#ns024

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May 3rd: NS024 - Rest, Rocket Gang!!

The Rocket Gang's boss Sakaki has ordered all members to take a vacation. But as the entire gang is relaxing in the Resort Area in the Sinnoh Region, Satoshi and Go coincidentally happen to show up to conduct research. The Rocket Gang is ecstatic at this chance to get Pikachu, but know that if they start working now they'll be disobeying orders. Just then the Rocket Gang's elite unit, led by Sakaki's secretary Matori, shows up and starts stealing every single Pokémon in the Area. The Rocket Gang decides to cooperate with Satoshi and Go while concealing their identities?! Screenplay 面出明美 (Akemi Omode)   Storyboard 浅田裕二 (Yūji Asada)   Episode Director 浅田裕二 (Yūji Asada)   Animation Director 岩根雅明 (Masaaki Iwane)   Animation Director 志村泉 (Izumi Shimura)

Not gonna lie, I LOVE THIS SUMMARY! This sounds like a hella lot of fun and exactly what I wanted from Sun & Moon but never got *sobs*

May 10th: NS025 - A Battle Festival Exploding With Life!  VS Mega Lucario!!

The Rocket Gang has been ordered to take a vacation by their boss Sakaki. But as they're relaxing in the Sinnoh Region, they bump into Satoshi and Go, who have shown up to conduct research. Not only that, but Matori is plotting something as well?! Summary: The Rocket Gang has been ordered to take a vacation by their boss Sakaki. But as they're relaxing in the Resort Area in the Sinnoh Region, Satoshi and Go coincidentally happen to show up to conduct research. The Rocket Gang is ecstatic at this chance to get Pikachu, but know that if they start working now they'll be disobeying orders. Just then the Rocket Gang's elite unit, led by Sakaki's secretary Matori, shows up and starts stealing every single Pokémon in the Area. So the Rocket Gang conceal their identities and cooperate with Satoshi and Go to recover the Pokémon?! Voice Cast: Rica Matsumoto: Satoshi Daiki Yamashita: Go Ikue Ohtani: Pikachu Yuichi Nakamura: Sakuragi Megumi Hayashibara: Musashi Shinichiro Miki: Kojiro Inuko Inuyama: Nyarth Yuji Ueda: Sonansu Kei Shindo: Riolu Kenta Miyake: Sakaki Kiyomi Asai: Matori Risa Shimizu: Junsa Yasuhiro Mamiya: Rocket Gang Elite C Sayaka Senbongi: Kikuna Noriaki Kanze: Renji Yuki Shin: Rocket Gang Elite A Tatsuki Kobe: Young Man With Skateboard Marina Aicholtz: Go's Smartphone Rotom Kenyu Horiuchi: Narration

Everyone knows how much I love Pokémon-centric episodes, and this was one of those. They utilized Gou’s and Satoshi’s Pokémon so well, and the culprit did indeed end up being Skwoket. AND RIOLU WAS THE CUTEST FRICKING BABY THING TODAY LIKE OHMYGOOOOOOD IT CLANG ONTO SATOSHI SO MUCH AND WAS SO HELPFUL AND SO CHEERFUL AND COPIES SATOSHI AND SFJHGFSJHGFSGFJHSG I LOVE RIOLU SO MUCH MY HEART FEELS SO FULL RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH IMISSEDPOKEANISOMUCH!!!

Next week’s a HYPE, Matori is BACK BABY, Rocket Gang gonna be on VACATION, there’s gonna be TRUCE PLOT BETWEEN BRATS AND ROCKETS AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FINALLY WE HAVE ANOTHER TRUCE EPISODE THE PREVIEW LOOKED ABSOLUTELY GREAT

10 days til the first part of Pokémon Sword & Shield Expansion Pass, The Isle of Armor, releases.

14 days til Corni returns in Pokeani with a battle against Satoshi.

So, next week we’ll have an egg that is like, totally a Riolu egg. A scan from about a week ago or so asked to guess whether the egg is Riolu, Sobble, Grookey, Munchlax or Tyrogue. Now: we can pretty much say the egg is Riolu. That’s NS021. NS022 focuses on Gou and Rabbifoot’s bond-fixing, or so I’d predict. Now, NS023 is about food going missing and the boys trying to find the culprit. Guess who would fit in? Munchlax!