Jessie and James, the iconic villains of Team Rocket, have been chasing Ash and his Pikachu for decades, trying to solve a variety of twin problems. With Ash retiring, I don’t think there’s a better time for Jessie, James and Meowth to break up the band.
The latest episode of pokemon Travel: the series aired last week in Japan, where Ash foiled Team Rocket’s pranks for the last time. Of course, Team Rocket had to go big to catch Pikachu. All of Team Rocket’s past Pokémon return for a big reunion battle, after which Team Rocket is finally blasted off into the sunset for what seems to be the last time: All three – Jessie, James, and Meowth – agree it’s time to move on without each other.
It’s a shock to see Team Rocket submit to defeat; the group has had decades of failures and kept coming back. There are two more episodes to come, and there’s a chance that Team Rocket’s disbandment will be short-lived. But the series comes to an end after this Pokémon Master arc and the next series, with new protagonists, will probably bring a new enemy.
Pokémon fans on social media view this episode as Team Rocket’s final blast and say goodbye to the team. As Team Rocket says, it’s time.
Replies to the above tweet, which includes four screenshots depicting Team Rocket’s farewell, have been turned into a mix of a memorial to the group And a thread of speculation that the farewell was far too abrupt to be an actual dissolution.
There are two episodes left, airing on March 17 and March 24 in Japan. There is no release date for the English dub yet. The latest batch of Pokémon anime episodes hit Netflix on Feb. 24 — up to the 117th episode in the series in total. For reference, the Team Rocket episode released in Japan last week is the 145th installment in the series.
