The Pokemon Anime Just Made EVERYONE CRY. 

*Must you make my cry while I'm sick, Pokemon Horizons?* 😭 Discord: discord.gg/Ftu9V5wrBN Twitch: www.twitch.tv/pokeferlax

Rika actually felt more charismatic in the anime than what I remember in the game, she gives off better extrovert energy with her dialogues than the ones in game. I especially liked how she was teasing Liko telling her to give rubbing Clodsire a try, but then just spook and warn her off saying she can't do that without gloves cuz it's poisonous

NOW THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER than grookey and eevee from journeys and master journeys

Liko expresses her sadness in her loss to make a great character. I want to do Bond Phenomenon someday. New mysteries are coming soon. Really want more on Paldea’s Elite Four in the future.

This episode got me really pumped up. I enjoyed the battle. What got me surprised was Rika terastallizing her Clodsire! Was that even allowed? Anyway, even though Liko lost, she did a great job going all out. She needed the character development and her tears showed that she was finally having fun with Pokémon battles.

My favorite part about this is the confirmation of how they are going to handle the games plot because after the underwhelming insult journeys did to galar, it is so nice to see that not happening here

Regarding Penny's role in the S/V games. In short, she was the Boss of Team Star, who worked with a heroic transfer student (who was either Florian or Juliana) to bring down her own team before it would become the monster it was formed to oppose. As part of this, Penny **hacked into the League registries** in order to issue League Points and TM access to her agent. After succeeding at this, she admitted to the hacking. As punishment, Geeta offered her the choice of either paying off the LP debt, or working it off with "volunteer engineering" which could lead to full-time employment at the Academy. She accepted the engineering offer. Meanwhile, Team Star was punished for 18 months of truancy in a similar way: the sprawling fortresses they'd constructed all over Paldea would become part of the Academy, and they would be invited to continue to operate them as school-endorsed training centers. So for Penny to be an Academy engineer is absolutely in line with game events. Because of the Star Training Centers, we can even have Team Star in the plot without contradicting the game timeline. ^.^.^

It might just be me, but Liko crying in this episode reminded me of Serena crying in X and Y, specifically when she loses her first Showcase after Fennekin trips on its costume

I really hate how some people say that Liko is crying is because she's a "sore loser", Liko’s entire character arc and personal conflict has been about how she struggles to understand her Pokémon’s feelings. When Floragato was a Sprigatito she showed early on in the series that she loved battling. And while Liko has a natural talent for battling she never had a competitive personality. The episode where Liko gets called out by Kabu for letting Roy win the Litwick gym test and not finishing the battle against the gym trainer is the clearest example of her not taking battling seriously. There’s so many moments in the show that built up to this scene of Liko finally understanding and sharing the same thrill and fun of battling Floragato does and in this episode she cried because it took her so long to finally realize this. She cried because she finally gave it her all in a battle and wanted to win badly but lost. it was tears of relief if anything and even Katy more or less said that while comforting her.

I love Rika's charecter so much, she's so full of herself! 💚 The battle was great, the animation was sick, Lokix popping was super cool to see. Liko also did amazingly well even though she lost and I really wanted to give her a hug when she cried 😭💙 This might just be my favourite Liko episode so far, I'm giving it a 9/10!

Pokeferlax: Liko-Meowscarada Battle Bond? Me: Well, both Greninja and Meowscarada are Dark Type. And they both get Protean as an Ability.

Despite the outcome of the battle, Liko did a pretty good job in her battle!!!!! This tag battle definitely was the best of the 3 with Rika's consecutive attacks from Katy's unleashed battling with Lokix both supportive & offensive (got super surprised Swarm activated) & Liko's Floragato learning Acrobatics {Love she learned the move after being inspired by Lokix's battle movements & maybe from its Bounce attack!!!!} And if it's any consolation for Liko, She was the only one to make her Elite 4 get Serious enough to go Tera; that's saying something in comparison with the others. At least after crying, I'm glad Liko felt better afterwards. AND at long last, Liko has Finally Found it; Beyond the Battle- Liko has Finally found Her Drive ~ the joy in Serious Battling!!!!!!!!!! Our Girl's On her Way!!!!! She's finally found the joy in battling for real & it will make her stronger!!!!!

This battle broke the rules of the assignment. It was said in last weeks episode that only the student is allowed to terastalize, but Rika terastalized the clodsire, breaking the rule.

Liko crying made Pokeferlax cry so hard it took him an extra day to finish this video

I saw an Alolan Vulpix plush in my local con and my mind screamed "It's Pokeferlax!" when I realized, I felt so dumb (I'm pretty new to Pokemon, Horizons is my first Pokemon anime)

During one of Dot's scenes, we got some subtle hints towards Paradox Pokémon through Dot referencing the magazines in the school library. I felt that was nice. PS. Get well soon.

I agree with everything you've said so far! This episode is so good and hit so hard. It was really something else, from the animation, the characters bouncing off one another, everything felt so intense and exciting. Something I also loved that wasn't mentioned was how Rika bounced off Liko, from before the fight when she noticed Liko was stressing out and opted to comfort her and help her relax, to how she fawns over her Clodsire, to her post battle comfort speech with Katy to Liko. Plus, Dot and Penny being two adorable introverts struggling to talk to one another. It's great

Im sure liko and her pokemon will learn from this

Feel better soon! I loved this episode - from rika’s cockiness and jokes, both rika and Katy making liko feel better, lokix was amazing!!! all the Pokémon did a great job in this episode And it’s really interesting that they have the scarlet book now. I want to see terapagos get developed more than just “baby who keeps running off causing trouble”

A nice detail I noticed in the anime was that after Liko stopped crying, you can still see that her eyes are still puffed up from crying.

It’s not really related to the episode but I wanted to share something I had in mind for some time. After watching episode 54 and reading some theories about Pokemon Horizons, I noticed some things about the dynamics between Liko, Amethio and Friede. It’s not a secret, but there’s a good chance that Amethio will have redemption and Liko will contribute to it. However, I think their relationship is much more important in the story than what we might think. And I think Friede also has his part to play in it. I warn it will be VERY long and I apologize in advance for the mistakes (I use Google translation). I) How Liko sees Amethio from episode 1 to 44: Until episode 45 of the series, Liko had a negative image of Amethio. After all he had tried to steal her pendant, kidnap her and Sprigatito. After episode 2, she never interacted with Amethio again until episode 45 (thanks to the Reddit post that pointed that out to me). She only saw him from afar, trying to capture Rayquaza or Terapagos, to confront Friede, that sort of thing. Why didn’t the writers make them interact more times before this episode 45? This is what we will see in the second point. II) The evolution of Liko: In my opinion, the reason behind this choice is that Liko needed to grow. Her growth as a trainer is also linked to her growth as a person. At the start of the series, Liko knew very little about pokemon trainers, did not know what she wanted to do or what she wanted to become. With the help of Sprigatito and the Rising Volt Tacklers, she was able to gain self-confidence, become stronger (although still not enough) and discover the kind of trainer and therefore person she wanted to become: a person who can understand the feelings of others. This is how Liko will convince people/pokemon to follow her ( 6 heroes, Hatenna ) and make them evolve ( Dot ). This will surely be how Liko will be able to change Amethio. If from episode 1 to 44 she had interacted more often with Amethio, Liko would have understood that he was not a bad person but she couldn't have done anything for him given her lack of self-confidence, power, and being building herself as a person. So, while Liko was evolving both in power and in maturity, someone had to deal with the "Amethio" case. And that person is Friede. III) Dynamics between Friede and Amethio: I think this point deserves to be further developed because their dynamics are rather interesting, but I will only focus on what it brings compared to the Liko/ Amethio dynamics. Friede faced Amethio because he was the only one strong enough to do it. Friede is an intelligent and observant person, he understood that Amethio was not 100% bad. He makes several remarks that show it and the simple fact that he agrees to team up temporarily with him in episode 45 also proves it. Do you think he’d team up with Spinel or Sango? I wouldn’t. However, even if Amethio is not "evil", this does not prevent him from being their enemy and a threat to the crew. Friede is an adult, with responsibilities, he cannot afford to waste time trying to make him change sides, to understand his motivations to join the explorers even though he is a rather just person. However, this is clearly not the case for Liko. IV) How Liko sees Amethio since episode 45: We come to the famous episode 45. This scene (very cool) where Amethio saves Liko from draco-meteor is very important. It is at this point that Liko discovers that Amethio is far from being entirely bad. There are other elements that prove it to her, the alliance between Friede and Amethio, but also the little monologue just after he saved her where he shows his anger towards Spinel. This makes Liko understand that he does not share the vision of Spinel and the other explorers, that he is different from them. Amethio’s answer when Liko thanks him for saving her is not "Don't misunderstand, it’s because you have a connection with Terapagos," but "Don't misunderstand, I will capture Rayquaza". I will translate the first by "I saved you but it was because it was related to my goal" and the second by "I saved you but I remain your enemy". Quite different meaning. Liko has clearly changed her vision of Amethio, even describing with admiration his terrastalize Ceruledge as "amazing". If it was Spinel or Sango, she would call their pokemon "powerful" or "dangerous" without showing admiration. V) Theory for the future So I think that now Liko has seen that Amethio has some good in him, she'll want to try to better understand his reasons for joining the explorers and surely to understand the kind of person he is. Maybe Conia and Zirc will play a role in that too. Anyway, it makes me want to see their next interaction. In the arc Terastal debut, Liko becomes more independent, she no longer needs Cap to come and save her every time. Liko becoming more independent and stronger, she will be able to deal with the Amethio case in her own way, differently from Friede. If Amethio has his redemption with Liko's help and becomes her ally, there would be a nice parallel with Lucius and Gibeon as well as Hamber and Diana. Where Liko’s family (whose last name is still unknown) had problems with the Explorers, either with Gibeon who (probably) betrayed Lucius, or with Diana and Hamber who separated because they (probably) had a different vision of adventure (or something like that), Liko and Amethio, who started as enemies, will (probably) become allies. Anyway I finally finished, thank you to all those who had the courage to read this ^^ .

0:41-She gets that job AFTER Operation Starfall is finished so maybe Team Star is good now

penny becomes the engineer for the league after the events of pokemon scarlet it would be hilarious to know that the event of horizons is after pokemon scarlet and violet events 💀

I'm so proud of Liko🥲🥲🥲

Lokix was really a what Ledian supposed to be..

WHAT A MARVELOUS STEP FOR LIKO IN UNDERSTANDING BATTLING MORE & HER POKEMON MORE & GOOD PALDAIAN ELITE MEMBERS MEETING, get better soon

We got my girl Penny and Nemona, now where’s good boy Arven?

This is the first episode I've watched of Horizons since the Flying Pikachu episode when it first aired, and man, it definitely reminded me why this series is so awesome. I may do a deep dive back into this show to catch up now. Thanks so much for covering these!

I still really wish the battles were a 2v1 where the gym leader and student had to team up to take on one elite four pokemon. That wouldn't have changed much about the character development and lessons in the battles while giving a much more reasonable power scaling for the challenges. It feels like the power level the series is going for right now is 'the main characters have progressed enough to significantly contribute in major battles but aren't ready to solo the toughest enemies just yet', and setting up the battles as a 2v1 would have supported this a lot more. However, aside from that hangup, this episode was really solid. The character moments with Liko were handled really well, and the episode confirmed what I've suspected for a while: that Liko is being written as a battler with incredible natural talent, and her arc involves learning to enjoy battling. Just because Liko is more naturally a pokemon therapist than a pokemon trainer in terms of personality doesn't mean she lacks talent or drive, and that's been pretty consistent throughout the series. Liko learning to use battling as a way of connecting with pokemon is incredibly consistent with the long running theme of the pokemon anime, and also consistent with Liko's personal goals, and I really like how the episode handled it. I think the next milestone for this series would be a Fuecoco evolution. It's time to give Roy a couple episodes to shine in now. :)

It was a great episode. The crying scene was well animated and has great attention to detail you ever notice how Liko's eyes look puffy after crying? It made the scene look more realistic, like when you cry your eyes will look puffy. This is the first time in Pokémon anime history this has happened if I'm not mistaken

What if Liko and her Floragato, who will evolve into Meowscarada, get a battle bond? Like they tried to but something happens and left Liko collapsed?

This was probably the best E4 out of 3. I really like the teamwork on both sides. When fast Dugtrio cover slow Clodsire or Lokix defends Floragato from Poison Jab by poisoning himself. And finally Floragato learns Acrobatics. I was tired from Magical Leaf/ Quick Attack spam. As for the upcoming battles: they seems to be 2v2 or a double battles, meaning Hattrem also will get a spotlight. Grusha most likely will have Altaria as a second pick.

Lokix is an amazing Pokemon, I hope people start to realize this now. Even in the games, it’s awesome with tinted lens.

Good review of the episode, I really felt it when Liko cried, she tried her best and still lost. And I don't wanna see any comment from you, Eljordinio calling her weak!

Sick pokeferlax sounds awesome you should do it more often 🙏

At the end of SV, Penny had to work for Pokémon League as 'punishment' for her Team Star actions. So, this anime likely takes place after the whole Area Zero ending in the game... Also, yes, COVID is obviously still a thing. And people are spreading it easier now. Viruses stay in a person's body and will activate when the body cannot keep it inactive.

You sound great man. By the way, how old are you?

Thought this was another nice episode, the battle could have been better but not bad. Likos growth and what she said is so wonderful. Love her character. I don’t get the hate people get for her. The scarlet book lore stuff is interesting too. Hope you get well soon Ferlax 🤍🩵💚

Hooray Penny and Dot interacting

We've been made a surprisilly long Journey with Pokémon Horizons Liko, Roy and Dot, I remember it like a yesterday when it started. Liko and Floragato's connect feels like Ash and Greninja's connection or Ash and Pikachu's connection to be honest. It's hard for me to see Liko's crying, then i'm crying too! 😢❤

They finally remember that the Scarlet book exists. Friede is supposedly studying Tearapagos but I don’t think he knows about it yet and nobody even brought up Area Zero. Also RIP Violet I guess

Likos learns why battles is so much fun

I saw the title of the video and i said out loud: IS ASH BACK? (I woke up my neighbors)

I think Liko should ask Nemona. That prick loves battling like its her daily routine

At the end of S/V Penny became an engineer for the Pokémon League because of her hacking skills as "punishment", after she admitted to hacking into their systems

Amazing

I like that she cried when she learned that she loved battling, you would think most people would have smiled but making her cry was a great move because that’s really shows how passionate she has becomes and how much that battle meant to her.

I didn't understand why they changed the rules in this battle previously if one pokemon of any side can't battle anymore then that side loses but here even after katy lose the battle is still going and after watching this episode i feel like there is not much power difference between the paldea gym leaders and elite four when katy gets serious she was handling two elite four pokemon with her lokix alone.

This one is pretty cool,I talked with others and they are so impatient. They think liko is weak and they are losing interest in the anime. Also,poor liko 🥺🥺🥺

This episode really did make me cry. Liko did her very hardest in that battle against Chili

Poor Liko. She needs a hug. 💙🫂

I'm a little irritated by the fact that Liko has yet to send her Hattrem into a battle. Or did I miss an episode?

Pls take care of yourself

Nothing can stop this man from recording

The vid sounded good. Feel better.

it's at the end of starfall street where penny becomes apart of the league and school's systems after being hired by geeta

Omg, I haven't watched you in like two years, your channel has grown so much. You're doing great!

I hope you are feeling better Pokeferlax

W Review!

Got to love liko improvement. She may now train and improve her battling, battle with different pokemon and it will be great (especially cause it seem the battle may be two on two)

This episode was really good, especially seeing Liko getting a few decent hits in, and her getting invested in an actually fun tough battle rather than one where are the stakes are really high. Plus, finally learning a new move, and it's Acrobatics! It's a great coverage move for Floragato!

Dot and Penny have some good Taste of Technology but also the they suspect that the Explorer are disguising a students and hacked the school systems. But Liko and Katy vs Rika battle is really splendid and the emotion of Liko crying made me sad. But she gave it her all in that battle.

As of this episode, every Paldea gym leader made their main series debut. I hope we see Galar gym leaders Milo, Nessa, Bede, Gordie, Melony, Klara, Avery, Mustard and Peony in the Pokémon Horizons anime.

What do you know, I was right. Lokix really was the first Pokémon to go down so Liko and Floragato could have their time to shine. That said, Lokix did put up a much better fight than I expected. I also didn't expect Dugtrio becoming totally useless after it got paralyzed. No other Pokémon has ever been so utterly ignored by both its trainer and opponent after getting a status condition before. In fact, I bet Liko could have won the battle if she'd bothered to target Dugtrio even once, but nope. For some reason, Floragato was hell-bent on fighting Clodsire for the entire second half of the battle. Penny's introduction was pretty cool. I wonder why she is the only one who seems to wonder where this mysterious new teacher came from. Her data appeared out of nowhere, huh? Well, surely Clavell had some reason for hiring her, right? Or did Spinel's Beheeyem hypnotize him? Actually, that would make sense.

I curious where we are going with story. I mean... what will be the last episode

As much as Liko’s battle was entertaining, I found a lot of interest in the sub-story more The sub story for me uncovered a lot of mystery and also added a unique flavor to the story of horizons Yeah sure, the battle was the main focus and they did well in that act, however, I also felt that it could have been a huge distraction to what could happen later Like Penny is the first character NOT in the rising volt tacklers to ever encounter terapegos which I think is huge considering later Clavel and Greeta will learn about its existence too. Plus she knows about the Scarlet book bc she was with dot when she found it and she is already on the tail of the explorers I know it’s a lot but that’s why I feel the sub-story was better than the main fight It has a lot of plot openings and will be a huge thing to note as we progress through the anime

I can't wait to learn more secrets about Terapogoes!

Lol "tough love"

Katie is bug Rika's clodsire is poison And now floragato vs cetitan..hahah..I'm not surprised if she defeats again.. So unfair for her..

ENGINEER GAMING

Glad we finally got a Dot & Penny interaction after waiting so long. Curious if the Scarlet Book hints at Koraidon appearing in the anime later on?

I hope roy catches gimmighoul next episode

Man. Damn near every episode of pokemon made me cry alot of moments in the show thay are just outright beautiful and stunning, so much heart, so much care put into every episode and evolution it truly is touching makes me feel juat as emotional as the dragon type elite 4 member🤧

Ngl, this was the first time I cried seeing a Pokémon character crying. That scene was short but was so detailed. One could literally see the dark circles under her eyes after the battle, when talking to Roy and Dot. Liko is definitely an amazing character and all her dialogues in this episode were relatable to me. She is my favourite character in Pokémon, and keeps getting more. Don't worry Liko, you will definitely grab a win next time, after all you have grown so much in this one battle.

Also get well soon!

I hope you are feeling better.

ONE WITH FLORAGATO ??? YOO IS THAT AN ASH GRENINJA REFERANC-

Liko is crying 😭😭😭

I still gotta get a chance to watch this. But it isn't available in Netflix Canada!

I was supposed to cried?!...sry I didn't but I was moved by this episode. Liko is definitely becoming more mature as time goes on and I hopefully her team will grow substantially along with Floragato!!!

Just got done rewatching for the third time- genuinely my favourite episode so far!! Maybe I’m just biased because Penny’s my favourite character from the games, and Dot’s my favourite in the anime, but STILL!! I’m really curious about the implications of Penny working for the league already- that only happened as of the very end of the game! Really seeming like this takes place after sv in some way based off that, which is super interesting. The amount of Scarlet/Violet stuff in this episode was so great- the Scarlet book, the mention of the Occulture magazines and the past paradox Pokémon, that page from the book that was such a big deal til The Indigo Disk happened, man that was all so great. Not to mention Liko- the way she was written in this episode really fixed like all my little problems I had with her. Plus based off this it seems she’ll be taking battles more seriously from now on, which is super exciting!

i know you were just joking when you said, liko meowscarada bond phenomenom, but i dont think thats completly out of the question.iam just saying, its possible.

4:34 it's okay you did your best 🥲🥲😢😢😢

I've seen a couple of screenshots and clips from this pokemon anime and it has some interesting sides. I only watched XY and journeys so i'm wondering how good this is compared to these. is it worth getting into?

Yooo dude I’m glad you’re back! Sorry you were sick man And I think you sound fine, if I hadn’t heard about your COVID trip I would’ve never noticed

You what do you think of Moses from the bible cutting the red sea to 2? Do you mean Floragato cutting the Sludge wave to 2?

Good video and I hope you will get better soon

This episode was honestly just such a good episode (though to be fair i feel that way about most episodes so whether how i feel matters or not is another thing) so to mention with penny when she said that she was the engineer for the academy and pokemon leagues computer system in the games penny is given the role of been in charge of the pokemon leagues system and having a job at the league for that position after she graduates from the academy all of this happens after dealing with team star in the games so maybe for horizions everything with team star might possibly be dealt with. The conversation between dot and agate though brief did give some nice alluding to as agate brought up the mention of scream tail and im not sure which moth (if anyone remembers exactly please mention it in the replies if ye want since ive forgotten) which alludes to the paradox pokemon possibly appearing at some point. The battle between liko and katie against rika was honestly really good seeing how honestly good how katie and rika were as kind of mentor figures for liko to ease her and get her thinking more to just focus on the battle and not necesarily take everything so literal for the battle, katies lokix was honestly really good in this battle just for the sheer ammount on how it was there as support for floragato and making sure she was ok since she did have a rough landing from when she was swung around by dugtrio and mightve possibly slightly twisted or sprained her ankle a little bit which none of the trainers noticed at all which is just a little bit interesting to me so props though to floragato for putting in a lot of work in this battle with a bit of an injury as well as learning acrobatics. Also first appearence of grusha and the fact that hes interested in liko and especially just the small brief bit of interaction grusha has with liko and the fact that he just calls her frigid given how she didnt respond to him but also just from how he views her i think in relation to how she battles possibly. Honestly grusha has been the character that ive been interested in seeing the group interact with at some point because how in comparison to liko and roy grusha is kind of the opposite of them personality wise and whatnot but itll be interesting just cause grusha having had to retire from snowboarding professionaly he tends to be a bit more jaded in how he can be a bit blunt and whatnot which i do think both sides liko roy and dot might definetly learn somethings from grusha from his perspective as well as grusha learning from the group possibly but hey who knows though. (Also sorry for really long comment hopefully my rambling made sense)

were gonna get more lore bombs before GTA 6 releases! XD somehow, liko saying she was "one with Floragato during battle" does that mean the pair are gonna have a ash-greeninja effect in the furture?

I’ve been searching for a way to watch horizons a can’t find a way to watch past part 2

Hey Pokeferlax sorry to hear that you are unwell great review of this latest episode of horizons and hope you get better soon 👍❤️🦊❄️

Hello Pokeferlax Get well soon ❤

3:43 Who ironically, also were struggling to fully immerse themselves in battle and then liko proceeds to get obliterated by a move that works weirdly similarly to blast burn😭

May God help you recover from the covid

You sound ok to me hope you get well soon

Get well soon, dude. You sound kinda normal to me. as for the episode I didnt cry at the scene liko cried. sorry guys im not heartless. Lately i have a hard time crying at stuff with 2 exceptions but mainly with some tv and movies stuff.

Rakua could be Area Zero? Hope we get story on the treasures of ruin. Would we go BB Academy or Kitakami I wonder.

Aww poor liko she's learning the hard way

I think what will happen next is after the treasure hunt arc we'll see Liko, Roy, and Dot take on a team star base, this will require each of the three to catch a third pokemon to take on the star rush battles. Afterward i would love to see them battle gym leaders a second time just to see how far they've come, but instead i believe it should be this way Liko Vs Grusha Roy Vs Ryme Dot Vs Tulip I think that would be perfect to wrap up the terastal debut arc befor setting off on the brave asagi again

In the games Penny is secretly the boss of Team Star. The crying part reminds me of Ash's first lost in the Indigo League.