Animation Week

Animation Week is an event in Pokémon GO. To tie in with the Pokémon Journeys anime, a special event is being held to celebrate the recent move of the anime to the golden slot on Fridays in Japan.

Featured Pokémon
Selected Pokémon had increased spawn rates in the wild and from Incense or Lure Modules:

There were also five chances per day to be photobombed by Goh, featuring Scyther.

7-km Pokémon Eggs obtained during the event would hatch more of these Pokémon:

The following Raid Bosses were available for a time of this event. Lugia knew the exclusive move Aeroblast.

Timed Research
During this event there was a Timed Research series that was titled Animation Week Research in game. A total of 60 Venusaur Mega Energy could be obtained for completing it.

Avatar items
These avatar items were released with the beginning of the event:

Trivia

 * The official blog made an announcement of shiny Cubone, which is done for new-released Shiny Pokémon. However, shiny Cubone had already been released in Ingress Prime Celebration, an event in November 2018.
 * During the first few hours of the event in Australia and New Zealand regions, the Psyduck given from the Timed Research was a guaranteed shiny.