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The Pokémon anime’s new professor is a man about town.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet both have their own version-specific Professors who become important parts of the games’ stories.

But the new upcoming Pokémon anime set to debut this year will introduce a third — Friede, a man partnered with a Pikachu wearing a captain’s hat — who will join the series’ protagonists on their adventures, and maybe have something to do with how the group manages to travel around the entire Pokémon world.

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