Once Again I Have Cut a Worthless Object

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Living on the Cutting Border!

SM124

EP1063

斬れ味バツグン！カミツルギ見参！！
Perfect Sharpness! Kamiturugi has Arrived!!

First broadcast

Nihon	June two, 2019
United States	October 5, 2019

English themes

Opening	The Challenge of Life
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	キミの冒険
Ending	心のノート

Credits

No additional credits are available at this time.
Animation	Team Kato
Screenplay	米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard	野田泰宏 Yasuhiro Noda
Assistant manager	野田泰宏 Yasuhiro Noda
Animation directors	金振英 Kim Jin-Yeong
	黃星元 Hwang Seong-Won
	朴唱煥 Park Chang-Hwan

Screenshots on Filb.de
Preview thread on BMGf Closed
Original review thread on BMGf
Dub review thread on BMGf

Living on the Cut Edge! (Japanese: 斬れ味バツグン！カミツルギ見参！！ Perfect Sharpness! Kamiturugi has Arrived!!) is the 124th episode of Pokémon the Series: Dominicus & Moon, and the 1,063rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June ii, 2019 and in the United States on Oct 5, 2019.

Blurb

Someone's been slicing and dicing objects all over Melemele Island: a cabbage at Mallow's Family Restaurant gets chopped up, a golden Viren statue is cutting in half, and the trees in Lillie's yard are shaped into perfect topiaries! These occurrences (and more) are the work of an Ultra Beast named Kartana, who can cut anything with its bladelike trunk. When the Ultra Guardians ask Kartana to end its cutting spree, information technology ignores them—but later information technology saves the solar day by demolishing a meteor that'due south barreling directly for the Pokémon School! Grateful for Kartana'south assistance, our heroes bid information technology cheerio as it returns home through an Ultra Wormhole.

Plot

Overnight, an Ultra Wormhole opens up, and a Kartana emerges to await at its new surroundings. The glistening lights of Viren'due south latest development project, Viren Stadium, instantly attracts the Ultra Animal. As Viren practices for the inauguration ceremony, showing off his gilt statue to his henchmen, he orders a fireworks display. Meanwhile, Kartana promptly slices the statue in half and Viren's henchmen scramble to come up up with a solution.

The following morn, Aina'southward Kitchen is preparing for another busy day of customers. At the same time, the radio announces that the Stufful meteor shower will appear overnight. Mallow prepares to slice up some cabbage when her father asks her to bank check on the force per unit area cooker. As she is away, Kartana soars into the eating place and dices up the head of cabbage into thin pieces. Mallow returns to her work bench to discover the sliced cabbage, but Abe is unable to explain annihilation. Meanwhile, Lillie and Snowy are preparing to leave home for Pokémon School, with Lillie behest Magearna goodbye. Outside, Hobbes is neatening up the hedge trees and plans to brand them into Pokémon topiary copse. However, Kartana gets in first and cuts the hedges into geometric designs, shocking both Lillie and Hobbes.

Afterwards, Professor Kukui prepares to teach his course how to utilise moves to cutting objects. Rotom is intrigued by the makiwara and admits that it saw 1 during an episode of "Alolan Detective Laki". Kukui laughs at the Nogawa reference, admitting that makiwara are often used to practice sword skills. Attempts by Ash, Mallow, and Kiawe fail to fully cut the makiwara, and Professor Kukui admits that even sword masters struggle to cut down makiwara. Ash decides to try over again with Pikachu, merely Kartana suddenly appears and cleanly cuts through the obstacle with ease before disappearing without being noticed. Every bit everyone else is befuddled, Lillie and Mallow call back their foreign experiences that morn.

Suddenly, Komala rings the school bell and the students change into their Ultra Guardians uniforms. In the Ultra Guardians' base, Lusamine and her staff show them a video of Kartana slicing through Viren's gold statue the previous nighttime. Lillie instantly suspects that Kartana is an Ultra Beast, only Professor Burnet admits that she hasn't located an Ultra Wormhole. Wicke adds that Ultra Aura was detected for a moment and Faba affirms that the Aether Foundation is continuing its investigation. Lusamine orders the Ultra Guardians to capture Kartana before further damage is washed. The nonetheless-multiplying horde of Meltan and so present the Ultra Guardians with a box of Creature Balls before they wing out of the base aboard their Ride Pokémon.

Ash orders anybody to dissever, and they encompass the entirety of Melemele Isle. Suddenly, Ash overhears a shrill scream, which leads him to the Hau'oli Urban center fruit markets. There, he finds Anela, who is staring in stupor at her sliced fruit. Meanwhile, Lillie arrives at Yoko's salon, where Kartana has already trimmed and styled her clients' Furfrou. At the same time, a Deoxys and a Rayquaza are locked in boxing in space. The Rayquaza fires a Hyper Beam, only Deoxys transforms into its Defense Forme to protect itself. The deflected attack strikes a meteor instead, sending it towards the planet below.

At Bewear's den, Team Rocket watches Viren on his shopping channel equally he advertises the "Bling Bling Gilt Rubber", a seemingly indestructible safe. Viren orders his Electivire and Pangoro to attack the safety with Thunder Dial and Fire Punch, respectively, to no effect. Just then, Kartana appears and slashes through the safety with ease. Viren recognizes Kartana as the 1 who destroyed his statue and demands that information technology own up to its deeds equally his Pokémon surroundings the Ultra Beast. Meowth is in awe of Kartana'due south ability and Jessie declares that it would make the perfect gift for the Boss.

Soon later on, Lusamine alerts Ash and the others to the latest Kartana sighting, this time at Viren Tower. However, past the fourth dimension they accomplish it, Kartana has already cut its fashion to freedom. During the pursuit, Lillie suggests leading Kartana to the mountains to avoid more havoc in Hau'oli City. But and so, Kartana prepares to attack the Pokémon School, forcing Ash and Garchomp to intervene. Ash explains no one wants anything cut in his earth, which Kartana appears to empathise. With the Ultra Beast placated, Lana throws out a Beast Ball, but Kartana slices through it. Realizing Kartana is unwilling to be caught, the Ultra Guardians battle it. Kiawe sends out Marowak and orders it to use Flare Blitz, but the attack misses. Kartana then manages to cutting Marowak's Ultra Guardian symbol as a alarm.

Just so, Squad Rocket arrives inside a Meowth robot. Right afterward Team Rocket ends their motto, Kartana is revealed to accept sliced the robot in half already. Lusamine contacts the Ultra Guardians once again, this time to abort the mission considering 1 of the Stufful meteor shower's comets is headed straight at them. Faba issues an evacuation club for everyone inside a mile of the school. Master Samson Oak orders the Ultra Guardians to run, merely Ash and his classmates declare they will non carelessness the schoolhouse. Team Rocket notices the comet speedily approaching, but Bewear arrives before they can enjoy the calamity. Bewear throws the trio into the Meowth robot, crushing the two halves together, and launching the mecha dorsum to the den.

Ash and the others apply their Ride Pokémon to reach the comet. They decide to rapidly cool the comet to make it brittle before crushing it into smaller fragments. Lillie orders Snowy and Altaria to use Pulverization Snow and Ice Beam, respectively, while Lana has Dragonair add together its own Ice Beam. Equally frost begins to encase the comet, Ash, Mallow, Kiawe, and Sophocles's Pokémon follow up with their own attacks, but their efforts only destroy the ice and not the comet. Kartana then soars upwards and cuts the comet into smaller fragments, which land in the ocean and crusade a rainbow to appear in the sky. Equally Lusamine and Burnet bank check on the Ultra Guardians, Kartana opens up a new wormhole by itself with its slicing abilities and uses it to exit the Alola region.

Major events

The wild Meltan are revealed to be multiplying.
Ash and his classmates get on their 8th Ultra Guardians mission.
The Ultra Guardians attempt to catch a Kartana, but neglect as information technology slices the Beast Ball to pieces.
Kartana opens itself its own Ultra Wormhole, allowing it to return home.

For a listing of all major events in the anime, delight see the timeline of events.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Kartana

Characters

Humans

Ash
Lana
Kiawe
Lillie
Sophocles
Mallow
Jessie
James
Professor Kukui
Samson Oak
Lusamine
Wicke
Professor Burnet
Faba
Hobbes
Abe
Anela
Laki (flashback)
Viren
Viren's henchmen
Yoko
Nogawa (flashback)
Female journalist

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kartana

Pikachu (Ash'due south)
Meowth (Team Rocket)
Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
Rowlet (Ash'south)
Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Class)
Torracat (Ash's)
Meltan (Ash's)
Primarina (Lana's)
Eevee (Lana'southward; Sandy)
Charizard (Kiawe's; Ride Pokémon)
Turtonator (Kiawe'due south)
Marowak (Kiawe's; Alolan Grade)
Vulpix (Lillie's; Alolan Course; Snowy)
Togedemaru (Sophocles'south)
Vikavolt (Sophocles's)
Tsareena (Mallow's)
Komala (Samson Oak'southward)
Clefable (Lusamine's)
Smeargle (Laki's; flashback)
Electivire (Viren's)
Pangoro (Viren's)
Garchomp (Ride Pokémon)
Metang (Ride Pokémon)
Flygon (Ride Pokémon)
Dragonair (Ride Pokémon)
Altaria (Ride Pokémon)
Bewear (anime)
Stufful (anime)
Meltan (anime; multiple)
Shaymin (anime)
Exeggutor (Alolan Form; multiple)
Magearna (Shiny; anime)
Kartana (anime; debut)
Deoxys (Normal and Defense force Forme)
Rayquaza
Furfrou (×3)

Trivia

Poké Problem: The Ultra Animal that appears in today's episode is...?
- Host: Professor Burnet
- Choices: Kartana, Buzzwole, Celesteela, Guzzlord
- Answer: Kartana
Kartana speaks fragmented human being language in reverse throughout the episode, most normally repeating random fragments of the phrase "また、つまらぬものを斬ってしまった" ("Once over again, I take cut a worthless object"). This phrase is often said by samurai in old samurai movies, as well as past Goemon Ishikawa Xiii, a character from the long-running manga and anime series Lupin the Third. The English dub translates this line as "Once again, I cut a worthless object."
- Its voice actor, Daisuke Namikawa, is also the same voice thespian for Goemon Ishikawa 13 every bit of 2011.
- In addition, the animation in Team Rocket's motto is in the same style as Lupin the Tertiary.
This episode features the almost Mythical Pokémon out of any anime episode to appointment, with four.
This episode marks the offset appearance of a Deoxys in the anime since PK21, about nine years earlier.
Ash, Professor Kukui, and Rowlet narrate the preview for the next episode.
Kartana breaks the fourth wall twice, start when it slices the background at the end of Team Rocket'south motto, and and so when it cuts a hole and appears from the black background at the finish of the episode.
The English dub title is a play on the phrase "living on the edge".
This episode marks the last appearances of Ash and Lillie in their Ultra Guardians uniforms.
This is the last episode of Pokémon the Series: Lord's day and Moon to feature a Character of the twenty-four hour period.

Errors

In the first preview for this episode, when Kiawe is shown riding on his Charizard later on Kartana, he is seen in his normal clothes rather than his Ultra Guardian uniform. This is corrected in the bodily episode.
Sophocles's Vikavolt is shown with its Ultra Guardian symbol before the animation of the symbols appearing starts.
Afterward the Ultra Guardians say "Ultroger", Primarina'due south bow is colored red instead of xanthous.
When Bewear throws Team Rocket back into their Meowth robot, the edges of Meowth's forepart ears are foam colored instead of black.

Primarina's bow error

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Championship
Mandarin Chinese		鋒利無比！紙御劍登場！！
Dutch		Op het scherp van de snede!
Finnish		Kehityksen kärjessä, veitsen terällä!
Hebrew		!לחיות על הקצה החד
Italian		Vivere sul filo del rasoio!
Korean		뭐든지 벱니다! 종이신도 등장!!
Polish		Życie na ostrej krawędzi!
Brazilian Portuguese		Vivendo no fio da navalha!
Russian		На острие атаки!
Latin American Spanish		¡Viviendo al filo del peligro!
Turkish		Bıçak ağzında yaşamak!