oak

Professor Cerise

• The Japanese name for this series retains its original title : Pocket Monsters .
• This also makes it the first series logo to not be colored in any shade of green, being completely blue instead. It is also the first one without any 3D perspective, having a flat 2D design.
• Netflix provides an epilepsy warning at the beginning of each episode after the TV rating chyron, thus marking the second time that the warning has been used outside of Japan, the first time being Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution .
• To be dubbed by Iyuno (formerly known as Iyuno Media Group) and Goldcrest Post.
• To be set in more than two game-original regions .
• Since the original series to be put on an extended hiatus; in this case, it was brought on by a production shutdown due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic .
• Since the original series to not have the names of the generation's first core series games in its title.
• Since the original series where Ash travels with more than one main group of traveling companions, with Goh being swapped out for Misty and Brock during the Aim to Be a Pokémon Master arc.
• Since Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire where Ash's outfit is not directly influenced by the male player character's outfit for the concurrent generation .
• This is also the only series where Ash participates in multiple Full Battles without losing any of them.
• Since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl where Ash recalls any of the Pokémon at Professor Oak's Laboratory to his party .
• Since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl where Team Rocket uses Pokémon they had caught in previous series aside from Wobbuffet .
• Since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl to feature regular broadcasting clip shows .
• Since Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl to feature more than three English opening themes .
• Since Pokémon the Series: Black & White where Pokémon have rejoined Ash's regular rotation after leaving it in a prior series.
• However, this message was removed in the English dub.
• Since Pokémon the Series: Black & White to feature a generic eyecatch rather than a guessing segment.
• In which a main character other than Ash catches all first partner Pokémon of the current generation.
• In which the concurrent generation in the animated series concludes after the release of the following generation's initial games.
• It is also the first series to feature main series episodes where Ash and Pikachu are completely absent.
• To feature a movie that is released outside of July. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• In which a main character catches a Legendary Pokémon .
• In which two protagonists catch the same Pokémon; with Ash and Goh each catching a Farfetch'd , though Goh catches the Kantonian form, while Ash catches the Galarian form.
• In which a main character owns both a Pokémon's regular form and its regional form.
• To have a Japanese opening theme with more than two different versions.
• In which Pokémon Eggs are given generic designs, contradicting their designs from previous series.
• In which the concurrent generation's regional Professor does not debut in the first two episodes.
• In which the Who's That Pokémon? segments from the original Japanese version are retained in the dub.
• In which the "To Be Continued" text is removed in the dub; it is only maintained in the official YouTube upload of the first episode , but was retained on This Could be the Start of Something Big! .
• In which an event-only location in the games is visited by the protagonists.
• The first Pokémon Ash caught was not introduced in the current generation and was a pseudo-legendary Pokémon .
• Ash catches a Ghost-type , baby , regional form , and Fossil Pokémon.
• Ash does not acquire any Fire-type Pokémon.
• Ash has Mega Evolved one of his Pokémon.
• Ash does not have a new female traveling companion.
• Ash does not have a new traveling companion that originates from the games.
• One of Ash's friends catches a Pokémon before Ash does.
• One of Ash's male traveling companions owns a Pokédex .
• Ash doesn't catch any concurrent first partner Pokémon.
• Ash does not participate in a Pokémon League .
• Ash's journey does not tie in with the journey from the games.
• Jessie doesn't catch any Pokémon.
• Team Rocket owns a Pokédex.
• Ash reunites with his traveling companions from more than one previous series.
• Released Pokémon of Ash's appear outside of the series they were released in.
• A released Pokémon re-joins Ash's ownership permanently.
• Previous rivals of Ash besides Gary make appearances outside of the series they were introduced in.
• Ash defeats an Elite Four member or a Champion .
• This is the only series featuring eyecatches where the eyecatches remain the same throughout without any variations.
• The first Japanese ending theme of this series was used for 70 episodes, longer than any other Japanese ending.

• Additionally, Ash obtains more Pokémon species that debuted in previous generations than he did from Generation VIII .
• This series features the most of Ash's former traveling companions from previous series out of any series, with all the previous companions making a physical appearance.
• This series also contains the least amount of endings introduced in a single series, with only two.
• This is also the only series where the number of Pokémon movies is not equal to the number of seasons of the series.
• It also has the shortest gap between clip shows, with only two weeks between JN119 and JN121 .
• The last 12 episodes of this series were released in the United States on the 25th anniversary of the original airing of the animated series's first episode .
• With the end of Ash's saga in the Pokémon animated series, the official Pokémon page on Twitter revealed an art containing the beginning of Ash's journey and his last scene in The Rainbow and the Pokémon Master! signed by Kunihiko Yuyama . [3] The tweet was later retweeted by Sarah Natochenny herself. [4] [5]
• On October 6, 2023, the official Pokémon YouTube channel released a video called A Timeless Journey that recalls some of the moments of Ash and his friends ' journey.

• On November 7, 2023 (approximately a year after Partners in Time! aired in Japan), they released a compilation of Ash's first battles and the climax of the battle against Leon in the aforementioned episode, and Ash's first and last interactions with Misty , Brock , Gary , and the Squirtle Squad .

In other languages

Pocket Monsters: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master

External links

• Official site (Japanese)
• ↑ https://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2022/01/220114_a01.html
• ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_VMGv2kKEI&t=7
• ↑ https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1707138046200586390
• ↑ https://twitter.com/sarahnatochenny/status/1707447793604784324
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• Series of the Pokémon animated series

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