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Pre-order
bonus revealed for Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story"
March 16th, 2018 Dogasu @ 7:40 JST -- The bonus for pre-ordering a ticket for this year's film Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" has been revealed to be a special Lugia you can download to your Pocket Monsters Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, or Ultra Moon games the official site is calling "Lugia of the Wind" (風のルギア). This Lugia has the Hidden Ability Multiscale and knows the move Hurricane, an attack it can't normally learn. The rest of this Lugia's stats are as follows:
More details about how to obtain this Lugia and what limitations there are can be found on the Distributions page of the Everyone's Story section. It has also been revealed that the first 300,000 fans who go see the movie in theaters this July will receive a "The Wind Goes Whoosh! Whoosh! Satoshi's Pikachu Mascot" (風ビュー!ビュー!サトシのピカチュウマスコット) charm at the door. Pocket Monsters the Movie 2018 will be released on Friday, July 13th 2018 in Japan. An international release has not been announced at this time. "Mirai Connection" CD Single Announced March 13th, 2018 Dogasu @ 22:55 JST -- The CD single for the current opening theme of the Pocket Monsters Sun & Moon TV series, Mirai Connection (未来コネクション), or "Future Connection," has had its release date announced as May 2nd, 2018. According to ЯeaL's official website, the CD single will come in two versions, a special limited edition that comes with a DVD with a creditless version of the current opening animation and a regular edition with just the CD by itself.
As you can see, Sony Music Entertainment's being a little shady here; if you want the DVD you need to get the limited edition but if you want an instrumental of the full version of the song then you have to double dip and get the regular release as well. The CD listings for this release contains the following background comments about the song:
ЯeaL is a three girl group based out of Osaka whose members are Ryoko (リョウコ), Fumiha (フミハ), and Aika (アイカ). The three most recently provided the voices of Ilima's fangirls in last week's episode. Mirai Connection is the second opening theme to Pocket Monsters Sun & Moon and will be ЯeaL's fourth single release. The song debuted on Sun & Moon on the February 8th, 2018 episode. That same day the TV size version of the song was made available on various streaming platforms throughout Japan. I've added the lyrics to Mirai Connection (and, just because I could, Jari Boy, Jari Girl) to the Lyrics Archive. Controversy causes the March 2018 issue of CoroCoro Comics to be pulled from shelves March 10th, 2018 Dogasu @ 22:18 JST -- If you follow Pocket Monsters you'll have probably at least heard of CoroCoro Comics, a manga anthology / kids' magazine that comes out on the 15th of every month. The magazine covers popular kids' franchises such as Yokai Watch, Inazuma Eleven, Duel Masters, and Nintendo properties such as Super Mario and Splatoon. And, of course, Pocket Monsters. CoroCoro Comics usually dedicates anywhere from ten to fifteen pages of its nearly 800 pagecount to delivering the latest Pocket Monsters news, be it video game, movie, TCG, or toy related. Manga related to the franchise, such as Kousaku Anakubo's long-running Pocket Monsters manga and the yearly movie adaptations, are also featured from time to time. You've probably seen photos posted online from the most recent issue, which went on sale February 15th, featuring the then-new stories about the shiny Bebenom distribution in the Japan and the revelation that Lugia will be in this year's movie.
That same issue is currently involved in a scandal thanks to this month's chapter of Yarisugi!!! Itazura-kun (やりすぎ!!! イタズラくん), or "That's Too Much!!! Lil' Prankster." The manga is about a little fox boy named Itazura-kun who, as his rival Koikeda puts it, is "someone who goofs off 24 hours a day 365 days a year." In this month's chapter, Itazura-kun and Koikeda-kun are taking a history test in which they're shown a photograph of a historical figure and are asked to correctly fill in that person's name. The gag of this particular chapter is that while Koikeda-kun is a good student who answers each question seriously, Itazura-kun just scribbles all over the photos and writes in jokey answers. He draws over a picture of Albert Einstein to make him look like a dog, Napoleon Bonaparte to look like he's playing Duel Masters, and Yoshimitsu Ashikaga to look like the Kewpie Mayonnaise mascot.
The part that got the manga in hot water is when it gets to a question asking Itazura-kun to identify the Mongolian emperor Genghis Khan. The hint given on the test in the magna is Chi _________ n and what you're supposed to do is write in Chingisu Haan (チンギス・ハーン), which is how you write Genghis Khan's name in Japanese. Itazura-kun, however, fills in the blanks to identify the emperor as chin-chin, or "Penis" and then doodles a little dick on the Mongolian emperor's forehead. Mongolians living in Japan, after seeing a figure they hold with such great respect being defiled this way, were pissed. A protest was held outside the offices of the magazine's publisher, Shogakukan, with people holding up signs demanding that Shogakukan apologize. Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu Akinori tweeted out "What the hell are you doing!! You assholes are making fun of our ancestor!! Don't you have any dignity!! This is unforgivable!! Apologize!! Apologize!! What the hell kind of shit company made this!?" The Mongolian Embassy in Japan has also weighed in, denouncing the image as vulgar and inappropriate for children.
Shogakukan has since issued an apology to the Mongolian Embassy:
CoroCoro Comic's official website has also posted some apologies.
The contest they're referring to in that second comment up there is one where kids are encouraged to doodle on the faces of historical figures, just like Itazura-kun does, and then mail them in to Shogakukan. The winning entries were originally scheduled to be published in the May 2018 issue of CoroCoro Comics. One of the figures kids are encouraged to draw on is Genghis Khan, and an example they give is drawing him like a baby with word balloons that include "goo goo ga ga" and "I wanna drink from your breasts." On Tuesday, Shogakukan announced that they have pulled the issue off shelves and will be offering refunds to customers' who request them. I've noticed over the years that CoroCoro Comics isn't getting as many Pocket Monsters-related exclusives as it used to and it's making me wonder if The Pokémon Company is starting to reconsider its usefulness as a promotional tool. It only comes out once a month and everything it puts out just gets posted online anyway so what's the point of continuing to rely on it? And now the magazine's gone and gotten itself take off stores altogether! I don't think we'll ever see a day where CoroCoro Comics is no longer used to promote Pocket Monsters (I'm sure there are just too many old relationships around that nobody's looking to sever) but I do think we'll see the focus continue to be shifted toward Nintendo Directs and other online venues moving ahead. The April issue of CoroCoro Comics is scheduled to go on sale on March 15th, 2018. Full title, story outline, character bios, new trailer etc. released for Pocket Monsters The Movie 2018 March 8th, 2018 Dogasu @ 23:05 JST -- This is all old news by now but I wanted to cover it anyway. On February 27th, 2017, it was revealed that full title of the movie is going to be 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). The title could also be translated as "Everyone's Stories" since there is some ambiguity in regards to singular vs. plural in Japanese but for now I'll just translate it as Everyone's Story. Along with the title came a brand new trailer that debuted on the kids' show Oha! Suta. The trailer shows off new characters, gives a (very) general outline of what's going to happen, and teases just enough without really giving anything away.
The trailer's in Japanese, obviously, so here's an English translation:
No official announcement has been made about who will be voicing the new movie characters yet (that probably won't come until later this month) but that hasn't stopped Japanese fans from speculating about who they all sound like. Lisa sounds like Mao, Kagachi sounds like Dr. Kukui, and Largo sounds like Lillie from Pocket Monsters Sun & Moon; Trito sounds a lot like Dent from Pocket Monsters Best Wishes!, etc. It is worth pointing out that the movie trailers have used stand-ins for characters who haven't been cast yet (I think back to Balza from that first Pokémon the movie XY "The Archdjinn of the Rings, Hoopa" trailer) so it's not unlikely that the voices we hear in this trailer will change when the movie actually comes out. After the above trailer aired, the official website updated with its first story synopsis.
I think it's important to stress that the official site is not outright saying that Everyone's Story is a direct sequel to I Choose You! It's not saying that it isn't, either. All it's saying is that one movie comes after the other; how you interpret that is entirely up to you. Character bios have also been added to the movie's official website but they're pretty much verbatim from what's written in the plot synopsis so I won't bother to repost them here. Still, you can click on an icon below to read what little's been revealed about each character.
The final thing revealed in last week's information dump is a better look at the crew of the film. The screenplay this time around is being provided by two people, Eiji Umehara (梅原映司) and Aya Takaha (高羽彩). Neither one of them has ever worked on Pocket Monsters before; Mr. Umehara's worked on shows like Appleseed XIII and Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne while Ms. Takaha has provided scripts for Psyco-Pass and The Ancient Magus' Bride. Other than that there's the confirmation that Shinji Miyazaki and Mima Masafumi are returning to provide the music / sound editing, respectively, so that's nice to have. The rest of the staff list are producer credits (a lot of which are basically unchanged from I Choose You!) and some new Chief Animation Directors. And that's pretty much it for this time's information dump! If this movie's promotion cycle is anything like the last one that means we'll probably get the voice actor and theme song information in early April or so. Pocket Monsters the Movie 2018 will be released on Friday, July 13th 2018 in Japan. An international release has not been announced at this time.
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