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Pokémon Live!

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[[File:Pokemon Live cover.png|thumb|''Pokémon Live!'' CD soundtrack cover]]
'''Pokémon Live!''' was a musical based on {{aniseries|PTS}}, though it is not in the same continuity. It ran in {{pmin|the United States}} from September 2000 to January 2001. A Portuguese language version played at the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon, {{pmin|Portugal}} from March 21 to March 27, 2002, and a Dutch version at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, {{pmin|Belgium|Belgium}} on April 6 and 7, 2002. A {{pmin|the United Kingdom|United Kingdom}} tour was planned for 2002, but was canceled. The U.S. version of the musical did, however, have a brief tour in {{pmin|the Arab world|Dubai}} in March 2001 as part of the annual {{wp|Dubai Shopping Festival}}, which usually lasts for thirty days. The musical was positively received, despite the Pokémon-related controversies that followed just shortly after.<ref>[http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/young-and-old-enjoy-pokemon-1.411320 Young and old enjoy Pokemon - ''Gulfnews'']</ref>

Two of the actors in Pokémon Live!, [[Darren Dunstan]] ({{an|Giovanni}}) and [[Andrew Rannells]] ([[James]]) went on to become voice actors for the [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] [[dub]] of the series.

Pokémon Live! is most notorious for featuring far more [[Shipping|heavy romantic overtones]] than the series on which it is based. In particular, Misty's feelings for Ash are [[PokéShipping|outright stated]] and a large source of angst for her character. The show was also the inspiration for DiamondShipping (the pairing of [[Delia Ketchum]] and Giovanni), named after the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}} Giovanni offers to Trainers. During the events of the story, Delia reveals to Professor Oak that she once dated Giovanni when they were teenagers, though she left his gang after meeting Ash's father. This backstory, however, outright contradicts the Japanese-only audio dramas on the origins of [[Team Rocket]].

Pokémon Live! was planned to have a [http://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com/events/live.html home video release] around the time that the Pokémon tour had finished. Much later in 2016, in an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WE5RAG68UI interview with GameInformer]; Michael Slade stated that prior to production of the musical that he had no knowledge of Pokémon whatsoever aside from who Pikachu was. He was sent a copy of ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' to help him study for the production. He watched the film several times before starting to understand it better.

Michael Slade was only given a few weeks to get the full script completed with each act being written in roughly a week. During this time, [[Ikue Otani]] also looked over the script for approval of when Pikachu would speak during production and recorded lines specifically for use in Pokémon Live!.

==Plot==
A mysterious [[Gym Leader]] is offering {{pkmn|Trainer}}s the chance to come challenge him for his one-of-a-kind prize, the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}}, and {{Ash}} has decided to accept the challenge. He declines the opportunity to join {{Delia|his mom}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in attending a lecture on {{p|Snorlax}} sleeping disorders, given by the world-renowned Pokémon expert Professor Xalrons. After they leave, {{an|Misty}} and {{an|Brock}} come in on Ash as he starts dancing to the theme song. Quickly getting himself dressed, Ash remarks that he intends to win the Diamond Badge. Misty, however, is upset with Ash because he never made good on his promise to take her to the movies for her [[birthday]] three weeks ago. Ash vows to find some way to make it up soon, insisting that his life regarding Pokémon is just as important ("[[You & Me & Pokémon]]").

Right after the Ash and his friends set off on their journey, the scene suddenly switches over to the [[Team Rocket trio]], reciting their {{motto}} to the audience. After [[Jessie]] and [[James]] engage in taunting the audience with ad-libbed insults based on where they're performing, {{MTR}} berates them and informs them that {{an|Giovanni}} wants to see them right now. They report to Giovanni as he is singing about his current world-domination scheme ("[[It Will All Be Mine]]"). The boss orders them to bring them {{AP|Pikachu}}, alive and unharmed. Right after Jessie, James, and Meowth leave, it is then revealed to the audience that Giovanni is the mysterious Gym Leader offering the Diamond Badge. Some Trainers come to challenge him, but they are all defeated by his super-robot Pokémon, [[MechaMew2]], a robot based on the powerful {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} he once owned, whose only technique is that it can copy the [[move|attacks]] of its challengers and use it against them. After the Trainers leave in defeat, Giovanni gloats about how MechaMew2 will soon have a complete collection of attacks.

Ash and his friends make their way into the forest, with Ash gushing about how good an achievement the Diamond Badge must be, while Brock goes off to flirt with some nearby female Trainers, only to be rejected by each one. Misty tries to tell Ash that there is more to life than battling for [[Badge|Gym Badges]], and remarks to him that since the Diamond Badge is one-of-a-kind, it will likely be much harder to obtain than the ones he got from her sisters or Brock. Ash retorts that winning Badges are a special symbol, "like when your teacher gives you a gold star, or when your parents give you your own keys to the car, or a guy gives a girl her own ring to wear." Brock comes back from being rejected by the girls he's just flirting with, but just as Misty starts arguing with him, Ash stops the fight by leading them in singing "[[My Best Friends]]".

Up ahead, Team Rocket is digging up one of their pit traps, intending for "the [[twerp]]s" to fall into it, but to their dismay, Ash and friends simply walk over the pit with no problems. When Jessie and James come out of hiding to see what went wrong, they find that they left the supports in, and they make the mistake of pulling them out and falling into the trap themselves. Frustrated, Meowth walks off to get a rope.

Meanwhile, Delia and Professor Oak approach the run-down old building where the Snorlax lecture is being held. As they're entering, Delia admits that she fears she's losing touch with her son as he's growing up; the Professor replies that she shouldn't worry so much, as things never stay the same for long ("[[Everything Changes]]"). Just as they finish singing, Giovanni shows up and has his {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|Rocket Grunts}} surround and capture them. It turns out the Snorlax lecture was actually a trap devised by Giovanni to lure Professor Oak into his clutches so he couldn't interfere with his plan. The boss also recognizes Delia as an old friend of his, who insists everything between them was in the past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 1)").

Back in the forest, Ash, Misty, and Brock have gotten lost, because Brock accidentally threw the map away while talking to the female Trainers earlier. They then cross paths with a deaf Trainer, who agrees to share his map with them if "the guy with the weird hair" agrees to battle with him. Ash accepts the challenge, only to find that the deaf Trainer has a {{p|Jigglypuff}} in his arsenal. Jigglypuff's {{m|Sing|song}} puts all but its Trainer to {{status|sleep}}, and it starts drawing on their faces as the deaf Trainer leaves them his map. After they leave, Misty wakes up and cleans Jigglypuff's drawings off Ash's face, while singing to herself about her feelings for him and fears of rejection ("[[Misty's Song]]"). Ash soon wakes up, wondering whose voice he just heard singing, to which Misty answers by saying he probably just heard a side effect of Jigglypuff's song. With the map in possession again, the trio continues their journey.

Meanwhile, Meowth returns to the pit with the rope and finds his teammates sleeping as a result of Jigglypuff's song. As they climb out, he complains about their incompetence and berates them on what failures they are. Jessie and James become depressed from the realization that Meowth is right about them being failures, but he quickly cheers them up by telling them that being failures is at least something they're perfect at doing ("[[The Best at Being the Worst]]"). This brings Jessie and James back to full confidence, and they continue after their target, with Meowth wondering if he should have taken up psychiatry.

At {{ci|Cerulean}} Blue Lagoon, Ash declares to Misty and Brock that he's going to use Pikachu in the battle against the Gym Leader. As they sing and dance to "[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]", Team Rocket comes up behind them in their {{p|Magikarp}} [[Team Rocket's mechas|submarine]] and, while they're not looking, snatches Pikachu. When he sees that Pikachu has vanished, Ash tells Misty and Brock to split up and search for it, convinced that Team Rocket has captured his friend. Misty, however, suggests that maybe Pikachu has instead left Ash on its own free will ("maybe you missed ''his'' birthday too"), given his apparent habit of ignoring his friends. With that, she leaves Ash to ponder her words ("[[The Time Has Come (Pikachu's Goodbye)]]").

At Giovanni's [[Gym]], Delia and Professor Oak are locked in a cage by his battle arena. After a failed attempt to break free, the Professor asks Delia why Giovanni recognized her. She explains that, when she was a teenager, she used to hang out with a gang of troublemakers (who later became [[Team Rocket]]) led by Giovanni; she eventually left them when she met Ash's father, and she has never told this to her son, because she fears he wouldn't understand. After the story, Giovanni enters to boast to them about his [[MechaMew2]], during which he sings his dark reprise of "[[You & Me & Pokémon]]". Immediately following this, Jessie, James and Meowth show up with the captured Pikachu (while singing "[[Double Trouble]]"). Giovanni is pleased with this, as Pikachu possesses the only attacks MechaMew2 has not yet learned, and he orders Jessie and James have it attack MechaMew2. Pikachu instead responds to Jessie and James's orders by shocking them, during which they flip a switch that causes Delia and the Professor’s cage to open and allow them to escape. Giovanni realizes he'll need Pikachu's Trainer for it to listen to, and tells Jessie and James to bring him the Trainer.

In the woods, Misty admits to Brock that she didn't really mean it when she said Pikachu probably chose to leave Ash; she only said it because she wanted him to realize he's alienating his friends by ignoring them. Brock starts teasing her about her feelings for Ash, but Misty retorts that Brock is no different in that regard, given his flirting with the female Trainers earlier, as well as his feelings for Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy, to which Brock responds by suddenly singing "[[Two Perfect Girls]]". After he finishes, Misty drags him back into looking for Pikachu, but secretly soliloquizes about her pining for Ash. Elsewhere in the woods, Delia continues discussing her past with the Professor and how she can't bring herself to tell Ash about it, and Ash tries to face up to the fact that he may have to go on without Pikachu ("[[I've Got a Secret]]").

Right after the song, the groups come together. Misty and Brock inform Ash that they couldn't find Pikachu, so Ash decides he'll have to try and win the Diamond Badge without him. Professor Oak and Delia then tell Ash that Team Rocket's leader is holding Pikachu hostage. Ash, now knowing he was right about Pikachu not running out on him, resolves that he will go save Pikachu. Before he and his friends can get going, though, Delia confesses to Ash about her past acquaintance with Giovanni, saying she didn't want him to find it out from Giovanni himself. Just then, Team Rocket shows up on scooters, but before they can recite their motto, Ash demands them to take him to Giovanni. Jessie and James question why their task is so easy, but they go ahead and take Ash off to the Gym. The others try to follow, but Meowth tells them Giovanni only wants Ash, leaving Delia to wonder if she did the right thing in telling Ash about her past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 2)").

After Team Rocket brings Ash to him, Giovanni, annoyed with their presence orders them to leave the arena, and they do so, crashing their scooters offstage. Giovanni releases Pikachu and then introduces [[MechaMew2]] to him. He allows Ash to have the Diamond Badge for the duration of the fight, saying he'll retrieve it afterwards. Ash orders Pikachu to use {{m|Thunder Shock}}, followed by {{m|Thunder}}, but to his surprise, MechaMew2 suffers no damage, and Giovanni proclaims that he has won, as those were the last attacks MechaMew2 needed to learn.

Ash valiantly stands up to Giovanni and refuses to let him get away with his victory ("[[You Just Can't Win]]"), but Giovanni orders MechaMew2 to attack the both of them with a {{m|Hyper Beam}}. But when it does, a force-field appears around Ash and Pikachu, protecting them, as an off-screen voice proclaims that "the boy will not be harmed." The bearer of the voice then steps in - it is the original {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}. Ash doesn't recognize him, but Giovanni does and brags about the superiority of his mechanical replica. Mewtwo is unimpressed and accepts Giovanni's offer to battle MechaMew2. Ash begs Mewtwo not to do so, fearing MechaMew2 will just copy the {{t|Psychic}} attacks, but Mewtwo tells Ash that "the true power is within you," and then sends visions of Ash's happy memories (shown as rapidly-displayed clips on the screens) to MechaMew2. Nothing seems to happen, but to Giovanni's surprise, MechaMew2 begins speaking and rebels against him, saying Mewtwo has taught it the value of love and goodness from Ash's memories, and therefore can no longer let Giovanni's evil scheme to go forth. Grabbing Team Rocket's leader by the neck, it prepares to perform a {{m|Self-Destruct}}, despite Giovanni's attempts to offer a compromise, and tells Mewtwo to get Ash and Pikachu out while he still can. Giovanni, managing to escape MechaMew2's grasp just before it explodes, curses Mewtwo for defeating him again, but as Mewtwo takes Ash and Pikachu out of the building, he remarks that "this time it was not me, it was the boy."

Later, an unconscious Ash wakes up back in the forest with his mom and his friends gathered around him. He says he has just battling Giovanni but he has no memory of what happened, but he tells his mother that he still loves her even despite her past acquaintance with Team Rocket. He then finds the Diamond Badge still in his pocket and remembers that Giovanni gave it to him before the battle. He says he isn't sure if he really deserves it, so, taking a suggestion from Pikachu, he gives it to Misty as a belated birthday gift ("[[Finale]]").

==Characters==
===Humans===
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Misty}}
* {{an|Brock}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* {{an|Giovanni}}
* [[Delia Ketchum]]
* {{an|Professor Oak}}
* [[Officer Jenny]]
* [[Nurse Joy]]
* {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s

===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Alakazam}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Venusaur}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Electrode}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Jigglypuff}} (deaf {{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Mewtwo}} ({{OBP|Mewtwo|M01|M01}})
* [[MechaMew2]] ({{an|Giovanni}}'s)
* {{p|Hitmonlee}}
* {{p|Grimer}}
* {{p|Farfetch'd}}
* {{p|Mankey}}
* {{p|Venonat}}
* {{p|Zubat}}
* {{p|Hoothoot}}
* {{p|Golduck}}
* {{p|Arbok}}
* {{p|Drowzee}}
* {{p|Clefable}}
* {{p|Pinsir}}
* {{p|Wartortle}}
* {{p|Machoke}}
* {{p|Poliwrath}}
* {{p|Magnemite}}
* {{p|Voltorb}}
* {{p|Butterfree}} (multiple)
* {{p|Zapdos}}
* {{p|Pidgeot}}
* {{p|Golbat}}
* {{p|Geodude}}
* {{p|Koffing}}
* {{p|Goldeen}}
* {{p|Horsea}} (two)
* {{p|Vaporeon}}
* {{p|Pikachu}} (multiple)
* {{p|Psyduck}}
* {{p|Mew}}
* {{p|Lapras}} (Built but not used)

==Cast==
{| class="roundy" style="background: #{{colorschemedark|Kanto}}; width:50%"
|-
! colspan=2 | <big>{{color|000|Cast}}</big>
|-
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash Ketchum|disp=Ash Ketchum|Dominic Nolfi|top=yes|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Misty (anime)|disp=Misty|Heidi Weyhmueller|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Brock (anime)|disp=Brock|Dennis Kenney|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Jennifer Risser (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Ikue Otani{{!}}Ikue Otani (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jessie|disp=Jessie|Lauren Kling|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|James|disp=James|Andrew Rannells}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Kathleen Roche (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Maddie Blaustein{{!}}Maddie Blaustein (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Giovanni (anime)|disp=Giovanni|Darren Dunstan}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Delia Ketchum|disp=Mrs. Ketchum|wp:Dee Roscioli{{!}}Dee Roscioli}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Professor Oak (anime)|disp=Professor Oak|Patrick Frankfort|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokédex|disp=Dexter|Sinclair Mitchell (voice)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Officer Jenny|disp=Officer Jenny|Suzanne Wogisch|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Nurse Joy|disp=Nurse Joy|Natalie Weld|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|Marton Fulop (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|List of English voice actors{{!}}Jay Goede (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Michael Haigney{{!}}Michael Haigney (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Rachael Lillis{{!}}Rachael Lillis (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Venusaur (Pokémon)|disp=Venusaur's Trainer|Abbey Marie O'Brien|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokémon Trainer|disp=Deaf Trainer|Jesse Nager|link=no}}
|}


==Songs==
A soundtrack for the musical was released entitled ''[[Pokémon Gotta Catch 'em Live!]]''.

*"[[You & Me & Pokémon]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Playoff)"
*"[[It Will All Be Mine]]" - Giovanni
*"It Will All Be Mine (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[My Best Friends]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"[[Everything Changes]]" - Professor Oak and Mrs. Ketchum
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 1)" - Giovanni
*"[[Misty's Song]]" - Misty
*"[[The Best at Being the Worst]]" - Team Rocket
*"[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]" - Ash
*"[[What Kind of Pokémon Are You?]]" - Dexter and the Dextettes
*"{{OBP|The Time Has Come|Pikachu's Goodbye}}" - Ash
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[Double Trouble]]" - Team Rocket
*"Double Trouble (Reprise)" - Team Rocket
*"[[Two Perfect Girls]]" - Brock
*"[[I've Got a Secret]]" - Mrs. Ketchum, Misty, and Ash
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 2)" - Mrs. Ketchum
*"[[You Just Can't Win]]" - Ash and Giovanni
*"[[Finale]]" - Company

==Production==
The idea for Pokémon Live! was conceived by the president of 4Kids Productions, [[Norman J. Grossfeld]]. The show was directed and choreographed by Luis Perez, and was written by Michael Slade. Musical Direction was done by [[John Loeffler]] and [[John Siegler]], who have both written songs for {{aniseries|PTS}}. Set production was done by Hotopp Associates Limited, and Lighting Design by David Agress Lighting, Inc. Costumes for Pokémon Live! were designed by Yvette Helin Studios, who also assisted Geppetto Studios in creating seventeen standee Pokémon puppets.

==Performance dates and locations==
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===Europe===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| March 21-27, 2002
| {{wp|Lisbon, Portugal}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | April 6-7, 2002
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Antwerp, Belgium}}
|}

===Middle East===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | March 1-31, 2001
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Dubai}}, {{wp|United Arab Emirates}}
|}

===United States===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 2-5, 2000
| {{wp|Columbus, Ohio}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 8-12, 2000
| {{wp|Indianapolis, Indiana}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 15-19, 2000
| {{wp|Fairfax, Virginia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 22-26, 2000
| {{wp|Atlanta, Georgia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 29-December 3, 2000
| {{wp|Charlotte, North Carolina}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 5-10, 2000
| {{wp|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 12-13, 2000
| {{wp|Lowell, Massachusetts}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 14-17, 2000
| {{wp|Worcester, New York}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | December 27-31, 2000
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Milwaukee, Wisconsin}}
|}

==Videos==
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==Trivia==
* {{wp|Dee Roscioli}} and Patrick Frankfort, who portrayed {{Delia}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in the U.S. tour, were in a romantic relationship at the time. This is referenced by {{Ash}} telling Professor Oak, "Don't bring my mom home too late!"
* During Giovanni's reveal of the [[Diamond Badge]], a link to the website www.diamondbadge.com can be seen. While Pokémon Live was running, this URL would actually lead to the official Pokémon Live website and once the show ended, would redirect to the official Pokémon site for a number of years - the domain finally being dropped around 2017-2018.
* Jessie and James' commentary during [[It Will All Be Mine]] has James reference the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy - a controversial military policy that banned openly LGBTQ+ people from serving in the army, but allowed ones who were closeted to serve.
* According to the show's program, [[Ikue Otani]], [[Maddie Blaustein]] and [[List of English voice actors|Jay Goede]] reprised their roles of {{AP|Pikachu}}, {{MTR}} and {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} respectively. Goede is credited by his real name in Pokémon Live! instead of his stage name, Philip Bartlett, which was used in ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''. {{p|Jigglypuff}} and {{p|Psyduck}}'s voices are uncredited but are possibly archive recordings of [[Rachael Lillis]] and [[Michael Haigney]], respectively. No other voice actors are known to have reprised their roles from {{aniseries|PTS}} in this production.
* Dennis Kenney, the actor who played {{an|Brock}}, appeared as a host in the [[Pokémon Insider: The Video|Pokémon Insider promotional video]]. The video includes a clip of himself (in character as Brock) performing the song [[Two Perfect Girls]].
* Both Pokémon Insider and [[Pokémon.com]] at the time claimed Pokémon Live! was to be aired on television and released on home video in the United States, but no such broadcast or release ever occurred. This was explained years later as due to a lack of financial success and a lack of interest that lead to the home video release being scrapped.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com:80/events/live.html Pokémon Live! - ''Pokémon.com (archived)'']</ref> Producer Chris Mitchell confirmed that a high definition professional recording was made but that plans for releasing it ended up falling through.
* Michael Slade stated in a 2016 interview with GameInformer that alongside [[MechaMew2]], there was supposed to be one more Pokémon that Ash Ketchum would face off against that would attack using bubbles. It was scrapped late into production and forgotten about, however footage of interviews taken after the tech rehearsals show what it was- a {{p|Lapras}}.
* Stage actors would get annoyed by children who were taking their Pokémon lights and pointing them at the stage during dark lighting moments.
* Some of the props were left behind in a now-abandoned theater (which never hosted the musical) in Canada before the show moved overseas and were discovered nearly 20 years later by urban explorers.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{wp|Pokémon Live!|Pokémon Live! on Wikipedia}}
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20100101124901/http://trsrockin.com/pklive.html Plot and song lyrics for Pokémon Live!] (archived)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020718172935/http://www.nationwidearena.com/schedule/news/disp_release.php?id=18 News article on Nation Wide Arena] (archived)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250123082520/https://www.yvettehelinstudio.com/pokemon.html Yvette Helin Studios' Pokémon Live! page] (archived)

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[[File:Pokemon Live cover.png|thumb|''Pokémon Live!'' CD soundtrack cover]]
'''Pokémon Live!''' was a musical based on {{aniseries|PTS}}, though it is not in the same continuity. It ran in {{pmin|the United States}} from September 2000 to January 2001. A Portuguese language version played at the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon, {{pmin|Portugal}} from March 21 to March 27, 2002, and a Dutch version at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, {{pmin|Belgium|Belgium}} on April 6 and 7, 2002. A {{pmin|the United Kingdom|United Kingdom}} tour was planned for 2002, but was canceled. The U.S. version of the musical did, however, have a brief tour in {{pmin|the Arab world|Dubai}} in March 2001 as part of the annual {{wp|Dubai Shopping Festival}}, which usually lasts for thirty days. The musical was positively received, despite the Pokémon-related controversies that followed just shortly after.<ref>[http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/young-and-old-enjoy-pokemon-1.411320 Young and old enjoy Pokemon - ''Gulfnews'']</ref>

Two of the actors in Pokémon Live!, [[Darren Dunstan]] ({{an|Giovanni}}) and [[Andrew Rannells]] ([[James]]) went on to become voice actors for the [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] [[dub]] of the series.

Pokémon Live! is most notorious for featuring far more [[Shipping|heavy romantic overtones]] than the series on which it is based. In particular, Misty's feelings for Ash are [[PokéShipping|outright stated]] and a large source of angst for her character. The show was also the inspiration for DiamondShipping (the pairing of [[Delia Ketchum]] and Giovanni), named after the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}} Giovanni offers to Trainers. During the events of the story, Delia reveals to Professor Oak that she once dated Giovanni when they were teenagers, though she left his gang after meeting Ash's father. This backstory, however, outright contradicts the Japanese-only audio dramas on the origins of [[Team Rocket]].

Pokémon Live! was planned to have a [http://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com/events/live.html home video release] around the time that the Pokémon tour had finished. Much later in 2016, in an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WE5RAG68UI interview with GameInformer]; Michael Slade stated that prior to production of the musical that he had no knowledge of Pokémon whatsoever aside from who Pikachu was. He was sent a copy of ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' to help him study for the production. He watched the film several times before starting to understand it better.

Michael Slade was only given a few weeks to get the full script completed with each act being written in roughly a week. During this time, [[Ikue Otani]] also looked over the script for approval of when Pikachu would speak during production and recorded lines specifically for use in Pokémon Live!.

==Plot==
A mysterious [[Gym Leader]] is offering {{pkmn|Trainer}}s the chance to come challenge him for his one-of-a-kind prize, the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}}, and {{Ash}} has decided to accept the challenge. He declines the opportunity to join {{Delia|his mom}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in attending a lecture on {{p|Snorlax}} sleeping disorders, given by the world-renowned Pokémon expert Professor Xalrons. After they leave, {{an|Misty}} and {{an|Brock}} come in on Ash as he starts dancing to the theme song. Quickly getting himself dressed, Ash remarks that he intends to win the Diamond Badge. Misty, however, is upset with Ash because he never made good on his promise to take her to the movies for her [[birthday]] three weeks ago. Ash vows to find some way to make it up soon, insisting that his life regarding Pokémon is just as important ("[[You & Me & Pokémon]]").

Right after the Ash and his friends set off on their journey, the scene suddenly switches over to the [[Team Rocket trio]], reciting their {{motto}} to the audience. After [[Jessie]] and [[James]] engage in taunting the audience with ad-libbed insults based on where they're performing, {{MTR}} berates them and informs them that {{an|Giovanni}} wants to see them right now. They report to Giovanni as he is singing about his current world-domination scheme ("[[It Will All Be Mine]]"). The boss orders them to bring them {{AP|Pikachu}}, alive and unharmed. Right after Jessie, James, and Meowth leave, it is then revealed to the audience that Giovanni is the mysterious Gym Leader offering the Diamond Badge. Some Trainers come to challenge him, but they are all defeated by his super-robot Pokémon, [[MechaMew2]], a robot based on the powerful {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} he once owned, whose only technique is that it can copy the [[move|attacks]] of its challengers and use it against them. After the Trainers leave in defeat, Giovanni gloats about how MechaMew2 will soon have a complete collection of attacks.

Ash and his friends make their way into the forest, with Ash gushing about how good an achievement the Diamond Badge must be, while Brock goes off to flirt with some nearby female Trainers, only to be rejected by each one. Misty tries to tell Ash that there is more to life than battling for [[Badge|Gym Badges]], and remarks to him that since the Diamond Badge is one-of-a-kind, it will likely be much harder to obtain than the ones he got from her sisters or Brock. Ash retorts that winning Badges are a special symbol, "like when your teacher gives you a gold star, or when your parents give you your own keys to the car, or a guy gives a girl her own ring to wear." Brock comes back from being rejected by the girls he's just flirting with, but just as Misty starts arguing with him, Ash stops the fight by leading them in singing "[[My Best Friends]]".

Up ahead, Team Rocket is digging up one of their pit traps, intending for "the [[twerp]]s" to fall into it, but to their dismay, Ash and friends simply walk over the pit with no problems. When Jessie and James come out of hiding to see what went wrong, they find that they left the supports in, and they make the mistake of pulling them out and falling into the trap themselves. Frustrated, Meowth walks off to get a rope.

Meanwhile, Delia and Professor Oak approach the run-down old building where the Snorlax lecture is being held. As they're entering, Delia admits that she fears she's losing touch with her son as he's growing up; the Professor replies that she shouldn't worry so much, as things never stay the same for long ("[[Everything Changes]]"). Just as they finish singing, Giovanni shows up and has his {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|Rocket Grunts}} surround and capture them. It turns out the Snorlax lecture was actually a trap devised by Giovanni to lure Professor Oak into his clutches so he couldn't interfere with his plan. The boss also recognizes Delia as an old friend of his, who insists everything between them was in the past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 1)").

Back in the forest, Ash, Misty, and Brock have gotten lost, because Brock accidentally threw the map away while talking to the female Trainers earlier. They then cross paths with a deaf Trainer, who agrees to share his map with them if "the guy with the weird hair" agrees to battle with him. Ash accepts the challenge, only to find that the deaf Trainer has a {{p|Jigglypuff}} in his arsenal. Jigglypuff's {{m|Sing|song}} puts all but its Trainer to {{status|sleep}}, and it starts drawing on their faces as the deaf Trainer leaves them his map. After they leave, Misty wakes up and cleans Jigglypuff's drawings off Ash's face, while singing to herself about her feelings for him and fears of rejection ("[[Misty's Song]]"). Ash soon wakes up, wondering whose voice he just heard singing, to which Misty answers by saying he probably just heard a side effect of Jigglypuff's song. With the map in possession again, the trio continues their journey.

Meanwhile, Meowth returns to the pit with the rope and finds his teammates sleeping as a result of Jigglypuff's song. As they climb out, he complains about their incompetence and berates them on what failures they are. Jessie and James become depressed from the realization that Meowth is right about them being failures, but he quickly cheers them up by telling them that being failures is at least something they're perfect at doing ("[[The Best at Being the Worst]]"). This brings Jessie and James back to full confidence, and they continue after their target, with Meowth wondering if he should have taken up psychiatry.

At {{ci|Cerulean}} Blue Lagoon, Ash declares to Misty and Brock that he's going to use Pikachu in the battle against the Gym Leader. As they sing and dance to "[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]", Team Rocket comes up behind them in their {{p|Magikarp}} [[Team Rocket's mechas|submarine]] and, while they're not looking, snatches Pikachu. When he sees that Pikachu has vanished, Ash tells Misty and Brock to split up and search for it, convinced that Team Rocket has captured his friend. Misty, however, suggests that maybe Pikachu has instead left Ash on its own free will ("maybe you missed ''his'' birthday too"), given his apparent habit of ignoring his friends. With that, she leaves Ash to ponder her words ("[[The Time Has Come (Pikachu's Goodbye)]]").

At Giovanni's [[Gym]], Delia and Professor Oak are locked in a cage by his battle arena. After a failed attempt to break free, the Professor asks Delia why Giovanni recognized her. She explains that, when she was a teenager, she used to hang out with a gang of troublemakers (who later became [[Team Rocket]]) led by Giovanni; she eventually left them when she met Ash's father, and she has never told this to her son, because she fears he wouldn't understand. After the story, Giovanni enters to boast to them about his [[MechaMew2]], during which he sings his dark reprise of "[[You & Me & Pokémon]]". Immediately following this, Jessie, James and Meowth show up with the captured Pikachu (while singing "[[Double Trouble]]"). Giovanni is pleased with this, as Pikachu possesses the only attacks MechaMew2 has not yet learned, and he orders Jessie and James have it attack MechaMew2. Pikachu instead responds to Jessie and James's orders by shocking them, during which they flip a switch that causes Delia and the Professor’s cage to open and allow them to escape. Giovanni realizes he'll need Pikachu's Trainer for it to listen to, and tells Jessie and James to bring him the Trainer.

In the woods, Misty admits to Brock that she didn't really mean it when she said Pikachu probably chose to leave Ash; she only said it because she wanted him to realize he's alienating his friends by ignoring them. Brock starts teasing her about her feelings for Ash, but Misty retorts that Brock is no different in that regard, given his flirting with the female Trainers earlier, as well as his feelings for Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy, to which Brock responds by suddenly singing "[[Two Perfect Girls]]". After he finishes, Misty drags him back into looking for Pikachu, but secretly soliloquizes about her pining for Ash. Elsewhere in the woods, Delia continues discussing her past with the Professor and how she can't bring herself to tell Ash about it, and Ash tries to face up to the fact that he may have to go on without Pikachu ("[[I've Got a Secret]]").

Right after the song, the groups come together. Misty and Brock inform Ash that they couldn't find Pikachu, so Ash decides he'll have to try and win the Diamond Badge without him. Professor Oak and Delia then tell Ash that Team Rocket's leader is holding Pikachu hostage. Ash, now knowing he was right about Pikachu not running out on him, resolves that he will go save Pikachu. Before he and his friends can get going, though, Delia confesses to Ash about her past acquaintance with Giovanni, saying she didn't want him to find it out from Giovanni himself. Just then, Team Rocket shows up on scooters, but before they can recite their motto, Ash demands them to take him to Giovanni. Jessie and James question why their task is so easy, but they go ahead and take Ash off to the Gym. The others try to follow, but Meowth tells them Giovanni only wants Ash, leaving Delia to wonder if she did the right thing in telling Ash about her past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 2)").

After Team Rocket brings Ash to him, Giovanni, annoyed with their presence orders them to leave the arena, and they do so, crashing their scooters offstage. Giovanni releases Pikachu and then introduces [[MechaMew2]] to him. He allows Ash to have the Diamond Badge for the duration of the fight, saying he'll retrieve it afterwards. Ash orders Pikachu to use {{m|Thunder Shock}}, followed by {{m|Thunder}}, but to his surprise, MechaMew2 suffers no damage, and Giovanni proclaims that he has won, as those were the last attacks MechaMew2 needed to learn.

Ash valiantly stands up to Giovanni and refuses to let him get away with his victory ("[[You Just Can't Win]]"), but Giovanni orders MechaMew2 to attack the both of them with a {{m|Hyper Beam}}. But when it does, a force-field appears around Ash and Pikachu, protecting them, as an off-screen voice proclaims that "the boy will not be harmed." The bearer of the voice then steps in - it is the original {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}. Ash doesn't recognize him, but Giovanni does and brags about the superiority of his mechanical replica. Mewtwo is unimpressed and accepts Giovanni's offer to battle MechaMew2. Ash begs Mewtwo not to do so, fearing MechaMew2 will just copy the {{t|Psychic}} attacks, but Mewtwo tells Ash that "the true power is within you," and then sends visions of Ash's happy memories (shown as rapidly-displayed clips on the screens) to MechaMew2. Nothing seems to happen, but to Giovanni's surprise, MechaMew2 begins speaking and rebels against him, saying Mewtwo has taught it the value of love and goodness from Ash's memories, and therefore can no longer let Giovanni's evil scheme to go forth. Grabbing Team Rocket's leader by the neck, it prepares to perform a {{m|Self-Destruct}}, despite Giovanni's attempts to offer a compromise, and tells Mewtwo to get Ash and Pikachu out while he still can. Giovanni, managing to escape MechaMew2's grasp just before it explodes, curses Mewtwo for defeating him again, but as Mewtwo takes Ash and Pikachu out of the building, he remarks that "this time it was not me, it was the boy."

Later, an unconscious Ash wakes up back in the forest with his mom and his friends gathered around him. He says he has just battling Giovanni but he has no memory of what happened, but he tells his mother that he still loves her even despite her past acquaintance with Team Rocket. He then finds the Diamond Badge still in his pocket and remembers that Giovanni gave it to him before the battle. He says he isn't sure if he really deserves it, so, taking a suggestion from Pikachu, he gives it to Misty as a belated birthday gift ("[[Finale]]").

==Characters==
===Humans===
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Misty}}
* {{an|Brock}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* {{an|Giovanni}}
* [[Delia Ketchum]]
* {{an|Professor Oak}}
* [[Officer Jenny]]
* [[Nurse Joy]]
* {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s

===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Alakazam}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Venusaur}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Electrode}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Jigglypuff}} (deaf {{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Mewtwo}} ({{OBP|Mewtwo|M01|M01}})
* [[MechaMew2]] ({{an|Giovanni}}'s)
* {{p|Hitmonlee}}
* {{p|Grimer}}
* {{p|Farfetch'd}}
* {{p|Mankey}}
* {{p|Venonat}}
* {{p|Zubat}}
* {{p|Hoothoot}}
* {{p|Golduck}}
* {{p|Arbok}}
* {{p|Drowzee}}
* {{p|Clefable}}
* {{p|Pinsir}}
* {{p|Wartortle}}
* {{p|Machoke}}
* {{p|Poliwrath}}
* {{p|Magnemite}}
* {{p|Voltorb}}
* {{p|Butterfree}} (multiple)
* {{p|Zapdos}}
* {{p|Pidgeot}}
* {{p|Golbat}}
* {{p|Geodude}}
* {{p|Koffing}}
* {{p|Goldeen}}
* {{p|Horsea}} (two)
* {{p|Vaporeon}}
* {{p|Pikachu}} (multiple)
* {{p|Psyduck}}
* {{p|Mew}}
* {{pLapras}} (Built but not used)

==Cast==
{| class="roundy" style="background: #{{colorschemedark|Kanto}}; width:50%"
|-
! colspan=2 | <big>{{color|000|Cast}}</big>
|-
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash Ketchum|disp=Ash Ketchum|Dominic Nolfi|top=yes|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Misty (anime)|disp=Misty|Heidi Weyhmueller|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Brock (anime)|disp=Brock|Dennis Kenney|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Jennifer Risser (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Ikue Otani{{!}}Ikue Otani (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jessie|disp=Jessie|Lauren Kling|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|James|disp=James|Andrew Rannells}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Kathleen Roche (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Maddie Blaustein{{!}}Maddie Blaustein (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Giovanni (anime)|disp=Giovanni|Darren Dunstan}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Delia Ketchum|disp=Mrs. Ketchum|wp:Dee Roscioli{{!}}Dee Roscioli}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Professor Oak (anime)|disp=Professor Oak|Patrick Frankfort|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokédex|disp=Dexter|Sinclair Mitchell (voice)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Officer Jenny|disp=Officer Jenny|Suzanne Wogisch|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Nurse Joy|disp=Nurse Joy|Natalie Weld|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|Marton Fulop (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|List of English voice actors{{!}}Jay Goede (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Michael Haigney{{!}}Michael Haigney (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Rachael Lillis{{!}}Rachael Lillis (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Venusaur (Pokémon)|disp=Venusaur's Trainer|Abbey Marie O'Brien|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokémon Trainer|disp=Deaf Trainer|Jesse Nager|link=no}}
|}


==Songs==
A soundtrack for the musical was released entitled ''[[Pokémon Gotta Catch 'em Live!]]''.

*"[[You & Me & Pokémon]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Playoff)"
*"[[It Will All Be Mine]]" - Giovanni
*"It Will All Be Mine (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[My Best Friends]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"[[Everything Changes]]" - Professor Oak and Mrs. Ketchum
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 1)" - Giovanni
*"[[Misty's Song]]" - Misty
*"[[The Best at Being the Worst]]" - Team Rocket
*"[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]" - Ash
*"[[What Kind of Pokémon Are You?]]" - Dexter and the Dextettes
*"{{OBP|The Time Has Come|Pikachu's Goodbye}}" - Ash
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[Double Trouble]]" - Team Rocket
*"Double Trouble (Reprise)" - Team Rocket
*"[[Two Perfect Girls]]" - Brock
*"[[I've Got a Secret]]" - Mrs. Ketchum, Misty, and Ash
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 2)" - Mrs. Ketchum
*"[[You Just Can't Win]]" - Ash and Giovanni
*"[[Finale]]" - Company

==Production==
The idea for Pokémon Live! was conceived by the president of 4Kids Productions, [[Norman J. Grossfeld]]. The show was directed and choreographed by Luis Perez, and was written by Michael Slade. Musical Direction was done by [[John Loeffler]] and [[John Siegler]], who have both written songs for {{aniseries|PTS}}. Set production was done by Hotopp Associates Limited, and Lighting Design by David Agress Lighting, Inc. Costumes for Pokémon Live! were designed by Yvette Helin Studios, who also assisted Geppetto Studios in creating seventeen standee Pokémon puppets.

==Performance dates and locations==
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===Europe===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| March 21-27, 2002
| {{wp|Lisbon, Portugal}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | April 6-7, 2002
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Antwerp, Belgium}}
|}

===Middle East===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | March 1-31, 2001
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Dubai}}, {{wp|United Arab Emirates}}
|}

===United States===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 2-5, 2000
| {{wp|Columbus, Ohio}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 8-12, 2000
| {{wp|Indianapolis, Indiana}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 15-19, 2000
| {{wp|Fairfax, Virginia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 22-26, 2000
| {{wp|Atlanta, Georgia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 29-December 3, 2000
| {{wp|Charlotte, North Carolina}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 5-10, 2000
| {{wp|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 12-13, 2000
| {{wp|Lowell, Massachusetts}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 14-17, 2000
| {{wp|Worcester, New York}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | December 27-31, 2000
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Milwaukee, Wisconsin}}
|}

==Videos==
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==Trivia==
* {{wp|Dee Roscioli}} and Patrick Frankfort, who portrayed {{Delia}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in the U.S. tour, were in a romantic relationship at the time. This is referenced by {{Ash}} telling Professor Oak, "Don't bring my mom home too late!"
* During Giovanni's reveal of the [[Diamond Badge]], a link to the website www.diamondbadge.com can be seen. While Pokémon Live was running, this URL would actually lead to the official Pokémon Live website and once the show ended, would redirect to the official Pokémon site for a number of years - the domain finally being dropped around 2017-2018.
* Jessie and James' commentary during [[It Will All Be Mine]] has James reference the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy - a controversial military policy that banned openly LGBTQ+ people from serving in the army, but allowed ones who were closeted to serve.
* According to the show's program, [[Ikue Otani]], [[Maddie Blaustein]] and [[List of English voice actors|Jay Goede]] reprised their roles of {{AP|Pikachu}}, {{MTR}} and {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} respectively. Goede is credited by his real name in Pokémon Live! instead of his stage name, Philip Bartlett, which was used in ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''. {{p|Jigglypuff}} and {{p|Psyduck}}'s voices are uncredited but are possibly archive recordings of [[Rachael Lillis]] and [[Michael Haigney]], respectively. No other voice actors are known to have reprised their roles from {{aniseries|PTS}} in this production.
* Dennis Kenney, the actor who played {{an|Brock}}, appeared as a host in the [[Pokémon Insider: The Video|Pokémon Insider promotional video]]. The video includes a clip of himself (in character as Brock) performing the song [[Two Perfect Girls]].
* Both Pokémon Insider and [[Pokémon.com]] at the time claimed Pokémon Live! was to be aired on television and released on home video in the United States, but no such broadcast or release ever occurred. This was explained years later as due to a lack of financial success and a lack of interest that lead to the home video release being scrapped.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com:80/events/live.html Pokémon Live! - ''Pokémon.com (archived)'']</ref> Producer Chris Mitchell confirmed that a high definition professional recording was made but that plans for releasing it ended up falling through.
* Michael Slade stated in a 2016 interview with GameInformer that alongside [[MechaMew2]], there was supposed to be one more Pokémon that Ash Ketchum would face off against that would attack using bubbles. It was scrapped late into production and forgotten about, however footage of interviews taken after the tech rehearsals show what it was- a {{p|Lapras}}.
* Stage actors would get annoyed by children who were taking their Pokémon lights and pointing them at the stage during dark lighting moments.
* Some of the props were left behind in a now-abandoned theater (which never hosted the musical) in Canada before the show moved overseas and were discovered nearly 20 years later by urban explorers.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{wp|Pokémon Live!|Pokémon Live! on Wikipedia}}
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20100101124901/http://trsrockin.com/pklive.html Plot and song lyrics for Pokémon Live!] (archived)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020718172935/http://www.nationwidearena.com/schedule/news/disp_release.php?id=18 News article on Nation Wide Arena] (archived)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250123082520/https://www.yvettehelinstudio.com/pokemon.html Yvette Helin Studios' Pokémon Live! page] (archived)

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'''Pokémon Live!''' was a musical based on {{aniseries|PTS}}, though it is not in the same continuity. It ran in {{pmin|the United States}} from September 2000 to January 2001. A Portuguese language version played at the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon, {{pmin|Portugal}} from March 21 to March 27, 2002, and a Dutch version at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, {{pmin|Belgium|Belgium}} on April 6 and 7, 2002. A {{pmin|the United Kingdom|United Kingdom}} tour was planned for 2002, but was canceled. The U.S. version of the musical did, however, have a brief tour in {{pmin|the Arab world|Dubai}} in March 2001 as part of the annual {{wp|Dubai Shopping Festival}}, which usually lasts for thirty days. The musical was positively received, despite the Pokémon-related controversies that followed just shortly after.<ref>[http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/young-and-old-enjoy-pokemon-1.411320 Young and old enjoy Pokemon - ''Gulfnews'']</ref>

Two of the actors in Pokémon Live!, [[Darren Dunstan]] ({{an|Giovanni}}) and [[Andrew Rannells]] ([[James]]) went on to become voice actors for the [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] [[dub]] of the series.

Pokémon Live! is most notorious for featuring far more [[Shipping|heavy romantic overtones]] than the series on which it is based. In particular, Misty's feelings for Ash are [[PokéShipping|outright stated]] and a large source of angst for her character. The show was also the inspiration for DiamondShipping (the pairing of [[Delia Ketchum]] and Giovanni), named after the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}} Giovanni offers to Trainers. During the events of the story, Delia reveals to Professor Oak that she once dated Giovanni when they were teenagers, though she left his gang after meeting Ash's father. This backstory, however, outright contradicts the Japanese-only audio dramas on the origins of [[Team Rocket]].

Pokémon Live! was planned to have a [http://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com/events/live.html home video release] around the time that the Pokémon tour had finished. Much later in 2016, in an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WE5RAG68UI interview with GameInformer]; Michael Slade stated that prior to production of the musical that he had no knowledge of Pokémon whatsoever aside from who Pikachu was. He was sent a copy of ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' to help him study for the production. He watched the film several times before starting to understand it better.

Michael Slade was only given a few weeks to get the full script completed with each act being written in roughly a week. During this time, [[Ikue Otani]] also looked over the script for approval of when Pikachu would speak during production and recorded lines specifically for use in Pokémon Live!.

==Plot==
A mysterious [[Gym Leader]] is offering {{pkmn|Trainer}}s the chance to come challenge him for his one-of-a-kind prize, the {{DL|Badge|Pokémon Live!|Diamond Badge}}, and {{Ash}} has decided to accept the challenge. He declines the opportunity to join {{Delia|his mom}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in attending a lecture on {{p|Snorlax}} sleeping disorders, given by the world-renowned Pokémon expert Professor Xalrons. After they leave, {{an|Misty}} and {{an|Brock}} come in on Ash as he starts dancing to the theme song. Quickly getting himself dressed, Ash remarks that he intends to win the Diamond Badge. Misty, however, is upset with Ash because he never made good on his promise to take her to the movies for her [[birthday]] three weeks ago. Ash vows to find some way to make it up soon, insisting that his life regarding Pokémon is just as important ("[[You & Me & Pokémon]]").

Right after the Ash and his friends set off on their journey, the scene suddenly switches over to the [[Team Rocket trio]], reciting their {{motto}} to the audience. After [[Jessie]] and [[James]] engage in taunting the audience with ad-libbed insults based on where they're performing, {{MTR}} berates them and informs them that {{an|Giovanni}} wants to see them right now. They report to Giovanni as he is singing about his current world-domination scheme ("[[It Will All Be Mine]]"). The boss orders them to bring them {{AP|Pikachu}}, alive and unharmed. Right after Jessie, James, and Meowth leave, it is then revealed to the audience that Giovanni is the mysterious Gym Leader offering the Diamond Badge. Some Trainers come to challenge him, but they are all defeated by his super-robot Pokémon, [[MechaMew2]], a robot based on the powerful {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} he once owned, whose only technique is that it can copy the [[move|attacks]] of its challengers and use it against them. After the Trainers leave in defeat, Giovanni gloats about how MechaMew2 will soon have a complete collection of attacks.

Ash and his friends make their way into the forest, with Ash gushing about how good an achievement the Diamond Badge must be, while Brock goes off to flirt with some nearby female Trainers, only to be rejected by each one. Misty tries to tell Ash that there is more to life than battling for [[Badge|Gym Badges]], and remarks to him that since the Diamond Badge is one-of-a-kind, it will likely be much harder to obtain than the ones he got from her sisters or Brock. Ash retorts that winning Badges are a special symbol, "like when your teacher gives you a gold star, or when your parents give you your own keys to the car, or a guy gives a girl her own ring to wear." Brock comes back from being rejected by the girls he's just flirting with, but just as Misty starts arguing with him, Ash stops the fight by leading them in singing "[[My Best Friends]]".

Up ahead, Team Rocket is digging up one of their pit traps, intending for "the [[twerp]]s" to fall into it, but to their dismay, Ash and friends simply walk over the pit with no problems. When Jessie and James come out of hiding to see what went wrong, they find that they left the supports in, and they make the mistake of pulling them out and falling into the trap themselves. Frustrated, Meowth walks off to get a rope.

Meanwhile, Delia and Professor Oak approach the run-down old building where the Snorlax lecture is being held. As they're entering, Delia admits that she fears she's losing touch with her son as he's growing up; the Professor replies that she shouldn't worry so much, as things never stay the same for long ("[[Everything Changes]]"). Just as they finish singing, Giovanni shows up and has his {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt|Rocket Grunts}} surround and capture them. It turns out the Snorlax lecture was actually a trap devised by Giovanni to lure Professor Oak into his clutches so he couldn't interfere with his plan. The boss also recognizes Delia as an old friend of his, who insists everything between them was in the past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 1)").

Back in the forest, Ash, Misty, and Brock have gotten lost, because Brock accidentally threw the map away while talking to the female Trainers earlier. They then cross paths with a deaf Trainer, who agrees to share his map with them if "the guy with the weird hair" agrees to battle with him. Ash accepts the challenge, only to find that the deaf Trainer has a {{p|Jigglypuff}} in his arsenal. Jigglypuff's {{m|Sing|song}} puts all but its Trainer to {{status|sleep}}, and it starts drawing on their faces as the deaf Trainer leaves them his map. After they leave, Misty wakes up and cleans Jigglypuff's drawings off Ash's face, while singing to herself about her feelings for him and fears of rejection ("[[Misty's Song]]"). Ash soon wakes up, wondering whose voice he just heard singing, to which Misty answers by saying he probably just heard a side effect of Jigglypuff's song. With the map in possession again, the trio continues their journey.

Meanwhile, Meowth returns to the pit with the rope and finds his teammates sleeping as a result of Jigglypuff's song. As they climb out, he complains about their incompetence and berates them on what failures they are. Jessie and James become depressed from the realization that Meowth is right about them being failures, but he quickly cheers them up by telling them that being failures is at least something they're perfect at doing ("[[The Best at Being the Worst]]"). This brings Jessie and James back to full confidence, and they continue after their target, with Meowth wondering if he should have taken up psychiatry.

At {{ci|Cerulean}} Blue Lagoon, Ash declares to Misty and Brock that he's going to use Pikachu in the battle against the Gym Leader. As they sing and dance to "[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]", Team Rocket comes up behind them in their {{p|Magikarp}} [[Team Rocket's mechas|submarine]] and, while they're not looking, snatches Pikachu. When he sees that Pikachu has vanished, Ash tells Misty and Brock to split up and search for it, convinced that Team Rocket has captured his friend. Misty, however, suggests that maybe Pikachu has instead left Ash on its own free will ("maybe you missed ''his'' birthday too"), given his apparent habit of ignoring his friends. With that, she leaves Ash to ponder her words ("[[The Time Has Come (Pikachu's Goodbye)]]").

At Giovanni's [[Gym]], Delia and Professor Oak are locked in a cage by his battle arena. After a failed attempt to break free, the Professor asks Delia why Giovanni recognized her. She explains that, when she was a teenager, she used to hang out with a gang of troublemakers (who later became [[Team Rocket]]) led by Giovanni; she eventually left them when she met Ash's father, and she has never told this to her son, because she fears he wouldn't understand. After the story, Giovanni enters to boast to them about his [[MechaMew2]], during which he sings his dark reprise of "[[You & Me & Pokémon]]". Immediately following this, Jessie, James and Meowth show up with the captured Pikachu (while singing "[[Double Trouble]]"). Giovanni is pleased with this, as Pikachu possesses the only attacks MechaMew2 has not yet learned, and he orders Jessie and James have it attack MechaMew2. Pikachu instead responds to Jessie and James's orders by shocking them, during which they flip a switch that causes Delia and the Professor’s cage to open and allow them to escape. Giovanni realizes he'll need Pikachu's Trainer for it to listen to, and tells Jessie and James to bring him the Trainer.

In the woods, Misty admits to Brock that she didn't really mean it when she said Pikachu probably chose to leave Ash; she only said it because she wanted him to realize he's alienating his friends by ignoring them. Brock starts teasing her about her feelings for Ash, but Misty retorts that Brock is no different in that regard, given his flirting with the female Trainers earlier, as well as his feelings for Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy, to which Brock responds by suddenly singing "[[Two Perfect Girls]]". After he finishes, Misty drags him back into looking for Pikachu, but secretly soliloquizes about her pining for Ash. Elsewhere in the woods, Delia continues discussing her past with the Professor and how she can't bring herself to tell Ash about it, and Ash tries to face up to the fact that he may have to go on without Pikachu ("[[I've Got a Secret]]").

Right after the song, the groups come together. Misty and Brock inform Ash that they couldn't find Pikachu, so Ash decides he'll have to try and win the Diamond Badge without him. Professor Oak and Delia then tell Ash that Team Rocket's leader is holding Pikachu hostage. Ash, now knowing he was right about Pikachu not running out on him, resolves that he will go save Pikachu. Before he and his friends can get going, though, Delia confesses to Ash about her past acquaintance with Giovanni, saying she didn't want him to find it out from Giovanni himself. Just then, Team Rocket shows up on scooters, but before they can recite their motto, Ash demands them to take him to Giovanni. Jessie and James question why their task is so easy, but they go ahead and take Ash off to the Gym. The others try to follow, but Meowth tells them Giovanni only wants Ash, leaving Delia to wonder if she did the right thing in telling Ash about her past ("[[Everything Changes]] (Reprise 2)").

After Team Rocket brings Ash to him, Giovanni, annoyed with their presence orders them to leave the arena, and they do so, crashing their scooters offstage. Giovanni releases Pikachu and then introduces [[MechaMew2]] to him. He allows Ash to have the Diamond Badge for the duration of the fight, saying he'll retrieve it afterwards. Ash orders Pikachu to use {{m|Thunder Shock}}, followed by {{m|Thunder}}, but to his surprise, MechaMew2 suffers no damage, and Giovanni proclaims that he has won, as those were the last attacks MechaMew2 needed to learn.

Ash valiantly stands up to Giovanni and refuses to let him get away with his victory ("[[You Just Can't Win]]"), but Giovanni orders MechaMew2 to attack the both of them with a {{m|Hyper Beam}}. But when it does, a force-field appears around Ash and Pikachu, protecting them, as an off-screen voice proclaims that "the boy will not be harmed." The bearer of the voice then steps in - it is the original {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}. Ash doesn't recognize him, but Giovanni does and brags about the superiority of his mechanical replica. Mewtwo is unimpressed and accepts Giovanni's offer to battle MechaMew2. Ash begs Mewtwo not to do so, fearing MechaMew2 will just copy the {{t|Psychic}} attacks, but Mewtwo tells Ash that "the true power is within you," and then sends visions of Ash's happy memories (shown as rapidly-displayed clips on the screens) to MechaMew2. Nothing seems to happen, but to Giovanni's surprise, MechaMew2 begins speaking and rebels against him, saying Mewtwo has taught it the value of love and goodness from Ash's memories, and therefore can no longer let Giovanni's evil scheme to go forth. Grabbing Team Rocket's leader by the neck, it prepares to perform a {{m|Self-Destruct}}, despite Giovanni's attempts to offer a compromise, and tells Mewtwo to get Ash and Pikachu out while he still can. Giovanni, managing to escape MechaMew2's grasp just before it explodes, curses Mewtwo for defeating him again, but as Mewtwo takes Ash and Pikachu out of the building, he remarks that "this time it was not me, it was the boy."

Later, an unconscious Ash wakes up back in the forest with his mom and his friends gathered around him. He says he has just battling Giovanni but he has no memory of what happened, but he tells his mother that he still loves her even despite her past acquaintance with Team Rocket. He then finds the Diamond Badge still in his pocket and remembers that Giovanni gave it to him before the battle. He says he isn't sure if he really deserves it, so, taking a suggestion from Pikachu, he gives it to Misty as a belated birthday gift ("[[Finale]]").

==Characters==
===Humans===
* {{Ash}}
* {{an|Misty}}
* {{an|Brock}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* {{an|Giovanni}}
* [[Delia Ketchum]]
* {{an|Professor Oak}}
* [[Officer Jenny]]
* [[Nurse Joy]]
* {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s

===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Alakazam}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Venusaur}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Electrode}} ({{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Jigglypuff}} (deaf {{pkmn|Trainer}}'s)
* {{p|Mewtwo}} ({{OBP|Mewtwo|M01|M01}})
* [[MechaMew2]] ({{an|Giovanni}}'s)
* {{p|Hitmonlee}}
* {{p|Grimer}}
* {{p|Farfetch'd}}
* {{p|Mankey}}
* {{p|Venonat}}
* {{p|Zubat}}
* {{p|Hoothoot}}
* {{p|Golduck}}
* {{p|Arbok}}
* {{p|Drowzee}}
* {{p|Clefable}}
* {{p|Pinsir}}
* {{p|Wartortle}}
* {{p|Machoke}}
* {{p|Poliwrath}}
* {{p|Magnemite}}
* {{p|Voltorb}}
* {{p|Butterfree}} (multiple)
* {{p|Zapdos}}
* {{p|Pidgeot}}
* {{p|Golbat}}
* {{p|Geodude}}
* {{p|Koffing}}
* {{p|Goldeen}}
* {{p|Horsea}} (two)
* {{p|Vaporeon}}
* {{p|Pikachu}} (multiple)
* {{p|Psyduck}}
* {{p|Mew}}

==Cast==
{| class="roundy" style="background: #{{colorschemedark|Kanto}}; width:50%"
|-
! colspan=2 | <big>{{color|000|Cast}}</big>
|-
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash Ketchum|disp=Ash Ketchum|Dominic Nolfi|top=yes|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Misty (anime)|disp=Misty|Heidi Weyhmueller|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Brock (anime)|disp=Brock|Dennis Kenney|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Jennifer Risser (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Ash's Pikachu|disp=Pikachu|Ikue Otani{{!}}Ikue Otani (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jessie|disp=Jessie|Lauren Kling|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|James|disp=James|Andrew Rannells}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Kathleen Roche (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Meowth (Team Rocket)|disp=Meowth|Maddie Blaustein{{!}}Maddie Blaustein (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Giovanni (anime)|disp=Giovanni|Darren Dunstan}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Delia Ketchum|disp=Mrs. Ketchum|wp:Dee Roscioli{{!}}Dee Roscioli}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Professor Oak (anime)|disp=Professor Oak|Patrick Frankfort|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokédex|disp=Dexter|Sinclair Mitchell (voice)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Officer Jenny|disp=Officer Jenny|Suzanne Wogisch|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Nurse Joy|disp=Nurse Joy|Natalie Weld|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|Marton Fulop (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Mewtwo (M01)|disp=Mewtwo|List of English voice actors{{!}}Jay Goede (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Psyduck (Pokémon)|disp=Psyduck|Michael Haigney{{!}}Michael Haigney (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Leah Smith (costume performer)|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Jigglypuff (Pokémon)|disp=Jigglypuff|Rachael Lillis{{!}}Rachael Lillis (voice)}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Venusaur (Pokémon)|disp=Venusaur's Trainer|Abbey Marie O'Brien|link=no}}
{{cast/live|Kanto|Pokémon Trainer|disp=Deaf Trainer|Jesse Nager|link=no}}
|}


==Songs==
A soundtrack for the musical was released entitled ''[[Pokémon Gotta Catch 'em Live!]]''.

*"[[You & Me & Pokémon]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Playoff)"
*"[[It Will All Be Mine]]" - Giovanni
*"It Will All Be Mine (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[My Best Friends]]" - Ash, Misty, and Brock
*"[[Everything Changes]]" - Professor Oak and Mrs. Ketchum
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 1)" - Giovanni
*"[[Misty's Song]]" - Misty
*"[[The Best at Being the Worst]]" - Team Rocket
*"[[Pikachu (I Choose You)]]" - Ash
*"[[What Kind of Pokémon Are You?]]" - Dexter and the Dextettes
*"{{OBP|The Time Has Come|Pikachu's Goodbye}}" - Ash
*"You & Me & Pokémon (Reprise)" - Giovanni
*"[[Double Trouble]]" - Team Rocket
*"Double Trouble (Reprise)" - Team Rocket
*"[[Two Perfect Girls]]" - Brock
*"[[I've Got a Secret]]" - Mrs. Ketchum, Misty, and Ash
*"Everything Changes (Reprise 2)" - Mrs. Ketchum
*"[[You Just Can't Win]]" - Ash and Giovanni
*"[[Finale]]" - Company

==Production==
The idea for Pokémon Live! was conceived by the president of 4Kids Productions, [[Norman J. Grossfeld]]. The show was directed and choreographed by Luis Perez, and was written by Michael Slade. Musical Direction was done by [[John Loeffler]] and [[John Siegler]], who have both written songs for {{aniseries|PTS}}. Set production was done by Hotopp Associates Limited, and Lighting Design by David Agress Lighting, Inc. Costumes for Pokémon Live! were designed by Yvette Helin Studios, who also assisted Geppetto Studios in creating seventeen standee Pokémon puppets.

==Performance dates and locations==
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===Europe===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| March 21-27, 2002
| {{wp|Lisbon, Portugal}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | April 6-7, 2002
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Antwerp, Belgium}}
|}

===Middle East===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | March 1-31, 2001
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Dubai}}, {{wp|United Arab Emirates}}
|}

===United States===
{| class="roundy" style="text-align:center; background: #{{Colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{Colorschemedark|Kanto}};"
|-
! class="roundytl" | Date
! class="roundytr" | Location
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 2-5, 2000
| {{wp|Columbus, Ohio}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 8-12, 2000
| {{wp|Indianapolis, Indiana}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 15-19, 2000
| {{wp|Fairfax, Virginia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 22-26, 2000
| {{wp|Atlanta, Georgia}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| November 29-December 3, 2000
| {{wp|Charlotte, North Carolina}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 5-10, 2000
| {{wp|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 12-13, 2000
| {{wp|Lowell, Massachusetts}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| December 14-17, 2000
| {{wp|Worcester, New York}}
|- style="background:#fff"
| class="roundybl" | December 27-31, 2000
| class="roundybr" | {{wp|Milwaukee, Wisconsin}}
|}

==Videos==
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==Trivia==
* {{wp|Dee Roscioli}} and Patrick Frankfort, who portrayed {{Delia}} and {{an|Professor Oak}} in the U.S. tour, were in a romantic relationship at the time. This is referenced by {{Ash}} telling Professor Oak, "Don't bring my mom home too late!"
* During Giovanni's reveal of the [[Diamond Badge]], a link to the website www.diamondbadge.com can be seen. While Pokémon Live was running, this URL would actually lead to the official Pokémon Live website and once the show ended, would redirect to the official Pokémon site for a number of years - the domain finally being dropped around 2017-2018.
* According to the show's program, [[Ikue Otani]], [[Maddie Blaustein]] and [[List of English voice actors|Jay Goede]] reprised their roles of {{AP|Pikachu}}, {{MTR}} and {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}} respectively. Goede is credited by his real name in Pokémon Live! instead of his stage name, Philip Bartlett, which was used in ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''. {{p|Jigglypuff}} and {{p|Psyduck}}'s voices are uncredited but are possibly archive recordings of [[Rachael Lillis]] and [[Michael Haigney]], respectively. No other voice actors are known to have reprised their roles from {{aniseries|PTS}} in this production.
* Dennis Kenney, the actor who played {{an|Brock}}, appeared as a host in the [[Pokémon Insider: The Video|Pokémon Insider promotional video]]. The video includes a clip of himself (in character as Brock) performing the song [[Two Perfect Girls]].
* Both Pokémon Insider and [[Pokémon.com]] at the time claimed Pokémon Live! was to be aired on television and released on home video in the United States, but no such broadcast or release ever occurred. This was explained years later as due to a lack of financial success and a lack of interest that lead to the home video release being scrapped.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011019041628/http://www.pokemon.com:80/events/live.html Pokémon Live! - ''Pokémon.com (archived)'']</ref> Producer Chris Mitchell confirmed that a high definition professional recording was made but that plans for releasing it ended up falling through.
* Michael Slade stated in a 2016 interview with GameInformer that alongside [[MechaMew2]], there was supposed to be one more Pokémon that Ash Ketchum would face off against that would attack using bubbles. It was scrapped late into production and forgotten about, however footage of interviews taken after the tech rehearsals show what it was- a {{p|Lapras}}.
* Stage actors would get annoyed by children who were taking their Pokémon lights and pointing them at the stage during dark lighting moments.
* Some of the props were left behind in a now-abandoned theater (which never hosted the musical) in Canada before the show moved overseas and were discovered nearly 20 years later by urban explorers.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{wp|Pokémon Live!|Pokémon Live! on Wikipedia}}
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20100101124901/http://trsrockin.com/pklive.html Plot and song lyrics for Pokémon Live!] (archived)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020718172935/http://www.nationwidearena.com/schedule/news/disp_release.php?id=18 News article on Nation Wide Arena] (archived)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250123082520/https://www.yvettehelinstudio.com/pokemon.html Yvette Helin Studios' Pokémon Live! page] (archived)

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{{BookInfobox|
title=Heart-pounding Sand|
image= PB39.jpeg|
ISBN=4097287397|
published=November 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Tomokazu Komiya]]|
previous=[[PB38|Rokon and the Girl]]|
next=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]
}}

'''Heart-pounding {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}}''' (Japanese: '''どきどきサンド''') is written and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. It is the 39th book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
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===Blurb===
''When you're playing, time flies, and before you know it, it's time for bed! Before it goes to bed, {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} heads for the bathroom, but in the hallway there's an ominous presence...! Will Sand reach the bathroom safely!? And what's behind the ominous presence!?'' (translated)

''Isn't it scary at night when you have to go down a pitch black hallway to get to the bathroom? Your heart pounds so hard, you can't help but start to think there's something there... This is a story of the mouse Pokémon {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} as it fearfully tries to get to the bathroom.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Sandshrew}}
*{{p|Ekans}}
*{{p|Cubone}}
*{{p|Gastly}}
*{{p|Haunter}}
*{{p|Gengar}}
*{{p|Grimer}}
*{{p|Articuno}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Pidgey}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
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{{BookInfobox|
title=Heart-pounding Sand|
image= PB39.jpg|
ISBN=4097287397|
published=November 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Tomokazu Komiya]]|
previous=[[PB38|Rokon and the Girl]]|
next=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]
}}

'''Heart-pounding {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}}''' (Japanese: '''どきどきサンド''') is written and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. It is the 39th book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''When you're playing, time flies, and before you know it, it's time for bed! Before it goes to bed, {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} heads for the bathroom, but in the hallway there's an ominous presence...! Will Sand reach the bathroom safely!? And what's behind the ominous presence!?'' (translated)

''Isn't it scary at night when you have to go down a pitch black hallway to get to the bathroom? Your heart pounds so hard, you can't help but start to think there's something there... This is a story of the mouse Pokémon {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} as it fearfully tries to get to the bathroom.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Sandshrew}}
*{{p|Ekans}}
*{{p|Cubone}}
*{{p|Gastly}}
*{{p|Haunter}}
*{{p|Gengar}}
*{{p|Grimer}}
*{{p|Articuno}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Pidgey}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
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title=What Is a Transel?|
image= PB41.jpeg|
ISBN=4097287419|
published=December 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]|
previous=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]|
next=[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]
}}

'''What Is a {{tt|Transel|Metapod}}?''' (Japanese: '''トランセルってなあに?''') is written and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. It is the 41st book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is an odd Pokémon that can never do much even if you do send it into battle. Just what is a Transel!? This book answers that simple question. If you read this book, I'm sure you'll come to like Transel even more than you do now...!?'' (translated)

''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is covered in a hard shell, but its insides are still soft and vulnerable to strong attacks. This is a book about the Cocoon Pokémon, Transel.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Metapod}}
*{{p|Dratini}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=December 1998|ISBN=4097287419}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[it:PB41]]

PB43

2025-12-19T18:38:13Z

PrinceAxie:

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba|
image= PB43.jpeg|
ISBN=4097287435|
published=June 1999|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Inuko Inuyama]]|
previous=[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]|
next=[[PB44|Sawamular's Extending Legs]]
}}

'''{{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}}'s Moon-viewing Soba''' (Japanese: '''ニャースとつきみそば''') is written by [[Inuko Inuyama]] and illustrated by Keralino Sandorovich. It is the 43rd book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''Even now, {{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}} has big roles like in the anime and game commercials, and it boasts the love of children everywhere. Today, Nyarth has decided to start a restaurant for moon-viewing soba, his favorite...and that spells trouble! When Nyarth finally overcomes all its obstacles, what will have become of its soba shop...!?'' (translated)

''{{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}} absolutely LOVES moon-viewing soba. Nyarth rolls up its sleeves and makes its own soba. But it'd be a shame for Nyarth to eat such good soba all by itself. So Nyarth starts a restaurant dedicated to moon-viewing soba. Will Nyarth get a lot of customers?'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Meowth}}
*{{p|Gengar}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 1999|ISBN=4097287435}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

* A bird can be seen flying when Meowth is playing guitar.
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PB44

2025-12-19T18:37:59Z

PrinceAxie:

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Sawamular's Extending Feet|
image= PB44.jpeg|
ISBN=4097287443|
published=June 1999|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=Motoharu Sakata|
previous=[[PB43|Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba]]|
next=[[PB45|Gengar's Shadow]]
}}

'''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s Extending Legs''' (Japanese: '''サワムラーののびるあし''') is written by Motoharu Sakata and illustrated by [[Shin-ichi Yoshida]]. It is the 44th book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s specialty is kicking moves. But that scary mask is hiding an unexpected side of Sawamular!? If you didn't like Sawamular and you read this book, you'll come to like it...and if you did like it, you'll come to love it even more!'' (translated)

''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s legs are amazing. Whenever and wherever, they can extend in a flash and do all sorts of things. They're very kind legs. But no one knows about that... This is a picture book about the Kicking Pokémon, Sawamular.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Golem}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 1999|ISBN=4097287443}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[it:PB44]]

PBAG1

2025-12-19T18:37:40Z

PrinceAxie:

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!|
image= PBAG1.jpeg|
ISBN=4091148778|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Akihito Toda]]|
published=June 2003|
previous=N/A|
next=[[PBAG2|PokéPoké Oekaki!]]
}}

'''Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!''' (Japanese: '''ピチュピチュにらめっこ!''') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kouki Saitou]]. It is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales|Pokémon Exciting Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''The Pichu brothers have begun a staring contest. Pikachu is the judge. Stare, stare, laugh and you lose! They're both strong contenders.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pichu}}
*{{p|Pikachu}}

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Hoenn}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 2003|ISBN=4091148778}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PBAG1

2025-12-19T18:37:23Z

PrinceAxie:

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!|
image= PBAG1.jpeg
ISBN=4091148778|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Akihito Toda]]|
published=June 2003|
previous=N/A|
next=[[PBAG2|PokéPoké Oekaki!]]
}}

'''Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!''' (Japanese: '''ピチュピチュにらめっこ!''') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kouki Saitou]]. It is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales|Pokémon Exciting Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''The Pichu brothers have begun a staring contest. Pikachu is the judge. Stare, stare, laugh and you lose! They're both strong contenders.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pichu}}
*{{p|Pikachu}}

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Hoenn}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 2003|ISBN=4091148778}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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PBAG2

2025-12-19T18:33:30Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox
|title=PokéPoké Oekaki!
|image=PBAG2.jpeg
|ISBN=4091148786
|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|published=2003-06
|previous=[[PBAG1|Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!]]
|next=N/A
}}

'''PokéPoké Oekaki!''' (Japanese: '''ポケポケおえかき!''') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Naoyo Kimura]]. It is the 2nd and last book in the [[Pokémon Tales|Pokémon Exciting Tales]] series. It was apparently released in preparation for the [[M06|sixth Pokémon movie]]. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''3 new Pokémon from the [[Advanced Generation]] sketch each other. Who made the best drawing? When everyone's done, they hold an exhibition. There's even a picture of the Pokémon from a certain movie... See these popular Pokémon characters in action as you gear up for the summer movie premiere.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Torchic}}
*{{p|Mudkip}}
*{{p|Treecko}}

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Hoenn}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=2003-06|ISBN=4091148786}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===
{{stub}}

==Related articles==
{{M06 navbox}}
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PBAG1

2025-12-19T18:32:59Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!|
image= | PBAG1.jpeg
ISBN=4091148778|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Akihito Toda]]|
published=June 2003|
previous=N/A|
next=[[PBAG2|PokéPoké Oekaki!]]
}}

'''Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!''' (Japanese: '''ピチュピチュにらめっこ!''') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kouki Saitou]]. It is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales|Pokémon Exciting Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''The Pichu brothers have begun a staring contest. Pikachu is the judge. Stare, stare, laugh and you lose! They're both strong contenders.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pichu}}
*{{p|Pikachu}}

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Hoenn}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 2003|ISBN=4091148778}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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{{stub}}
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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PB44

2025-12-19T18:30:01Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Sawamular's Extending Feet|
image= | PB44.jpeg
ISBN=4097287443|
published=June 1999|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=Motoharu Sakata|
previous=[[PB43|Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba]]|
next=[[PB45|Gengar's Shadow]]
}}

'''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s Extending Legs''' (Japanese: '''サワムラーののびるあし''') is written by Motoharu Sakata and illustrated by [[Shin-ichi Yoshida]]. It is the 44th book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s specialty is kicking moves. But that scary mask is hiding an unexpected side of Sawamular!? If you didn't like Sawamular and you read this book, you'll come to like it...and if you did like it, you'll come to love it even more!'' (translated)

''{{tt|Sawamular|Hitmonlee}}'s legs are amazing. Whenever and wherever, they can extend in a flash and do all sorts of things. They're very kind legs. But no one knows about that... This is a picture book about the Kicking Pokémon, Sawamular.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Golem}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 1999|ISBN=4097287443}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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PB43

2025-12-19T18:28:16Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba|
image= | PB43.jpeg
ISBN=4097287435|
published=June 1999|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Inuko Inuyama]]|
previous=[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]|
next=[[PB44|Sawamular's Extending Legs]]
}}

'''{{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}}'s Moon-viewing Soba''' (Japanese: '''ニャースとつきみそば''') is written by [[Inuko Inuyama]] and illustrated by Keralino Sandorovich. It is the 43rd book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''Even now, {{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}} has big roles like in the anime and game commercials, and it boasts the love of children everywhere. Today, Nyarth has decided to start a restaurant for moon-viewing soba, his favorite...and that spells trouble! When Nyarth finally overcomes all its obstacles, what will have become of its soba shop...!?'' (translated)

''{{tt|Nyarth|Meowth}} absolutely LOVES moon-viewing soba. Nyarth rolls up its sleeves and makes its own soba. But it'd be a shame for Nyarth to eat such good soba all by itself. So Nyarth starts a restaurant dedicated to moon-viewing soba. Will Nyarth get a lot of customers?'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Meowth}}
*{{p|Gengar}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=June 1999|ISBN=4097287435}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

* A bird can be seen flying when Meowth is playing guitar.
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PB41

2025-12-19T18:24:23Z

PrinceAxie: /* Plot */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=What Is a Transel?|
image= | PB41.jpeg
ISBN=4097287419|
published=December 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]|
previous=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]|
next=[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]
}}

'''What Is a {{tt|Transel|Metapod}}?''' (Japanese: '''トランセルってなあに?''') is written and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. It is the 41st book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is an odd Pokémon that can never do much even if you do send it into battle. Just what is a Transel!? This book answers that simple question. If you read this book, I'm sure you'll come to like Transel even more than you do now...!?'' (translated)

''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is covered in a hard shell, but its insides are still soft and vulnerable to strong attacks. This is a book about the Cocoon Pokémon, Transel.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Metapod}}
*{{p|Dratini}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=December 1998|ISBN=4097287419}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[it:PB41]]

PB41

2025-12-19T18:24:08Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=What Is a Transel?|
image= | PB41.jpeg
ISBN=4097287419|
published=December 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]|
previous=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]|
next=[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]
}}

'''What Is a {{tt|Transel|Metapod}}?''' (Japanese: '''トランセルってなあに?''') is written and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. It is the 41st book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}
===Blurb===
''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is an odd Pokémon that can never do much even if you do send it into battle. Just what is a Transel!? This book answers that simple question. If you read this book, I'm sure you'll come to like Transel even more than you do now...!?'' (translated)

''{{tt|Transel|Metapod}} is covered in a hard shell, but its insides are still soft and vulnerable to strong attacks. This is a book about the Cocoon Pokémon, Transel.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Metapod}}
*{{p|Dratini}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=December 1998|ISBN=4097287419}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[it:PB41]]

PB39

2025-12-19T18:22:19Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{Incomplete}}
{{BookInfobox|
title=Heart-pounding Sand|
image= | PB39.jpg
ISBN=4097287397|
published=November 1998|
publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|
author=[[Tomokazu Komiya]]|
previous=[[PB38|Rokon and the Girl]]|
next=[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]
}}

'''Heart-pounding {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}}''' (Japanese: '''どきどきサンド''') is written and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. It is the 39th book in the Japanese edition of the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. This book is in Japanese and has not been translated into English.

==Plot==
{{incomplete plot book}}
===Blurb===
''When you're playing, time flies, and before you know it, it's time for bed! Before it goes to bed, {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} heads for the bathroom, but in the hallway there's an ominous presence...! Will Sand reach the bathroom safely!? And what's behind the ominous presence!?'' (translated)

''Isn't it scary at night when you have to go down a pitch black hallway to get to the bathroom? Your heart pounds so hard, you can't help but start to think there's something there... This is a story of the mouse Pokémon {{tt|Sand|Sandshrew}} as it fearfully tries to get to the bathroom.'' (translated)

==Characters==
===Humans===

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Sandshrew}}
*{{p|Ekans}}
*{{p|Cubone}}
*{{p|Gastly}}
*{{p|Haunter}}
*{{p|Gengar}}
*{{p|Grimer}}
*{{p|Articuno}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Pidgey}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=November 1998|ISBN=4097287397}}
|}

==Trivia==
===Errors===

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[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[it:PB39]]

PBD05

2025-12-19T07:13:24Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Mysterious Yacht |image=PBD05.png |ISBN=N/A |published=August 4th, 2006 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=The Mysterious Crayon |next=The Mysterious Big Clock }}{{Incomplete|needs=}} '''The Mysterious Constellation''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなせいざ''') is the fifth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written..."

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|title=The Mysterious Yacht
|image=PBD05.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=August 4th, 2006
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]
|next=[[PBD06|The Mysterious Big Clock]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Constellation''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなせいざ''') is the fifth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Mitsuhiro Arita]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}}
* {{p|Smoochum}}
* {{p|Phanpy}}
* {{p|Jigglypuff}}

PBD07

2025-12-19T07:13:00Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Mysterious Maze |image=PBD07.png |ISBN=N/A |published=March 9th, 2007 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=The Mysterious Big Clock |next=The Mysterious Drum }}{{Incomplete|needs=}} '''The Mysterious Maze''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなめいろ''') is the seventh book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written by Akihit..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Maze
|image=PBD07.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=March 9th, 2007
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD06|The Mysterious Big Clock]]
|next=[[PBD08|The Mysterious Drum]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Maze''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなめいろ''') is the seventh book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Masakazu Fukuda]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}}
* {{p|Riolu}}
* {{p|Bidoof}}

PBD09

2025-12-19T07:12:20Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek |image=PBD09.png |ISBN=N/A |published=September 7th, 2007 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=The Mysterious Drum |next=The Mysterious Stockings }}{{Incomplete|needs=}} '''Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the ninth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek
|image=PBD09.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 7th, 2007
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD08|The Mysterious Drum]]
|next=[[PBD10|The Mysterious Stockings]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the ninth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kouki Saitou]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pachirisu}}
* {{p|Nuzleaf}}
* {{p|Machop}}
* {{p|Happiny}}
* {{p|Whismur}}
* {{p|Psyduck}}

PBD11

2025-12-19T07:09:30Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=Mysterious Pirate Ship |image=PBD11.png |ISBN=N/A |published=February 25th, 2008 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=The Mysterious Stockings |next=The Forest of Reversals }}{{Incomplete|needs=}} '''Mysterious Pirate Ship''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the eleventh book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive boo..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=Mysterious Pirate Ship
|image=PBD11.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 25th, 2008
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD10|The Mysterious Stockings]]
|next=[[PBD12|The Forest of Reversals]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''Mysterious Pirate Ship''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the eleventh book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kanako Eo]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Chimchar}}

PBD15

2025-12-19T07:09:19Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Great Cake Caper |image=PBD15.png |ISBN=N/A |published=March 28th, 2012 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=Dunsparce's Game of Tag |next=Iwapalace Moves House }}{{Incomplete|needs=}} '''The Great Cake Caper''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the fifteenth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Great Cake Caper
|image=PBD15.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=March 28th, 2012
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Game of Tag]]
|next=[[PBD16|Iwapalace Moves House]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Great Cake Caper''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなかくれんば''') is the fifteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Oshawott}}
* {{p|Snivy}}
* {{p|Tepig}}

PBD16

2025-12-19T07:09:08Z

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{{BookInfobox
|title=Iwapalace Moves House
|image=PBD16.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=March 28th, 2012
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
|next=N/A
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''Iwapalace Moves House''' (Japanese: '''イワパレスのおひつこし''') is the sixteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Naoki Saito]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Crustle}}

PBD04

2025-12-19T06:59:52Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Crayon
|image=PBD04.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=May 12th, 2006
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD03|The Mysterious Yacht]]
|next=[[PBD05|The Mysterious Constellation]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Crayon''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなクラヨン''') is the fourth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Charmander}}
* {{p|Spinda}}
* {{p|Snorlax}}

PBD04

2025-12-19T06:37:36Z

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{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Yacht
|image=PBD04.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 30, 2005
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD03|The Mysterious Yacht]]
|next=[[PBD05|The Mysterious Constellation]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Yacht''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなクラヨン''') is the fourth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Charmander}}
* {{p|Spinda}}
* {{p|Snorlax}}

PBD03

2025-12-19T06:36:05Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Yacht
|image=PBD03.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 30, 2005
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]
|next=[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Yacht''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなヨット''') is the third book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kagemaru Himeno]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Plusle}}
* {{p|Minun}}
* {{p|Zigzagoon}}
* {{p|Jigglypuff}}
* {{p|Poliwhirl}}
* {{p|Wingull}}
* {{p|Latias}}
* {{p|Latios}}

PBD03

2025-12-19T06:35:51Z

PrinceAxie: /* Characters */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Yacht
|image=PBD03.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 30, 2005
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]
|next=[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Yacht''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなヨット''') is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kagemaru Himeno]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Plusle}}
* {{p|Minun}}
* {{p|Zigzagoon}}
* {{p|Jigglypuff}}
* {{p|Poliwhirl}}
* {{p|Wingull}}
* {{p|Latias}}
* {{p|Latios}}

PBD03

2025-12-19T06:35:29Z

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{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Yacht
|image=PBD03.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 30, 2005
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]
|next=[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]
}}{{Incomplete|needs=}}
'''The Mysterious Yacht''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなヨット''') is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Kagemaru Himeno]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
{{Incomplete plot book}}

=Characters=
<nowiki>===Pokémon===</nowiki>
* {{p|Plusle}}
* {{p|Minun}}
* {{p|Zigzagoon}}
* {{p|Jigglypuff}}
* {{p|Poliwhirl}}
* {{p|Wingull}}
* {{p|Latias}}
* {{p|Latios}}

PBD13

2025-12-19T06:29:00Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Night of the Shooting Star
|image= PBD13.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=April 4th, 2009
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PBD12|The Forest of Reversals]]
|next=[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Tag]]
}}

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Japanese:ながれぼしのよる) is the thirteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

==Plot==
Meowth, Mudkip, and Staravia are watching the night sky, when a shooting star appears. The three follow after it, wondering if it landed nearby and all explore different places - Staravia searching a mountain, Mudkip the beach, and Meowth the city streets. When they meet back up, they've all brought back different items, none of which are the shooting star. However a pink star that Staravia brough back from the mountain turns out to be a sleeping Cleffa, which soon wakes up and begins to cry. The three work to bring it back home, climbing the mountain and returning the Cleffa to the Clefairy and Clefable that live there. Despite not finding the shooting star, the three make friends with the Clefairy and Clefable, helping make the trip back down the mountain less scary and more fun.

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Meowth}}
* {{p|Staravia}}
* {{p|Mudkip}}
* {{p|Cleffa}}
* {{p|Clefairy}}
* {{p|Clefable}}

{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PBD14

2025-12-19T06:28:37Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag
|image=PBD14.png
|image_size=250
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 19th, 2010
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PBD13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
|next=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
}}

Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ノコッチのおにごっこ) is the fourteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Mizue Kuroyanagi]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

==Plot==
Totodile, Chikorita, and Cyndaquil are playing a game of tag with Dunsparce, who is very good at the game. Dunsparce taunts them to catch it before running off into the forest, vanishing as the three try to chase after. Cyndaquil soon notices that Chikorita is missing - discovering that they've become stuck in a hole. Cyndaquil and Totodile run over to help, only to also fall into holes. The three complain about Dunsparce digging the holes to catch them and not playing fair, Dunsparce watching from afar. As night gets closer they wonder how they'll get out of the hole, only for Chikorita to suddenly fly up out of the hole - Dunsparce pushing the three out of their holes and them apologizing for saying it wasn't fair when it was just something they were good at. The other Pokémon come to play in Dunsparce's holes, them becoming a popular pace to play - so popular that everyone forgot about tag.

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Dunsparce}}
* {{p|Totodile}}
* {{p|Chikorita}}
* {{p|Cyndaquil}}
* {{p|Snubbull}}
* {{p|Elekid}}
* {{p|Hoppip}}
* {{p|Teddiursa}}
* {{p|Sunkern}}
* {{p|Ralts}}
* {{p|Munchlax}}
* {{p|Cacnea}}
* {{p|Taillow}}

{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PBD14

2025-12-18T23:55:51Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag
|image= PBD14.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 19th, 2010
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
|next=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
}}

Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ノコッチのおにごっこ) is the fourteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Mizue Kuroyanagi]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

==Plot==
Totodile, Chikorita, and Cyndaquil are playing a game of tag with Dunsparce, who is very good at the game. Dunsparce taunts them to catch it before running off into the forest, vanishing as the three try to chase after. Cyndaquil soon notices that Chikorita is missing - discovering that they've become stuck in a hole. Cyndaquil and Totodile run over to help, only to also fall into holes. The three complain about Dunsparce digging the holes to catch them and not playing fair, Dunsparce watching from afar. As night gets closer they wonder how they'll get out of the hole, only for Chikorita to suddenly fly up out of the hole - Dunsparce pushing the three out of their holes and them apologizing for saying it wasn't fair when it was just something they were good at. The other Pokémon come to play in Dunsparce's holes, them becoming a popular pace to play - so popular that everyone forgot about tag.

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Dunsparce}}
* {{p|Totodile}}
* {{p|Chikorita}}
* {{p|Cyndaquil}}
* {{p|Snubbull}}
* {{p|Elekid}}
* {{p|Hoppip}}
* {{p|Teddiursa}}
* {{p|Sunkern}}
* {{p|Ralts}}
* {{p|Munchlax}}
* {{p|Cacnea}}
* {{p|Taillow}}

{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PBD13

2025-12-18T23:54:13Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Night of the Shooting Star
|image= PBD13.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=April 4th, 2009
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB12|The Forest of Reversals]]
|next=[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Tag]]
}}

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Japanese:ながれぼしのよる) is the thirteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

==Plot==
Meowth, Mudkip, and Staravia are watching the night sky, when a shooting star appears. The three follow after it, wondering if it landed nearby and all explore different places - Staravia searching a mountain, Mudkip the beach, and Meowth the city streets. When they meet back up, they've all brought back different items, none of which are the shooting star. However a pink star that Staravia brough back from the mountain turns out to be a sleeping Cleffa, which soon wakes up and begins to cry. The three work to bring it back home, climbing the mountain and returning the Cleffa to the Clefairy and Clefable that live there. Despite not finding the shooting star, the three make friends with the Clefairy and Clefable, helping make the trip back down the mountain less scary and more fun.

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Meowth}}
* {{p|Staravia}}
* {{p|Mudkip}}
* {{p|Cleffa}}
* {{p|Clefairy}}
* {{p|Clefable}}

{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PBD12

2025-12-18T23:20:47Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Forest of Reversal
|image= PDB12.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=October 30th, 2008
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]
|next=[[PBD13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
}}

The Forest of Reversal (Japanese: さかさむのもり) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Pikachu and Squirtle enter their favorite forest discussing what they plan to do that day, unaware of a Pokémon watching them. The Pokémon tries to greet them, but neither of them hear it, causing it to grow sad before remembering something and running off into the woods. While the two consider finishing their game of tag from yesterday, they notice the Pokémon of the forest are acting strange - Slowpoke is busily collecting berries, Exeggcute's six eggs are seperated, Floatzel is struggling to swim, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have swapped fighting styles, and Seviper and Zangoose are happily playing together. They ignore them when they call to play, leading the two to realize they're acting the opposite of how they usually act. They ask Lopunny - who now doesn't care about getting dirty - who tells them that everything became reversed after the mystery Pokémon ran off into the woods, inspiring Squirtle and Pikachu to search for them. They find a forked path in the woods, following the path with footsteps deep into the forest. Lopunny tells them that the Pokémon flew off with incredible speed, however the reversal effect has caused her to say the opposite of what she means. Pikachu and Squirtle find a Linoone stuck running in circles, and when they try to talk about the Pokémon that did this, they speak backwards. After reaching the deepest part of the forest, the two find the culprit - a Mr. Mime who created a giant mirror and pulled the forest into a mirror world, hoping to create something interesting enough that everyone would want to be their friend. Squirtle says that they don't need that and invites Mr. Mime to play tag, Mr. Mime getting rid of the mirror and returning the forest to normal.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Squirtle}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Slowpoke}}
*{{p|Exeggcute}}
*{{p|Floatzel}}
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Hitmonchan}}
*{{p|Seviper}}
*{{p|Zangoose}}
*{{p|Lopunny}}
*{{p|Linoone}}
*{{p|Hitmontop}}
*{{p|Stunky}}
*{{p|Primeape}}
*{{p|Koffing}}

PBD01

2025-12-18T20:34:53Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Lines
|image=PBD01.png
|ISBN=N/A
|published=September 1, 2005
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=N/A
|next=[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]
}}

'''The Mysterious Lines''' (Japanese: '''ふしぎなぎょうれつ''') is the first book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

==Plot==
Zubat, Eevee, Marill, and Pikachu have traveled a long way and they're all hungry and thirsty when Pikachu spots a town ahead. Walking into the town, they look for someplace to eat and drink. This time, Pikachu spots a long line, but there's no sign for the place the Pokémon are lining up to. When Marill asks the Zangoose at the end of the line what the place is, the Zangoose just points at the line and smiles.

They figure it must be be a place with good food if the line is so long and try to get in line...but when they do, the Pokémon ahead of them get mad at them! Leaving the line, they walk around the town and notice that all of the shops and buildings have lines of Pokémon but no signs.

Fed up, Pikachu and its friends run and run until they end up in the center of the town, in the plaza. They're feeling down, convinced that the Pokémon in the town don't want them there. Then, a marching band strides into the plaza. Pikachu and its friends worry that they'll be scolded again. But the Pokémon in the band are smiling and waving. That's when Pikachu finally understands.

Reading the first letters{{tt|*|Japanese "letters" cover a whole syllable}} of the names of the Pokémon in the band in the order they're lined up in, the Pokémon spell out "Welcome to town!"{{tt|*|See the Secrets section below for the details on how this works out.}} Pikachu and its friends can finally relax knowing they're welcome.

==Interaction==
The reader may choose between a male and female narrator, labeled as "Father" and "Mother" and voiced by Yōtarō Ōkubo and Chikage Yamashita, respectively.

After having seen all pages once, the reader is prompted to reread the book from the beginning, this time clicking on new buttons that show up in the middle of certain pages. These buttons reveal the words that other Pokémon lines in the book spelled.

===Secrets===
These are the Pokémon signs that are revealed when the reader clicks a button that appears on a second read-through of the book. These signs are formed by Pokémon standing in a line so that the first letter{{tt|*|Japanese "letters" cover a whole syllable}} from each of their names spells a word when read in order. The tables shown below describe how the signs are formed and read.

*Page 7-8: The sign revealed spells "Yummy Pizza" in Japanese.

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0 1.5em"
|-
! Word in Japanese (''English'')
! Letter
! Pokémon JP Name (''EN Name'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="4" | Oishii (''Yummy'')
| O
| align="left" | Otachi (''Sentret'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| I
| align="left" | Illumise
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| SHI
| align="left" | {{tt|Shellder|Shi+ellder}}
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| I
| align="left" | Itomaru (''Spinarak'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="2" | Piza (''Pizza'')
| PI
| align="left" | Pippi (''Clefairy'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| ZA
| align="left" | Zangoose
|}
{{-}}

*Page 11-12: The same Pokémon sign as on page 7-8 is seen, but Pikachu's friends have lined up after them, so that the sign now reads "Yummy Pizza Yuck".

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0 1.5em"
|-
! Word in Japanese (''English'')
! Letter
! Pokémon JP Name (''EN Name'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="3" | Mazui (''Yuck'')
| MA
| align="left" | Maril (''Marill'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| ZU
| align="left" | Zubat
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| I
| align="left" | Ībui/Eievui (''Eevee'')
|}
{{-}}

*Page 13-14: Two signs are revealed, spelling "Pasta" and "Candy"

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0 1.5em"
|-
! Word in Japanese (''English'')
! Letter
! Pokémon JP Name (''EN Name'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="3" | Pasuta (''Pasta'')
| PA
| align="left" | Patcheel (''Spinda'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| SU
| align="left" | Surīpu/Sleep (''Drowzee'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| TA
| align="left" | Taneboh (''Seedot'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="3" | Okashi (''Candy'')
| O
| align="left" | Onisuzume (''Spearow'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| KA
| align="left" | Kapoerer (''Hitmontop'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| SHI
| align="left" | {{tt|Showers|Shi+owers}} (''Vaporeon'')
|}
{{-}}

*Page 15-16: Two signs are revealed, spelling "Fruit" and "Flowers".

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0 1.5em"
|-
! Word in Japanese (''English'')
! Letter
! Pokémon JP Name (''EN Name'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="4" | Kudamono (''Fruit'')
| KU
| align="left" | Kurabu/Crab (''Krabby'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| DA
| align="left" | Dagutorio/Dugtrio
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| MO
| align="left" | Mokoko (''Flaaffy'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| NO
| align="left" | Nokocchi (''Dunsparce'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="3" | Ohana (''Flowers'')
| O
| align="left" | Okorizaru (''Primeape'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| HA
| align="left" | Hanecco (''Hoppip'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| NA
| align="left" | Namakero (''Slakoth'')
|}
{{-}}

*Page 23-24: In addition to the "Welcome to town!" sign originally revealed during the first read-through, a sign in the background is revealed that spells "Toilet".

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0 1.5em"
|-
! Word in Japanese (''English'')
! Letter
! Pokémon JP Name (''EN Name'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="4" | Youkoso (''Welcome'')
| YO
| align="left" | Yogiras (''Larvitar'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| U
| align="left" | Upah (''Wooper'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| KO
| align="left" | Koduck (''Psyduck'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| SO
| align="left" | Sohnano (''Wynaut'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="2" | Machi (''Town'')
| MA
| align="left" | Mankey
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| CHI
| align="left" | {{tt|Charem|Chi+arem}} (''Medicham'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| He (''To'')
| HE
| align="left" | Heracros (''Heracross'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| rowspan="3" | Toire (''Toilet'')
| TO
| align="left" | Togepi
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| I
| align="left" | Isitsubute (''Geodude'')
|- style="background:#FFFFFF" align="center"
| RE
| align="left" | Rediba (''Ledyba'')
|}
{{-}}

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Zubat}}
*{{p|Eevee}}
*{{p|Marill}}
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Wingull}}
*{{p|Sentret}}
*{{p|Illumise}}
*{{p|Shellder}}
*{{p|Spinarak}}
*{{p|Clefairy}}
*{{p|Zangoose}}
*{{p|Spinda}}
*{{p|Drowzee}}
*{{p|Seedot}}
*{{p|Spearow}}
*{{p|Hitmontop}}
*{{p|Vaporeon}}
*{{p|Krabby}}
*{{p|Dugtrio}}
*{{p|Flaaffy}}
*{{p|Dunsparce}}
*{{p|Primeape}}
*{{p|Hoppip}}
*{{p|Slakoth}}
*{{p|Togepi}}
*{{p|Larvitar}}
*{{p|Wooper}}
*{{p|Psyduck}}
*{{p|Wynaut}}
*{{p|Mankey}}
*{{p|Medicham}}
*{{p|Heracross}}
*{{p|Geodude}}
*{{p|Ledyba}}

==External links==
* [http://www.pokemon.jp/contents/enjoy/picture_pass/2.html Read The Mysterious Lines online] (Japanese) (Javascript required)


{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

PB15

2025-12-18T20:25:57Z

PrinceAxie: /* Plot */

{{BookInfobox|
title=Where's Clefairy's Voice?|
image=PB15 EN First Edition.png|
image_size=250|
ISBN=1569314195|
publisher=[[VIZ Media]]|
author=Kunimi Kawamura|
published=December 6, 1999|
previous=[[PB37|Psyduck's Tongue Twisters]] EN [[PB14|Where is Beedle's Father?]] JP|
next= [[PB35|Fly on, Butterfree]] EN [[PB16|Ready, Set, Dodo!]] JP|
}}

'''Where's Clefairy's Voice?''' (Japanese: '''ピッピのくるくるおんぷ''' ''{{tt|Pippi's|Clefairy's}} Spinning Notes'') written by Kunimi Kawamura and illustrated by [[Kagemaru Himeno]]. In English, it is the 6th book in the [[Pokémon Tales]] series. In Japanese, it is the 15th book. It is 18 pages long.

==Plot==
The Pokémon in the forest are panicking as Clefairy, who's job is to tell time, has lost their voice, meaning no one knows what time it is. They watch as a doctor Poliwhirl examines them, however they're unable to figure out why Clefairy's lost their voice as they're perfectly healthy in every other way. The crowd of Pokémon go ask the forest elder, a Kadabra, who says that someone has stolen Clefairy's voice, sending the Pokémon searching for the thief to no avail. Meanwhile a little girl walks into the forest and talks to a Ponyta, saying she found a bottle full of strange musical notes in her house - which turns out to be Clefairy's voice. The Pokémon thank her and bring the bottle back to Clefairy's house, giving them their voice back and finally letting everyone go to sleep - waking up the next morning at seven o'clock thanks to Clefairy's song.
===Blurb===
''Without a voice, Clefairy can't announce the time for all the other Pokémon! ''
==Characters==
===Humans===

* Girl

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Clefairy}}
*{{p|Spearow}}
*{{p|Gloom}}
*{{p|Kakuna}}
*{{p|Abra}}
*{{p|Poliwhirl}}
*{{p|Vileplume}}
*{{p|Bellsprout}}
*{{p|Jigglypuff}}
*{{p|Meowth}}
*{{p|Ponyta}}
*{{p|Ekans}}
*{{p|Eevee}}
*{{p|Doduo}}
*{{p|Caterpie}}
*{{p|Oddish}}
*{{p|Weedle}}
*{{p|Metapod}}
*{{p|Psyduck}}
*{{p|Kadabra}}
*{{p|Chansey}}
*{{p|Exeggcute}}
*{{p|Weepinbell}}
*{{p|Mankey}}
*{{p|Pidgey}}
*{{p|Geodude}}
*{{p|Diglett}}
*{{p|Tangela}}
*{{p|Jigglypuff}}
*{{p|Sandshrew}}
*{{P|Tentacool}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Kanto}}
{{publications|cover=PB15 JP.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=August 1997|ISBN=409728715X}}
{{publications|cover=PB15 EN First Edition.png|edition=First|country=USA|company=VIZ Media|date=December 6, 1999|ISBN=1569314195}}
{{publications|cover=wheresclefairysvoice.png|edition=Second?|country=USA|company=VIZ Media|date=September 2006?|ISBN=?}}
|}

==Trivia==

* Like every Pokémon Tales book, this book features a hidden Pokémon for the reader to find- in this book, it's Tentacool, who appears on Clefairy's curtains while they're sick.

=== Errors ===

{{-}}
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[it:PB15]]

PBD14

2025-12-16T03:27:17Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 19th, 2010
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
|next=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
}}

Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ノコッチのおにごっこ) is the fourteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Mizue Kuroyanagi]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Totodile, Chikorita, and Cyndaquil are playing a game of tag with Dunsparce, who is very good at the game. Dunsparce taunts them to catch it before running off into the forest, vanishing as the three try to chase after. Cyndaquil soon notices that Chikorita is missing - discovering that they've become stuck in a hole. Cyndaquil and Totodile run over to help, only to also fall into holes. The three complain about Dunsparce digging the holes to catch them and not playing fair, Dunsparce watching from afar. As night gets closer they wonder how they'll get out of the hole, only for Chikorita to suddenly fly up out of the hole - Dunsparce pushing the three out of their holes and them apologizing for saying it wasn't fair when it was just something they were good at. The other Pokémon come to play in Dunsparce's holes, them becoming a popular pace to play - so popular that everyone forgot about tag.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Dunsparce}}
* {{p|Totodile}}
* {{p|Chikorita}}
* {{p|Cyndaquil}}
* {{p|Snubbull}}
* {{p|Elekid}}
* {{p|Hoppip}}
* {{p|Teddiursa}}
* {{p|Sunkern}}
* {{p|Ralts}}
* {{p|Munchlax}}
* {{p|Cacnea}}
* {{p|Taillow}}

PBD12

2025-12-16T03:26:09Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Forest of Reversal
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=October 30th, 2008
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]
|next=[[PBD13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
}}

The Forest of Reversal (Japanese: さかさむのもり) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Pikachu and Squirtle enter their favorite forest discussing what they plan to do that day, unaware of a Pokémon watching them. The Pokémon tries to greet them, but neither of them hear it, causing it to grow sad before remembering something and running off into the woods. While the two consider finishing their game of tag from yesterday, they notice the Pokémon of the forest are acting strange - Slowpoke is busily collecting berries, Exeggcute's six eggs are seperated, Floatzel is struggling to swim, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have swapped fighting styles, and Seviper and Zangoose are happily playing together. They ignore them when they call to play, leading the two to realize they're acting the opposite of how they usually act. They ask Lopunny - who now doesn't care about getting dirty - who tells them that everything became reversed after the mystery Pokémon ran off into the woods, inspiring Squirtle and Pikachu to search for them. They find a forked path in the woods, following the path with footsteps deep into the forest. Lopunny tells them that the Pokémon flew off with incredible speed, however the reversal effect has caused her to say the opposite of what she means. Pikachu and Squirtle find a Linoone stuck running in circles, and when they try to talk about the Pokémon that did this, they speak backwards. After reaching the deepest part of the forest, the two find the culprit - a Mr. Mime who created a giant mirror and pulled the forest into a mirror world, hoping to create something interesting enough that everyone would want to be their friend. Squirtle says that they don't need that and invites Mr. Mime to play tag, Mr. Mime getting rid of the mirror and returning the forest to normal.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Squirtle}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Slowpoke}}
*{{p|Exeggcute}}
*{{p|Floatzel}}
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Hitmonchan}}
*{{p|Seviper}}
*{{p|Zangoose}}
*{{p|Lopunny}}
*{{p|Linoone}}
*{{p|Hitmontop}}
*{{p|Stunky}}
*{{p|Primeape}}
*{{p|Koffing}}

PBD13

2025-12-16T03:23:27Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Night of the Shooting Star
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=April 4th, 2009
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB12|The Forest of Reversals]]
|next=[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Tag]]
}}

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Japanese:ながれぼしのよる) is the thirteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Meowth, Mudkip, and Staravia are watching the night sky, when a shooting star appears. The three follow after it, wondering if it landed nearby and all explore different places - Staravia searching a mountain, Mudkip the beach, and Meowth the city streets. When they meet back up, they've all brought back different items, none of which are the shooting star. However a pink star that Staravia brough back from the mountain turns out to be a sleeping Cleffa, which soon wakes up and begins to cry. The three work to bring it back home, climbing the mountain and returning the Cleffa to the Clefairy and Clefable that live there. Despite not finding the shooting star, the three make friends with the Clefairy and Clefable, helping make the trip back down the mountain less scary and more fun.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Meowth}}
* {{p|Staravia}}
* {{p|Mudkip}}
* {{p|Cleffa}}
* {{p|Clefairy}}
* {{p|Clefable}}

MysteryBerry

2025-12-16T03:15:02Z

PrinceAxie: /* Pokémon Daisuki Tales */

{{ItemInfobox/head
|name=MysteryBerry
|jname={{tt|ふしぎなきのみ|Fushigina Kinomi}}
|jtrans=Mystery Fruit
|art=None
|sprite=None
|gen=II
|colorscheme=Items
}}
{{ItemInfobox/BagRowBottom|II|Items}}
|}

The '''MysteryBerry''' (Japanese: '''{{tt|ふしぎなきのみ|Fushigina Kinomi}}''' ''Mystery Fruit'') is a type of [[Berry]] exclusive to the [[Generation II]] games. It restores 5 [[PP]] to a Pokémon.

From [[Generation III]] onward, the MysteryBerry is succeeded by the [[Leppa Berry]] (although the Leppa Berry restores 10 PP instead).

==Terminology==
In [[Generation II]] games, this is displayed in all-caps: '''MYSTERYBERRY'''.

In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver: Official Nintendo Player's Guide]]'' (page 108), this item is named '''Mystery Berry'''.

In ''[[Pokémon Crystal: Official Nintendo Player's Guide]]'' (page 150), this item is named '''Mysteryberry'''.

==In the core series games==
===Price===
{{ItemPrice/head|Items}}
|-
| {{gameabbrev2|GSC}}
| N/A
| {{PDollar}}5
|}
|}

===Effect===
====Held item====
If one of the holder's moves runs out of PP, it consumes its held MysteryBerry and 5 PP is restored to that move.

====Bag item====
When used from the [[Bag]] on a Pokémon, it restores 5 PP to one of that Pokémon's moves. This consumes the MysteryBerry.

===Description===
{{movedesc|Items}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrev2|GSC}}|A self-restore for PP. (HOLD)}}
|}
|}

===Acquisition===
{{ItemAvailability/head|Items}}
|-
| {{gameabbrev2|GSC}}
| [[Ruins of Alph]]{{sup/2|C}} [[Pewter City]] (held by [[in-game trade]] {{p|Xatu}}){{sup/2|C}}
| [[Berry tree]]s ([[Route]]s {{rtn|35|Johto}} and {{rtn|45|Johto}}) Held by {{wild|Clefairy|g=II}} (23% chance)  and {{wild|Mr. Mime|g=II}} (2% chance) Held by {{wild|Clefairy|g=I}} from [[Generation I]]
|}
|}

==In the books==
===Pokémon Daisuki Tales===
[[File:MysteryBerry The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors.png|thumb|MysteryBerries in ''The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors'']]
In ''[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]'', two {{p|Pichu}} are collecting floating Mystery Berries deep in the forest. They discover a mysterious rainbow fog, which originates from a nearby cottage. Inside, they find a {{p|Meowth}} trying to make a rainbow with a concoction in a vat, but the rainbow drifts at the ground. The Pichu add their floating MysteryBerries to the vat, which allows the rainbow to arc through the sky as intended.

In ''[[PBD10|The Mysterious Stockings]]'', a box of Mystery Berries appears in {{p|Piplup}}'s dream along with other items from the Daisuki Tales books.
{{-}}

==In other languages==
{{langtable|color={{items color light}}|bordercolor={{items color dark}}
|zh_cmn=神奇的果實 ''{{tt|Shénqí de Guǒshí|Mystery Fruit}}''
|fr=Baie Mystere
|de=Rätselbeere
|it={{tt|Bacca Mist.|Bacca Misteriosa}}
|es=Bayamisterio
|ko=이상한나무열매 ''Isanghan Namu Yeolmae''
}}

==External links==
{{SItem/O2|item=mystery-berry}}

{{Project BerryDex notice}}

[[Category:Berries in Generation II]]
[[Category:Berries]]
[[Category:PP-restoring items]]

[[de:Rätselbeere]]
[[es:Baya Misterio]]
[[fr:Baie Mystère]]
[[it:Bacca Misteriosa]]
[[ja:ふしぎなきのみ]]
[[zh:神奇的果实（道具）]]

PBD10

2025-12-16T03:13:22Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Mysterious Stockings |image= |ISBN=N/A |published=November 26th, 2007 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek |next=Mysterious Pirate Ship }} The Mysterious Stockings (Japanese: ふしぎなくつした) is the sixth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written by Akihito Toda and illustra..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Stockings
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=November 26th, 2007
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PDB09|Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek]]
|next=[[PBD11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]
}}

The Mysterious Stockings (Japanese: ふしぎなくつした) is the sixth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Miki Tanaka]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
On Christmas Eve morning, Piplup is asleep and dreaming about presents only to still be sad, as what they want most is a friend to play with due to being so shy they can't make friends. They wake up to see that it had snowed, causing them to become excited and head outside. While out walking in the snow, Piplup notices a Pikachu-patterned stocking hanging from a tree branch, wondering why there's only one sock and who could have lost it. As it continues walking it notices more stockings hanging from branches- this time a pink one and a light blue one. Having walked far from home, Piplup has become tired, nervous and afraid - only to find an incredibly large orange stocking and climbing inside to fall asleep. The sleeping Piplup is discovered by Delibird, who says that the stocking is for Christmas presents as well as asking the now-awake Piplup to help them deliver presents to help them wake up. They finish delivering presents only to begin to feel lonely as they're the only Pokémon without a stocking. Delibird reassures them by saying that they have the biggest stocking in the forest, flying them up and letting them see that their footprints in the snow form a stocking and the other Pokémon of the forest wishing them a merry Christmas - giving Piplup the confidence to wish their new friends a merry Christmas back.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Piplup}}
*{{p|Delibird}}
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Shellos}}
*{{p|Larvitar}}
*{{p|Snover}}
*{{p|Dragonite}}
*{{p|Togepi}}
=Trivia=
*The gifts in Piplup's dream are references to other Pokémon Daisuki Tales books - a box of [[Mystery Berry|Mystery Berries]] from [[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]], the crayons from [[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]], and Munchlax's drum from [[PDB08|The Mysterious Drum]].

Pokémon Tales

2025-12-16T02:40:53Z

PrinceAxie: /* Pokémon Daisuki Tales */

{{samename|stop-motion animated series|Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu}}
[[File:PB04 EN Second Edition.png|thumb|right|The front cover of the "Pikachu's Day" book.]]

'''Pokémon Tales''' (Japanese: '''ポケモンえほん''' ''Pokémon Picture Book'') are a series of children's picture books published by [[VIZ Media]] in North America and [[Shogakukan]] in Japan. A small number of artists collectively provided illustrations across the series, many of which have since become established within the Pokémon franchise. Each book contains a story focusing on one Pokémon, such as a {{p|Squirtle}} afraid to come out of his shell or a hungry {{p|Snorlax}}. While the initial series comprises 48 books, only 23 were translated into English.

==Pokémon Tales==
{| class="sortable roundy" style="background: #A0A0C4; {{roundy|10px}}; border: 5px solid #BBBBE8"
|-
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytl|5px}}" | English No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Japanese No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Title
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Author
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Illustrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytr|5px}};" | Original release date
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 01
| 01
| ''[[PB01|Charmander Sees a Ghost]]''
| [[Akihito Toda]]
| [[Kagemaru Himeno]]
| 1997-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 02
| 02
| ''[[PB02|Come Out, Squirtle!]]''
| [[Tomoaki Imakuni]]
| [[Naoyo Kimura]]
| 1997-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 03
| 03
| ''[[PB03|Bulbasaur's Trouble]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Benimaru Itoh]]
| 1997-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 04
| 04
| ''[[PB04|Pikachu's Day]]''
| [[Toshinao Aoki]]
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1997-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 05
| ''[[PB05|Yadon's Big Yawn]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Miki Tanaka]]
| 1997-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 20
| 06
| ''[[PB06|Onix Underground]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Benimaru Itoh
| 1997-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 07
| ''[[PB07|That's Lucky for You]]''
| Tokoya Kanabun
| Tokoya Kanabun
| 1997-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 08
| ''[[PB08|Transforming Metamon]]''
| [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 1997-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 12
| 09
| ''[[PB09|Lapras Makes a Friend]]''
| Kunimi Kawamura
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1997-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 10
| ''[[PB10|Let Me Borrow Your Leek, Kamonegi-kun]]''
| Junko Wada
| [[Yukiko Baba]]
| 1997-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 11
| ''[[PB11|What's Nassy's Favorite Word?]]''
| Eriko Matsumura
| [[Kouichi Ooyama]]
| 1997-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 12
| ''[[PB12|Sihorn and the Planet's Navel]]''
| Kazuyuki Yamamoto
| [[Mitsuhiro Arita]]
| 1997-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 14
| 13
| ''[[PB13|Diglett's Birthday Party]]''
| Junko Wada
| Yasukazu Arai
| 1997-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 14
| ''[[PB14|Where is Beedle's Father?]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Akemi Sugiura
| 1997-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 06
| 15
| ''[[PB15|Where's Clefairy's Voice?]]''
| Kunimi Kawamura
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1997-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 16
| ''[[PB16|Ready, Set, Dodo!]]''
| [[Tomokazu Komiya]]
| Tomokazu Komiya
| 1997-10
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 10
| 17
| ''[[PB17|Snorlax's Snack]]''
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 1997-10
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 16
| 18
| ''[[PB18|Seel to the Rescue!]]''
| Kazuyuki Yamamoto
| Naoyo Kimura
| 1997-10
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 19
| ''[[PB19|Spherical Marumine]]''
| [[Tsunekazu Ishihara]]
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1997-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 20
| ''[[PB20|Not Yet, Caterpie]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1997-10
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 21
| ''[[PB21|Tattu Likes the Sea]]''
| Junko Wada
| [[Yuka Morii]]{{tt|*|The scenes in this book were modeled from clay, which Yuka Morii molded.}}
| 1997-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 22
| ''[[PB22|Let's Play Again, Porygon]]''
| Toshiko Takashi
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 1997-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 23
| ''[[PB23|Forgetful Pigeon]]''
| Chōji Yoshikawa
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1997-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 13
| 24
| ''[[PB24|Eevee's Weather Report]]''
| Junko Wada
| [[Masako Yamashita]]
| 1997-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 15
| 25
| ''[[PB25|First Prize for Starmie]]''
| Kazuyuki Yamamoto
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1997-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 26
| ''[[PB26|Lots of Nyorozo!]]''
| Hajime Yume
| Kaoru Iwasa
| 1998-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 22
| 27
| ''[[PB27|A Star for Tauros]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Yukiko Baba]]
| 1998-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 28
| ''[[PB28|Beroringa Licks Everything]]''
| Junko Igarashi
| Naoyo Kimura
| 1998-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 29
| ''[[PB29|Nazonokusa's Hide and Seek]]''
| [[Kunihiko Yuyama]]
| Tomokazu Komiya{{tt|*|The scenes in this book are in a collage style.}}
| 1998-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 11
| 30
| ''[[PB30|Jigglypuff's Magic Lullaby]]''
| [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1998-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 31
| ''[[PB31|The Name's Karakara]]''
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 1998-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 32
| ''[[PB32|I Want to Become a Kamex]]''
| Junko Wada
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1998-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 33
| ''[[PB33|Little Ghost]]''
| [[Aya Kusube]]
| Aya Kusube
| 1998-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 18
| 34
| ''[[PB34|Magnemite's Mission]]''
| Yachiyo Numazaki [[Keiji Kinebuchi]]
| [[Keiji Kinebuchi]]
| 1998-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 07
| 35
| ''[[PB35|Fly on, Butterfree]]''
| Toshiko Takashi
| Naoyo Kimura
| 1998-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 36
| ''[[PB36|Let's Make Pizza, Wanriky!]]''
| Keiko Yanagisawa
| Yuka Morii{{tt|*|The scenes in this book were modeled from clay, which Yuka Morii molded.}}
| 1998-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 05
| 37
| ''[[PB37|Psyduck's Tongue Twisters]]''
| Hajime Yume
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1998-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 38
| ''[[PB38|Rokon and the Girl]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Miki Tanaka
| 1998-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 39
| ''[[PB39|Heart-pounding Sand]]''
| Tomokazu Komiya
| Tomokazu Komiya
| 1998-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 08
| 40
| ''[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]''
| Junko Wada
| Naoyo Kimura
| 1998-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 41
| ''[[PB41|What Is a Transel?]]''
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 1998-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 09
| 42
| ''[[PB42|Meet Mew!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 1998-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 43
| ''[[PB43|Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba]]''
| [[Inuko Inuyama]]
| Keralino Sandorovich
| 1999-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| —
| 44
| ''[[PB44|Sawamular's Extending Legs]]''
| Motoharu Sakata
| [[Shin-ichi Yoshida]]
| 1999-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 20{{tt|*|Data on this book consistently overlaps with Onix Underground.}}
| 45
| ''[[PB45|Gengar's Shadow]]''
| Aya Kusube
| Aya Kusube
| 1999-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 19
| 46
| ''[[PB46|Don't Laugh, Charizard!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Naoyo Kimura
| 2000-02
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 21
| 47
| ''[[PB47|Togepi's Tears]]''
| Hajime Yume
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 2000-02
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 17
| 48
| ''[[PB48|Mewtwo's Watching You!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Aya Kusube
| 2000-02
|}
{{-}}

==Special Pokémon Tales==
These books tie in to the first two [[Pokémon movie]]s and were included in the English gift box sets for the original books.
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|-
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytl|5px}};" | English No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Japanese No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Title
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Author
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Illustrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytr|5px}};" | Original release date
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 01
| 01
| ''[[PBM1|I'm Not Pikachu!]]''
| Junko Wada
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1998-08
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 02
| 02
| ''[[PBM2|Pikachu's Unparalleled Adventure]]''
| Junko Wada
| Toshinao Aoki
| 1999-07
|}
{{-}}
==Pokémon Gold and Silver Tales==
A second series of Pokémon Tales books were published following the release of {{game|Gold and Silver|s}} (Japanese: '''ポケモン金銀えほん''' ''Pokémon Gold and Silver Picture Books''). Unlike the initial Pokémon Tales series, all of these books were translated into English.

{| class="sortable roundy" style="background: #A0A0C4;; border: 5px solid #BBBBE8"
|-
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytl|5px}};" | English No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Japanese No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Title
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Author
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Illustrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytr|5px}};" | Original release date
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 01
| 01
| ''[[PBGS1|Detective Chikorita]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| 2001-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 02
| 02
| ''[[PBGS2|Cyndaquil and the Mystery Hole]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Toshinao Aoki
| 2001-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 03
| 03
| ''[[PBGS3|Totodile's One Gulp]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Benimaru Itoh
| 2001-11
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 04
| 04
| ''[[PBGS4|Muddy Pichu]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Naoyo Kimura
| 2001-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 05
| 05
| ''[[PBGS5|Wobbuffet Watches Clouds]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Yasukazu Arai
| 2001-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 06
| 06
| ''[[PBGS6|Swinub's Nose]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Kagemaru Himeno
| 2002-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 07
| 07
| ''[[PBGS7|Wake up, Lugia!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Toshinao Aoki
| 2002-03
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 08
| 08
| ''[[PBGS8|Look Out Houndour!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Midori Harada]]
| 2002-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 09
| 09
| ''[[PBGS9|Corsola's Brave New World]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Tomokazu Komiya
| 2002-07
|}
{{-}}
==Pokémon Exciting Tales==
Pokémon Exciting Tales (Japanese: '''ポケモンわくわくえほん''' ''Pokémon Exciting Picture Books'') was apparently a short release made in the run-up to the [[M06|sixth Pokémon movie]], which was the first for ''[[Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire]]'' .

{| class="sortable roundy" style="background: #A0A0C4; border: 5px solid #BBBBE8"
|-
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytl|5px}};" | No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Title
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Author
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Illustrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytr|5px}};" | Release date
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 01
| ''[[PBAG1|Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Kouki Saitou]]
| 2003-06
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 02
| ''[[PBAG2|PokéPoké Oekaki!]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Naoyo Kimura
| 2003-06
|}
{{-}}

==Pokémon Daisuki Tales==
The Pokémon Daisuki Tales (Japanese: '''ポケモンだいすきえほん''' ''Pokémon Enjoy Picture Books'') are interactive audio picture books in Flash. They are viewable [http://www.pokemon.jp/#/contents/enjoy/picture_book/ online] (Japanese) on the [[Pokémon Daisuki Club]] website. All of the stories are on the site, but some are not accessible through normal navigation of the Daisuki Club website. New titles are added periodically.

On September 4, 2007, Media Factory printed and distributed the stories ''[[PBD03|The Mysterious Yacht]]'', ''[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]'', ''[[PBD06|The Mysterious Big Clock]]'', and ''[[PBD07|The Mysterious Maze]]''. The books were miniature-sized and hardcovered, and came with a ball chain.<ref>[http://poketb.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=1969 Chinese forum post of announcement]</ref> They did not actually have ISBNs, though, so they were classified closer to toys than books.<ref>{{jwp|ポケモンえほん}} - Japanese Wikipedia</ref> Pokémon Daisuki Club also distributed printed books of ''[[PBD08|The Mysterious Drum]]'' and ''[[PBD10|The Mysterious Stockings]]'' to 200 people in a February 2009 giveaway. They also came with stickers of characters from the books.<ref>http://pokemon.g.hatena.ne.jp/okome_chan/20090317</ref>

{| class="sortable roundy" style="background: #A0A0C4; border: 5px solid #BBBBE8"
|-
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytl|5px}};" | No.
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Title
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Author
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Illustrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF" | Narrator
! style="background-color: #CCCCFF; {{roundytr|5px}};" | Release date
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 01
| ''[[PBD01|The Mysterious Lines]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| {{female}} Chikage Yamashita {{male}} Yōtarō Ōkubo
| 2005-09-01
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 02
| ''[[PBD02|The Mysterious Rainbow of Colors]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Aya Kusube
| {{female}} Chikage Yamashita {{male}} Yōtarō Ōkubo
| 2005-09-16
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 03
| ''[[PBD03|The Mysterious Yacht]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Kagemaru Himeno
| {{female}} Chikage Yamashita {{male}} Yōtarō Ōkubo
| 2005-09-30
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 04
| ''[[PBD04|The Mysterious Crayon]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Midori Harada
| {{female}} Nao Minami
| 2006-05-12
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 05
| ''[[PBD05|The Mysterious Constellation]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Mitsuhiro Arita
| {{female}} Hiroko Ōhashi
| 2006-08-04
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 06
| ''[[PBD06|The Mysterious Big Clock]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Atsuko Nishida]]
| {{female}} Kaori Tanabe
| 2006-11-24
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 07
| ''[[PBD07|The Mysterious Maze]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Masakazu Fukuda]]
| {{female}} Maya Hayashi
| 2007-03-09
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 08
| ''[[PBD08|The Mysterious Drum]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Tomokazu Komiya
| {{female}} Karen
| 2007-07-02
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 09
| ''[[PBD09|Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Kouki Saitou
| {{female}} Ai Koike
| 2007-09-07
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 10
| ''[[PBD10|The Mysterious Stockings]]''
| Akihito Toda
| Miki Tanaka
| {{female}} aki
| 2007-11-26
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 11
| ''[[PBD11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]''
| Akihito Toda
| [[Kanako Eo]]
| {{female}} Naoko Yanase
| 2008-02-25
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 12
| ''[[PBD12|The Forest of Reversals]]''
| [[Creatures]]
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| {{female}} Mayumi Sudou
| 2008-10-30
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 13
| ''[[PBD13|The Night of The Shooting Star]]''
| Creatures
| Midori Harada
| {{female}} Mayumi Sudou {{male}} Ezaki Kouji
| 2009-04-10
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 14
| ''[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Tag]]''
| Creatures
| Mizue Kuroyanagi
| {{female}} Mayumi Sudou {{male}} Ezaki Kouji
| 2010-02-19
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 15
| ''[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]''
| Creatures
| Sumiyoshi Kizuki
| {{female}} Mayumi Sudou {{male}} Tomonori Tsuchimochi
| 2012-03-28
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| 16
| ''[[PBD16|Iwapalace Moves House]]''
| Creatures
| [[Naoki Saito]]
| {{female}} Mayumi Sudou {{male}} Tomonori Tsuchimochi
| 2012-03-28
|}

{{-}}

==Pokémon Tales Gift Boxes==
[[VIZ Media]] released two gift boxes of the Pokémon Tales series. Each boxed set contained five books each.

{| class="roundy" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; background: #{{colorschemelight|Kanto}}; border: 3px solid #{{colorschemedark|Kanto}}"
|-
! Box artwork
! Books included
|- style="background:#FFFFFF"
| [[File:Pokémon Tales Gift Box 1.png|120px|Pokémon Tales Gift Box 1]]
| ''[[PB01|Charmander Sees a Ghost]]'' ''[[PB02|Come Out, Squirtle!]]'' ''[[PB03| Bulbasaur's Trouble]]'' ''[[PB04|Pikachu's Day]]'' ''[[PBM1|Movie Special: I'm Not Pikachu!]]''
|-
| style="background:#FFFFFF; {{roundybl|5px}}" | [[File:Pokémon Tales Gift Box 2.png|120px|Pokémon Tales Gift Box 1]]
| style="background:#FFFFFF; {{roundybr|5px}}" | ''[[PB37|Psyduck's Tongue Twisters]]'' ''[[PB15|Where's Clefairy's Voice?]]'' ''[[PB35|Fly on, Butterfree]]'' ''[[PB40|Dragonite's Christmas]]'' ''[[PBM2|Movie Special 2: Pikachu's Unparalleled Adventure]]''
|}

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PBD08

2025-12-15T07:11:23Z

PrinceAxie: /* Plot */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Drum
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=July 2nd, 2007
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PDB07|The Mysterious Maze]]
|next=[[PBD09|Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek]]
}}

The Mysterious Drum (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Munchlax, Buizel, and Illumise are practicing for the Pokémon Music Festival tomorrow, but Munchlax is having problems - they've become low on energy and hungry from how long they've been practicing, and the old drum they found is making strange noises. The two scold them and cause Munchlax to run off, ignoring their calls for them to come back. While heading home, they spot a group of Pokémon practicing their instruments at the lake, with a Ludicolo inviting them to join in - Munchlax's drum working perfectly this time. They thank everyone and head off, only to notice a cave with strange sounds coming from it - hitting their drum to give them courage before entering. Munchlax finds a group of Pokémon making music and despite finding them eerie, still joins in with their drum - only for a Mawile to notice the sound of the drum. She says that the drum is affected by its owners feelings, causing Munchlax to realize why it's been making the strange sounds and that it needs to apologize to its friends. The three meet up at the lake and apologize to each other - Buizel and Illumise apologizing for not realizing how hungry Munchlax was, and Munchlax apologizing for not telling them. The next day the concert happens and the three perform, it going great as Munchlax had remembered to eat before the show.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Munchlax}}
*{{p|Buizel}}
*{{p|Illumise}}
*{{p|Ludicolo}}
*{{p|Monferno}}
*{{p|Kricketot}}
*{{p|Seedot}}
*{{p|Sentret}}
*{{p|Chingling}}
*{{p|Chimecho}}
*{{p|Chatot}}
*{{p|Ledyba}}
*{{p|Haunter}}
*{{p|Misdreavus}}
*{{p|Sneasel}}
*{{p|Mawile}}

PBD12

2025-12-15T07:09:17Z

PrinceAxie: /* Intro */

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Forest of Reversal
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=October 30th, 2008
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]
|next=[[PBD13|Night of Shooting Stars]]
}}

The Forest of Reversal (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Pikachu and Squirtle enter their favorite forest discussing what they plan to do that day, unaware of a Pokémon watching them. The Pokémon tries to greet them, but neither of them hear it, causing it to grow sad before remembering something and running off into the woods. While the two consider finishing their game of tag from yesterday, they notice the Pokémon of the forest are acting strange - Slowpoke is busily collecting berries, Exeggcute's six eggs are seperated, Floatzel is struggling to swim, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have swapped fighting styles, and Seviper and Zangoose are happily playing together. They ignore them when they call to play, leading the two to realize they're acting the opposite of how they usually act. They ask Lopunny - who now doesn't care about getting dirty - who tells them that everything became reversed after the mystery Pokémon ran off into the woods, inspiring Squirtle and Pikachu to search for them. They find a forked path in the woods, following the path with footsteps deep into the forest. Lopunny tells them that the Pokémon flew off with incredible speed, however the reversal effect has caused her to say the opposite of what she means. Pikachu and Squirtle find a Linoone stuck running in circles, and when they try to talk about the Pokémon that did this, they speak backwards. After reaching the deepest part of the forest, the two find the culprit - a Mr. Mime who created a giant mirror and pulled the forest into a mirror world, hoping to create something interesting enough that everyone would want to be their friend. Squirtle says that they don't need that and invites Mr. Mime to play tag, Mr. Mime getting rid of the mirror and returning the forest to normal.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Squirtle}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Slowpoke}}
*{{p|Exeggcute}}
*{{p|Floatzel}}
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Hitmonchan}}
*{{p|Seviper}}
*{{p|Zangoose}}
*{{p|Lopunny}}
*{{p|Linoone}}
*{{p|Hitmontop}}
*{{p|Stunky}}
*{{p|Primeape}}
*{{p|Koffing}}

PBD13

2025-12-15T07:05:26Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Night of the Shooting Star |image= |ISBN=N/A |published=April 4th, 2009 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Creatures |previous=The Forest of Reversals |next=Dunsparce's Tag }} The Night of the Shooting Stars (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the thirteenth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written by Creatures and illustrated by..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Night of the Shooting Star
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=April 4th, 2009
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB12|The Forest of Reversals]]
|next=[[PBD14|Dunsparce's Tag]]
}}

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the thirteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Midori Harada]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Meowth, Mudkip, and Staravia are watching the night sky, when a shooting star appears. The three follow after it, wondering if it landed nearby and all explore different places - Staravia searching a mountain, Mudkip the beach, and Meowth the city streets. When they meet back up, they've all brought back different items, none of which are the shooting star. However a pink star that Staravia brough back from the mountain turns out to be a sleeping Cleffa, which soon wakes up and begins to cry. The three work to bring it back home, climbing the mountain and returning the Cleffa to the Clefairy and Clefable that live there. Despite not finding the shooting star, the three make friends with the Clefairy and Clefable, helping make the trip back down the mountain less scary and more fun.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Meowth}}
* {{p|Staravia}}
* {{p|Mudkip}}
* {{p|Cleffa}}
* {{p|Clefairy}}
* {{p|Clefable}}

PBD14

2025-12-15T07:04:04Z

PrinceAxie: /* Pokémon */

{{BookInfobox
|title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 19th, 2010
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
|next=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
}}

Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the fourteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Mizue Kuroyanagi]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Totodile, Chikorita, and Cyndaquil are playing a game of tag with Dunsparce, who is very good at the game. Dunsparce taunts them to catch it before running off into the forest, vanishing as the three try to chase after. Cyndaquil soon notices that Chikorita is missing - discovering that they've become stuck in a hole. Cyndaquil and Totodile run over to help, only to also fall into holes. The three complain about Dunsparce digging the holes to catch them and not playing fair, Dunsparce watching from afar. As night gets closer they wonder how they'll get out of the hole, only for Chikorita to suddenly fly up out of the hole - Dunsparce pushing the three out of their holes and them apologizing for saying it wasn't fair when it was just something they were good at. The other Pokémon come to play in Dunsparce's holes, them becoming a popular pace to play - so popular that everyone forgot about tag.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Dunsparce}}
* {{p|Totodile}}
* {{p|Chikorita}}
* {{p|Cyndaquil}}
* {{p|Snubbull}}
* {{p|Elekid}}
* {{p|Hoppip}}
* {{p|Teddiursa}}
* {{p|Sunkern}}
* {{p|Ralts}}
* {{p|Munchlax}}
* {{p|Cacnea}}
* {{p|Taillow}}

PBD14

2025-12-15T06:58:48Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag |image= |ISBN=N/A |published=February 19th, 2010 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Creatures |previous=The Night of the Shooting Star |next=The Great Cake Caper }} Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the fourteenth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written by Creatures and illustrated b..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=Dunsparce's Game of Tag
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=February 19th, 2010
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Creatures]]
|previous=[[PDB13|The Night of the Shooting Star]]
|next=[[PBD15|The Great Cake Caper]]
}}

Dunsparce's Game of Tag (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the fourteenth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Mizue Kuroyanagi]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Totodile, Chikorita, and Cyndaquil are playing a game of tag with Dunsparce, who is very good at the game. Dunsparce taunts them to catch it before running off into the forest, vanishing as the three try to chase after. Cyndaquil soon notices that Chikorita is missing - discovering that they've become stuck in a hole. Cyndaquil and Totodile run over to help, only to also fall into holes. The three complain about Dunsparce digging the holes to catch them and not playing fair, Dunsparce watching from afar. As night gets closer they wonder how they'll get out of the hole, only for Chikorita to suddenly fly up out of the hole - Dunsparce pushing the three out of their holes and them apologizing for saying it wasn't fair when it was just something they were good at. The other Pokémon come to play in Dunsparce's holes, them becoming a popular pace to play - so popular that everyone forgot about tag.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Dunsparce}}
* {{p|Totodile}}
* {{p|Chikorita}}
* {{p|Cyndaquil}}
* {{p|Snubbull}}
* {{p|Elekid}}
* {{p|Hoppip}}
* {{p|Teddiursa}}
* {{p|Sunkern}}
* {{p|Ralts}}
* {{p|Munchlax}}
* {{p|Cacnea}}
* {{p|Tailow}}

PBD12

2025-12-15T06:37:35Z

PrinceAxie: Created page with "{{BookInfobox |title=The Forest of Reversal |image= |ISBN=N/A |published=October 30th, 2008 |publisher=Pokémon Daisuki Club |author=Akihito Toda |previous=Mysterious Pirate Ship |next=Night of Shooting Stars }} The Forest of Reversal (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the eighth book in the Pokémon Daisuki Tales series. It is an interactive book written by Creatures and illustrated by Sumiy..."

{{BookInfobox
|title=The Forest of Reversal
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=October 30th, 2008
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PDB11|Mysterious Pirate Ship]]
|next=[[PBD13|Night of Shooting Stars]]
}}

The Forest of Reversal (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Creatures]] and illustrated by [[Sumiyoshi Kizuki]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and it has recieved an English translation. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Pikachu and Squirtle enter their favorite forest discussing what they plan to do that day, unaware of a Pokémon watching them. The Pokémon tries to greet them, but neither of them hear it, causing it to grow sad before remembering something and running off into the woods. While the two consider finishing their game of tag from yesterday, they notice the Pokémon of the forest are acting strange - Slowpoke is busily collecting berries, Exeggcute's six eggs are seperated, Floatzel is struggling to swim, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have swapped fighting styles, and Seviper and Zangoose are happily playing together. They ignore them when they call to play, leading the two to realize they're acting the opposite of how they usually act. They ask Lopunny - who now doesn't care about getting dirty - who tells them that everything became reversed after the mystery Pokémon ran off into the woods, inspiring Squirtle and Pikachu to search for them. They find a forked path in the woods, following the path with footsteps deep into the forest. Lopunny tells them that the Pokémon flew off with incredible speed, however the reversal effect has caused her to say the opposite of what she means. Pikachu and Squirtle find a Linoone stuck running in circles, and when they try to talk about the Pokémon that did this, they speak backwards. After reaching the deepest part of the forest, the two find the culprit - a Mr. Mime who created a giant mirror and pulled the forest into a mirror world, hoping to create something interesting enough that everyone would want to be their friend. Squirtle says that they don't need that and invites Mr. Mime to play tag, Mr. Mime getting rid of the mirror and returning the forest to normal.

=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Pikachu}}
*{{p|Squirtle}}
*{{p|Mr. Mime}}
*{{p|Slowpoke}}
*{{p|Exeggcute}}
*{{p|Floatzel}}
*{{p|Hitmonlee}}
*{{p|Hitmonchan}}
*{{p|Seviper}}
*{{p|Zangoose}}
*{{p|Lopunny}}
*{{p|Linoone}}
*{{p|Hitmontop}}
*{{p|Stunky}}
*{{p|Primeape}}
*{{p|Koffing}}

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{{BookInfobox|
title=Wake Up, Lugia!: Pokémon Gold and Silver Tales, Vol. 7|
image=Wake Up Lugia.png|
image_size=200|
published=May 10, 2002|
ISBN=1569317550 |
publisher=[[VIZ Media]]|
author=[[Akihito Toda]]|
previous=[[PBGS6|Swinub's Nose]]|
next= [[PBGS8|Look Out, Houndour!]]|
}}

'''Wake Up, Lugia!''' (Japanese: '''ルギアよめざめなさい''' ''Wake Up, Lugia'') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Toshinao Aoki]]. It is the 7th book in the Gold and Silver [[Pokémon Tales]] series. The story of this particular book focuses on {{p|Lugia}}. It is 18 pages long.

==Plot==
A group of three Pokémon - a Marill, a Wooper, and a Chinchou, are bothering a sleeping Lugia in an attempt to wake it up, only for it to actually wake up and blow them away with a wave. They talk about it and if Lugia will come after them, only for the ground to shake and them to be launched in the air. It turns out that they are on Lugia's back, however it's so grateful that someone had come to visit it, it decides to thank the three by flying them to a scenic southern country.
===Blurb===
''When a group of mischievous Pokémon friends awaken Lugia from its slumbers, they are in for several big surprises!''

==Characters==
===Humans===
No humans appear in this book.

===Pokémon===
*{{p|Lugia}}
*{{p|Marill}}
*{{p|Wooper}}
*{{p|Chinchou}}
*{{p|Shuckle}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Johto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=March 2002|ISBN=4097287575}}
{{publications|cover=Wake Up Lugia.png|edition=First|country=USA|company=VIZ Media|date=May 10, 2002|ISBN=1569317550}}
|}

==Trivia==
Like every Pokémon Tales book, this book has a hidden Pokémon for the reader to find - in this book it's Shuckle, who is can be seen on one of the islands Lugia flies over.
===Errors===

{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[es:Pokémon Tales GS 07: Wake Up, Lugia!]]

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{{BookInfobox|
title=Pokémon Gold & Silver Tales: Corsola's Brave New World|
image=GS Corsola Brave New World.png|
image_size=200|
published=October 6, 2002|
ISBN=1569317623|
publisher=[[VIZ Media]]|
author=[[Akihito Toda]]|
previous=[[PBGS8|Look Out, Houndour!]]|
next=N/A
}}
'''Corsola's Brave New World''' (Japanese: '''サニーゴくうきのせかいへ!''' ''{{tt|Sunnygo|Corsola}}, World of Air!'') is written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. It is the 9th and last book in the Gold and Silver [[Pokémon Tales]] series. It is 18 pages in length.

==Plot==
Corsola decides that they want to leave the sea and explore the world outside of the water - reaching the shore at the same time as an Aipom who wants to explore the sea. However, the two become nervous and only partially explore their new enviroments, with Corsola sticking their spikes into the air and Aipom dipping their tail into the water. The two startle each other, but decide to continue exploring anyways and end up being amazed by what they find - finally meeting while floating on the waves. The two become friends, and end up making friends with the Pokémon of both the sea and the land.

===Blurb===
''Now that Corsola has swum the seven seas — underwater — it wants to expand its horizons. But the world above the water is strange and scary. Meanwhile, Aipom sets out to explore the world beneath the waves. But the underwater world is also ominous. Corsola and Aipom unite at the place where the world of water meets the world of air. They double their worlds and double their friends too in this colorfully illustrated tale with all new characters.''

==Characters==
===Pokémon===
* {{p|Corsola}}
* {{p|Aipom}}
* {{p|Horsea}}
* {{p|Octillery}}
* {{p|Lanturn}}
* {{p|Sudowoodo}}
* {{p|Ledyba}}
* {{p|Skiploom}}
* {{p|Qwilfish}} (Easter egg)

==Publications==
{{publications/h|Johto}}
{{publications|cover=None.png|edition=First|country=Japan|company=Shogakukan|date=July 2002|ISBN=4097287591}}
{{publications|cover=GS Corsola Brave New World.png|edition=First|country=USA|company=VIZ Media|date=October 6, 2002|ISBN=1569317623}}
|}
==Trivia==
* Like every Pokémon Tales book, this book has a hidden Pokémon for the reader to find - in this book it's Qwilfish, who is hidden in the coral while Aipom swims underwater.
{{Project Merchandise notice|book}}
[[Category:Pokémon Tales]]

[[es:Pokémon Tales GS 09: Corsola's Brave New World]]

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{{BookInfobox
|title=The Mysterious Drum
|image=
|ISBN=N/A
|published=July 2nd, 2007
|publisher=[[Pokémon Daisuki Club]]
|author=[[Akihito Toda]]
|previous=[[PDB07|The Mysterious Maze]]
|next=[[PBD09|Mysterious Hide-and-Go-Seek]]
}}

The Mysterious Drum (Japanese: ふしぎなたいこ) is the eighth book in the [[Pokémon Tales#Pokémon Daisuki Tales|Pokémon Daisuki Tales]] series. It is an interactive book written by [[Akihito Toda]] and illustrated by [[Tomokazu Komiya]]. This book and its narration are in Japanese, and they have not been translated into English. It is 24 pages long.

=Plot=
Munchlax, Buizel, and Illumise are practicing for the Pokémon Music Festival tomorrow, but Munchlax is having problems - they've become hungry from how long they've been practicing, and the old drum they found is making strange noises. The two scold them and cause Munchlax to run off, ignoring their calls for them to come back. While heading home, they spot a group of Pokémon practicing their instruments at the lake, with a Ludicolo inviting them to join in - Munchlax's drum working perfectly this time. They thank everyone and head off, only to notice a cave with strange sounds coming from it - hitting their drum to give them courage before entering. Munchlax finds a group of Pokémon making music and despite finding them eerie, still joins in with their drum - only for a Mawile to notice the sound of the drum. She says that the drum is affected by its owners feelings, causing Munchlax to realize why it's been making the strange sounds and that it needs to apologize to its friends - meeting them at the lake and saying that they had been so focused on practicing they'd forgotten to eat. The next day the concert happens and the three perform, it going great as Munchlax had remembered to eat before the show.
=Characters=
===Pokémon===
*{{p|Munchlax}}
*{{p|Buizel}}
*{{p|Illumise}}
*{{p|Ludicolo}}
*{{p|Monferno}}
*{{p|Kricketot}}
*{{p|Seedot}}
*{{p|Sentret}}
*{{p|Chingling}}
*{{p|Chimecho}}
*{{p|Chatot}}
*{{p|Ledyba}}
*{{p|Haunter}}
*{{p|Misdreavus}}
*{{p|Sneasel}}
*{{p|Mawile}}