HZ074

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HZ074

HZ074   EP1306 ３人のエクスプローラーズ The Three Explorers

First broadcast Japan November 22, 2024 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Only One Story Ending ピッカーン！

Credits Animation Team Kumemura Screenplay 松澤くれは Kureha Matsuzawa Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director ハラダツルギ Tsurugi Harada Animation directors 松本勝次 Katsuji Matsumoto 外山陽介 Yōsuke Toyama 神在動画 Kamiiru Animation No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ３人のエクスプローラーズ The Three Explorers) is the 74th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,306th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on November 22, 2024.

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

Plot

Major events

• The Rising Volt Tacklers reunite with Diana.
• Liko has a battle against Diana, which she wins.
• The Rising Volt Tacklers find out about Lucius's history with the Explorers.
• The Rising Volt Tacklers find out about Gibeon.
• The Rising Volt Tacklers find out more about Rystal and how she is Terapagos's original trainer.
• Lucius and Rystal are revealed to be Liko's great great grandparents.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Liko
• Roy
• Friede
• Mollie
• Orla
• Ludlow
• Murdock
• Dot
• Gibeon (photo)
• Hamber (photo)
• Amethio (flashback)
• Spinel (flashback)
• Coral (flashback)
• Sidian (flashback)
• Chalce (flashback)
• Diana
• Rystal
• Lucius (flashback/photo)
• Trainers

Pokémon

• Sprigatito (Liko's; flashback)
• Floragato (Liko's; Terastallized)
• Fuecoco (Roy's; flashback)
• Crocalor (Roy's)
• Charizard (Friede's; flashback)
• Pikachu (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
• Alcremie (Murdock's; Strawberry Ruby Swirl)
• Quaxwell (Dot's)
• Rotom (Dot's; Rotom Phone)
• Dusclops (Hamber's; photo)
• Umbreon (Spinel's; flashback)
• Garganacl (Sidian's)
• Medicham (Chalce's; flashback)
• Arcanine (Diana's)
• Squawkabilly (Diana's; Yellow Plumage)
• Arboliva (Lucius's; giant)
• Moltres (Lucius's; Galarian Form)
• Lapras (Lucius's; giant)
• Kleavor (Lucius's; giant)
• Tauros (Trainer's; flashback)
• Rattata (Trainer's; flashback)
• Skitty (Trainer'; flashbacks)
• Azumarill (Trainer'; flashbacks)
• Polteageist (Rising Volt Tacklers')
• Sinistea (Rising Volt Tacklers')
• Tatsugiri (Rising Volt Tacklers'; ×3; Curly, Droopy, and Stretchy forms)
• Terapagos (anime; Normal Form)

Trivia

• Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar was absent from the initial airing of this episode.
• The first eyecatch features Liko and her Floragato, and the second one features Diana and her Arcanine.
• Lucius and Liko narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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