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The following is a list of articles that have been used as Featured Content on the Main page in the month of June 2012.

Friday June 1, 2012: Jirachi: Wish Maker

Movie Time!: Jirachi: Wish Maker

• Jirachi: Wish Maker (Japanese: 七夜の願い星 ジラーチ Wishing Star of the Seven Nights: Jirachi; Official: Wishing Star of the Seven Nights) is the first Advanced Generation movie, and the sixth of all Pokémon movies. It was first shown in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2003. It was released on video and DVD for North American audiences on June 1, 2004.
• The movie spans over the seven days of the Millennium Comet which is said to appear once every thousand years. The movie takes place in Forina where Ash and his friends were at a festival where they met Butler and Diane who owns a crystal containing Jirachi which wakes up if the Millennium Comet is visible in the night sky and a friend is chosen by fate.
• This movie marked the debut of the following Pokémon: Jirachi, Absol, Kirlia, Dusclops, Salamence, Vibrava, Flygon, Tropius, Linoone, Breloom, Swablu, Altaria, Skitty, Delcatty, Numel, Camerupt, Electrike, Manectric, Solrock, Groudon, and Kyogre.
• The events of this movie happen between the episodes Having a Wailord of a Time and Win, Lose or Drew!, and premiered in Japan between them.
• In Diamond and Pearl, the two Ace Trainers that appear on the southernmost part of Route 229 have their teams based on those of Butler and Diane. In fact, in the Japanese version, they have the same names as them, but the English translation team did not notice the relation to the movie characters.
• This is the only Advanced Generation series movie in which Munchlax does not appear, as well as the only AG movie in which a Generation IV Pokémon does not appear.

Saturday June 2, 2012:

Character of the Day: Elesa

• Elesa (Japanese: カミツレ Kamiture) is the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City's Gym, known officially as the Nimbasa Gym. She specializes in Electric-type Pokémon. She gives the Bolt Badge to Trainers who defeat her.
• The player can challenge her to a battle after riding a series of roller coasters to her location, a process involving the flipping of multiple switches so the tracks take the player to her. She utilizes a strategy that involves using Volt Switch between her two Emolga, and later Zebstrika. Upon defeating her, she will reward the player with a Bolt Badge and TM72 (Volt Switch).
• Outside of battle, Elesa is a supermodel. She appears when Bianca attempts to convince her father to allow her to become a Pokémon Trainer. Elesa aids her, convincing Bianca's father to give his daughter the permission to follow her dream.
• Elesa made her anime debut in Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! where Ash and Bianca went to her modelling shows to request a Gym Battle. Bianca got picked first to battle against and won with ease. Ash battled her in the next episode in a three on three battle where he won, earning himself the Bolt Badge.
• She appears in the Pokémon Adventures manga with other Nimbasa officials discussing Pokémon Musicals with the BW Agency as Nimbasa was starting to become a tourist area. Later, Black challenges her to a Gym Battle which he won. She is next seen alongside her fellow Gym Leaders at the Celestial Tower discussing Team Plasma.
• She is set to reappear in Black and White Versions 2

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