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| Season | Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon (Season 20) · Snowy, Rockruff & Steenee arc (SM011–SM018) |
| Episode | Season 20, episode 11 · English episode 946 · Japanese episode 951 · Bulbapedia code SM011 |
| English title | Young Kiawe Had a Farm! |
| Japanese title | サトシ、カキんちに行く！ Satoshi, Kaki-n-chi ni Iku! — “Satoshi Visits Kaki!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 19 January 2017 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 27 May 2017 · Disney XD |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Alola!! – Satoshi (Rica Matsumoto) with Pikachu (Ikue Ōtani) · Pōzu (Pose) – Taiiku Okazaki |
| English opening | Under the Alolan Sun – Jannel Candrice and The Sad Truth (featuring Ben Dixon and the Vestigial Horns) |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Pelipper (US) |
| Previous episode | Trial and Tribulation! (SM010) |
| Next episode | The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair! (SM012) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeKiawe’s farmFirst visit to Akala
Young Kiawe Had a Farm! is the 11th episode of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, the twentieth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 946th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 951, Bulbapedia code SM011). It first aired in Japan on 19 January 2017 and in the United States on 27 May 2017. It falls within the season’s Snowy, Rockruff & Steenee stretch (EP11–EP18).
Premiered at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday 27 May 2017, the first episode in the season’s regular Saturday-morning slot.
Synopsis
Ash helps Kiawe with his family’s milk deliveries, visits their farm on Akala Island and teams up with him to drive off Team Skull. On his day off Ash practises Z-Moves, and Rowlet uses the Normalium Z for its first Breakneck Blitz, which carries it far out over the ocean and leaves it exhausted. Kiawe flies past on his Charizard carrying Moomoo Milk; Professor Kukui explains that Kiawe’s family runs a farm and that Kiawe makes deliveries every morning, and mentions the farm’s famous ice cream. Ash wants to visit and battle Kiawe afterwards, so Kukui lends him a Pelipper as a Ride Pokémon. Ash helps with the deliveries on Melemele, then flies with Kiawe to Akala Island. A customer, Harry, shows them a drawing of the Rowlet-themed cake he is making for his mother’s birthday and asks for the milk to arrive on time.
At the farm Ash meets Miltank, Tauros and Mudbray, one of which sneezes mud all over him. Kiawe’s mother, Sima, hands him a towel and explains that the grass is enriched by Wela Volcano, and his father, Rango, the farm’s president, treats Ash to ice cream. Kiawe’s little sister, Mimo, insists on helping despite Kiawe’s protectiveness. Ash washes a Mudbray, gets his brush stuck in its tail and is kicked, then learns that sixty more are waiting, before filling the troughs with hay and water. At sunset the family gives thanks to Wela Volcano before dinner. That night Ash watches Kiawe train with Charizard and Turtonator, which uses Flamethrower. Kiawe explains that he earned his Z-Ring and Firium Z by passing kahuna Olivia’s grand trial, and remembers his grandfather teaching him that fire, like the volcano, gives life; his grandfather also gave him his Charizard.
The next morning Mimo stays behind as Ash and Kiawe set off with Harry’s milk. A Dragon Rage strikes Pelipper and forces them to land, and Team Skull’s Tupp, Zipp and Rapp attack with Venoshock, nearly spilling the delivery. The grunts resent Kiawe’s Z-Moves, but they are shocked to discover that Ash has one too: Ash and Pikachu unleash Gigavolt Havoc and send the grunts fleeing. Ash and Kiawe reach Harry’s house on time, and Harry asks them to battle at his mother’s birthday party, which they happily agree to do. Meanwhile, back on Melemele, Team Rocket, still smothered by Bewear’s affection, decide that it is time to act. Mallow makes a brief cameo at Aina’s Kitchen, and Sophocles is absent for the first time since his debut.
Major Events
- Kiawe’s farm. Rowlet’s first Breakneck Blitz
- Milk deliveries on Professor Kukui’s Pelipper
- Ash’s first visit to Akala and Kiawe’s family farm
- Kiawe’s grandfather and Olivia’s grand trial in flashback
- Ash’s Gigavolt Havoc drives off Team Skull
Pokémon making their anime debut
Mudbray#0749 · SM011
Trivia
- The English title plays on the nursery song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”, for Kiawe’s family farm.
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Alola story.
Changes in the English Dub
- The Breakneck Blitz and Gigavolt Havoc captions are removed
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