Pokémon Horizons Heads to Kitakami — Ogerpon and the Loyal Three Take Over the New Trailer

A new official promo for Pokémon Horizons: The Series previews the anime’s next stretch of its ongoing Wonder Voyage arc — and it’s built entirely around the Land of Kitakami, Ogerpon, the Loyal Three and the four Treasures of Ruin.

The official Japanese Pokémon anime account posted a new key visual and promotional video on September 18, 2026, tied to the next episode airing in Japan on Friday, September 25. Here’s exactly what’s confirmed, what’s still unknown, and why September 25 isn’t a premiere date or a global release date.

What the September 18 Promo Actually Shows

The new key visual splits down the middle: on one side, Ogerpon and the Loyal Three — the masked trio from Kitakami — surround the Rising Volt Tacklers; on the other, the four Treasures of Ruin from Paldea loom over the same group. The accompanying promotional video shows Liko, Roy, Dot and the rest of the Rising Volt Tacklers arriving in the Land of Kitakami for a festival, with newcomer character Navi encountering the masked Ogerpon directly. The same footage shows the Loyal Three disrupting that festival.

This is new promotional material for an arc within Wonder Voyage, not a launch trailer for the season itself — Wonder Voyage has already been airing in Japan since earlier in 2026. Treat this promo as previewing the next chapter of an ongoing story, not the start of a new season.

What September 25 Actually Means

The next Japanese broadcast is scheduled for Friday, September 25, airing in its regular weekly slot. That date is specific to the next new episode airing on Japanese television — it is not a premiere for the Kitakami material as a whole (festival-related promotional elements, including a viewer prize campaign, are also tied to that same broadcast), and nothing in the official material describes it as a Netflix release date or any other international streaming date. If you’re used to Pokémon anime content landing on Netflix or other platforms well after its original Japanese broadcast, that pattern hasn’t changed here — no international streaming date has been announced for this specific Kitakami material as of this promo.

Who Are the Loyal Three?

The Loyal Three are a trio of Legendary Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask — Okidogi (Poison/Fighting), Munkidori (Poison/Psychic) and Fezandipiti (Poison/Fairy). In the games’ Kitakami folklore, local legend holds that the three nobly sacrificed themselves to drive off Ogerpon, while a conflicting account passed down through the in-game Maskmaker’s own bloodline tells it the other way around — that the Loyal Three attacked the Maskmaker and stole Ogerpon’s masks, provoking Ogerpon’s retaliation. The anime promo doesn’t resolve which version its own story will follow; it simply shows the trio causing chaos at the Kitakami festival the Rising Volt Tacklers are attending.

Who Are the Treasures of Ruin?

The Treasures of Ruin are four Legendary Pokémon tied to Paldea, introduced across the base Scarlet and Violet games: Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu and Chi-Yu. Their appearance alongside Kitakami’s cast in the same key visual signals that this stretch of Wonder Voyage is drawing on both the base Paldea games and The Teal Mask DLC’s regional expansion for its Legendary roster, rather than sticking to one or the other.

Kitakami and The Teal Mask — What to Expect, and What Not to Assume

Kitakami is the DLC region introduced in The Teal Mask, and the anime’s version clearly draws its setting, festival imagery and core cast of Legendaries directly from that game content. That doesn’t mean Pokémon Horizons is adapting The Teal Mask’s plot scene-for-scene. Pokémon anime has a long history of using a game region’s geography and Pokémon roster as a backdrop for its own original story beats rather than a direct retelling, and nothing in the official promo material describes this as a scene-for-scene adaptation. Treat the promo as confirming setting and character appearances, not confirming that specific game-plot events (the Loyal Three’s backstory, the Maskmaker’s fate, and so on) will play out identically on screen.

What’s Still Unconfirmed

The official material doesn’t specify how many episodes this Kitakami stretch runs, whether it’s being treated internally as a distinct “arc” with its own name, or how deep into The Teal Mask’s story the anime intends to go. Some secondary coverage circulating alongside this promo has floated Pecharunt as also appearing in the new visual — that claim isn’t supported by the anipoke_PR account’s own post or by the outlets that covered it directly, so it’s being treated here as unconfirmed rather than reported as fact. International streaming timing for this specific material also hasn’t been announced.

The Short Version

A new official promo confirms Pokémon Horizons is heading into Kitakami as part of its ongoing Wonder Voyage arc, with Ogerpon, the Loyal Three and the Treasures of Ruin all featured in new key art and footage. The next new episode airs in Japan September 25 — that’s a weekly broadcast date, not a season premiere or an international release date. For the wider Pokémon slate beyond the anime, see our coverage of Disney’s Pokémon Tales distribution deal and Pokémon: Wild Card, the upcoming TCG-focused anime film.