Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl Special Selection - The Beginning of a New Adventure DVD's have been announced and will be available for purchase on September 25. The price including tax will be 3654yen and the catalog number is ZMBS-991. The DVD's will have a total running time of approximately 144 minutes.

The two DVD's in the set will contain the following episodes: Disk 1: Satoshi's Gym Battle History - DP18 Return to Kurogane Gym! Decisive Match with Rampard!!, DP37 Hakutai Gym! VS Natane!, and DP68 Tobari Gym! Lucario VS Buizel!!.



Disk 2 will contain the Hikari Contest Episodes: DP12 Contest Battle! Rival Confrontation!!, DP27 Deciding Match! Pochama VS Pottaishi!! and DP49 Pokemon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!.



Source: http://www.mediafactory.co.jp/poke/sp_selection/

Now that many pre-showings of Movie 11 have concluded in Japan, many people have already watched the latest Movie, Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Shaymin. At the end of each movie they air a preview for the next years movie. According a Japanese blog user who attended one of the pre-showing, Movie 12 will be called 'Theaterical Version Pocket Monster Diamond Pearl Platinum'. This title also brings up another interesting bit of information. The titles of the movies generally reflect the title of the current anime series, which means its possible that the current 'Diamond & Pearl' series in Japan will be replaced with 'Diamond Pearl Platinum'. It is also assumed that Arceus will also be in the movie title but that won't be confirmed until around March 2009.

We will be able to confirm this information later this week, but there is no reason to discredit this information as many people in Japan have already seen the movie and would have reported the information as inaccurate.

Source: http://ameblo.jp/mineie-hikozaru/entry-10113487206.html

The movie premiere for Movie 11: Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl - Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Shaymin took place in the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo on Sunday, July 6th. Despite the hot temperature which surpassed 30 degrees celsius, many people showed up for the movie premiere.

People were greeted by a big Pikachu balloon at the entrance staircase, while people that brought their Pocket Monsters Diamond or Pearl carts with their Nintendo DS could receive Shaymin anywhere in the movie hall.



Director Kunihiko Yuyama, Crystal Kay, Rica Matsumoto, Red Yoshida, Golgo Matsumoto, Akina Minami and Koichi Yamadera were all in attendance for the premiere.

Crystal Kay also sang the theme song "ONE", live on the movie hall stage. She was quoted saying, "It was straining to sing in front of all the children. This tune is a friendship song. I sing it while thinking of an important, irreplaceable person."

Higher resolution pictures from the movie premiere are available on the Imageboard.

Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl - Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Shaymin opens in theaters across Japan on July 19th.

The track listings and cover art for Crystal Kay's upcoming CD's have been announced. ONE is the title theme for the upcoming Pocket Monsters Movie - Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin which will be in Japanese theaters in July.



For those of you that don't know anything about Crystal Kay, the information below is taken from the Wikipedia entry for her.

Crystal Kay Information Crystal Kay Williams is a R&B singer. She mainly uses her first two names Crystal Kay as her stage name, although she is known by many fans as "Kuri." Crystal Kay was born to an African American father (a bassist from New Jersey) and a third-generation Zainichi (person of Korean descent born in Japan) mother who was a professional singer. Growing up with musicians as parents influenced Crystal to launch a musical career of her own, which she accomplished with her debut at age 13. Prior to this, she provided voiceover work for a television commercial at the age of six.

Two seperate CD's will be released on July 16th. Both CD's contain the title theme to the movie but the rest of the tracks are different. Like the previously released Kaze no Message CD's, if you want all the tracks, you will have to buy both CD's. Below is a listing of the tracks for both CD's.

Crystal Kay ONE (Regular Version)
1. ONE
2. Suki
3. ONE CORNELIUS REMIX
4. ONE DEXPISTOLS REMIX
5. ONE Instrumental

Crystal Kay ONE Pokemon Edition (Limited Edition)
1. ONE
2. ONE with Pikachu and Shaymin
3. ONE Karaoke


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Kay

Nomose Gym! Vs. Maximum Mask!! is the 83rd episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on June 19, 2008 .



DP83 Episode Screenshots: Click Here

You can view larger screenshots from this episode by visiting the Imageboard. There you can post your own screenshots and discuss the latest episode.

On August 7th 2007, the Tokyo International Forum hosted three Pikachu the Live - Pokémon Movie 10th Anniversary Commemoration Summer Vacation Family Concert (ピカチュウ・ザ・ライブ ポケモン映画10周年記念 なつやすみファミリーコンサート) concerts featuring music from Pokémon movies. The show was hosted by Kōichi Yamadera (山寺宏一) and Rica Matsumoto (松本梨香) with guest performances from Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子), Asuca Hayashi (林明日香), Sowelu, Akiyoshi Fumie (あきよしふみえ) and Gurin (グリン). The concerts were at: 10:00a.m., 1:00p.m. and 4:00p.m. JST and the ticket prices were 4,200 yen for adults and 3,600 yen for children.


The orchestra was conducted by Mr. Shinji Miyazaki (宮崎慎二) who composed most of the music from the latest movie Dialga VS. Palkia VS. Darkrai and is well known for his music work for the Pocket Monsters anime series.

Artist List in Order of Performance:

• Rica Matsumoto (松本梨香) (Voice of Satoshi) sang: Mezase Pokémon Master '98 (めざせポケモンマスター) / Rivals (ライバル!)/ Type: Wild / Mezase Pokémon Master '98 (Reprise)
• Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子) (Pokémon Sunday co-host) sang: Pokémon Narikiri Sunday (ポケモンなりきりサンデー)
• Gurin (グリン) (Current DP Anime Ending Theme) sang: Kimi no Soba de ~Hikari no Teema~ (君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜)
• Akiyoshi Fumie (あきよしふみえ) (Current DP Anime Opening Theme) sang: Together
• Asuca Hayashi (林明日香) (Movie 6 Theme) sang: A Small Thing (Chiisaki Mono) (小さきもの)
• Sowelu (Movie 9 Theme) sang: A Thing to Be Protected (Mamoru beki Mono) (守るべきもの)
• Akiyoshi Fumie return to sing: Together2007 from Movie 10

Each concert was about an hour and a half long with a brief intermission. While there was a full orchestra there preforming a lot of back ground music pieces from the movie and tv show, a lot of the vocal performances had recorded music which the artist sang to. It's unfortunate that all the songs could not have a fully orchestrated performance. Rica Matsumoto was the highlight of the concert with her amazing singing performances and her co-hosting of the concert.

Together which has a lot of synthesized music sounded like the karaoke version from the CD was played and Akiyoshi Fumie just sang along. Akiyoshi Fumie returned to sing Together2007 to close the concert while the other cast members on stage sang along while the audience was motioned to sing the 'Yay yay yay yay!!' chorus.

Many Pokémon fans agree that the best Pokémon song ever is Chiisaki Mono from Movie 6 sung by Asuca Hayashi. When she originally sang the Chiisaki Mono she was only 14 years old. Her voice has changed significantly since the original recording but she still managed to sing it quite well. It was interesting to note that her singing voice sounded a lot older than her spoken voice. She has definitely matured over the last 4 years.

This concert was one of the rare instances where Pokémon fans could hear the original artists sing some of the songs from the Pokémon anime and Movies live. There were video cameras setup at the concert, so hopefully a DVD is in the process of being created and will be released.

Images from the concert are available on the imageboard thread.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power (April 2007 - Volume 214) includes a article entitled 'Creature Features' that has some information on the new Diamond and Pearl game for the Nintendo DS. Most of the information is already public knowledge now, but this issue confirms 7 English names of 4th Generation Pokémon as well as discuss the new game. A great read for those of you that are anticipating the new games release. Thanks goes to Dratini927 for the scans.

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