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Currying Favor and Flavor!

SM035   EP974 カレーなバトル！ラランテスの舞！！ A Beautiful Curry Battle! The Dance of Lalantes!!

First broadcast Japan July 27, 2017 United States October 14, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation directors 伊藤典子 Noriko Itō 八田木瀧 Taki Yatagi No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Currying Favor and Flavor! (Japanese: カレーなバトル！ラランテスの舞！！ A Beautiful Curry Battle! The Dance of Lalantes!!) is the 35th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 974th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 27, 2017 and in the United States on October 14, 2017.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Before Ash can battle Kahuna Olivia at the grand trial, she has another important task for him and his classmates: gathering ingredients to make Akala Curry. On their search, Ash and Mallow encounter the Totem Pokémon Lurantis! Will they make it back in time for dinner…and does Olivia have an ulterior motive for this culinary quest?

Plot

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Making traditional Akala curry requires special ingredients. To get everything on their list, Ash and Mallow face wild Pokémon and more.

Major events

• Ash's Litten performs Breakneck Blitz for the first time.
• Ash clears the trial in Lush Jungle, earning a Grassium Z from the Totem Lurantis as a reward.
• Ash becomes qualified to challenge Olivia's grand trial.

For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Fomantis
• Lurantis

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Kukui
• Olivia

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Fomantis (US and international), Lurantis (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Charjabug (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Comfey (Nurse Joy's)
• Fomantis (multiple; debut)
• Diglett (Alola Form; ×3)
• Lurantis (Totem; debut)
• Castform (Normal and Sunny Form)
• Parasect
• Voltorb (dream)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What is the Totem Pokémon that appears in today's episode?
  • Host: Mallow
  • Choices: Wishiwashi, Tapu Lele, Lurantis, Gumshoos
  • Answer: Lurantis
• Ash, Mallow, and Lana narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The scene Ash battles Olivia in his dream is recycled of when he faces Hala in Trial and Tribulation!, including the background, Ash's position, and Professor Kukui's movements.
• In the scene where Ash wakes up, he is seen wearing the same white t-shirt with a Pikachu head resembling the Pokémon 20th Anniversary logo on it, that was previously seen in So Long, Sophocles!.
• Ash, Mallow, and Rotom read out the Who's That Pokémon? segment in the english dub.

Errors

• When Ash performs his Z-Move pose, he isn't shown wearing his backpack like in the previous shot. This is likely because the animation was taken from previous episodes where Ash does this pose.
  • Additionally, Ash's Z-Ring is shown equipped with the Electrium Z throughout the battle, but it changes into the Normalium Z when Litten uses Breakneck Blitz.

Dub edits

In other languages

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