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This article is about the movie. For the manga, see Jirachi: Wish Maker (manga).

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 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. This movie was first aired in Latin America in 2008, with different production and voice actors, and it was never seen in Spain.

Other posters and DVD covers

• Pokemon2003poster.jpg

  Final Wishing Star of the Seven Nights: Jirachi movie poster

Summary

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While Ash and his friends are at a carnival celebrating the appearance of the Millennium Comet, they befriend Jirachi, a Pokémon that awakens every thousand years alongside the comet. Of the trainers, it is Max who Jirachi becomes friendly with. However a former Team Magma scientist, Butler, working as a magician at the carnival, wishes to use Jirachi to bring forth Groudon to get revenge on Team Magma. The process fails to create a real Groudon, but instead creates a power-hungry monster that goes on a rampage. It wreaks havoc, absorbing all Pokémon it can find. This includes May, Brock and Diane, after Butler saw Diane has been captured by the monster, he suddenly realized what he have done and did everything to stop the monster's rampage to bring Diane back but soon captured by the monster. Jirachi then unleashed its power to defeat this hungry monster, and right after the monster has been defeated, Jirachi transforms into its stone-form and says goodbye to Ash and his friends.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Butler
• Diane

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Taillow (Ash's)
• Treecko (Ash's)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Torchic (May's)
• Beautifly (May's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Lotad (Brock's)
• Mudkip (Brock's)
• Jirachi (anime)
• Mightyena (Butler's)
• Kirlia (Butler's)
• Dusclops (Butler's)
• Salamence (Butler's)
• Absol
• Flygon
• Groudon (fake)

Pokémon debuts

• Jirachi
• Absol
• Flygon
• Kirlia
• Dusclops
• Salamence
• Tropius
• Linoone
• Breloom
• Electrike
• Swablu
• Altaria
• Skitty (intro only)
• Delcatty (intro only)
• Numel (intro only)
• Camerupt (intro only)
• Manectric (intro only)
• Solrock (intro only)
• Groudon (intro only)
• Kyogre (intro only)

Cast

Trivia

• The prologue for this movie shows the main legendary Pokémon from the first five movies. It shows Mewtwo, Lugia, Entei, Celebi, Latios, and Latias. However Mew, the legendary birds, and Suicune were absent.
• This is the first Pokémon movie to go directly to video for its American release.
• 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 those episodes.
• The ending song, Make a Wish, is the first time that the U.S. dub left the original Japanese lyrics performed by Asuca Hayashi. It was also combined with English lyrics performed by Cindy Mizelle.
• This movie manifests itself in the form of a cameo in Pokémon Colosseum. The trainer is named Rider Zalla, and owns a Jirachi (the star), Flygon, Absol (wild Pokémon befriended during the movie), Kirlia, Mightyena, and a Dusclops (Pokémon belonging to Butler). Interestingly enough, she (possibly a reference to Max's motherly role for Jirachi, or Diane, as the trainer also has blonde hair) can be found as the 77th trainer on Battle Mode's Single Battle Mount Battle.
• Also, in Pokémon 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 are have the same names as them, but the English translation team did not notice the relation to the movie characters.
• Two of the main non-legendary Pokémon of the movie, Absol and Flygon, are eventually both obtained by Drew and then used to battle May in the Kanto Grand Festival.
• Even though Treecko and Mudkip appear on the box cover, they never even appear in the movie. In fact, out of all the main characters' Pokémon, Pikachu and Torchic were the only two to appear, with two exceptions, the opening sequence (Where Treecko DOES appear) and the ending beach scene.
• When traveling to Forina, an instrumental version of Advance Adventure is played in the background and on the DVD main menu.
• This is the last Pokémon movie released to UK DVD until The Rise of Darkrai years later.
• 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, for that matter.
• This was the last movie that Tomiko Suzuki lent her voice. Tomiko died of a heart attack a week and a half before the cinema release.
• While the previous two movies kept the original Japanese background music for the main feature, this is the first movie to also keep the title sequence music.

Errors

• During the magic show in the dub, Butler calls for his Dusclops to use an attack called "Capitata", which somewhat resembles Will-O-Wisp. It's unknown how the name "Capitata" got into the script or final product.

Dub edits

• In the beginning, Ash says the person who last comes up the hill is a Slowpoke (May calls Max a Slowbro). However, in most translations from English, the joke was eliminated, replacing "slow" to each language's response.
• In the dub when Ash is talking with Max, he makes a reference to Misty, though not by name.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Pokémon 6: Jirachi - Realizador de Desejos
• Chinese (HK): 七夜的願望之星
• Chinese (TW): 七夜的許願星 基拉祈
• Polish: Pokémon: Jirachi – Spełnione marzenia
• Dutch: Pokémon 6 Jirachi Droom Tovenaar
• Spanish (Latin America): Jirachi y los deseos
• Finnish: Jirachi - Toiveentäyttäjä
• Swedish: Jirachi: Önskemakaren

External links

• Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker at IMDb