Sneak peek video clip streamed
Netflix confirmed on Wednesday that the third part of Pokémon Horizons: The Series—The Search for Laqua, the second season of the Pokémon: Horizons anime, will begin streaming on June 27. The official Pokémon YouTube channel streamed a sneak peek video clip:
The season premiered on Netflix on February 7. The second part began streaming on April 25.
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The Pokémon Company had originally announced that the anime would debut on Netflix in the U.S. in February 2024, but the series debuted instead in March 2024. The second part began streaming that May. The third part premiered last August. The fourth part began streaming last November.
The anime premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a one-hour first-episode special. The show airs on Fridays at 6:55 p.m. JST. The anime started its second arc, “Terapagos no Kagayaki” (The Brilliance of Terapagos), with its 29th episode in October 2023 in Japan. The “Terastal Debut” arc for the anime debuted in April 2024. The fourth arc started in Japan last October. The new arc features characters from Kitakami, a location that was featured in “The Teal Mask” expansion for the Pokémon Scarlet/Violet game.
The anime follows completely new dual protagonists, who are named Liko and Roy. The anime features Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly from the Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet video games, and also the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza in its Shiny form. The anime also introduces the new characters Friede and Captain Pikachu, who are a Pokémon professor and Pokémon partner duo who battle alongside Liko and Roy.
Saori Den (Mirage Queen Prefers Circus) is directing the anime, and Daiki Tomiyasu (Pokémon Sun & Moon, Pocket Monster Mezase Pokémon Master) is serving as creative director. Dai Satō (Eureka Seven, Wolf’s Rain, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop) is overseeing the series scripts. Tetsuo Yajima is the action director, Rei Yamazaki is the character designer, and Kyōko Itō is the sub-character designer. Masafumi Mima is the sound director and Conisch is composing the music.
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