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| Season | Pokémon Horizons: The Series (Horizons Season 1) · Paldea: home, Artazon & Arboliva arc (HZ009–HZ012) |
| Episode | Horizons Season 1, episode 11 · English episode 1235 · Japanese episode 1244 · Bulbapedia code HZ011 |
| English title | Arboliva’s Forest |
| Japanese title | オリーヴァの森 Orīva no Mori — “Oliva’s Forest” |
| First aired (Japan) | 16 June 2023 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 7 March 2024 · Netflix |
| Screenplay | Naruki Nagakawa |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Dokimeki Daiārī (Heart-Pounding Diary) – asmi feat. Chinozo · RVR ~Raijingu Borutekkāzu Rappu~ (Rising Volt Tacklers Rap), Murdock Ver. – Liko (Minori Suzuki) & Roy (Yuka Terasaki) |
| English opening | Becoming Me – Haven Paschall (version 1, with clips from Heart-Pounding Diary) |
| Previous episode | Nemona and Brassius and… (HZ010) |
| Next episode | The Future I Choose (HZ012) |
Plot episodeThe giant ArbolivaMollie’s past
Arboliva’s Forest is the 11th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, the first season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1235th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1244, Bulbapedia code HZ011). It first aired in Japan on 16 June 2023 and in the United States on 7 March 2024. It falls within the season’s Paldea: home, Artazon & Arboliva stretch (EP9–EP12).
Released on Netflix in the US on Thursday 7 March 2024 with the rest of Part 1 (HZ001–HZ012); BBC iPlayer had released it in the UK on 15 January 2024.
Synopsis
Searching the forest where Brassius saw the Black Rayquaza, Liko, Roy and Mollie find it ravaged by wildfire and confront an enormous Arboliva guarding a second Ancient Poké Ball, while Mollie reveals why she left her family’s career as a Pokémon doctor. Liko gathers her evidence outside Dot’s room, the Nidothing theme, the ever-present Quaxly, the costume on the balcony, and knocks, and Dot is about to confess when Liko announces that Dot must be Nidothing’s biggest fan; Dot is too baffled to correct her. Mollie, fresh from a phone call in which her mother again urges her to come home, sees a picture of the forest and decides to go along. Nemona guides the three to the woods, much of which has burned after lightning struck dry vegetation, then leaves, promising Roy a battle next time. Roy runs ahead to scout, telling the others to meet him at a giant tree on the horizon if they get separated, while aboard the ship Friede wonders why Liko’s mother, Lucca, has not called him back.
In the surviving green, Mollie teases Liko as a pampered princess, and Liko explains that her parents were always busy, her father making picture books and her mother teaching, and that she has not yet found her own path. Mollie admits that her own future was mapped out for her in a family of Pokémon doctors until she quit, promising to explain why later. Sent to gather Oran Berries, Liko gets lost without phone reception and heads for the giant tree, where Roy, climbing with Fuecoco, spots another Ancient Poké Ball near the top just as the tree begins to shake. In a scorched clearing Liko finds a badly weakened Paldean Wooper, but a band of Grass-type Pokémon snatches it away and will not let her near. Mollie arrives, has Chansey take the Wooper and, while treating it, explains that she left the Pokémon Center because she could not stop thinking about the injured wild Pokémon who never reach one.
The Grass types call out to the tree, which rises and reveals itself as a gigantic Arboliva. It shakes Roy loose and fires blasts of olive oil at the children, but Mollie refuses to abandon her patient, so Liko and Roy stand their ground. Liko warns Roy not to use Ember for fear of starting another fire; Sprigatito distracts the giant with Quick Attack, Fuecoco’s Stomping Tantrum breaks the ground beneath it, and a swirl of Leafage around its head lets a second Stomping Tantrum knock it down. As Arboliva struggles back up, the recovered Wooper walks over and persuades it that Mollie was only helping. The giant calms down, and once the Wooper has left with the Grass types, it lets out a sorrowful cry, lifts Liko and Roy high into the air, and shows them how badly the forest has been devastated.
Major Events
- The burned forest. Mollie explains why she left her family’s career as Pokémon doctors
- A weakened Paldean Wooper
- The giant Arboliva guarding a second Ancient Poké Ball
- The first episode with no former 4Kids voice actors in the English cast
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Naruki Nagakawa.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Kanto, Galar and Paldea storyline.
Part of our Pokémon Horizons: The Series guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.