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

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The Rise of Darkrai ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai

Premiere Japan July 14, 2007 United States February 24, 2008*

Home video Japan December 21, 2007 United States May 27, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending I'll Always Remember You Living In The Shadow

Japanese themes Opening Together2008 Ending I Will Be With You (Where The Lost Ones Go)

Ratings United States PG Great Britain PG Ireland ? Canada ? Quebec ? Japan G Germany ? Australia G New Zealand ?

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

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

Other posters and logos

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  Preview poster

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  Dialga VS Palkia teaser poster

• Pikachu the Movie 10 poster.jpg

  Pikachu the Movie 10th poster

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  Final Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai movie poster

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  Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai DVD cover

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  Poster featuring Darkrai

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  Dialga VS Palkia teaser logo

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  Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai logo

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  The Rise of Darkrai logo

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis On their way to participate in the next Pokémon Contest, Ash and his friends have come to Alamos Town, where they meet a girl named Alice, and her Chimchar. The two run a hot- air balloon that takes travelers into Alamos Town. While Alice is showing them around the town, her friend, Tonio, sits in his lab, reading Godey's diary. It tells of Alice's grandmother, Alicia, who was playing in the garden one day when she was a little girl. Suddenly, she sees a Luxray trying to attack something, when all of a sudden it is engulfed by a strange orb that puts it to sleep. Alicia runs to it, then sees Darkrai laying under a tree. It is hurt, and she helps it to heal by playing Oracion on her leaf whistle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Featured Pokémon

• Dialga
• Palkia
• Darkrai

Characters

Human

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Alice
• Tonio
• Baron Alberto
• Maury
• Allegra
• Template:Mo
• Godey
• Alicia
• Citizens
• Pokémon Coordinators
• Marian

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buizel (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Aipom (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Alice's)
• Drifblim (Tonio's)
• Infernape (Allegra's)
• Honchkrow (Allegra's)
• Empoleon (Template:Mo's)
• Torterra (Maury's)
• Lickilicky (Baron Alberto's)
• Unown
• Azurill
• Marill
• Azumarill
• Burmy
• Wormadam
• Wooper
• Quagsire
• Girafarig
• Tropius
• Combee
• Yanma
• Pidgey
• Pidgeotto
• Budew
• Cherubi
• Roserade
• Kirlia
• Lucario
• Mewtwo
• Mew
• Articuno
• Zapdos
• Moltres
• Ho-Oh
• Lugia
• Entei
• Suicune
• Celebi
• Jirachi
• Latios
• Latias
• Rayquaza
• Groudon
• Kyogre
• Regirock
• Regice
• Registeel
• Deoxys
• Manaphy

Debuts

• Darkrai
• Infernape
• Empoleon
• Torterra
• Lickilicky
• Chingling
• Finneon
• Lumineon
• Gallade
• Drifblim
• Tangrowth
• Yanmega
• Luxio
• Luxray
• Gible
• Bronzor
• Honchkrow
• Purugly
• Shellos (East Sea)
• Cherrim
• Kricketot

Cast

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

Staff

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

Events

Pre-order distributions

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

Movie distribution

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

Soundtrack

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

Manga Adaption

Main article: The Rise of Darkrai (manga)

Trivia

• The events of this movie happen between the episodes Steamboat Willies and Top-Down Training, and premiered in Japan between those episodes.
• This is the first movie to feature the opening theme of the season after the one it corresponds to. In other words, despite being the 10th movie, it features a version of the opening theme of the 11th season, We Will Be Heroes.
• Players who had pre-ordered tickets for the Japanese run could receive a Deoxys. In major cinemas, a Darkrai could be downloaded. Instructions on how to get Darkrai were provided before and after the feature presentation by Meowth.
• During the theatrical release, promotional cards were released as the 10th Movie Commemoration Set.
• This is one of the few movies without a human antagonist. The three others are Mewtwo Strikes Back, Destiny Deoxys and Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
  • It is also the sole Diamond and Pearl movie to not have a human antagonist.
• In the trailers, Ash is seen flying over a Pidgeot. This scene was never in the movie itself.
• The number of Pokémon debuts in this movie is matched only by Mewtwo Strikes Back, Spell of the Unown and Jirachi: Wish Maker; this is because these are the only movies to follow the beginning of a new generation. With the exception of the first movie (which was released more than two years after Generation I had debuted), no Pokémon were introduced in any of these three movies that could not be found in the games of the respective generation. Counting the corresponding Pikachu shorts, Mewtwo Strikes Back had 22 debuts (of which 3 were Generation II Pokémon), Spell of the Unown had 16 and Jirachi: Wish Maker had 14, or 15 if including Groudon as having a live debut. This movie had 18 debuts within itself, or 20 if considering Dialga and Palkia's appearances as their live debuts.
• Five minor characters from other movies make a cameo appearance in this movie:
  • The man and his daughter, who were briefly seen with Aipom in the beginning of Pokémon Heroes, are given a similar appearance alongside Chimecho and Chingling.
  • The man from Jirachi: Wish Maker, where he sold May her Wishing Star, sold Dawn a Lunar Wing.
  • Finally, the mother and girl that were reading the legend of Rota in the beginning of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew were seen buying cotton candy and running away from Darkrai. These two are seen again in the next movie.
• The Lunar Wing that Dawn bought in the movie returns in Sleepless in Pre-Battle! thus making the movie canon.
• This is the first and only movie where the title sequence music does not contain the introduction theme of the original games.
• The Shellos that appears in the movie is in their East Sea form. According to a recent map of the anime, Alamos Town is actually on the western side of Mt. Coronet, although it is unknown whether or not the Shellos was from Alamos Town.
• This is the first Pokémon movie to be rated PG in the United States and the first Pokémon movie to be rated in the United States at all since Pokémon Heroes.

Errors

• The same Japanese voice over that is heard in Tanks for the Memories! is heard when Dawn sends out her Pokémon to play.
• During part of the scene where Ash and Dawn's Pokémon are running up the spiral staircase in the Space-Time towers after being separated from their trainers, Aipom was mistakenly left out.

Dub edits

• In the English dub, Darkrai is referred as a he, even though Darkrai is genderless in the games.
• Together2008 is replaced by a movie version of We Will Be Heroes as the opening theme.
• I Will Be With You is replaced by I'll Always Remember You and Living in the Shadow in the ending.
• The opening title sequence is shortened slightly, resulting in an abrupt edit in the music.
• The pun between the names of Baron Alberto and his Pokémon is removed; Alberto now is referred to as "Baron Lickilicky" when he is transformed.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	決戰時空之塔 帝牙盧卡VS帕路奇犽VS達克萊伊
	Mandarin	決戰時空之塔 帝牙盧卡VS帕路奇犽VS達克萊伊
Danish		Darkrai Slår Til
Dutch		De Opkomst van Darkrai
Finnish		Darkrai nousee
French	Canada	L'ascension de Darkrai
	Europe	L'ascension de Darkrai
German		Der Aufstieg von Darkrai
Italian		L'ascesa di Darkrai
Korean		디아루가VS펄기아VS다크라이
Portuguese	Brazil	O Pesadelo de Darkrai
	Portugal	A Ascensão do Darkrai
Spanish	Latin America	El surgimiento de Darkrai
	Spain	El desafío de Darkrai
Swedish		Darkrai Slår Till

Box office performance

Source: goo 映画

2007	Jul. 14 - 15	Jul. 21 - 22	Jul. 28 - 29	Aug. 4 - 5	Aug. 11 - 12	Aug. 18 - 19	Aug. 25 - 26	Sep. 1 - 2	Sep. 8 - 9
Overall ranking	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇩ 5th	⇨ 5th	⇨ 5th	⇩ 8th	⇩ 9th	⇩ 10th
Domestic movies	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇧ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇩ 5th
Animated movies	⇨ 1st	⇨ 1st	⇩ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇨ 2nd	⇩ 3rd	⇨ 3rd

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

See Also

• Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai Music Collection

External links

• Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai at IMDb
• Official website (Japanese)
• Bulbanews: Director Kunihiko Yuyama speaks about tenth movie
• Bulbanews: Full Movie 10 title revealed

This movie article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation.