Pokémon

Ash, his mother, and Pikachu arrive in the Alola region on vacation to deliver a Pokémon egg to Professor Oak's cousin, Samson Oak. While exploring for new Pokémon, Ash stumbles upon a Pokémon school that Samson runs as its principal. While helping to defend the school from a group of Team Skull grunts, Ash witnesses one of the students, Kiawe, perform a powerful Z-Move with his Pokémon to drive the grunts away. Impressed, Ash decides to enroll in the school to learn more about its native Pokémon. The night before Ash's mother returns home to the Kanto region, the guardian Pokémon, Tapu Koko, appears before Ash and gives him a Z-Ring that enables him to perform his own Z-Moves.

On Ash's first day at Pokémon school, Professor Kukui and the other students host a surprise welcome party for him. Soon after Tapu Koko approaches Ash in order to battle Pikachu. Tapu Koko teaches Ash how to use the Z-Ring. Ash and Pikachu manage to unleash the Z-Move, Gigavolt Havoc, but the Z-Crystal shatters after Pikachu's immense release of power. In order to regain the power of Z-Moves, Ash decides to go through the island trials.

Professor Kukui gives Satoshi an intelligent Rotom Pokédex that is capable of human speech. Satoshi goes to find and catch his first Pokémon in Alola, but he instead encounters Rocket-Dan, who are aided by a wild Mimikkyu that despises Pikachu.

After Satoshi fails to capture two wild Pokémon, he encounters a Mokuroh that lives in a Tsutsukera nest. After Satoshi feeds the starving Mokuroh, it returns the favor by helping him fend off Rocket-Dan away from its nest. Afterwards, Satoshi catches Mokuroh as his first Pokémon in Alola.

Satoshi helps Suiren train her Ashimari to blow a water balloon large enough to enable undersea travel for people. During a school fishing trip, the class's Ride Pokémon are stolen by Rocket-Dan. However, Ashimari manages to blow a massive balloon to save all the Ride Pokémon from falling on the rocks.

Satoshi and Māmane are separated from their Pokémon during a visit to the local shopping mall.

Satoshi decides and fails to catch a stray Nyabby that continues to give him trouble.

Samson Oak has given the gang a task of looking after a special Pokémon Egg, but when it comes to night it was decided that the Egg should be kept at Lillie's house which makes Lillie uneasy as she doesn't like touching Pokémon. Ash goes with her and is shocked to see how big her house is. As the house is so big, it even has a garden where Pokémon play as well as a battlefield, so Ash challenges Lillie's butler to a battle. Who will win and what is in the egg?

As Rattata and Raticate cause trouble on the island, Ash decides to participate in the Island Trial Challenge. When meeting the Melemele Island Kahuna, Hala Ash says he is going to take on the trial, but Hala poses a question to him that Ash must answer before participating in it. Will Ash be able to answer the question and complete the trial?

After completing the only Island Trial on Melemele Island, Ash decides to face off against the Island Kahuna Hala in the Grand Trial. Hala uses powerful Fighting-type Pokémon and moves causing Ash some trouble as he currently only has Pikachu and Rowlet. During battle, Hala unleashes the All-Out Pumelling Z-Move causing Ash to retaliate with a Z-Move of his own. Will he be able to win the battle?

As the Pokémon School isn't in session, Ash is practicing his Z-Moves. As he is doing so, he sees Kiawe fly by on a Charizard. Kiawe mentinos that he is helping take care of his family's farm to do a delivery. Ash is intrigued and decides to go visit Kiawe's farm and meet his family. However, trouble soon arises when Team Skull show up...

Everyone has gone to the Melemele Sea for an extracurricular lesson, but Team Rocket have also come to the area in search of new Pokémon. However, while hunting for Pokémon by fishing, they soon discover a mysterious new Pokémon, Mareanie, and one of the Mareanie takes a liking to James. Will James get his first Pokémon in Alola?

Continuing his studies in Alola, Ash soon learns from Mallow about a famous Pancake Race. Intrigued, Ash and all his classmates enter in the special pancake race but while there, he meets the champion from last year, a trainer and her Alolan Raichu. A rivalry soon sparks between Pikachu and the Raichu and the race gets heated. Plus, with Team Rocket having their eyes on the prize, the race may not be as simple as they thought. Who is going to win?

The egg that Lillie has been taking care of has finally hatched into a Vulpix. Everyone is overjoyed at this but Lillie's excitement soon turns to depression as she cannot pet the Vulpix she took care of as an egg due to her fear of Pokémon. Due to this, Ash and co. decide to encourage her and try and get her to touch and bond with the Vulpix, but soon a shadow has its eyes on Lillie. Will Lillie be able to bond with Vulpix?

Rockruff has returned covered in scratches. Upon investigation, Ash & Kukui decide to record what Rockruff has been up to in order to find the situation. However, on looking at the footage, they see that Rockruff has been leaving the house every night to train so Ash decides to help it train up to become stronger. Will they succeed and find out why Rockruff has been training?

While Ash & Co. are playing on the beach, Popplio is making a bubble, but a gust of wind pushes Popplio and Rowlet into the bubble and they float away. When they land, they encounter the Litten that wanders around Melemele Island. It decides to take Popplio and Rowlet back to Ash, but Team Rocket soon arrive with plans of their own for Litten. Will they return to their trainers?

When he wakes up and heads to the Pokémon School, Ash soon finds that his Electirium Z that he earned has gone missing. Rotom, a huge fan of a crime show on Alolan TV, decides to search for the Electirium Z, wanting to act it out like the protagonist in that show. Will Rotom be able to find the Z-Crystal?

Mallow has come up with a new food item for the cafeteria, and Ash & co. all decide to ask Mallow to try it. However, the stew doesn't actually taste good and Mallow states that they need some Yellow Nectar in order to finish it, but the problem is that Yellow Nectar is hard to come by at the moment. Due to this, Ash & Mallow decide to go hunt for some Yellow Nectar, but it seems Team Rocket have a nefarious scheme at hand...

Ash has gone to visit Sophocles in order to learn the best way to try and defeat Tapu Koko in battle. Ash & Pikachu train with Sophocles in order to gain the upper hand, but soon afterwards Tapu Koko appears and challenges them. Will Ash be able to defeat the Guardian Diety of Melemele Island, or will he be defeated?

Hearing about Treasure Island from his classmates, Ash & Pikachu head to the island to explore. While there, it's the first time Ash & Pikachu have been out adventuring alone in a very long time and so they begin to strengthen their bond. However, before too long, a mysterious Pokémon appears overhead...