Pokémon Horizons: The Series · The Search for Laqua arc
HZ048 · Sparkle! The Glow of Flame and Art!
輝け！炎とアートのきらめき
Synopsis
What happens.
On their way to Artazon for Roy's Tera Training battle against Brassius, Liko, Roy, and Dot make a brief stop for Roy to do some training with Fuecoco, though in a moment of passion, Fuecoco's series of overenthusiastic Stomping Tantrums ends up...
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's HZ048 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · HZ046-HZ070
The Search for Laqua.
Antagonists The Explorers introduced (Amethio, Spinel, Onyx, Sidian, Gibeon). Race to the floating city Laqua. Ends with Laqua's destruction and a one-year time skip.
Read the full Horizons guidePokémon featured · 20
Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in The Search for Laqua.
Further reading
The full episode guide on Pokéos.
Pokéos keeps an expanded guide for HZ048 with a longer synopsis, the complete Pokémon and character roster, and episode imagery. It pairs well with this page when you want every detail.
Read HZ048 on PokéosEpisode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.