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* As of this movie, all the {{pkmn2|Legendary}} and [[Mythical Pokémon]] from [[Generation II]] have had a starring role in a Pokémon movie.
* As of this movie, all the {{pkmn2|Legendary}} and [[Mythical Pokémon]] from [[Generation II]] have had a starring role in a Pokémon movie.
* This is the first movie to feature a Pokémon release, with Ash releasing his {{AP|Butterfree}} after saving the [[Pink Butterfree]].
* This is the first movie to feature a Pokémon release, with Ash releasing his {{AP|Butterfree}} after saving the [[Pink Butterfree]].
* Movie Editor Kunihiko Yayuma has revealed the following bits of trivia in an interview:
* Movie Editor Kunihiko Yayuma revealed some trivia about the movie in an interview:
** The movie is set in a parallel world that is split off from the main series, showing what would have happened had Ash received Ho-Oh's feather.
** The movie is set in a parallel world that is split off from the main series, showing what would have happened had Ash received the [[Silver and Rainbow Wings|Rainbow Wing]] from {{p|Ho-Oh}}.
** The number of Spearow that chases Ash was increased twenty-fold, from fifty to one thousand.
** The number of Spearow that chase Ash was increased twenty-fold, from fifty to one thousand.
** The Ash in this movie is more fashionable than the Ash from the series and influenced by the design created by Ken Sugimori.
** The Ash in this movie is more fashionable than the Ash from the series and influenced by the design created by Ken Sugimori.
** Shoko Nakagawa was responsible for being the symbol of twenty years of Pokemon series with the role of Nurse Joy. She grew up playing the first generation of games and that’s why she represent Pokemon’s 20th anniversary by voice acting a “older sister” kind of role on this movie.
** Shoko Nakagawa was responsible for being the symbol of twenty years of Pokémon, with the role of Nurse Joy. She grew up playing the first generation of games, which is why she represents Pokémon's 20th anniversary by voice acting an "older sister" kind of role in the movie.
** Ash doesn’t age. Quoting what Yuyama said, “time has not passed since the start of the journey. Ash is eternally 10 years old”.
** Ash does not age. Yuyama said that "time has not passed since the start of the journey. Ash is eternally 10 years old".
** The {{pkmn|Trainers}} from the opening scene are [[Neesha]] and [[Corey]] from ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''.
** The {{pkmn|Trainers}} from the opening scene are [[Neesha]] and [[Corey]] from ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''.
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* {{AP|Charmander}} evolves into a {{p|Charmeleon}} from battling a {{p|Jigglypuff}} instead of stopping a heard of {{p|Exeggutor}}.
* {{AP|Charmander}} evolves into a {{p|Charmeleon}} from battling a {{p|Jigglypuff}} instead of stopping a heard of {{p|Exeggutor}}.
* Ash doesn't catch a {{AP|Pidgeotto}}, a {{AP|Bulbasaur}}, or a {{AP|Squirtle}}.
* Ash doesn't catch a {{AP|Pidgeotto}}, a {{AP|Bulbasaur}}, or a {{AP|Squirtle}}.
* {{AP|Charmeleon}} (and later Charizard) consistently stays obedient to Ash after evolving.


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Revision as of 15:00, 25 July 2017

These donuts are great! This article is about a movie from the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
M19 : Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Pokémon movies
キミにきめた!
I Choose You!
M20 teaser poster.png
Premiere
Japan July 15, 2017
United States N/A
Home video
Japan N/A
United States N/A
English themes
Opening N/A
Ending N/A
Japanese themes
Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary-
Ending オラシオンのテーマ ~共に歩こう~
Ratings
United States ?
Great Britain ?
Ireland ?
Canada ?
Quebec ?
Japan ?
Germany ?
Australia ?
New Zealand ?

(Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスター キミにきめた! Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You!; officially known as Pokémon the Movie 20: I choose you! in Japan) is the twentieth Pokémon movie overall. It premiered with Japanese vocals and French subtitles at Japan Expo on July 6, 2017, and was released in Japan on July 15, 2017.

It was first revealed in a teaser trailer that aired on Oha Suta in Japan on December 15, 2016. The full trailer was later released on March 2, 2017. A new trailer was released on April 8, 2017, officially revealing Marshadow to have a role in the film.

In a departure from the previous movies, this movie is a loose retelling of Ash's original journey through the Kanto region, in celebration of the Pokémon anime's 20th anniversary.

Other posters and logos

Blurb

Ash Ketchum, from Pallet Town, is 10 years old today, which means he’s now old enough to become a Pokémon Trainer. Ash dreams big about the adventures he will experience after receiving his first Pokémon from Professor Oak... Yet, on the morning of his birthday, he sleeps in and is late at the Professor’s laboratory. Unfortunately, almost all the Pokémon are already gone. The only one left is Pikachu, and he doesn’t seem to like Ash much. ("You don’t like me?" Ash asks. "I like you a lot!") But the bond between the two will get stronger and stronger, and, on the first day of their journey, they see the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh fly over them and they find one of its feathers. Then Ash and Pikachu promise each other: "Someday, we will set on a journey to find this Pokémon!"

In their journey to achieve Ash’s dream of becoming a Pokémon Master, he meets other Trainers, Souji and Makoto, and Ash hears for the first time about Ho-Oh’s legend: "The rainbow feather will show you the way to Ho-Oh, and the one to follow it will become the Hero of the Legend." Followed closely by the Mythical Pokémon Marshadow, Ash goes to Mount Tensei to fight his powerful rival. Will Ash and Pikachu reach the top of the mountain and honor the promise they made when starting their journey? The adventure only begins!

Plot

Featured Pokémon

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Closing credits

Pokémon

Cast

Cast
Ash Satoshi Rica Matsumoto サトシ 松本梨香
Pikachu Pikachu Ikue Ohtani ピカチュウ 大谷育江
Jessie Musashi Megumi Hayashibara ムサシ 林原めぐみ
James Kojirō Shin'ichirō Miki コジロウ 三木眞一郎
Meowth Nyarth Inuko Inuyama ニャース 犬山イヌコ
Narration Narration Unshō Ishizuka ナレーション 石塚運昇
Special appearances by
Professor Oak Dr. Okido Unshō Ishizuka オーキド博士 石塚運昇
Nurse Joy Joy Shōko Nakagawa ジョーイ 中川翔子
Souji Souji Kanata Hongō ソウジ 本郷奏多
Makoto Makoto Shiori Sato マコト 佐藤栞里
Bonjī Bonjī Arata Furuta ボンジイ 古田新太
Cross Cross Ryota Osaka クロス 逢坂良太
Erika Erika Kyoko Hikami エリカ 氷上恭子
Marshadow Marshadow Kōichi Yamadera マーシャドー 山寺宏一
Ho-Oh Ho-Oh ホウオウ

Soundtrack

Main article: I Choose You! Music Collection

Events

Original Cap Pikachu and the Pikashunium Z

CoroCoro revealed that the special distribution for the movie is Pikachu in a cap, which will be distributed to those who pre-book tickets to the film. There are six variants for this special Pikachu, each based on one of the various anime series Ash was in. Regardless of variant, it will come with a serial code that will unlock the special Pikashunium Z, which allows Pikachu to perform the exclusive 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt Z-Move. In order:

  • Original Cap Pikachu is distributed between April 15 and May 1;
  • Hoenn Cap Pikachu is distributed between May 3 and May 15;
  • Sinnoh Cap Pikachu is distributed between May 17 and May 29;
  • Unova Cap Pikachu is distributed between May 31 and June 12;
  • Kalos Cap Pikachu is distributed between June 14 and June 26;
  • Alola Cap Pikachu is distributed between June 28 and July 17;

In addition, the Pikachu in a cap variants will be redistributed at a later date post-film release. Specifically:

  • Original Cap Pikachu is distributed between July 19 and July 31;
  • Hoenn Cap Pikachu is distributed between August 2 and August 14;
  • Sinnoh Cap Pikachu is distributed between August 16 and August 28;
  • Unova Cap Pikachu is distributed between August 30 and September 11;
  • Kalos Cap Pikachu is distributed between September 13 and September 25;
  • Alola Cap Pikachu is distributed between September 27 and October 9;

The player can only redeem a pre-ticket code booklet once, but the codes themselves can be redeemed as many times as needed.

The same day the second trailer for the movie came out, it revealed that Marshadow along with the bundled item Marshadium Z will be distributed in the Japanese theaters from July 15 to September 30, 2017. It was also distributed during two pre-release events in Tokyo and Osaka on July 2, 2017.

CoroCoro also distributed the serial codes for level 100 Ho-Oh that holds Sacred Ash in August 2017 issue to commemorate the movie.

It also revealed that distributions will be made on Mew for July 11 to August 7, Charizard, Lucario, and Piplup on August 1 to 28 by obtaining the serial codes at the 7-Eleven stores in Japan, with the latter three being based on Ash's Charizard, Souji's Lucario, and Makoto's Piplup, respectively.

Manga adaptations

Main article: Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You! Remix
Main article: Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You! (manga)

A short promotion manga was included with the May 2017 issue of CoroCoro. Another tie-in manga called Get Fired Up, Marshadow! was included with the July 2017 issue of CoroCoro, this manga takes place before Marshadow meets Ash and his friends in the movie. An third manga called The Rainbow Hero was included with the August 2017 issue of CoroCoro. These three promotion manga were collected into Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You! Remix together with Pikachu and Satoshi's Hat.

A separate manga adaptation started serializing on July 2, 2017 in MangaONE, a Japanese manga smartphone app by Shogakukan.

Trivia

  • This is the first Pokémon movie not to take place during the timeframe of the anime series running at the time, although the one-shot manga indicates it was a flashback that occurred after Ash won the final trial with Pikachu.
  • As of this movie, all the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon from Generation II have had a starring role in a Pokémon movie.
  • This is the first movie to feature a Pokémon release, with Ash releasing his Butterfree after saving the Pink Butterfree.
  • Movie Editor Kunihiko Yayuma revealed some trivia about the movie in an interview:
    • The movie is set in a parallel world that is split off from the main series, showing what would have happened had Ash received the Rainbow Wing from Ho-Oh.
    • The number of Spearow that chase Ash was increased twenty-fold, from fifty to one thousand.
    • The Ash in this movie is more fashionable than the Ash from the series and influenced by the design created by Ken Sugimori.
    • Shoko Nakagawa was responsible for being the symbol of twenty years of Pokémon, with the role of Nurse Joy. She grew up playing the first generation of games, which is why she represents Pokémon's 20th anniversary by voice acting an "older sister" kind of role in the movie.
    • Ash does not age. Yuyama said that "time has not passed since the start of the journey. Ash is eternally 10 years old".
    • The Trainers from the opening scene are Neesha and Corey from Mewtwo Strikes Back.

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Pokémon movies
Original series
Mewtwo Strikes BackThe Power of OneSpell of the Unown: EnteiCelebi: The Voice of the ForestPokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
Jirachi: Wish MakerDestiny DeoxysLucario and the Mystery of MewPokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
The Rise of DarkraiGiratina and the Sky WarriorArceus and the Jewel of LifeZoroark: Master of Illusions
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
White—Victini and Zekrom / Black—Victini and ReshiramKyurem VS. The Sword of JusticeGenesect and the Legend Awakened
Pokémon the Series: XY
Diancie and the Cocoon of DestructionHoopa and the Clash of AgesVolcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
I Choose You!The Power of UsMewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Secrets of the Jungle
M19 : Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
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