The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Rival Battle! Three vs. Three!! / The new Event 'Zoroark's Shutter Chance!' Debuts in 'Aim for a new PokéSun Record!!' / Chief Golgo's Television Viewer Battle Debut! Garura...! (ライバルバトル！　三対三！！ / 「目指せ！ポケサン新記録！！」に新競技「ゾロアークのシャッターチャンス！」登場／ゴルゴ所長が視聴者バトルに登場！ガルーラが・・・！), aired today in Japan.

Shoko-tan starts off the episode by stating that she needs to go get some more ingredients for her Swiss rolls. Since today's episode airs on the 6th day of the 6th month and the inside of a Swiss roll looks like the number 6, she thought it would be an excellent idea to make them. Yamamoto asks if he can see the ingredients and is surprised to find out that she plans to add: natto (なっとう fermented soybeans), wasabi (わさび Japanese horseradish) and some kind of flour he couldn't recognize into the Swiss rolls. The crew quickly stops her from leaving as they don't want to be subjected to her horrible cooking once again.

Golgo interjects and gets Shoko-tan to announce this weeks new rerun theme, 'Sinnoh League begins! The Rival Shinji' (シンオウリーグが開幕！ライバルのシンジ！). Rival Battle! Three vs. Three!! from Pocket Monsters Diamond&Pearl was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Satoshi sends out new newly captured Mukkuru to find Pikachu. He encounters his new rival Shinji and is challenged to a battle. Who will win?! A full summary of this episode is available in the episode guide.

After the repeat anime episode, Robert is seen playing with a new device and Golgo asks what Akiyama was playing with. They explain that it is a Moncolle Poké Grand Prix (モンコレプラス　モンコレポケワングランプリ) from Takara Tomy. The device features 11 sporting mini games that allows players to evolve their Pokémon. It also allows players to wirelessly battle other people that have the device.


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Professor Red decides to show off his latest invention: The RED 058 PokéSun Grand Prix (ポケサングランプリ). It is designed based on the toy that Robert was playing with earlier. Red gets Shoko-tan dressed up as a Hikozaru by giving her a hair band with its flame on top and two ears out the sides. Red gets Shoko-tan to play his game called Yamamoto Crash (ヤマモトクラッシュ). Yamamoto then walks in with a bunch of balls stuck to his body that are supposed to represent rocks. Shoko is told to start the game and she begins wacking them off his body with two hammers. Golgo quickly takes over because he wants to hit Yamamoto with the hammers.

The crew is then interrupted by Kid Radar Man (コレエダーマン) who recently made an appearance on the show. TIM then head off do a special PokéSun Shinkiroku based on the new movie. The first event features Celebi and required the teams to hold a bucket of water over their heads while walking across a thin plank to the other side. The team that did it the fastest while loosing the least about of water was the winner. Team B was the winner.

The next even was based on the video game Pokémon Snap. Contestants were given a DSi and were told to take the best picture of Zoroark that they could. Red and Golgo hid under a tarp with holes and would randomly pop up hoping to distract the kids into taking a picture of them instead of Zoroark. Once their turn was up, the best picture they took would be rated out of 15. A girl ended up winning the event with 9 points.

The final event was the PokéWalker relay. A new record was set by the yellow team with -404 breaking the previous record of -310. During the Pokémon Game Arena, Director Golgo played Pokémon Battle Revolution against Kumadarei-kun. Golgo was able to defeat him.

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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 179 - Electric Shock Battle! The Final Badge!! (電撃バトル！最後のバッジ！！) aired on Thursday in Japan.

Having been told by Joy that Denji-san was ready to battle Satoshi, the gang arrive at the Nagisa Gym. Satoshi is finally battling for his last badge so that he can enter the Sinnoh League. Will Satoshi be able to defeat Denji?!

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The official Movie 13 Taiwanese website updated on May 27th to announce the release date of Movie 13 in Taiwan. The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (神奇寶貝 幻影の霸者 索羅亞克) will begin screening in Taiwanese theaters on July 30th, 2010. This marks the fastest time that a dubbed Pocket Monsters movie has been released in Taiwan after the Japanese debut with less than three weeks difference. The 30 second trailer dubbed in Mandarin Chinese is available on the site. Taiwan is currently the only announced country outside of Japan that will show the latest Pocket Monsters movie in theaters.

With the announcement of the movie came the official Taiwanese names for Zoroark (索羅亞克) and Zorua (索羅亞).

Source: http://my-cartoon.com.tw/pokemon/m13

Media Factory has announced a new Pocket Monsters DVD which follows the story of Galaxy Gang throughout the Sinnoh Region. Pocket Monsters DP Decisive Battle! Galaxy Gang!! ~Sinnoh Space-Time Legend Concluding Volume~ will be released in Japan on August 25th, 2010 for 2500yen. It is unknown how many DVD's this will be but considering the number of episodes, its most likely to be multiple disks. The set will include 9 Diamond and Pearl episodes as well as 8 Non-Subtitled opening and endings.

The DVD has been added to the database. There you can find information about Pokémon DVD's from around the world. Below is the list of episodes that will be in the set.

Episode Information

# Ep Name 1. DP 36 A Secret Sphere of Influence / The Shin'ō Space-Time Legend! 2. DP 60 Journey to the Unown! / Unknown of the Zui Ruins! 3. DP 69 Enter Galactic! / Lovely Fashion! The Name is the Galaxy Gang!! 5. DP 97 Double Team Turnover / The Galaxy Gang's Charge!! (Part Two) 6. DP 136 Gateway to Ruin / The Ruins at Mt. Tengan! The Galaxy Gang Conspiracy!! 7. DP 150 Unlocking the Red Chain of Events! / The Red Chain! Activated by Galaxy Gang!! 8. DP 151 The Needs of Three / Agnome-Yuxie-Emrit! 9. DP 152 The Battle Finale of Legend! / Dialga and Palkia! The Final Battle!! 1. OP 1 Together 2. OP 2 High Touch! (ハイタッチ！) 3. OP 3 The Greatest Everyday! (サイコー・エブリディ！) 4. ED 1 By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ (君のそばで～ヒカリのテーマ～) 5. ED 2 Message of the Wind (風のメッセージ) 6. ED 3 Surely Tomorrow (あしたはきっと) 7. ED 4 Get Fired up Jagged-eared Pichu! (もえよ ギザみみピチュー！) 8. ED 5 Which One ~ Is It? (ドッチ～ニョ？)

Source: http://kids.mediafactory.co.jp/goods_detail.php?id=25579

The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Usohachi King and Manene Queen!? / Group Member Yamamoto Catches a 150km/h Ball in Professor Red's 'Future Vision Box' Invention? / Group Member Akiyama's Television Battle Debut! (ウソハチキングとマネネクイーン！？ / レッド博士の発明品「未来ビジョンボックス」で山本隊員が時速150kmのボールをキャッチ？／視聴者バトルに秋山隊員が登場！), aired today in Japan.

Director Golgo walks into the headquarters to see everyone standing around with a bunch of trash on the floor. Angry that the room is a mess he asks them why its so dirty. Suddenly a wind picks up and more trash appears and a newspaper hits Golgo in the face. Realizing the rest of the crew wasn't responsible for the mess he apologizes by making a pun and says "gominasai" (ごみなさい) instead of "gomennasai" (ごめんなさい). 'Gomi' is trash. Shoko then introduces this weeks theme and Red introduces the repeat episode title.

This week featured a continuation of last weeks rerun theme, 'Pikachu and Nyarth's Nice Little Talks', and Usohachi King and Manene Queen!? from Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Usohachi, Manane, Nyarth and Pikachu get separated from everyone else after a battle in the massage tent sent them flying into the city. Will they reunite with their friends?! A full summary of this episode is available in the episode guide.

Professor Red walks into the room with his latest invention the RED 057 Future Vision Box (RED 057 未来ビジョンボックス). Red explains that it will show them the future as the 'Back to the Future' theme song which generally plays through episodes actually fit well during this scene. Red pulls out a picture of Yamamoto who is laying on the floor unconscious. Shoko-tan walks in right after with her latest creation a Rice Choco Omelet (オムチョコライス) which she feeds to Yamamoto who is reluctant to eat it. Moments later he falls over on the floor unconscious just as the picture moments earlier showed.

Robert and Lucario then head out of the headquarters with the Future Vision Box. Baba decides to try it out again and flips the switch to reveal a picture of Yamamoto dressed up as a baseball catcher with the caption that he caught a 150km/h fastball. The decide to test Yamamoto to see if he could actually catch a ball going that fast by setting up a pitching machine. On the 3rd pitch, he actually manages to catch it, once again Red's future machine was correct.

Akiyama decides to try the box again and pulls out a picture of Baba this time. On the picture it states that he was able to run 50 metres in 7 seconds. Akiyama and Yamamoto get out a stop watch and get Baba to run as fast as he could but gets a time of 8.57 seconds. They decide to recruit track runners to pull him to increase his speed. With there assistance, Baba was able to run it in 7.44 seconds, once again proving Red's future machine was correct.

The announcer reminded viewers of the currently running Pokémon Card Game Present Campaign to help promote the upcoming 13th Pocket Monsters movie: The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク). Two sets of cards are available to those people that submit the required information between April 28th, 2010 and June 30th, 2010. The first set is Ho-oh and Lugia and the second set includes Raikou, Suicune and Entei. Only 2000 sets will be available to those that enter the campaign.


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Shoko introduced the Pokémon Sunday audience to the official cover art for the upcoming Pocket Monsters Black and White along with their respective version legendaries Reshiram (レシラム) and Zekrom (ゼクロム). The information was released on the official websites the day before.


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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 178 - Farewell, Rocket Gang! Nyarth's Love!? (さよならロケット団！ニャースの恋!?) aired on Thursday in Japan.

Having been told by Joy that Denji-san was ready to battle Satoshi, the gang heads towards the Nagisa Gym. While on their way they encounter a girl who's Nyarmar gets stolen by Nyarth who is in love with Nyarmar. Will Satoshi and friends be able to rescue Nyarmar?!

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Magna Pacific has announced a bunch of new DVD's for Australia including Pokémon Arceus & The Jewel Of Life which aired earlier in the year. The North American DVD was announced earlier this year for a Spring of 2010 release but a date has yet to be finalized. The French and Japanese DVD's were released in December 2009. The Arceus & The Jewel Of Life DVD will be released in Australia on June 2nd, 2010.

Magna Pacific also announced box sets for Pokémon Season 3: Johto Journeys and Pokémon Season 4: Johto Leauge Champions which will also be released on June 2nd. Pokémon All-Stars DVD's featuring Togepi, Pikachu and Wobbuffet were also announced.

The DVD's have been added to the database. There you can find Pokémon DVD information for releases around the world.

Source: http://www.magnapacific.com.au/

The yearly Pocket Monsters movie script reading took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 26th, 2010. In attendance were the main voice actors for the upcoming movie: Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド＆パール 幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク)

Koichi Yamadera (山寺宏一) has once again returned to play the part of Gūn (グーン) and Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子) has returned for her 4th Pocket Monsters movie to play the part of Proof (プルーフ).

Also in attendance were Takanori Jin'nai (陣内孝則) who voices Kōdai (コーダイ), Katō Natsuki (加藤夏希) who voices Rioka and finally Takashi Tsukamoto (塚本高史) who voices Kurt (クルト).


Left to Right: Pikachu, Katō Natsuki (加藤夏希), Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子), Takanori Jin'nai (陣内孝則), Takashi Tsukamoto (塚本高史) & Koichi Yamadera (山寺宏一).

Story

Satoshi and friends arrive in Crown City (クラウンシティ) to watch the Pokémon Backer World Cup (ポケモンバッカー・ワールドカップ). The city is a beautiful combination of old building and streets, modern buildings and lush vegetation. While there, Satoshi meets the Pokémon Zorua (ゾロア) and decides to help it look for its friend.

Suddenly, after 20 years and with the threat of an impending crisis in Crown City, the legendary Pokémon Celebi returns as Zoroark (ゾロアーク) terrorizes the city with its transformations into Raikou, Suicune and Entei. What is Celebi's fate? What will Satoshi and Pikachu do to save the city and the Pokémon...

Images from the press conference are available on the imageboard thread.

Source: http://career.oricon.co.jp/news/76600/full/

The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 177 - Concluding Rival Battle! Hikari VS Nozomi!! (決着ライバル対決！ヒカリＶＳノゾミ！！) aired on Thursday in Japan.

The Sinnoh Grand Festival has reached the climax as Nozomi and Hikari prepare to battle against each other. Who will be victorious? Note: Links from this news article contain major series spoilers.

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The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Forest of Pikachu / The Announcement of Pocket Monsters BW Material Including 'Partner Pokémon' and 'Zorua and Zoroark's moves' (ピカチュウのもり / ポケットモンスターBW「パートナーポケモン」「ゾロア・ゾロアークの技」等を発表！), aired today in Japan.

This week featured a continuation of last weeks rerun theme, 'Pikachu and Nyarth's Nice Little Talks', and Forest of Pikachu was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Satoshi's Pikachu discovers a forest full of other Pikachu's. Curious to find out more about the Pikachu's in this forest, Satoshi attempts to be friendly with them, only for them to run away. Rocket Gang shows up and tries to capture all the Pikachu's. Can Satoshi and friends stop the Rocket Gang and rescue the Pikachu's?

In this episode, Robert is sent out dressed as reporters looking for the latest scoop on the upcoming 13th movie The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク) and Pokémon Black and White (ポケットモンスター ブラック・ホワイト).

Robert's first stop was a Pro Wrestling Dojo. A paper with the scoop information was attached to one of the wrestlers who were practicing in the ring. Akiyama enters the ring and tries his best to get it off his foot but he is afraid that he will get hurt. Finally all three members of Robert enter the ring. Akiyama gets body slammed but after the wrestler attempts to body slam him again, Akiyama manages to avoid it and wrestler is stunned from his attempt. Yamamoto quickly grabs the paper off the wrestlers foot and Robert heads back to the PokéSun Headquarters.

Upon arriving at the headquarters, Shoko-tan reveals that Jun'ichi Masuda (増田順一) from GAME FREAK had sent them a DVD labeled 'Top Secret' (秘) and the video is played. A new battle scene video showing the graphics from the upcoming games is displayed. Raikou is seen using Aura Sphere (はどうだん) against an Entei which then is revealed to be Zoroark. It is revealed that Zoroark has a new ability called Illusion (イリュージョン) which allows it to transform into various Pokémon including Entei that was shown in the video.


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In the next segment, Robert and Director Lucario head out into the forest with Celebi. While there they encounter a bag on the ground and they open it to reveal Japanese comedian and contortionist Esper Ito (エスパー伊東). He preforms a few tricks including putting his body through a tennis racket. Upon returning to the Headquarters, Shoko-tan plays another video. In the video it shows Celebi in the Ilex Forest and it starts glowing and then takes the player back in time. The player is then seen battling Rocket Gang Boss Sakaki with his Nidoking and the players Celebi as the video ends.

In the third an final segment featuring Robert, they are sent to the Trick Art Museum. Yamamoto is seen standing on a wooden plank that appears to be spanning across a deep hole. Akiyama and Baba attempt to help him but Yamamoto looses his balance and begins to fall off the plank only to realize that what looked to be an endless pit was a solid floor. In another exhibit, Yamamoto looks through a hole into a room where Akiyama looks to be a few feet taller than Lucario. They finally come upon a lobster exhibit with a chest. They take the chest and return with it to the PokéSun Headquarters only to find out that its empty.

A chest appeared in the room and the crew needed to raise and lower black and white flags in the order that the announcer indicated without making a mistake. Shoko-tan was first and managed to get the chest to be lowered a bit. Golgo went next and as a trick near the end, he had to make a strange face instead of moving the flags. He was also successful and the chest was lowered again. Finally Akiyama went and he almost exclusively had to do funny faces until the final instruction which was to raise the white flag to throw him off guard. He wasn't fooled and was also successful. The chest was fully lowered.

As a follow up to last weeks episode, the silhouettes of the three new starter Pokémon were finally revealed. The information was also posted in Coro Coro which was released the day before.

Picture	Pokémon	Info	Ability	Type	Height	Weight
	Tsutaja (ツタージャ)	Grass Snake Pokémon	Overgrow	Grass	0.6m	8.1kg
	Pokabu (ポカブ)	Fire Pig Pokémon	Blaze	Fire	0.6m	9.9kg
	Mijumaru (ミジュマル)	Sea Otter Pokémon	Torrent	Water	0.5m	5.9kg

Battle videos showing the three starter Pokémon are displayed just after they are revealed. Tsutaja (ツタージャ) is seen using Leaf Storm (リーフストーム), Pokabu (ポカブ) is shown using Flamethrower (かえんほうしゃ) and finally Mijumaru (ミジュマル) is shown using Water Pulse (ずのはどう).


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The new starters artwork was also shown. Players are able to choose either one of these characters upon starting the new games.
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The Isshu Region (イッシュ地方) was announced and a picture of Hiun City (ヒウンシティ) was shown. A video of the streets of the city was also shown. The players character walks around with a lot of other computer controlled characters on the streets of the city.


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