"A Day in the Life of Yadoking" (ヤドキングのいちにち) is an approximately three minute short that aired on TV-Tokyo on January 1st, 2000. It features the Yadoking from the movie Revelation Lugia.

Release/General Information

Japanese Premiere Date	January 1st, 2000
Runtime	3 minutes

Plot Synopsis

This short shows the day in the life of the Yadoking from Earthia Island.

Yadoking starts its day by using one of its psychic attacks to lower a coconut for its breakfast. It follows that up by taking a walk around the shrine, smelling some flowers, and taking a nap. A Butterfree that flies by wakes it up so Yadoking walks over to the edge of a cliff, does a few stretches, and jumps into the ocean below to go for a nice swim. It meets some of its Water Pokémon friends and greets them. Yadoking eventually returns to the surface where it enjoys a dinner of seaweed. As the sun sets, Yadoking returns to its cave for a good night's sleep.

Slowking fansite Shamouti Island has an excellent line-by-line breakdown of the short that you should check out.

Home Releases

A Day in the Life of Yadoking have seen three home releases.

	DVD Revelation Lugia / Pikachu's Exploration Party / A Day in the Life of Yadoking Released November 22nd, 2000
	DVD Pikachu the Movie Box 1998 - 2002 Revelation Lugia & A Day in the Life of Yadoking (Disc Two) Released September 21st, 2007
	DVD Revelation Lugia / Pikachu's Exploration Club / A Day in the Life of Yadoking (2011 re-release) Released August 24th, 2011

Notes

The short aired on TV-Tokyo on January 1st, 2000 as part of an two and a half special known as New Year's Cartoons! 2000 Pokémon and Bakabon's New Year's Special (ア ニメでお正月 2000！ポケモンとバカボンのお正月スペシャル) . The special aired from 18:30 until 20:54 and included:

• A rerun of Episode 039 "The Pikachu Forest."
• The television debut of the "Enjoy the Snow" short from Pikachu's Winter Vacation
• The premier of Episode 128 "The Rediba Whistle!" (レディバのふえ！)
• "A Day in the Life of Yadoking"
• Type: Wild (English Version)
• M2M's "Don't Say You Love Me" Music Video from the Pokémon the First Movie soundtrack
• Episodes 10 and 11 of Rerere Tensai Bakabon (レレレ の天才バカボン)
  

※The order these aired in may be different from the one listed here.

"A Day in the Life of Yadoking" was never dubbed into English and was therefore never released in any of the countries whose dubs are based on the 4Kids version. Most people seem to agree that the episode's short runtime is the main reason why it was skipped.

Masatoshi Hamada reprises his role as Yadoking from the second movie.


According to one of the booklets that came with the DVD set Pikachu the Movie Box 1998-2002, Mr. Hamada became too busy to make it back to the studio to record the episode so the staff had to end up going to the location where he was working on a different project to record his part. His lines were eventually recorded in a waiting room.

Main Staff

These are the credits as listed on the Japanese fansite Pokeani.  I have not been able to independently verify these myself.

Credits
Organization 構成	Kunihiko Yuyama (ゆやまくにひこ)
Storyboards 絵コンテ	Kunihiko Yuyama (ゆやまくにひこ)
Animation Director 演出	Tarou Iwasaki (岩崎太郎)
Key Animation Supervisor 作画監督	Masaru Fukumoto (福本勝)
Key Animation 原画	Kobo Doga (動画工房) Mamiko Nakanishi (中 西麻実子) Jouji Oka (岡穣次) Takeshi Mukouda (向田隆) Emiko Nakano (中野江美子)
In-between Animation 動画	Makoto Ohara (大原真琴) Nobushige Ishita (井下信重) Miyuki Saitou (齋藤美由紀) Takeshi Hiramatsu (平松岳 史)
In-Between Animation Check 動画チェック	Fujika Enomoto (榎本冨士香)
Colorist Inspection 色指定・検査	Takako Numata (沼田貴子)
Special Effects 特殊効果	Tatsunori Nishimura (西村龍衛)
Touch-up Animation 仕上げ	Toko Ueno (上野辰夫) Tomoko Ono (小野友子) Ayako Tanaka (田中文子) Youko Tomaru (都丸陽子) Chiaki Numata (沼田千晶) Yukiko Takahashi (高橋由紀 子)
Backgrounds 背景	Studio Jack (スタジオじゃっく) Katsumi Takao (高尾克己) Yasutoshi Kawai (河合泰利) Miki Sugiuchi (杉内美希) Rieko Shimizu (清水理恵子) Akiko Hibino (日比野晶子) Makiko Fujino (藤野真木子)

Principal Cast

Voice Cast
Yadoking	Masatoshi Hamada 浜田雅功
Azumao	Yuuji Ueda 上田祐司
Pawou	Shin-ichirou Miki 三木眞一郎
Shellder	Rikako Aikawa 愛河里花子
Butterfree	Satomi Ko'orogi こおろぎさとみ

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