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| Old Updates Archive | June
2015
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Lugia Lundis, Week Two
June 29th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:57 JST -- The Mewtwo Strikes Back two-disc soundtrack set was – and still is – a pretty amazing set. Disc One had the entirety of the Birth of Mewtwo radio drama while Disc Two had music from the main feature Mewtwo Strikes Back. There were two vocal songs (the opening and ending) and 23 background music tracks that clocked in at around 42 minutes. There are a few pieces of music missing, sure, and poor Pikachu’s Summer Vacation gets absolutely no love here but for the most part it’s a solid release.
I wish I could say the same about the Revelation Lugia soundtrack. For this week’s Lugia Lundis update I take a look at the CD soundtrack for the second movie and try to figure out what the hell was going on there.
June 29th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:57 JST -- The Mewtwo Strikes Back two-disc soundtrack set was – and still is – a pretty amazing set. Disc One had the entirety of the Birth of Mewtwo radio drama while Disc Two had music from the main feature Mewtwo Strikes Back. There were two vocal songs (the opening and ending) and 23 background music tracks that clocked in at around 42 minutes. There are a few pieces of music missing, sure, and poor Pikachu’s Summer Vacation gets absolutely no love here but for the most part it’s a solid release.
I wish I could say the same about the Revelation Lugia soundtrack. For this week’s Lugia Lundis update I take a look at the CD soundtrack for the second movie and try to figure out what the hell was going on there.
What’s with all the vocal songs?
Why is more than half the music
from the movie not on the soundtrack? What’s with the pitiful 33
minute runtime? I don’t actually have the answers to any of those
questions but I do throw
out a few ideas and wonder about the rationale behind releasing
such a ridiculous CD especially after the precedent set by its
predecessor.
I’ve also typed up the lyrics to the songs from the movie and have added them to the Lyrics Section:
I’ve also typed up the lyrics to the songs from the movie and have added them to the Lyrics Section:
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| toi et moi |
I Am a Collector |
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| The Endless World |
Because Everyone Was There |
Next week I do the same thing I did with Mewtwo Strikes Back and take a look
at how Revelation Lugia was
being promoted back in 1999. I only have two of the CoroCoro Comics issues from that
time (the July and August 1999 issues) but they're both so jam-packed
with information that it should be plenty.
CD Guide Update
June 28th, 2015
Dogasu @ 12:08 JST -- As I was looking at the various CD releases for tomorrow's Lugia Lundis update I thought I'd also take a look at the CDs coming out this year to promote Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band."
June 28th, 2015
Dogasu @ 12:08 JST -- As I was looking at the various CD releases for tomorrow's Lugia Lundis update I thought I'd also take a look at the CDs coming out this year to promote Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band."
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First up is Tweedia,
the ending theme to the main feature The
Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa. The CD will be released in
two versions, one with a DVD and one without, on July 15th. The
version with the DVD (left) retails for 1700 yen while the version
without (right) goes for 1260 yen.
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Also being released on July 15th is the
CD single for Gao Gao All-Stars,
the current
ending theme to the Pocket Monsters
XY TV series that's also going to be used as the ending theme to
Pikachu and the Pokemon Band.
THis one's being released in three versions - a special Pokemon version
(left, 1800 yen), a version that comes with a DVD (center, 1700 yen),
and a regular version with just the CD (right, 1200 yen). The DVD
included in the Pokemon version includes the music video for Gao Gao All-Stars as well as a
creditless version of the current ending theme while the DVD included
in the other version is just some concert the girls did in Shibuya
earlier this year.
There's also a CD release for the movie's background music that's coming out July 29th. There will be two versions of that one - one with a DVD that probably just includes the trailers for the movie and one without. Neither the track listing nor the CD cover art have been revealed yet.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
There's also a CD release for the movie's background music that's coming out July 29th. There will be two versions of that one - one with a DVD that probably just includes the trailers for the movie and one without. Neither the track listing nor the CD cover art have been revealed yet.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Lugia Lundis, Week One
June 22nd, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:47 JST -- I’ve been doing this thing called “Mewtwo Mondays” for weeks where I’d update the site with something related to Mewtwo Strikes Back every Monday. There’s an insane amount of content related to the movie and I could honestly keep doing these “Mewtwo Mondays” for at least another month or so but today I’m going to step away from that first movie and turn my attention to the second movie, Revelation Lugia. Today, I start “Lugia Lundis.”
June 22nd, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:47 JST -- I’ve been doing this thing called “Mewtwo Mondays” for weeks where I’d update the site with something related to Mewtwo Strikes Back every Monday. There’s an insane amount of content related to the movie and I could honestly keep doing these “Mewtwo Mondays” for at least another month or so but today I’m going to step away from that first movie and turn my attention to the second movie, Revelation Lugia. Today, I start “Lugia Lundis.”
(Lundi, for those of you
wondering, is the French word for
“Monday” and enables me to have the same alliteration scheme I had with
“Mewtwo Mondays.” Not sure what I’ll do when I get to the Entei
movie)
For my first Lugia Lundis update I’m revamping the page for the movie over in the Movie & TV Specials Guide. The older version of the page was pretty ugly and had some wrong information on it so I’ve cleaned it up and made it conform to the standards of the newer movie pages. I’ve also added a bunch of information from the gold mine that is Shudou Takeshi’s blog about the making of the film.
I’ve also added a page for the home video releases of the movie.
Next week I’m going to take a look at the movie's soundtrack. The CD release of the soundtrack to this movie is unique in that it’s missing like half the background music from the movie and has a bunch of character image songs in their place. Why is this the only movie soundtrack to feature songs sung by the movie’s characters? Why is the percentage of background music that’s on this CD so much lower than what was on the Mewtwo Strikes Back CD? Why didn’t Ichimura Masachika get to sing a song in-character as Mewtwo for the soundtrack to the first movie? I don’t actually know the answers to any of those questions and have no idea if I’ll even be able to find out but I’ll certainly do my best!
For my first Lugia Lundis update I’m revamping the page for the movie over in the Movie & TV Specials Guide. The older version of the page was pretty ugly and had some wrong information on it so I’ve cleaned it up and made it conform to the standards of the newer movie pages. I’ve also added a bunch of information from the gold mine that is Shudou Takeshi’s blog about the making of the film.
I’ve also added a page for the home video releases of the movie.
Next week I’m going to take a look at the movie's soundtrack. The CD release of the soundtrack to this movie is unique in that it’s missing like half the background music from the movie and has a bunch of character image songs in their place. Why is this the only movie soundtrack to feature songs sung by the movie’s characters? Why is the percentage of background music that’s on this CD so much lower than what was on the Mewtwo Strikes Back CD? Why didn’t Ichimura Masachika get to sing a song in-character as Mewtwo for the soundtrack to the first movie? I don’t actually know the answers to any of those questions and have no idea if I’ll even be able to find out but I’ll certainly do my best!
"Appear, the Small
Djinn Hoopa" Plot Synopsis
June 20th, 2015
Dogasu @ 17:06 JST -- And now here's a plot synopsis for the direct-to-DVD Hoopa special that was made available yesterday Appear, the Small Djinn Hoopa.
June 20th, 2015
Dogasu @ 17:06 JST -- And now here's a plot synopsis for the direct-to-DVD Hoopa special that was made available yesterday Appear, the Small Djinn Hoopa.
Enjoy!
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
"Appear, the Small
Djinn Hoopa"
June 19th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:54 JST -- A few months ago it was announced that there would be a new Hoopa short coming out in June but that it would only be made available on DVD for those who pre-ordered their movie tickets from Seven-Eleven stores here in Japan. Well that's exactly what I did and today I finally got said DVD in my hands.
June 19th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:54 JST -- A few months ago it was announced that there would be a new Hoopa short coming out in June but that it would only be made available on DVD for those who pre-ordered their movie tickets from Seven-Eleven stores here in Japan. Well that's exactly what I did and today I finally got said DVD in my hands.
I've filled out the page for the special
with a bunch of information
about Appear, the Small Djinn Hoopa
that hadn't been made available before now. There are still a
number of things I want to do - a detailed plot synopsis, for one - but
I at least wanted to get something
up before I head off to bed tonight. I'll definitely be posting
more at some point tomorrow.
Here's a quick review, though; it's pretty entertaining, I guess. It's exactly as pointless as I thought it'd be and missing out on it won't ruin the movie at all which I guess is kind of good because I can totally see TPCI skipping this one for a number of reasons. The basic story is that Balza and Mary, along with a bunch of their friends, accidentally break an Arceus statue and so they have to scramble around trying to fix it. There's other stuff here too but I'll get into that in a later update.
The only real downside to this is that Kugimiya Rie's Hoopa voice started to grate on my nerves by the end of the short. Up until now all we really had were the Orchid-Hakase lectures at the end of each episode of XY and those Hoopa's Great "Appear~!" Operation!! shorts (which, surprise, they're on this DVD too!) but those were only like a minute long each. Here we get a full 21 minutes of Hoopa and while it never says more than a few words at a time hearing these little bursts every minute or so got really tiring. I hope the main feature isn't as aggravating to watch.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Here's a quick review, though; it's pretty entertaining, I guess. It's exactly as pointless as I thought it'd be and missing out on it won't ruin the movie at all which I guess is kind of good because I can totally see TPCI skipping this one for a number of reasons. The basic story is that Balza and Mary, along with a bunch of their friends, accidentally break an Arceus statue and so they have to scramble around trying to fix it. There's other stuff here too but I'll get into that in a later update.
The only real downside to this is that Kugimiya Rie's Hoopa voice started to grate on my nerves by the end of the short. Up until now all we really had were the Orchid-Hakase lectures at the end of each episode of XY and those Hoopa's Great "Appear~!" Operation!! shorts (which, surprise, they're on this DVD too!) but those were only like a minute long each. Here we get a full 21 minutes of Hoopa and while it never says more than a few words at a time hearing these little bursts every minute or so got really tiring. I hope the main feature isn't as aggravating to watch.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
And now let's look at
a movie that isn't nearly two
decades old
June 18th, 2015
Dogasu @ 08:20 JST -- The July 2015 issue of CoroCoro Comics was released on Monday and included the third chapter of Kamimura Gin's manga adaptation of The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa. I've written up the usual summary of the comparatively short 31-page chapter.
June 18th, 2015
Dogasu @ 08:20 JST -- The July 2015 issue of CoroCoro Comics was released on Monday and included the third chapter of Kamimura Gin's manga adaptation of The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa. I've written up the usual summary of the comparatively short 31-page chapter.
With this we basically know the plot of
the movie! What do you
think? Is this movie playing out pretty much the way you expected?
A graphic novel collection will be released on July 18th, 2015, the same day the movie hits theaters.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
A graphic novel collection will be released on July 18th, 2015, the same day the movie hits theaters.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Mewtwo Mondays, Week
Thirteen
June 15th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:16 JST -- For the final week of Mewtwo Mondays I've got a bunch of random behind-the-scenes updates! I wasn't able to do as much as I had wanted but I still think I've got a decent amount of material that most of you have never seen before.
Dogasu @ 23:16 JST -- For the final week of Mewtwo Mondays I've got a bunch of random behind-the-scenes updates! I wasn't able to do as much as I had wanted but I still think I've got a decent amount of material that most of you have never seen before.
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First up is a breakdown
of the coverage that CoroCoro Comics
was doing at the time. How was the magazine promoting the
movie? When did certain details about the film come out?
What was being hyped up the most?
Next up is a miscellaneous "behind
the scenes" look at the movie that includes character model sheets
and stories from the cast and crew. There's a ton more I could
have added to this section but I unfortunately wasn't able to get to it
all in time. Maybe next time!
Finally I've added some trivia about the movie from Shudou Takeshi's excellent blog over on the main Mewtwo Strikes Back page. Shudou Takeshi is a fascinating man but he kind of had the tendency to ramble on quite a bit so I wasn't able to get through everything. Still, there are some neat nuggets in there I think you'll enjoy.
And that's the end of Mewtwo Mondays! I could seriously do this for another few weeks but I think it's about time I moved on to the second movie. So be sure to come back here next week for the start of Lugia Lundis!
Finally I've added some trivia about the movie from Shudou Takeshi's excellent blog over on the main Mewtwo Strikes Back page. Shudou Takeshi is a fascinating man but he kind of had the tendency to ramble on quite a bit so I wasn't able to get through everything. Still, there are some neat nuggets in there I think you'll enjoy.
And that's the end of Mewtwo Mondays! I could seriously do this for another few weeks but I think it's about time I moved on to the second movie. So be sure to come back here next week for the start of Lugia Lundis!
The Archdjinn of the
Rings, Hoopa / Pikachu and the Pokemon Band Press Reading
June 9th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:38 JST -- Yesterday, June 8th, a press reading for this year's movie Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" was held here in Tokyo. The special guest actors all gather and record a few lines for the movie in what is basically one big PR show. And it also seems like the takes they record during this event will be used in the actual film? Anyway, the official website posted a report of yesterday's recording and so I went and translated it for you guys.
June 9th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:38 JST -- Yesterday, June 8th, a press reading for this year's movie Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" was held here in Tokyo. The special guest actors all gather and record a few lines for the movie in what is basically one big PR show. And it also seems like the takes they record during this event will be used in the actual film? Anyway, the official website posted a report of yesterday's recording and so I went and translated it for you guys.
Pretty much all the scene descriptions /
line readings match up with
what's going on in the manga
adaptation
of the movie that's currently running in CoroCoro Comics so I think it's
safe to say that the manga's an accurate representation of what's going
on in the movie.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Mewtwo Mondays, Week
Twelve
June 8th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:49 JST -- Mewtwo Strikes Back aired alongside a short film called Pikachu's Summer Vacation. Today I redo my comparison from...gosh, 2002?...of Pikachu's Summer Vacation.
June 8th, 2015
Dogasu @ 23:49 JST -- Mewtwo Strikes Back aired alongside a short film called Pikachu's Summer Vacation. Today I redo my comparison from...gosh, 2002?...of Pikachu's Summer Vacation.
It's pretty terrible! Not Mewtwo Strikes Back terrible,
of course, but it gets pretty close at parts.
Next week I'll be wrapping up my coverage of Mewtwo Strikes Back by looking at various ways the movie was promoted. What did the CoroCoro Comics coverage look like at that time? What kind of promotions were going on to promote the movie? What did the trailers look like? I'll also be looking at the guide books and other behind-the-scenes stuff to see what nuggets of information they contain.
The week after that "Mewtwo Mondays" will become "Lugia Lundis." See you then!
Next week I'll be wrapping up my coverage of Mewtwo Strikes Back by looking at various ways the movie was promoted. What did the CoroCoro Comics coverage look like at that time? What kind of promotions were going on to promote the movie? What did the trailers look like? I'll also be looking at the guide books and other behind-the-scenes stuff to see what nuggets of information they contain.
The week after that "Mewtwo Mondays" will become "Lugia Lundis." See you then!
Miscellaneous "The
Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band"
Updates
June 6th, 2015
Dogasu @ 17:25 JST -- Today I'm playing catch up with some of the updates the official website for Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" has made over the past few weeks.
For starters, I've translated last week's and this week's entry to the Location Scouting Report, which cover the rest of the team's second day in Dubai:
June 6th, 2015
Dogasu @ 17:25 JST -- Today I'm playing catch up with some of the updates the official website for Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" has made over the past few weeks.
For starters, I've translated last week's and this week's entry to the Location Scouting Report, which cover the rest of the team's second day in Dubai:
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| Report
7: "Souks!
Souks! Souks!" |
Report
8: "Worship
and Sunsets" |
I've also added all the model sheets from
the Appear! Movie Information
page as well as the images posted on the "Today's Hoopa" page:
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| Appear!
Movie Information |
Today's
Hoopa |
It's kind of weird to think that this
movie is coming out next month.
There's sure to be
a ton of news in the next few weeks and I'm going to do my best to keep
on top of everything.
Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" and "Pikachu and the Pokemon Band" hits Japanese theaters on July 18th, 2015. It is the second Pocket Monsters XY movie and the 18th film in the franchise overall.
Mewtwo Mondays, Week
Eleven
June 1st, 2015
Dogasu @ 22:42 JST -- Ono Toshihiro did a manga adaptation of Mewtwo Strikes Back for the July 1998 issue of CoroCoro Comics. The 52-page story was never put into any graphic novel collection and was never translated into English meaning most fans have never gotten a chance to read. Well a couple of months ago I actually managed to find a copy of the CoroCoro Comics issue with the movie adaptation in it and so for this week's update I'm taking a detailed look at it:
June 1st, 2015
Dogasu @ 22:42 JST -- Ono Toshihiro did a manga adaptation of Mewtwo Strikes Back for the July 1998 issue of CoroCoro Comics. The 52-page story was never put into any graphic novel collection and was never translated into English meaning most fans have never gotten a chance to read. Well a couple of months ago I actually managed to find a copy of the CoroCoro Comics issue with the movie adaptation in it and so for this week's update I'm taking a detailed look at it:
I've got a detailed synopsis of the manga
adaptation here.
The manga
is very, very different from the final movie and is a fantastic take on
the story that I think a lot of you will really enjoy.
Accordingly, I've also added a page detailing the differences
between
the
movie and the manga adaptation. I've also written up a bio on Ono Toshihiro.
Next week's update will be a redo of my comparison for "Pikachu's Summer Vacation," the Pikachu short that accompanied Mewtwo Strikes Back in theaters. Yeah, I know, it's not really Mewtwo related but it feels weird to just skip over it, right? I'll also try to post updates about some of the more recent stuff throughout the week as well.
Next week's update will be a redo of my comparison for "Pikachu's Summer Vacation," the Pikachu short that accompanied Mewtwo Strikes Back in theaters. Yeah, I know, it's not really Mewtwo related but it feels weird to just skip over it, right? I'll also try to post updates about some of the more recent stuff throughout the week as well.
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