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| Season | Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series (Season 25) · The Masters Eight: quarterfinals arc (JN115–JN120) |
| Episode | Season 25, episode 29 · English episode 1199 · Japanese episode 1206 · Bulbapedia code JN120 |
| English title | Infinite Possibilities! |
| Japanese title | コハルとイーブイ、可能性は無限大！ Koharu to Ībui, Kanōsei wa Mugendai! — “Koharu and Eievui, the Possibilities are Endless!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 5 August 2022 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 23 June 2023 · Netflix |
| Screenplay | Aya Matsui |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Satoshi & Go (Rica Matsumoto and Daiki Yamashita) · Batsugun Taipu (Supereffective Type) – Pokémon Music Club |
| English opening | With You – Echosmith |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Clefairy (US) · Clefairy (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Koharu and Eievui – The Miracle of Evolution (JN119) |
| Next episode | The Climax Begins! Satoshi’s Masters Tournament Experience!! (JN121) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeChloe’s familyClefairy
Infinite Possibilities! is the 29th episode of Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series, the twenty-fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1199th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1206, Bulbapedia code JN120). It first aired in Japan on 5 August 2022 and in the United States on 23 June 2023. It falls within the season’s The Masters Eight: quarterfinals stretch (EP115–EP120).
Released on Netflix in the US on 23 June 2023 with the third part (JN118–JN136, without the clip shows); Teletoon had premiered it in Canada on 21 January 2023. Netflix went straight from JN118 to this episode, skipping the clip show JN119.
Synopsis
On a family camping trip with her father, Chloe watches a moonlit Clefairy evolution ritual and learns that Professor Cerise once befriended one of those Clefairy as a boy, helping her see that every Pokémon has its own path. At the Eevee Evolution Lab, Pinery gives Chloe and Eevee a clean bill of health, and Chloe recounts her recent adventures, from her first Pokémon Contest to meeting Lana’s Eevee, Sandy, which showed her that Eevee can stay unevolved. Pinery notes that Eevee has now met every one of its evolved forms but still cannot choose. Over dinner, Chloe asks her father why Pokémon evolve, and Professor Cerise suggests that, taken far enough, every Pokémon may have its own way of evolving, just as every person is an individual. Seeing her still unsure, he proposes a family camping weekend. Chloe and her father set off first, while her mother Talia, her brother Parker and a disappointed Yamper will follow after Parker’s soccer club.
On the way, the Professor stops at a forest full of wild Pokémon, and Chloe suggests bringing Ash and Goh there once the Masters Eight and Project Mew are over. Following a Poliwag to a pond, Eevee sneezes, gives them away and tumbles into the water, and an old man named Grover fishes it out with his net as the Poliwag evolves into Poliwhirl. Grover, the forest’s caretaker, looked after Cerise as a boy and still helps with his research. At Grover’s house, Chloe learns that people planted the trees that grew into this forest, which has expanded over the years along with its Pokémon. Grover recalls the time young Cerise rescued an injured Clefairy from a Beedrill; Grover bandaged its leg, and Cerise visited it every day, walking with it once it recovered and having his hair frizzed when its Metronome became Thunder Wave. When it returned to the wild, its farewell Metronome created a beautiful Petal Blizzard.
At the campsite the family reunites, eats and plays, and under the full moon Eevee and Yamper hear distant calls. The Professor leads everyone up the mountain to a clearing where Clefairy are dancing around a cluster of Moon Stones in an Evolution ritual, led by a Clefable. A swarm of Golbat swoops in to disrupt it, and when Clefable’s Psychic cannot stop them all, Eevee copies the move with Copycat, and together they drive the Golbat away. Every Clefairy evolves into Clefable, and the Pokémon leap towards the moon and seem to vanish into it; the first Clefable uses Metronome, the family wags their fingers along, and a Petal Blizzard fills the sky before it too disappears. Chloe wonders whether it was her father’s childhood friend, and he is sure it was. Too excited to sleep, Chloe says she wants to learn more about evolution, and her father tells her to walk alongside her Pokémon and listen to its feelings at every crossroads.
Major Events
- Chloe’s family camp. Chloe camps with her family and Grover
- Professor Cerise’s childhood Clefairy
- A Clefairy Moon Stone ritual
- Eevee copies Psychic
- Chloe’s surname is confirmed
- The only non-clip episode of the tournament stretch set away from Wyndon
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Aya Matsui.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kanto, Galar & beyond story.
Part of our Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.