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Pocket Monsters Sun & Moon: Appreciation Week, Day 2: Your favorite characters

Suiren/Lana

Comes as no surprise to anyone I bet. She’s made me laugh with her ‘Just Kidding’, she’s been so much fun, so much joy, so much growth from shy girl to well skilled trainer, facing off bullies, faring well against Guzma, supported her friends in need (esp. her best friend Mao), and just.... gosh she stole my heart right up! I’m gonna miss her so much damn it.

Bonus:

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One of my favourite moments in SM071 is most definitely the fact how chill Kukui is about his class running off from the classroom. I mean come on!

That’s not what he asked Mamane!!

And then when he finds out this Shizukumo is currently trying to find a new pond for itself:

Best Teacher, ten-fold!

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And then Mao screams. This is dialogue between Mao and Suiren. I love this preview, sad it’s not up on any official youtube channel yet D:

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SM071 - Thoughts

Ok so, since SM072 subs come later instead, let me collect some more thoughts on this episode on one post. About stuff that doesn’t work in screencap posts or something.

The first thing I have to note, as I already explained yesterday, that I love episodes like this one where the focus is on a Pokemon. The first half of the episode was solely Shizukumo. No humans involved. Just Shizukumo and its journey across Melemele Island to find itself a new pond. Like, I truly enjoyed this approach and I hope to see similar episodes in the future as well! I was literarily screaming yesterday during the stream whenever Shizukumo’s bubble was popped, because as you guys may know, it gets its oxygen from this head bubble and it’s vital for its survival! It can’t breathe without it! Luckily, the lil guy is able to make bubbles itself but it needs to be done on stand-by.

Shizukumo meets Suiren & Satoshi before the second part of the episode kicks in, and it falls in love with Suiren that has a perfected Air-bubble on her head. The poor thing pops its headbubble due to love steams. Luckily, Suiren knows about Shizukumo, and knew immediately that Shizukumo without its bubble needs to get to water asap! Great job Suiren!

Suiren then decides to bring a clinging Shizukumo with her to School, where Shizukumo clearly shows its affection towards Suiren, and seems to be quite aggressive towards others? Quite an interesting approach.

Mao, you god damn tease you. This episode was indeed all about Shizukumo getting Suiren and not other way around. I got fooled. And I blame myself. : D I’m gonna leave these kinds of episode predicitions to the experts in the future. But like, even if this episode did sort of end up being a filler (for now), I loved it, and felt it was nicely written. Even Satoshi acknowledging Ametama was great, after the reactions from fandom to how Satoshi always reacts to Joys and Junsas this season. Or how I felt about him not talking about Kalos with Ilima, or suddenly not understanding Poke Ping Pong. But enough of the past.

Back on topic, Shizukumo gets shocked when Suiren decides to pop her airbubble, and then goes back to its journey on finding a good pond for itself. Then comes the fight with Ametama, which I personally liked (I somehow just adore Ametama?), and even thou Shizukumo didn’t win the fight, it helped Ametama evolve to Amemoth, and it was so happy of this that it left its territory to fly on a new journey. So. It’s a win-win situation. Shizukumo won it’s pond. It’s got its own territory now. The ending dialogue from narrator seemed to tease future capture but, it also seemed to subtly imply that he was just kidding? I’m basing this on this scene alone:

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Considering that is Suiren’s “Uso Desu“ pose, I wouldn’t be suprised of a lil play.

Also, poke-problem was absolutely cute and I adore Hou and Sui. Somehow I feel like Shizukumo is some sort of family-favourite in Suiren’s family.

We got to see the real preview in this episode for SM072 (I’m so happy Some-Stuffs pulls these from some streaming site instead of from TV, we get to see Poke-Problems each time this way), and they talk about their favourite breads. To which Satoshi answers with puns of Pokemon. Which ones?

Figures. Stay classy Satoshi ♥ Also, Lilie loves Croissants and I couldn’t agree more. Cya guys later when SM072 gets subbed!

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