Daium, okay SM, I see you, pulling a nice fast one on us.
Not worried at all though since itās obvious Satoshi WILL get Litten eventually, I like that theyāre actually taking advantage of the fact that the characters are in a set location and introducing Mons that live there that they can bond with for multiple episodes without capturing them.
The parts with Litten and Stoutland honestly just melted my heart, a cat taking care of a big, old dog, like itās such a simple thing but I loved it. I can already see the scene of Litten eventually parting from Stoutland and joining Satoshi being really emotional. I doubt Stoutland will die or anything, but maybe itāll find a human partner to take care of it.
I hope theyāll write a relationship of some sort for Rowlet and Litten as well before (or after can work too I guess) the capture, I donāt like the fact that my owl bby is completely absent as soon as a new Mon is introduced after a great track record of screentime since its capture, I was hoping itād be like a completely out of Ball Mon and constantly be seen chilling in the bag or the sides (next week is looking hype though, first Rowlet battle!). Iāll give them the benefit of the doubt though and say they probably just wanted to put all the focus on Satoshi and Litten this week.