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What a fantastic episode. Definitely one of my absolute favorites.
Goh and Tokio only knew each other for a day but their friendship feels very real and you can tell how much they needed each other. They started off teasing each other over their respective goals because they know that to anyone else they sound crazy, but they can relate to each other when they can’t relate to anyone else. They thought they were one of a kind in a world where people didn’t understand them, but they finally found someone who did.
Goh hesitates to accept Tokio as his friend but he takes the risk anyway. We can see that Goh still doesn’t really know how to interact with friends, as his first instinct is to try and impress Tokio with his Pokémon knowledge and trying to seem cooler than he actually is, even when it’s on a topic he doesn’t know anything about, like Celebi.
Goh provides the ambition that Tokio needed to actually try and actively search for Celebi in a way he had never tried before. They spend the whole day together, looking for Celebi, and when it seems like Tokio is ready to give up, Goh keeps going, trying to get deeper and deeper in Ilex Forest. When they keep failing, Goh just changes his strategy and decides to go borrow Sunflora. In this moment, we also see how Tokio also feels about promises and it’s a bitter moment because we know that Tokio would end up breaking it.
Once the sun goes down they’re able to finally take everything in, and they talk about how vast the universe is. The talk about the many Pokémon thought to have come from space, like Clefairy and Rayquaza. They can share their love of Pokémon together in a way they never thought possible.
We see Goh wake up early and rushes out of the cabin, full of excitement, ready to start another day-long search with his new friend... and Tokio doesn’t show up. And yet Goh waits. He holds out hope that Tokio wouldn’t abandon him. Until he can’t wait any longer and believes that Tokio abandoned him. He laments, saying how he even went to the effort of bringing hot cocoa and stew with star-shaped carrots, something we know that Goh loves, and he wanted to share that with Tokio! Goh fell face-first into a friendship for possibly the first time in years and he feels like an idiot for believing that he could make a friend. To Goh, Tokio has made a fool out of him, he feels like he was just played a cruel joke.
Goh in the present is still dealing with these issues, now more than ever as he’s confronted by the very place that all of this stuff happens. He tries to ignore the memories, he’s got his Pokémon by his side, after all! He brings out Scyther and Farfetch’d, because they’ll never let him down like Tokio did!
Then he encounters Ariados and Pineco, both causing him to remember even more, these thoughts of Tokio and his apparent betrayal are too much to handle. Goh tries even HARDER to ignore his thoughts, he can’t handle them. He catches Ariados and Pineco, because catching Pokémon makes him feel good! Except it doesn’t make him feel any better.
He finally comes across the shrine he had been searching for all those years ago. There’s a note wedged in the wood. It’s an apology from someone he had thought betrayed him. Hearing about how Tokio got sick and tried his hardest to meet up with Goh again causes him to almost break down, he had convinced himself that Tokio must’ve hated him, or he must’ve done something horribly wrong.
Then Goh finally sees Tokio again, and Tokio is happy to see him! All of Goh’s memories and thoughts of being betrayed are washed away as he reunites with a true friend. The fact they left it open and Goh smiling as they walked forward was beautiful.
Extra: Goh learning his “I can hold the future in the palm of hand” phrase from a song he heard, very funny.
I feel a little sad that this episode is being overshadowed by the new OP (which is great and I absolutely love). But this was fantastic.
Goh and Tokio only knew each other for a day but their friendship feels very real and you can tell how much they needed each other. They started off teasing each other over their respective goals because they know that to anyone else they sound crazy, but they can relate to each other when they can’t relate to anyone else. They thought they were one of a kind in a world where people didn’t understand them, but they finally found someone who did.
Goh hesitates to accept Tokio as his friend but he takes the risk anyway. We can see that Goh still doesn’t really know how to interact with friends, as his first instinct is to try and impress Tokio with his Pokémon knowledge and trying to seem cooler than he actually is, even when it’s on a topic he doesn’t know anything about, like Celebi.
Goh provides the ambition that Tokio needed to actually try and actively search for Celebi in a way he had never tried before. They spend the whole day together, looking for Celebi, and when it seems like Tokio is ready to give up, Goh keeps going, trying to get deeper and deeper in Ilex Forest. When they keep failing, Goh just changes his strategy and decides to go borrow Sunflora. In this moment, we also see how Tokio also feels about promises and it’s a bitter moment because we know that Tokio would end up breaking it.
Once the sun goes down they’re able to finally take everything in, and they talk about how vast the universe is. The talk about the many Pokémon thought to have come from space, like Clefairy and Rayquaza. They can share their love of Pokémon together in a way they never thought possible.
We see Goh wake up early and rushes out of the cabin, full of excitement, ready to start another day-long search with his new friend... and Tokio doesn’t show up. And yet Goh waits. He holds out hope that Tokio wouldn’t abandon him. Until he can’t wait any longer and believes that Tokio abandoned him. He laments, saying how he even went to the effort of bringing hot cocoa and stew with star-shaped carrots, something we know that Goh loves, and he wanted to share that with Tokio! Goh fell face-first into a friendship for possibly the first time in years and he feels like an idiot for believing that he could make a friend. To Goh, Tokio has made a fool out of him, he feels like he was just played a cruel joke.
Goh in the present is still dealing with these issues, now more than ever as he’s confronted by the very place that all of this stuff happens. He tries to ignore the memories, he’s got his Pokémon by his side, after all! He brings out Scyther and Farfetch’d, because they’ll never let him down like Tokio did!
Then he encounters Ariados and Pineco, both causing him to remember even more, these thoughts of Tokio and his apparent betrayal are too much to handle. Goh tries even HARDER to ignore his thoughts, he can’t handle them. He catches Ariados and Pineco, because catching Pokémon makes him feel good! Except it doesn’t make him feel any better.
He finally comes across the shrine he had been searching for all those years ago. There’s a note wedged in the wood. It’s an apology from someone he had thought betrayed him. Hearing about how Tokio got sick and tried his hardest to meet up with Goh again causes him to almost break down, he had convinced himself that Tokio must’ve hated him, or he must’ve done something horribly wrong.
Then Goh finally sees Tokio again, and Tokio is happy to see him! All of Goh’s memories and thoughts of being betrayed are washed away as he reunites with a true friend. The fact they left it open and Goh smiling as they walked forward was beautiful.
Extra: Goh learning his “I can hold the future in the palm of hand” phrase from a song he heard, very funny.
I feel a little sad that this episode is being overshadowed by the new OP (which is great and I absolutely love). But this was fantastic.