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An international expedition program dedicated to locating and studying Mew -- the qualifying trials Goh, Horace, and Quillon clear to earn their Chaser ranks.
Project Mew is Goh's personal north star weaponized into an institution. It runs on rigorous trials graded on ingenuity, teamwork, and Pokémon care rather than raw battling. Only three Chasers are accepted per cohort; in Goh's cohort those three are himself, Horace, and Quillon. Gary Oak consults on the program and functions as a senior evaluator, which is how his Journeys cameos slot into the plot. The trials culminate in Goh's realization that the point of Project Mew is not to catch Mew; it is to become a trainer Mew would approach. The program is one of the most deliberate arc structures in the entire Pokémon anime -- it is Goh's equivalent of Ash's World Coronation Series, running in parallel across the same episodes, and resolving at the same emotional tempo.
Conceptually: a multinational research program with its own insignia (a stylized pink Mew silhouette within a circle), uniform patches for selected Chasers, and a set of graded trial challenges staged across Kanto, Johto, and the Sevii Islands. Physically: the program's tests are elaborate field challenges -- catch a Kingdra, raid Articuno, hunt Regidrago and Regieleki -- with Chasers tracked by drones and observers.