'Tis a weird timeline where I want this kind of episode during league progression.
Meltan was just caught and I could personally never forget a brand new Satoshi-mon, Shaymin is fairly recent but there’s no way I could forget such a blatant mythical under the care of a companion, Nagisa is so blatantly unruly and marketed in many scenes I don’t see how anyone could forget the Eevee. I honestly find the Pokemon in their balls most of the time more forgettable, but yeah S&M has done a great job with giving many of the Pokemon SOUL this sounds like a great episode. Maybe Mao finds a Gracidea or something.
It’s a shillmon, it was caught for LGPE promotion, it’s meant to be a stagnate Pokemon for the sake of being cute and cool and got its focus shorts, capture episode, moments with Kasumi and Suiren in their episode, and its out-of-the-balls scenes. The companion Pokemon aren’t going to get a ton of battles because there’s so many of them this series and most of the characters aspirations aren’t battle centric. But Nagisa is seen training with Suiren, having his hyperactive moments of personality like enjoying the hyper hot radishes that everyone disliked, participating in Suiren’s henshin scene, aggravating the Meltan. This is just about what I expected, the Eevee is her shillmon but Suiren’s ace and partner is, has and is always going to be Ashimari-Oysamari-Ashirene hence that’s why she’s gotten so much focus on the balloons, training and Z-Move stuff with her.
Or the anime producers wanted an excuse to put Eevee, Shaymin & Meltan in a short adventure on their own, in which is a good opportunity to interact each other instead of sticking to their trainers. We saw that kind of scenario back in SM016 with the Alolan starters.
16 was one of my favorite episodes of the whole series, so I'm certainly not complaining. If this is even half as good as that one, it'll be great.
It really sounds like a recap of SM16