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The Movie
"Everyone's Story"






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Dogasu's Backpack | Movies & Specials Guide | Pocket Monsters Movie 21

Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story"
(劇場版ポケットモンスターみんなの物語)
Movie Logo

Theatrical Poster Poster 2 Poster 3

Release/General Information

Japanese Premiere Date July 13th, 2018
American Premiere Date November 24th, 2018
Runtime
100 minutes
Opening Theme
None
Ending Theme
"Breath"
(ブレス)
Performed by PornoGraffitti

Spoiler-Free Synopsis

In Fuura City, a town where people live together with the wind, a "Wind Festival" is held once a year. It is said that long ago the people agreed to receive the blessing of the wind when the legendary pokemon Lugia shows itself on the last day of the festival.

Lisa, a female high school student and pokemon novice.
Kagachi, a man filled with hot air who can't stop telling lies.
Trito, a timid researcher who doesn't have faith in himself.
Hisui, a strange old woman who loathes pokemon.
Largo, a mysterious young girl lingering about in the forest all by herself.

Satoshi and Pikachu stumble upon the festival and run into these five people. As each person and their partner pokemon is facing their own hang-ups and is unable to take any steps forward, they come together and get the wheels of fate to start turning.

Will they be able to keep their promise with Lugia? And what is the true identity of the mythical pokemon Zeraora??

Now, the bonds with everyone, people and pokemon, will cause miracles to happen!

Previous synopses

Spoiler-Filled Synopsis

An extremely detailed, spoiler-filled synopsis can be found by clicking on the image below.

Spoiler-filled synopsis

Spoiler-filled synopsis


Characters

The cast of humans / pokemon for this movie are as follows:

Satoshi
Largo
Lisa
Torito
Kagachi
Hisui
Riku
Mayor Oliver
Zeraora
Lugia

More complete details about each character, as well as what their voice actors have to say about the, can be found here.


Home Video Releases

The Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" Blu-ray & DVDs came out on December 19th, 2018.

Blu-ray
DVD

Check here to see a detailed breakdown of each release.

Soundtracks

A total of four CD soundtracks were released featuring the music from this film.

CD Releases

You can find a more detailed breakdown of each release here.


Pre-Order Bonus

A number of pokemon will be made available for audience members' Pocket Monsters Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, or Ultra Moon games as part of the movie's promotion.

Distributions

You can find out more about the various giveaways here.

Other Promotions for the Movie

Trailers
Real Escape Game
See a collection of all the teasers / trailers for the movie here! Real Escape Game
"Escape from Amusement Park of Wind"



Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes
See a collection of all the public comments made by the film's creators here!

Notes

The film was first announced on the December 10th, 2017 episode of Oha! Suta. At the time the movie was simply known as Pocket Monsters the Movie 2018.

The first logo

The first full length trailer debuted on the February 27th, 2018 episode of Oha! Suta.
Zeraora was revealed on the April 9th, 2018
episode of Oha! Suta.

This is the first Pocket Monsters movie to debut on a Friday; every other film in the franchise has hit theaters on a Saturday.

Yoshitaka Shinomiya (四宮義俊) provided the artwork for the second theatrical poster.


Main Staff
Main Feature

Ending Credits
Original Story
原案
Satoshi Tajiri (田尻)
Director
監督
Tetsuo Yajima (矢嶋哲生)
Animation Supervisor
アニメーションスーパーバイザー
Kunihiko Yuyama (湯山邦彦)
Executive Producer
エグゼクティブプロデューサー
Junya Okamoto (岡本順哉)
Katakami Hidenaga (片上秀長)
Producer
プロデューサー
Satoshi Shimodaira (下平聡士)
Susumu
Matsuyama (松山 進)
Atsushi Chiku (知久 敦)
(大日向俊)
Screenplay
脚本
Eiji Umehara (梅原映司)
Aya Takaha (高羽彩)

Animation Producer
アニメショーンプロデューサー
Hiroyuki Katou (加 藤浩幸)
Jouji Wada (和田丈嗣)
Character Design
キャラクターデザイン
Shizue Kaneko (金子志津枝)
Chief Animation Director
総作画監督
Yasushi Nishiya (西谷泰史)
Hirotaka Marufuji (丸藤広貴)
Sound Director
音響監督
Masafumi Mima (三間雅文)
Music
音楽
Shinji Miyazaki (宮崎慎二)
Animation Production
アニメーション制作
OLM
WIT STUDIO
Production
製作
Pikachu Project (ピカチュウプロジェクト)
Distribution
配給
Toho (東宝)

Principal Cast
Main Feature

Voice Cast
Satoshi Rika Matsumoto
松本梨香
Pikachu Ikue Ohtani
大谷育江

Musashi
Megumi Hayashibara
林原めぐみ
Kojirou
Shinichirou Miki
三木眞一郎
Nyarth
Inuko Inuyama
犬山イヌコ

Lugia
TBA
Zeraora
Kouichi Yamadera
山寺宏一

Narration Unshou Ishizuka
石塚運昇

Special Guest Voices
Largo Mana Ashida
芦田愛菜
Lisa
Rina Kawaei
川栄李奈
Torito
Gaku Hamada
濱田岳
Kagachi
Koji Ohkura
大倉孝二
Hisui
Masako Nozawa
野沢雅子
Riku
Shoko Nakagawa
中川翔子
Mayor Oliver
Kouichi Yamadera
山寺宏一

Japanese Box Office Performance

Gross-to-date:  1.6 billion yen (as of July 30th)
Number of Theaters: 373
Number of Days in Theaters:  TBA

※Kogyo = Kogyo Tsushin, Mojo = Box Office Mojo

Rank Source
Earnings
Viewer-
ship
Competition
Week One (July 13th - 16th, 2018)
2
Kogyo
Tsushin
500 million
(7/14 - 7/15)
440,000 (7/14- - 7/15)
Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" claimed the number two spot on its opening weekend. The film was sandwiched in between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in first and Solo: A Star Wars Story in third.
Box Office Mojo
586.66 million
(7/13 - 7/15)

Kogyo
Tsushin
836
million 812,900
(7/13 - 7/16)
733,488
(7/13 - 7/16)
Week Two (July 21st - 22nd, 2018)
3
Kogyo
Tsushin
1 billion
190 million
745,000
1,030,389
The film dropped to third place thanks to the debut of Mirai of the Future.
Box Office Mojo 1 billion
190 million
744,955


Week Three (July 28th -  29th, 2018)
4
Kogyo
Tsushin
1 billion
652 million
206,500

1,441,407
The film dropped to fourth place after the premier of Code Blue The Movie "Dr. Helicopter Paramedics,"
Box Office Mojo 1 billion
652 million
206,453

Week Four (August 4th - 5th, 2018)
8 Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
90 million
90,100

1,765,126
The film went down to eighth place as Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Incredibles 2, My Hero Academia The Movie "Two Heroes," and Kamen Rider Build the Movie "Be The One" / The Thief Sentai Lupinranger vs. The Police Sentai Pataranger en Film made their Japanese theatrical debuts.
Box Office Mojo 2 billion,
90 million
90,116

Week Five (August 11th - 12th, 2018)
9 Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
327 million
479,900
2,048,102
The film fell down another spot thanks to the Japanese debut of Ocean's 8.
Box Office Mojo 2 billion,
327 million
479,874

Week Six (August 18th - 19th, 2018)
N/A
Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
673 million,
30,600
2,350,090
The film fell out of the Top Ten this week as audiences flocked to newcomers Gintama 2: Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky, and Penguin Highway.
Week Seven (August 24th - 26th, 2018)
N/A Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
829 million,
453,400
2,487,999

Week Eight (September 1st - 2nd, 2018)
N/A Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
930 million,
918,200
2,578,446

Week Nine (September 8th - 9th, 2018)
N/A Kogyo
Tsushin
2 billion,
961 million,
556,800
2,603,373



Publications

An tie-in manga with an original story is currently being printed in the pages of CoroCoro Comics called Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" Side Story: Episode Zeraora.

Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" Side Story: Episode Zeraora

You can find out more about this manga here.



Further Information
 
Comparison
Director Tetsuo Yajima's Comments
Tidbits from the Movie's Pamphlet Official Site (Japanese)

 

 

 

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