"Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" Box Office Figures - Week Two
July 27th, 2016

Dogasu @ 07:45 JST -- Reports have come out regarding Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna"'s second week in theaters and, despite earlier rumors that it had dropped down to number four, the 19th Pocket Monsters movie managed to hold onto its Number Three spot.


As pretty much anyone with a brain could have predicted, One Piece Film Gold took home the number one spot. Finding Dory got pushed down to number two and Pokemon kept the number three spot. No figures regarding ticket sales / attendance numbers for the Volcanion movie's second week have been released.

Here's the full line-up:

Rank	Last Week	Title	Distributor	No. of Theaters	Weeks in Theaters
1	NEW	One Piece Film Gold	Toho	344	1
2	1	Finding Dory	Disney	360	2
3	3	Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna"	Toho	360	2
4	4	Independence Day: Resergence	20th Century Fox	359	3
5	2	HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE	Shochiku	312	2
6	5	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Disney	350	4
7	6	Too Young to Die! Wakakushite Shinu	Toho, Asmik-Ace	288	5
8	NEW	Lost Summer Vacation	Sony Pictures Entertainment	157	1
9	NEW	Accel World INFINITE∞BURST	Warner Bros. Movies	24	1
10	7	Let's Go! Anpanman "Nanda and Runda of the Toy Planet"	Toho Theaters	182	4

Source:  Eiga.com

Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" is currently running in Japanese theaters.  It is the 19th film in the franchise overall.


"Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" Box Office Figures - Week One
July 20th, 2016

Dogasu @ 21:42 JST -- The first week's box office numbers for Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" have been announced.


The 19th Pocket Monsters film came in at third place on its opening weekend with Finding Dory and HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE taking first and second place respectively. The XY&Z movie earned 323,900,000 yen (about US $3,040,471.97, though keep in mind that the Brexit has kind of funked up the exchange rate), down from last year's opening weekend figure of 384,115,100 yen.

The movie was watched by 289,971 people over the three-day weekend. The audience was composed of 62% male and 38% female. When broken down by age, elementary school children made up 43.1% of the audience, preschoolers made up 10%, and those in their twenties made up 25.4%.

Here's what the rest of the Top Ten looked like:

Rank	Last Week	Title	Distributor	No. of Theaters	Weeks in Theaters
1	NEW	Finding Dory	Disney	360	1
2	NEW	HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE	Shochiku	312	1
3	NEW	Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna"	Toho	366	1
4	1	Independence Day: Resergence	20th Century Fox	359	2
5	2	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Disney	350	3
6	3	Too Young to Die! Wakakushite Shinu	Toho, Asmik-Ace	288	4
7	5	Let's Go! Anpanman "Nanda and Runda of the Toy Planet"	Tokyo Theaters	182	3
8	6	Encyclopedia of Flowers: I Picked Up a Fateful Love	Shochiku	307	7
9	7	Sadako vs. Kayako	Kadokawa	303	5
10	8	Sixty-Four (Part Two)	Toho	320	6

Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" is currently running in Japanese theaters.  It is the 19th film in the franchise overall.


Even more Sun & Moon Pokemon
July 20th, 2016

Dogasu @ 7:58 JST -- We're now up to 25 new pokemon!


The List of Pokemon has been updated.


"Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" - Plot Summary
July 19th, 2016

Dogasu @ 7:46 JST -- I just got back from watching the newest Pocket Monsters movie, Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna." In the past I've pointed you guys to my summaries of the manga adaptation and told you that what happens there is pretty much what happens in the movie but this year the movie and the manga diverge so much that this isn't possible. So, I went ahead and typed up a long, detailed plot summary, from beginning to end.


Do you have any additional questions about the movie that you can't find in this synopsis? Let me know via Facebook, Twitter, or over on Bulbagarden!

Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" is currently running in Japanese theaters.  It is the 19th film in the franchise overall.


So let's talk about "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna"
July 10th, 2016

Dogasu @ 16:17 JST -- Did you know that there's a new Pokemon movie coming out next week?


It's not hard to imagine that there are people out there completely unawares that we're less than a week away from the release of Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna. After the poor box office performance of last year's movie, a film that actually did OK by regular movie standards but absolutely abysmal by Pokemon standards, the effects to this year's movie are clear:

• There doesn't seem to have been any Location Scouting trip taken this year, probably due to budget cuts. I predicted this back in February, by the way.
  
• There's no Pikachu short this year for the first time since 2011's Victini and the Black Hero Zekrom / Victini and the White Hero Reshiram. There has to be a reason for that, and production issues are a likely suspect.
  
• There's no supplemental episode being developed for this movie like Appear, the Small Djinn Hoopa, Princess Diancie of the Ore Kingdom, or Mewtwo - The Prologue to its Awakening. Again, budget cuts?
  
• Seven-Eleven convenience stores here in Japan, which are usually filled with Pokemon merchandise this time of year, are dedicating their shelf spaces to One Piece Film Gold-related merchandise instead.
• The movie's official site doesn't have nearly as many interviews or behind-the-scenes looks as it usually does.
  

There's also the fact that July 16th, the day Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna comes out, is also when the movie Finding Dory and the video games Yokai Watch 3 are going to be released. Maybe the people at Toho, the company that distributes the Pocket Monsters films, realized they have no hope of wrestling kids' attention away from all that and so they decided not to waste the money trying? Next year will (probably) see the release of the franchise's 20th movie so I'm thinking maybe they're playing it super safe this year so they'll have the money to throw a huge celebration next year.

Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" hits Japanese theaters on July 16th, 2016.  It is the 19th film in the franchise overall.


Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna
July 7th, 2016

Dogasu @ 07:33 JST -- You've probably noticed that I have not been updating much at all over the past few months. What's up with that, Dogasu?  Well, I've actually been working on this massive project for the site and while I'm not quite ready to reveal what that is just yet I thought I'd take a break from working on it to remind myself that, oh yeah, there's a movie coming out in like ten days!


I've made a massive update to the page for Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna with all kinds of information, both from the official website and elsewhere. Updates include:

• The movie's runtime, which Cinema Today is reporting as 1 hour 37 minutes.
• An updated cast list.
• A comment from Yuki, the performer of the theme song to this year's movie Post ni Koe o Nagete Irete
  
• Comments from the Special Guest Voice Actors.
• Information on the various pokemon being distributed to commemorate this movie.
• Information about the movie's soundtrack, including a very spoiler-ific track listing!
  
• Character Bios
  

Lots of other minor tweaks here and there have been made as well.

The section's not finished and there's still content from the official site I want to bring over but I think today's update is at least better than nothing.

Pokémon the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" hits Japanese theaters on July 16th, 2016.  It is the 19th film in the franchise overall.


Sun & Moon!
July 1st, 2016

Dogasu @ 07:45 JST -- The List of Pokemon has been updated with the seven new pokemon revealed last night.


This brings the grand total of Generation VII pokemon revealed so far up to eighteen.