Challenge the World!
Challenge the World! (Japanese: キミに会えた! I Met You!) is an animated commercial promoting the 2023 Pokémon World Championships, taking place in Yokohama, Japan.
The commercial was released on the Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel on July 22, 2023, on the Western Pokémon YouTube channels a day later on July 23, 2023, on the Asian Pokémon YouTube channels on July 28, 2023, and on the Korean Pokémon YouTube channel on August 4, 2023.
Plot
A girl holding a Pikachu plush toy flies into Yokohama, Japan to compete in the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. After making a video call to her friends and fellow players who are also attending the event, she enters the Pacifico Yokohama convention center with her friends awaiting her near the entrance.
Each of the girl's friends are competing in a different event at the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. The first to play is competing in the 2023 Pokémon GO World Championships. He begins the match with his Sky Forme Shaymin and has it use a Grass-type attack against his opponent's Gholdengo, who retaliates with a Charged Attack just as Shaymin is swapped out for Melmetal who uses a Protect Shield to negate it. The opponent then switches out Gholdengo and brings in his Salamence, using its Charged Attack Draco Meteor against Melmetal just as it readies a Double Iron Bash.
The scene then cuts to the 2023 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championships, where another one of the girl's friends is competing. After a Chansey coin is flipped to determine the players' turn order, she reveals her Lugia V card and we see the Pokémon cards come to life, with a cinematic battle then ensuing with her Lugia and Archeops against her opponent's Flaaffy and Miraidon. The layout for this section was drawn by Ryū Nakayama.[1]
Lugia and Miraidon both attack each other head-on, with their powerful moves colliding before the scene cuts again to the 2023 Pokémon UNITE World Championships. A 5v5 match is played with Mew, Comfey, Tsareena, Dodrio and Greninja against Hoopa, Sableye, Cinderace, Aegislash and Lucario, with the girl's next friend commanding Greninja. Mew charges up a green ball of energy that's then kicked by Tsareena, launching it into the opposing Aegislash. The opposing team's Cinderace and Lucario retaliate, working together to fire off a Pyro Ball and Aura Sphere at Greninja, who dodges both attacks and, with the support of Comfey, is able to ride a Waterburst Shuriken after having gathered enough Aeos energy to score in the opposing team's goal.
The scene cuts a final time to the 2023 Video Game World Championships, played in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. We see the girl send out her Meowscarada and Dragonite (housed in a Poké Ball and a Friend Ball respectively) as her opponent sends out his Iron Bundle and Dondozo (housed in a Dusk Ball and a Dive Ball respectively). Dondozo fires an attack at Meowscarada that it dodges, and the latter retaliates by using Flower Trick. Iron Bundle then uses Icy Wind, but the girl Terastallizes her Dragonite into a Normal-type, removing its weakness to Ice-type moves.
The girl wins the match and her friends arrive to congratulate her on the victory as she throws her Pikachu plush into the air in celebration. After the match, they arrive outside the convention center, just as a Pikachu falls from the sky. The girl reaches out to grab it, with her friends by her side.
Pokémon
- Tatsugiri (Curly Form)
- Fuecoco
- Quaxly
- Sprigatito
- Munchlax
- Pikachu
- Swablu
- Mime Jr.
- Wynaut
- Psyduck
- Onix
- Ditto
- Beautifly
- Magnemite
- Drifloon
- Dreepy
- Jigglypuff
- Zorua
- Charizard
- Eevee
- Slowpoke
- Yamper
- Kirlia
- Rotom
- Shaymin (Sky Forme) (Trainer's)
- Gholdengo (Trainer's)
- Melmetal (Trainer's)
- Salamence (Trainer's)
- Chansey (coin)
- Lugia
- Archeops
- Flaaffy
- Miraidon
- Greninja
- Dodrio
- Tsareena
- Comfey
- Mew
- Lucario
- Aegislash
- Cinderace
- Sableye
- Hoopa (Confined)
- Meowscarada (girl's)
- Dragonite (girl's)
- Dondozo (Trainer's)
- Iron Bundle (Trainer's)
Staff
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Director/Storyboards 監督・絵コンテ |
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Character Designer/Chief Animation Director キャラクターデザイン・総作画監督 |
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Direction 演出 |
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Pokémon Animation Director ポケモン作画監督 |
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Animation Director 作画監督 |
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Key Animation 原画 |
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Prop Design プロップ設定 |
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Background Art Director 美術監督 |
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Color Director 色彩設計 |
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CG Director CG監督 |
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Photography Director 撮影監督 |
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Sound Director 音響監督 |
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Music 音楽 |
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Animation Producer アニメーションプロデューサー |
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Produced in cooperation with 制作協力 |
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Production 制作 |
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Cast
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Girl | Girl | Maika Yoshida | 少女 | 吉田 舞香 | |
Pikachu | Ikue Otani | Pikachu | Ikue Otani | ピカチュウ | 大谷 育江 |
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Staff Artwork
This is a collection of unofficial Pokémon artwork drawn by staff.
Fan artwork drawn by Maho Takagi[3] |
Trivia
- This is the first Pokémon animation that features Tatsugiri, Gholdengo, Meowscarada, Iron Bundle, and Dondozo.
- Tatsugiri appearing as one of the first Pokémon shown in the commercial may be a reference to the real-world distribution of a Tatsugiri at the 2023 World Championships, though the Tatsugiri distributed is a Stretchy Form Tatsugiri while the one in the commercial is a Curly Form Tatsugiri.
In other languages
Language | Title | |
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Chinese | Cantonese | 與你相遇! |
Mandarin | 與你相遇! * 终于遇到你啦! * | |
French | Bande-annonce officielle | |
German | Offizieller Trailer | |
Indonesian | Dapat berjumpa denganmu! | |
Italian | Trailer ufficiale | |
Korean | 너를 만났어 | |
Brazilian Portuguese | Desafie o mundo! | |
Spanish | Latin America | ¡Desafía al mundo! |
Spain | Tráiler oficial | |
Thai | ได้เจอเธอแล้ว! | |
External links
References
This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime. |