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Preview SM041: Dash! Dendimushi

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Seems unlikely that Charjabug will evolve, hasn't had much focus and they really would have to visit Vast Poni Canyon for it to evolve per the games
Anime =/= games. They could easily have another electromagnetic field on Melemele in the anime. If they follow the route in the games, it'll be a long time before they visit Poni Island and I doubt a second-stage larva Pokémon will stay in that form for so long. That said, I do agree it may be a bit too soon for Charjabug to evolve since it only joined Sophocles recently. But I wouldn't be surprised if it did here either.
 
How much airtime did Amakaji get before its magical girl evolution?
 
How much airtime did Amakaji get before its magical girl evolution?
Considering Bounsweet basically appeared in every episode, with Mallow, except for SM010 and SM011, it would have appeared way more than Charjabug. It only started appearing more frequently in the Akala Island episodes, during the scenes when Ash, Kiawe and Sophocles were sleeping/waking up.
 
Finally, this has been translated.

Can they win the car race?!
Ash has decided to enter the Charjabug Race, a car race very popular in Alola. He forms a team with Sophocles and Kiawe and they start practicing, but Sophocles's Charjabug has trouble making the car run fast.
 
Looks like it's going to be a focus episode for Charjabug and the three boys.
 
Here is a new summary of the episode, which Depnender translated.

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The "Charjabug Race" car race is very popular in the Alola region, and is a competition where you place a Charjabug in the frame of a car and make the car run with the electric energy the Charjabug gives off. One of these Charjabug Races is approaching, and Ash decides to participate, forming a team with Sophocles and Kiawe. But as they start practicing, it turns out Sophocles's Charjabug can't get the car to run fast.
 
Isn't Sophocles basically a tech guy/mechanic? Why is Ash getting the focus rather than the person whose hobby revolves around technology? How hard was it to make Sophocles get interested and have Ash help him instead?
 
Maybe Sophocles is interested, but the summaries are just focusing on Ash. It's not like they haven't that before. One summary of SM040 only mentioned Ash and not Lana, but it's clearly a Lana focused episode. And maybe Ash is more interested because it's a race and while its takes mechanical skills to make and create the cars, the whole competition involves racing.

The VA list.

Ash: Rica Matsumoto

Lillie: Kei Shindō

Kiawe: Kaito Ishikawa

Mallow: Reina Ueda

Lana: Hitomi Kikuchi

Sophocles: Fumiko Takekuma

Principal Oak: Unshō Ishizuka

Pikachu: Ikue Ohtani

Rotom Pokédex: Daisuke Namikawa

Togedemaru: Mika Kanai

Jessie: Megumi Hayashibara

James: Shin’ichiro Miki

Meowth: Inuko Inuyama

Wobbuffet: Yūji Ueda

Hayate: Nozomu Sasaki

Yansu: Chinami Nishimura

Electric Princess A: Kingyo Wakana

Electric Princess B: Sayaka Kitihara

Ana: Sakura Azu

Ryōta Iwasaki: Agent

Here are two new summaries of the episode, which Dephender translated.

Ash, Sophocles and Kiawe have decided to participate in the "Charjabug Race", a race where you use cars that run on the electricity Charjabug emit. Will they be able to win?

The Charjabug Race is extremely popular in Alola. It's a competition where participants race each other in cars that run on the electricity Charjabug emit. Sophocles is obsessed with these races and asks Ash and Kiawe to team up with him and enter one. They immediately try a practice run, but Sophocles's Charjabug is so placid the car won't run particularly fast. It's time for special training with the goal of winning the race! When the day of the race arrives, the race venue is filled with lots of tough-looking rivals! The course being a difficult one that even includes a desert is another obstruction! Will Ash and the others be able to win?
 
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Cool, an episode with the guys! I love that the classmate setup enables them to do episodes like this with a focus on a smaller group out of the whole. Sounds like a pretty cute episode too!
 
Hmmm, no Professor Kukui!

This might be our first episode where he doesn't show up.
 
4 in a row! Wonder if this is the apology for Akala or an apology in advance for their absence in the Kanto episodes? [/cynicism]
I'd rather them be absent in this episode then be absent in the Kanto episodes because I wouldn't mind seeing Team Rocket get to interact with Misty and Brock after all of these years.
 
Poor Sophocles. He finally gets another episode in the spotlight...and everyone's too focused on Misty & Brock to care :(

Though to be fair, this could've happened with any of the other classmates for this episode :cautious: (unless something major happened. And even then Misty & Brock coming back would be even more major)
 
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