HZ046

Welcome to Naranja Academy! (Japanese: ドキドキ！オレンジアカデミー How Thrilling! ) is the 46th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and the 1,278th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on April 12, 2024, in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2025, and in the United States on February 7, 2025.
==Blurb==
Back home in the Paldea region, Liko says goodbye to her parents and then meets up with Roy and Dot for their first day of Tera Training at Naranja Academy. They meet Clavell, the school’s director, and Geeta, the chairwoman of Paldea’s Pokémon League, and receive Tera Orbs that will enable them to Terastallize their Pokémon. After Nemona shows the trio around, it’s time for battle studies with Ms. Dendra! She explains that during Tera Training, Liko, Roy, and Dot must battle the region’s Gym Leaders to test their skills. The young Trainers are excited, but it’s not long before they notice a pair of suspicious students…
==Plot==
In her house at Cabo Poco, Liko wakes up for a new day, recalling how she had recently returned home and reunited with her parents following her and her friends' decision to learn more about the Terastal phenomenon. After breakfast, she and her mother Lucca head out, parting ways as they reach Los Platos, from which Liko and continue on to Mesagoza. At the city's main square, she reunites with Roy and Dot, who are already wearing their Naranja Academy uniforms, with Roy also noting how Liko is wearing her Indigo Academy uniform. peeks its head out of Liko's bag, and she explains that she decided to take it along to avoid leaving it alone in case someone noticed it. As they arrive in front of Naranja Academy, Roy insists on taking a group photo to commemorate the occasion. Though Dot requires some persuasion, the photo is eventually taken.
Liko, Roy, and Dot move on to the director's office, where they meet Clavell, the director of the academy, and Geeta, the chairwoman of the school board. At Clavell's request, Geeta turns on a video showcasing the academy's Tera Training course, which is a curriculum solely dedicated to teaching academy students from all around the about the Terastal phenomenon, which is uniquely found in Paldea. This phenomenon is somehow linked to Terastal energy, which manifests itself in the form of crystals found around the region, which Liko also recalls seeing near her house, though many mysteries still surround it. s are able to utilize this phenomenon with their Pokémon thanks to Tera Orbs, which are exclusively for Trainers permitted to use them by Paldea. Geeta presents each of the three children with their own Tera Orb, which they are happy to receive. Clavell asks why each of them wishes to know about the Terastal phenomenon. Roy answers that there is a strong Pokémon that he wishes to rechallenge, Liko says that there is a place that she wishes to find, and Dot expresses her wish to solve the mysteries of the world. With the motivations revealed, Clavell explains the basics of their Tera Training curriculum: after learning about Terastallization, the students must travel around Paldea and battle its Gym Leaders to pass the course. Just when Clavell intends to send them to their classroom with the escort of their student council president, said person suddenly enters the room, revealing herself to be none other than . She's happy to see Liko and Roy again, presents them with her newly evolved , and also greets Dot, who's left shaking by the presence of a -ranked Trainer. Clavell is surprised to learn that they already know Nemona, with Liko explaining how they previously met in Artazon. Both Roy and Nemona are eager to each other, like they promised during their last meeting, but Clavell interrupts them, asking Nemona to show them around the school first, much to her dismay.
During the group's guided tour around the academy, they run into the academy's art teacher, Hassel. A woman named Rika appears from behind him and greets the children as well. Roy asks Dot if they're supposed to know them, causing her to incredulously inform him that these two are members of the Paldea Pokémon League's Elite Four. Noticing Liko, Rika recognizes her as a student from Indigo Academy and wonders if she could be a Trainer capable for holding her own at the . Ignoring Liko's flustered response about still being new to all of this, she wishes the Indigo Academy representative good luck. Liko, not having previously realized she is representing Indigo Academy at this school, resolves to do her best as a representative. This encounter leaves Nemona and Roy fired up to battle again, but the school bell interrupts them, forcing them to once again delay their promised confrontation.
Liko, Roy, and Dot's first class is a Battle Studies lesson, taught by Dendra. She takes her new students to the schoolyard and has them exercise by doing arm thrusts alongside her and her while she explains the specifics of the Tera Training course. The Gym Leaders will give each of them two tests, basics and implementation, to make sure they are using Terastallization correctly and worthy to use their Tera Orbs. Moreover, students are not permitted to have Terastal battles with each other during this course, only being allowed to gain more experience about it from the Gym Leaders, who are assigned for each of them by the academy based on their individual aptitudes. The first part, the basics test, involves battling with their assigned Gym Leader. With the explanation complete, Dendra concludes the exercise, which has left Liko and especially Dot completely exhausted. They're then approached by Jacq, the biology teacher, who sends the children an app with information about the curriculum and tells them to take videos and photos while they're out there traveling in preparation for a report later, before taking his leave. The three children check their app to see which Gym Leader each of them has been assigned with: Liko learns that she'll be battling Katy in Cortondo, Roy is excited to get another chance at facing Brassius in Artazon, and Dot is left flustered upon learning that she has to face her idol in Levincia. Dendra concludes the lesson, but as they're heading back inside, Liko is surprised to see none other than her classmate Ann walking by.
The children sit down to talk. Ann reveals that she came here for the Tera Training course, just like Liko, who introduces Ann to her friends. Liko and Ann are both happy notice that their respective first partner Pokémon have both evolved, and Ann decides to challenge Liko to another battle, which she gladly accepts. As they move to the battlefield, Liko can't help but reminisce about their first battle back at Indigo Academy, where her fought Ann's . Dendra, working as the referee, starts the battle. Liko tells Floragato to use , which Ann's counters with . Dewott tries to hit Floragato with a flurry of s, but Floragato dodges them all and takes some distance to her opponent before using . Ann tells Dewott to throw its scalchops, and while Floragato dodges them both and manages to land her Quick Attack, one of the scalchops loops back around and hits the unsuspecting Floragato in the back before returning to its owner. The hit leaves Floragato open for a supereffective from Dewott, which is observed by Poppy, Rika, Hassel, Larry, and Penny, who have come to watch the battle. While Floragato recovers from the hit, Liko gets an idea and tells her partner to use her flower bud to stop Dewott from moving. Ann has Dewott dodge the incoming bud with and go for another Razor Shell, but the bud loops back around and knocks the scalchop out of Dewott's hand before it can execute the latter command, leaving it defenseless against another Magical Leaf flurry, which is enough to defeat Dewott and make Liko the winner of the battle. As the two friends promise to battle again and grow stronger, Geeta joins the Elite Four in observing the scene, feeling happy about the flourishing connection between the two schools. Nemona suddenly bursts into the schoolyard, wanting to have a battle too, but yet again, she's denied by the school bell, leaving her dismayed once more.
At the entrance hall, Liko, Roy, and Dot receive their camping equipment and prepare to head out. Since Cortondo is the closest one out of their three destinations, they decide to head there first, making Liko the first one of them to have to take on a Gym Leader. Just as Clavell prepares to send the students off, the front doors burst open to reveal Coral and Sidian, dressed up as students and apologizing for being late. Sidian introduces them with the fake names of Seasoning (Japanese: オニギリ Onigiri) and Cornbread (Japanese: サンドイッチ Sandwich), causing Coral to start laughing at how pathetic the fake names sound, but she still follows through with them. Clavell can't find their names on his list, but Chalce, dressed up as a teacher, claims there must be an error in the database and says she'll take care of the two new "students". Liko, Roy, and Dot, feeling something's off about these new students, set off on their journey, wondering what those two could be up to.
Meanwhile at Levincia, Orla has started repairing the damaged Brave Olivine, though there's a lot of work to do, as she informs Friede when he shows up. After reading a message from Liko, Roy, and Dot about the start of their training course, Friede tells Orla that he intends to follow a hunch he has and leaves the airship in her hands. He returns to a hotel and opens a briefcase, revealing Lucius's belt inside it and musing that he doesn't intend to fall behind, either.
==Major events==
* Liko, Roy, Dot, Coral, and Sidian enroll in Naranja Academy.
* Liko, Roy, and Dot meet Director Clavell, Chairwoman Geeta, Hassel and Rika of Paldea's Elite Four, Dendra, and Jacq for the first time.
* Liko, Roy, and Dot each receive a Tera Orb from Geeta.
* Clavell reveals that Liko, Roy, and Dot must battle Paldea's Gym Leaders to complete the Tera Training course.
* Liko and Roy meet again, while Dot meets her for the first time.
* Nemona's is revealed to have evolved into .
* Liko, Roy, and Dot are assigned with their respective Gym Leader sː
** Liko will battle Katy in Cortondo.
** Roy will battle Brassius in Artazon.
** Dot will battle in Levincia.
* Ann is revealed to be an exchange student at Naranja Academy.
* Liko meets Ann in person again, while Roy and Dot meet her for the first time.
* Ann's is revealed to have evolved into .
* Liko has a rematch against Ann and wins.
* Dot encounters Coral and Sidian for the first time.
* Chalce is revealed to have become a teacher at Naranja Academy.
* Liko, Roy, and Dot set off for Cortondo to start their Tera Training tests.
* Orla starts repairing the Brave Olivine.
===Debuts===
====Humans====
* Clavell
* Geeta
* Rika
* Hassel
* Poppy
* Dendra
* Jacq
* Penny
====Pokémon debuts====
* 
* 
==Characters==
===Humans===
* Liko
* Roy
* Friede
* Mollie
* Orla
* Ludlow
* Murdock
* Dot
* 
* Clavell
* Geeta
* Rika
* Hassel
* Poppy
* Katy (fantasy)
* Brassius (fantasy)
* (fantasy)
* Kofu (fantasy; silhouette)
* Larry
* Ryme (fantasy; silhouette)
* Tulip (fantasy; silhouette)
* Grusha (fantasy; silhouette)
* Dendra
* Jacq
* Penny
* Alex
* Lucca
* Coral
* Sidian
* Chalce
* Ann
* s
===Pokémon===
* (; flashback)
* ()
* ()
* (Liko's; Rotom Phone)
* ()
* (Roy's; Rotom Phone)
* (Friede's; Captain Pikachu)
* (Friede's; Rotom Phone)
* ()
* (Mollie's; Rotom Phone)
* (Orla's)
* (Orla's)
* (Orla's; Rotom Phone)
* (Ludlow's)
* (Ludlow's; Rotom Phone)
* (; flashback)
* (; )
* (Murdock's; Rotom Phone)
* ()
* (Dot's; Rotom Phone)
* (Spinel's; flashback)
* (Spinel's; flashback)
* (Chalce's; Rotom Phone)
* (Clavell's; Rotom Phone)
* (Dendra's)
* (Jacq's; Rotom Phone)
* (Penny's; Rotom Phone)
* ('s; debut)
* (Lucius's; Black Rayquaza; flashback)
* (; ; flashback)
* (; Galarian Form; flashback)
* (; flashback)
* (Alex's)
* (Ann's)
* (Student's)
* (Student's)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image; debut)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image)
* (Student's; image; stallized)
* (Student's)
* (Student's)
* (Student's)
* (Student's; Rotom Phone)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Rising Volt Tacklers')
* (Rising Volt Tacklers')
* (Rising Volt Tacklers')
* (Rising Volt Tacklers'; )
* (; ; Terastal Form in flashback)
* 
* (×2)
* (image; stallized)
* (image; stallized)
* 
* (multiple; flashback)
==Trivia==
* Professor Friede's Pokémon Seminar: "What is hidden underneath 's fur?"
** Choices: Berries, coins, ivy
** Answer: Ivy
* This is the first episode of the Terastal Debut chapter.
* This is the season premiere of Pokémon Horizons: Season 2—The Search for Laqua.
* This episode debuts a new title card featuring the main cast's three Paldea first partner Pokémon in their current stages.
* The first eyecatch features Liko and her , and the second features Roy and his .
* The Pokémon used as examples during Clavell's explanation of the Terastal phenomenon, a Tera Type and a Tera Type , can be found as wild Tera Pokémon in Paldea's .
* replaces Halo as the Japanese opening theme.
* Let me battle replaces RVR ~Rising Volt Tacklers Rap~ as the Japanese ending theme.
* This episode is the first to be animation-produced by OLM Team Kumemura taking over from OLM Team Kato from Piplup, Up and Away! to From So Far Away.
* This episode marks the first time that all members of a regional Elite Four team have physically appeared together in the .
* The French dub of this and the next episode premiered on January 12, 2025 on the French channel Canal J, one day before the release of the English dub on the BBC iPlayer and CBBC in the UK.
** As two episodes were aired back to back, the opening theme was cut from the live TV broadcast.
===Errors===
===Dub edits===
==In other languages==
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Category:Episodes written by Dai Satō
Category:Episodes storyboarded and directed by Makoto Nakata
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Makoto Nakata
Category:Episodes directed by Makoto Nakata
Category:Episodes animated by Toshiko Nakaya
Category:Episodes animated by Hiromi Sakai
Category:Episodes animated by Yūhei Takaboshi
Category:Episodes animated by Chiaki Kurakazu
Category:Episodes animated by Izumi Shimura
Category:Episodes animated by Shūji Tanaka
Category:Episodes by multiple animation directors
Category:Episodes in which a Legendary Pokémon appears
Category:Episodes in which a Champion appears
Category:Episodes featuring Elite Four members
Category:Episodes which aired in the United Kingdom before the United States
de:Willkommen an der Orangen-Akademie!
es:EP1282
fr:LH046
it:OP046
ja:2023年版第46話
zh:宝可梦 地平线 第46集