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| Season | Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series (Season 24) · Ultra Class battles & the first token arc (JN076–JN083) |
| Episode | Season 24, episode 35 · English episode 1163 · Japanese episode 1169 · Bulbapedia code JN083 |
| English title | Star Night, Star Flight! |
| Japanese title | お星さまになったピィ Ohoshi-sama ni Natta Pī — “The Py That Became A Star” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 October 2021 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 26 May 2022 · Netflix |
| Screenplay | Yūko Kakihara |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Karaage Sisters · Batsugun Taipu (Supereffective Type), Version 1 – Pokémon Music Club (on TV Tokyo, with a live-action dance video in place of the animation) |
| English opening | Journey to Your Heart – Haven Paschall |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Unown (I) (US) · Unown (I) (Japan) |
| Previous episode | The Sweet Taste of Battle! (JN082) |
| Next episode | An Adventure of Mega Proportions! (JN084) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeCynthia returnsUnown’s endless night
Star Night, Star Flight! is the 35th episode of Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series, the twenty-fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1163rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1169, Bulbapedia code JN083). It first aired in Japan on 8 October 2021 and in the United States on 26 May 2022. It falls within the season’s Ultra Class battles & the first token stretch (EP76–EP83).
Released on Netflix in the US on Thursday 26 May 2022 with the rest of Part 3; Teletoon had premiered it in Canada on 5 February 2022, followed by POP in the UK on 10 March 2022, e.tv in South Africa on 29 March 2022 and Australian television on 9 May 2022.
Synopsis
A Johto town is trapped in endless night by a group of Unown granting a lonely girl’s wish, and Ash and Goh team up with Sinnoh Champion Cynthia to help the girl say goodbye to her friend Cleffa. Professor Cerise, Ren and Chrysa tell Ash and Goh about a town in Johto where night has not ended for a week, upsetting daily routines, so the boys go to investigate. An exhausted old man with a Sudowoodo explains that flowers are wilting and points out a Murkrow that locals avoid as an omen of bad luck; Goh feels sorry for it, asks whether it would like to join him, and catches it. After seeing a shooting star, the boys meet a little girl named Tiara, who is searching the sky for her friend Cleffa, which she believes has become a star. Her mother explains that Tiara and Cleffa had to part a few days earlier and that she told her daughter Cleffa had become a star.
Tiara’s mother adds that Tiara saw a strange Pokémon when the endless night began: small, black, with one big eye and shaped like a stick. Searching his Rotom Phone over lunch, Goh finds a match and runs to the town’s archaeology museum, where Pikachu catches a familiar scent and leaps into the arms of Cynthia. She has heard that Ash entered the World Coronation Series, and he promises to join her among the Masters Eight one day. Goh, thrilled to meet the Sinnoh Champion, learns that her real passion is archaeology and that she is in town to study ruins. When Goh shows her his picture of Unown, which gather near ruins and display mysterious powers in groups, Cynthia concludes that Unown must have created the endless night because of Tiara’s wish, and asks to meet the girl. In the park, over doughnuts Cynthia has brought, Tiara admits she wished she could watch the stars forever.
When the boys ask where the Unown went so that they can end the night, Tiara angrily refuses, and her feelings summon the Unown, which surround her in a dark mist and create illusions: a Pikachu that matches Ash’s Thunderbolt and Iron Tail blow for blow, a Cinderace that equals Goh’s, and a Garchomp that copies Cynthia’s. Cynthia orders Sandstorm, which hides her real Garchomp from its double, and Garchomp rises above the storm to strike the Unown and the illusions with Scale Shot, scattering them. Calm again, Tiara apologises, and Cynthia suggests that she needed time to accept the parting. Tiara tells Cleffa not to worry about her, though she would love to see it once more, and the Unown return to show her memories of their time together and an illusion of Cleffa, which she hugs, promising she will be all right. Daylight returns, the boys assure Tiara that she and Cleffa will always be friends, and Cynthia reminds her that stars keep shining even when they cannot be seen.
Major Events
- Endless night in Johto. Unown grant a lonely girl’s wish and plunge a town into endless night
- Goh catches a Murkrow
- Ash meets Cynthia again
- Unown’s first main-series appearance in 633 episodes
- The last visit to Johto in Journeys
- The plot echoes Spell of the Unown
- Shogo Sakata replaces Katsuyuki Konishi as Garchomp’s Japanese voice
- Directed and animated by Korean staff
Captures and evolutions
Murkrow#0198 · Goh · shunned by a Johto town as a bad omen
Trivia
- The English title plays on the nursery rhyme “Star Light, Star Bright”.
- The screenplay is by Yūko Kakihara.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kanto, Galar & beyond story.
Part of our Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.