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| Season | Pokémon Journeys: The Series (Season 23) · Rivals & setbacks arc (JN031–JN041) |
| Episode | Season 23, episode 38 · English episode 1118 · Japanese episode 1124 · Bulbapedia code JN038 |
| English title | Restore and Renew! |
| Japanese title | 奇跡の復元、化石のポケモン！ Kiseki no Fukugen, Kaseki no Pokémon! — “Miracle Restoration, the Fossil Pokémon!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 20 September 2020 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 5 March 2021 · Netflix |
| Screenplay | Jun’ichi Fujisaku |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Nishikawa-kun and Kirishō · Pokémon Shiritori (Mew → Zamazenta Ver.) – Pokémon Music Club |
| English opening | The Journey Starts Today – Walk off the Earth |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Kabutops (US) · Kabutops (Japan) |
| Previous episode | That New Old Gang of Mine! (JN037) |
| Next episode | Octo-Gridlock at the Gym! (JN039) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeGoh’s Aerodactyl
Restore and Renew! is the 38th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the twenty-third season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1118th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1124, Bulbapedia code JN038). It first aired in Japan on 20 September 2020 and in the United States on 5 March 2021. It falls within the season’s Rivals & setbacks stretch (EP31–EP41).
Released on Netflix on 5 March 2021 with the rest of the fourth batch; POP had premiered it in the UK on 2 March 2021.
Synopsis
On a trip to the Pewter Museum of Science, Goh digs up a piece of Old Amber, and when Team Rocket’s meddling makes the revived Aerodactyl flee into the night, he battles it with Golurk and earns its trust. A promotional video for a giant Shieldon exhibit lures Ash and Goh to Pewter City, and Professor Cerise sends a reluctant Chloe along for a school project. Inside, the boys are thrilled by the revived Fossil Pokémon while Chloe is overwhelmed, but the Shieldon line is too long and the exhibit closes for the day. Instead they join a fossil dig where visitors keep what they find. The museum’s president—a curator who looks strikingly like the excavation leader from the Colossus Ruins—identifies Ash’s find as a fossilized footprint and explains that prime specimens like a Claw Fossil can be restored with a special machine. Team Rocket, who have been smashing boulders in vain, plan to steal any Fossil Pokémon that is revived.
Goh calls out Golurk, Raboot and Sobble to help dig, and Chloe finds a fossilized shell that is not new but suits her assignment. As evening falls and Ash and Chloe say it is time to go, Goh spots something glinting in the rock and digs out a piece of Old Amber, a rare hardened resin that preserves ancient DNA. The curator starts restoring it overnight in the museum’s machine while the group stays at the Pokémon Center. Team Rocket crawl in through the ventilation ducts, and when Jessie grows impatient, James tampers with the machine to speed it up. It explodes with a boom that wakes Pewter City; the machine is wrecked, but the Old Amber has been restored in record time, and the revived Pokémon flies off into the dark with Goh in pursuit.
Pikachu sniffs out Team Rocket in the bushes, and the Rocket Prize Master gives them a Nidorino and a Graveler; Ash sends Chloe to fetch Goh while he deals with the trio. Goh’s Rotom Phone identifies the runaway as an Aerodactyl, which ignores his pleas and floors Raboot with Rock Slide. Golurk takes over, enduring wing strikes, Dragon Breath and Iron Head while firing Flash Cannon, and when Chloe asks Goh to help Ash, he says he is too busy. Meanwhile Pikachu escapes Poison Sting and Graveler’s rolling Tackle by stringing an Electroweb between two trees; Graveler bounces off it into Team Rocket and blasts them away. Golurk finally brings Aerodactyl down with Hammer Arm and Flash Cannon, and Goh, realising that it was frightened to wake in an unfamiliar world, gently pats its snout and invites it to adjust to the new era by travelling with him. Calmed, it lets him catch it and flies happy circles around him. Back at the lab, Chloe surprises everyone by admitting that she had fun too.
Major Events
- Old Amber. A fossil dig at the Pewter Museum of Science
- Goh’s Old Amber is revived as an Aerodactyl, which he catches, the first Fossil Pokémon owned by a main character
- Golurk shows Flash Cannon
- Chloe joins the trip for a school project
Captures and evolutions
Aerodactyl#0142 · Goh · revived from Old Amber
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Jun’ichi Fujisaku.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kanto, Galar & beyond story.
Part of our Pokémon Journeys: The Series guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.