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This article is about the movie. For the manga, see The Rise of Darkrai (manga).

The Rise of Darkrai
ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai
RiseOfDarkraiCover.jpg
Premiere
Japan July 14, 2007
United States February 24, 2008*
Home video
Japan December 21, 2007
United States May 27, 2008
English themes
Opening We Will Be Heroes
Ending I'll Always Remember You
Living In The Shadow
Japanese themes
Opening Together2008
Ending I Will Be With You (Where The Lost Ones Go)
Ratings
United States PG
Great Britain PG
Ireland ?
Canada ?
Quebec ?
Japan G
Germany ?
Australia G
New Zealand ?

The Rise of Darkrai (Japanese: ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai) is the first Generation IV Pokémon movie, and the tenth Pokémon movie overall. It is the first movie of the Diamond & Pearl movie trilogy, and is followed by Giratina and the Sky Warrior and Arceus and the Jewel of Life.

It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2007. It was aired in North America on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network and it was released on DVD on May 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in the UK on September 29, 2008 and in Australia on November 5, 2008. In Spain it aired on Jetix on September 6, 2008 and in Mexico on May 13, 2009 on Open Signal, instead of Cartoon Network. In Portugal it aired on December 25, 2010 on Panda Biggs.

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Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis On their way to participate in the next Pokémon Contest, Ash and his friends have come to Alamos Town, where they meet a girl named Alice, and her Chimchar. The two run a hot- air balloon that takes travelers into Alamos Town.

While Alice is showing them around the town, her friend, Tonio, sits in his lab, reading Godey's diary. It tells of Alice's grandmother, Alicia, who was playing in the garden one day when she was a little girl. Suddenly, she sees a Luxray trying to attack something, when all of a sudden it is engulfed by a strange orb that puts it to sleep. Alicia runs to it, then sees Darkrai laying under a tree. It is hurt, and she helps it to heal by playing Oracion on her leaf whistle.

We return to where Alice is showing our heroes around the garden. Ash, Dawn and Brock let their Pokémon out to play in the garden, and Piplup sees a berry on a tree. It reaches for it, but another Pokémon eats it. Angered, Piplup starts to fight, and Ash, Dawn, and Brock are about to intervene to separate them when Alice starts to play "Oracion" on her leaf whistle. When she finishes, all the Pokémon are calm. As she starts to explain about the song, a Gallade runs up to them, motioning for them to follow. It leads them to where the garden has been distorted. Then, Baron Alberto, an influential man of the town, arrives on the scene. Alberto is confident that the devastation is the work of the legendary Pokémon Darkrai. Then, from the ominous shadows, Darkrai suddenly appears before them. Darkrai tells them to, "Go away!" and it attacks with a Dark Void that hits Ash and puts him to sleep.

Ash dreams that Pikachu is killed, but Pikachu shocks him awake from out of the nightmare he is having. As Ash and friends leave the Pokémon Center, Tonio runs up to them and tells them that Space- Time is about to be destroyed. Thinking that it's Darkrai, Ash and friends go off to find the Pokémon. Just at that moment, a fierce battle between Dialga and Palkia is unfolding in an interval of space-time. Space-time is torn apart by the collision of terrible energies. Through the tear, Alamos Town can be seen.

After all the Pokémon are at the Pokémon center, Alamos Town is completely covered in a massive fog which can not be cleared off and causes anything which attempts to leave the town to be reversibly entering the town, resulting in no possible escape. Baron still believes that it was still Darkrai who had caused all this. All the trainers follow Baron to confront Darkrai, but Ash, Brock, and Dawn do not go along listening to Tonio, who doesn't believe Darkrai is up to this. He believes Darkrai is good since he had saved Alice in their childhood. It is revealed that the two of them were playing in the garden when Alice tripped off the cliff and fell. Tonio ran to her (knowing that he would fail) but a silhouette of Darkrai zipped out and caught Alice just before crashing. Hearing that, the trio now agree that it was not Darkrai who caused the havoc. Tonio explains that the distortion caused from the spiritual images of the sleeping Pokémon was caused by an multidimensional disturbance from when Palkia entered the realm. Later that evening, Tonio finds Palkia resting between the towers. Darkrai, who was fighting Baron, instead tries to attack the resting Palkia. Ash then realizes that was what Darkrai was trying to tell him in his nightmare, that the two legendary Pokémon are waging war.

As Palkia and Darkrai battle, Palkia switches the town back into its battle dimension (Alternate dimesion, where Unowns live and located between time and space). But as Palkia is about to hit Darkrai with one of its attacks, Dialga opens fire on the two and immediately runs into Palkia, thus continuing it. As they brawl, the entire town is going to dissipate into nothing (due to the severe injury suffered from Palkia). Darkrai constantly fails to fend them off as the town evacuates into the garden. After Tonio reads a passage from Godey's diary, Alice hears the word "Oración" which means Prayer in Spanish and that is the name of the song she plays on the leaf whistle. Tonio indicates that "Oración is the song that could soothe even the fiercest rage". They realize that they must play Oración on the towers' musical instrument to stop Dialga and Palkia from their feud.

After finding the music disc, Ash, Dawn, Alice and Tonio begin to head up the tower by balloon as Brock helps Nurse Joy evacuate the townspeople. On their way up, Dialga fires its Roar of Time while Palkia stands in between the balloon and Dialga. Palkia dodges the attack, leaving the beam to crossfire with the balloon. Darkrai instantly comes to the rescue and takes the massive blow from Dialga. However, in the process Palkia and Dialga fly by the balloon, causing heavy damage, and leaving Ash and Dawn to travel up by foot which takes a lot of time. Dialga and Palkia continue their confrontation and now they are going to deal the final blow. Dialga is charging its Roar of Time while Palkia charges its Spacial Rend. When both the legendary Pokémon discharge their attacks, Darkrai crosses the attacks' line and forms a sphere around him to absorb the massive impulse that would wreck the entire location. Baron who had already turned back to himself then believes Darkrai was not the foe. As Ash and Dawn make their way up the tower, they watch as Darkrai's sphere gets weaker and eventually shrinks. The dragons, fed up with the Dark Pokémon intervening with their battle, both shoot Darkrai from both sides. Having almost no armor or the energy left, he bravely takes the destructive blow and disintegrates as he floats up into the air. Everyone looks on with the fear that now that Darkrai had perished, they too would suffer the same fate in the next moment. Tonio then mentions that if the dragons' signature moves collide once more, their dimension will be completely destroyed.

Ash and Dawn then end up running to the musical instrument, only to find that the electrical power source is down (as the dimension itself was disintegrating). Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Pachirisu provide their electricity to get the machine running. The song plays loud throughout the small section of what's left of the town. The song successfully calms the dragons down, Dialga flees and Palkia restores everything back, returning Alamos Town to how it originally was along with the townspeople and the Pokémon living in the garden.

At dusk, Ash, Dawn, Brock, Alice and Tonio thank Darkrai and respect everything that he had done for them. A tear of condolence and thanks for Darkrai drips down Alice's face. Ash and Dawn began to cry, both knowing they would probably never see Darkrai again. As they walk away, Ash stops as he sees a shadow on the cliffside. He along with everyone else looks back at the cliff. Later on the Space-Time Towers, they find Darkrai standing heroically on top. Everyone is relieved that he is safe and Alice cuddles next to Tonio as they look onto Darkrai who then glares with a lit up eye, as the film quickly fades. In the end credits, it shows the aftermath occurring after everything, such as the Pokémon contest which Dawn competes in (which the girl with the Infernape wins). Not too long after, it shows Dialga hovering towards its next destination awaiting a battle, which will start the next adventure Ash, Dawn and Brock will face.

Featured Pokémon

Debuts

Cast

Cast
Ash Sarah Natochenny Satoshi Rica Matsumoto サトシ 松本梨香
Pikachu Ikue Ohtani Pikachu Ikue Ohtani ピカチュウ 大谷育江
Brock Bill Rogers Takeshi Yuji Ueda タケシ うえだ ゆうじ
Dawn Emily Jenness Hikari Megumi Toyoguchi ヒカリ 豊口めぐみ
Jessie Michele Knotz Musashi Megumi Hayashibara ムサシ 林原めぐみ
James Billy Beach Kojirō Shin'ichirō Miki コジロウ 三木眞一郎
Meowth Billy Beach Nyarth Inuko Inuyama ニャース 犬山イヌコ
Narration Rodger Parsons Narration Unshō Ishizuka ナレーション 石塚運昇
Special appearances by
Darkrai Scott Williams Darkrai Kōji Ishizaka ダークライ 石坂浩二
Tonio Rich McNanna Tonio Kōichi Yamadera トニオ 山本耕史
Alice Khristine Hvam Alice Rosa Katō アリス 加藤ローサ
Baron Alberto Ax Norman Baron Albert Kōichi Yamadera アルベルト男爵 山寺宏一
Kai Sean Reyes Dai Ryūji Akiyama ダイ 秋山竜次
Maury Joshua Swanson Katumi Hiroshi Yamamoto カツミ 山本 博
Allegra Emily Williams Maki Shōko Nakagawa マキ 中川翔子

Staff

Created by
原案
  • 田尻 智
  • 増田順一
  • 杉森 建
Production supervisor
スーパーバイザー
  • 石原恒和
Animation supervisor
アニメーション監修
  • Yōichi Kotabe
  • 小田部羊一
Executive producers
エグゼクティブプロデューサー
  • Masakazu Kubo
  • Kenjirō Itō
  • 久保雅一
  • 伊藤憲二郎
Producers
プロデューサー
  • Chōji Yoshikawa
  • Jun'ya Okamoto
  • Takemoto Mori
  • 吉川兆二
  • 岡本順哉
  • 盛 武源
Animation producers
アニメーションプロデューサー
  • ?
  • ?
Screenplay
脚本
  • Hideki Sonoda
  • 園田英樹
Storyboard
絵コンテ
  • 湯山邦彦
  • ?
Assistant directors
演出
  • ?
  • ?
Character design
キャラクターデザイン
  • 毛利和昭
  • 松原徳弘
  • 一石小百合
Executive animation directors
総作画監督
  • Kazuaki Mōri
  • ?
  • 毛利和昭
  • ?
Animation directors
作画監督
  • Tokuhiro Matsubara
  • ?
  • 松原徳弘
  • ?
Color keys
色彩設計
  • ?
  • ?
Colorist
色指定
  • ?
  • ?
Art supervisor
美術監修
  • Katsuyoshi Kanemura
  • 金村勝義
Art director
美術監督
  • ?
  • ?
Director of photography
撮影監督
  • Takaya Mizutani
  • 水谷貴哉
CGI
  • OLM Digital
  • OLM Digital
CGI director
CGI監督
  • Makoto Satō
  • 佐藤 誠
CGI producer
CGIプロデューサー
  • Misako Saka
  • 坂 美佐子
Editor
編集
  • Toshio Henmi
  • 辺見俊夫
Music
音楽
  • Shinji Miyazaki
  • 宮崎慎二
Music producers
音楽プロデューサー
  • Kazuo Shinohara
  • Yūji Saitō
  • 篠原一雄
  • 齋藤裕二
Sound recording mixer
劇場用レコーディングミキサー
  • Jūji Nakamura
  • 中村充時
Original score (partial)
一部原曲・作曲
  • Gō Ichinose
  • Morikazu Aoki
  • ?
  • 一之瀬 剛
  • 青木森一
  • ?
Sound director
音響監督
  • Masafumi Mima
  • 三間雅文
Recording studio
録音スタジオ
  • Aoi Studio
  • アオイスタジオ
Audio production
音響制作
  • HALF H·P STUDIO
  • HALF H·P STUDIO
Production
制作
  • Shōgakukan Production
  • 小学館プロダクション
Animation production
アニメーション制作
  • OLM Team Koitabashi
  • OLM Team Koitabashi
Director
監督
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • 湯山邦彦

Events

Pre-order distributions

Fans could choose from a poll Pokémon that starred previous films. The winner, Deoxys, was made available for those who pre-ordered their tickets to the film. Deoxys was later made available in GameStop stores in America.

Movie distribution

Darkrai knowing Roar of Time and Spacial Rend, signature moves of its co-starts in the film were made available in theaters in Japan and various stores worldwide.

Soundtrack

Main article: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai Music Collection

Manga Adaption

Main article: The Rise of Darkrai (manga)

Trivia

  • The events of this movie happen between the episodes Steamboat Willies and Top-Down Training, and premiered in Japan between those episodes.
  • Yuyama Kunihiko traveled to Spain together with screenwriter Hideki Sonoda and composer Shinji Miyazaki, to various places including the Sagrada Família and Park Güell in Barcelona, to get ideas for the setting of the movie.
  • The design of the Space-Time Tower is based on the Sagrada Família.
    • Also, the architect behind the Space-Time Tower is named Godey, and his descendant is named Tonio, both references to the architect of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí.
  • In the English dub, Darkrai is referred as a he, even though Darkrai is genderless in the games.
  • This is the first movie to feature the opening theme of the season after the one it corresponds to. In other words, despite being the 10th movie, it features a version of the opening theme of the 11th season, We Will Be Heroes.
  • Players who had pre-ordered tickets for the Japanese run could receive a Deoxys. In major cinemas, a Darkrai could be downloaded. Instructions on how to get Darkrai were provided before and after the feature presentation by Meowth.
  • This is one of the few movies without a human antagonist. The three others are Mewtwo Strikes Back, Destiny Deoxys and Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
    • It is also the sole Diamond and Pearl movie to not have a human antagonist.
  • In the trailers, Ash is seen flying over a Pidgeot. This scene was never in the movie itself.
File:InsideSpaceTimeTower.jpg
Inside the Space-Time Tower
  1. Striking Back Mewtwo
  2. Explosive Birth Lugia
  3. Crystal Tower's Entei
  4. Timeless Celebi
  5. Alto Mare's Latias
  6. Alto Mare's Latios
  7. Seven Nights Jirachi
  8. Visitor Deoxys
  9. Tree of Beginning's Mew
  10. Wave-Guiding Hero Lucario
  11. Prince of the Sea Manaphy
  12. Darkrai

Errors

  • The same Japanese voice over that is heard in Tanks for the Memories! is heard when Dawn sends out her Pokémon to play.
  • During part of the scene where Ash and Dawn's Pokémon are running up the spiral staircase in the Space-Time towers after being separated from their trainers, Aipom was mistakenly left out.
  • In the opening scenes when Palkia used Aura Sphere, it missed Dialga, however in the games, the attack never misses.

In other languages


Box office performance

Source: goo 映画
Overall ranking ⇨ 1st ⇩ 2nd ⇩ 3rd ⇩ 5th ⇨ 5th ⇨ 5th ⇩ 8th ⇩ 9th ⇩ 10th
Domestic movies ⇨ 1st ⇨ 1st ⇨ 1st ⇩ 2nd ⇧ 1st ⇨ 1st ⇩ 2nd ⇩ 3rd ⇩ 5th
Animated movies ⇨ 1st ⇨ 1st ⇩ 2nd ⇨ 2nd ⇨ 2nd ⇨ 2nd ⇨ 2nd ⇩ 3rd ⇨ 3rd

The Rise of Darkrai earned a franchise record of 5.02 billion yen (US$47 million).

See Also

External links

Pokémon movies
Original series
Mewtwo Strikes BackThe Power of OneSpell of the Unown: EnteiCelebi: The Voice of the ForestPokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
Jirachi: Wish MakerDestiny DeoxysLucario and the Mystery of MewPokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
The Rise of DarkraiGiratina and the Sky WarriorArceus and the Jewel of LifeZoroark: Master of Illusions
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
White—Victini and Zekrom / Black—Victini and ReshiramKyurem VS. The Sword of JusticeGenesect and the Legend Awakened
Pokémon the Series: XY
Diancie and the Cocoon of DestructionHoopa and the Clash of AgesVolcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
I Choose You!The Power of UsMewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Secrets of the Jungle


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