The official Japanese website announced that a new Pokémon Center will open in Tohoku during the Winter of 2011. The Tohoku Pokémon Center will be the 7th Pokémon Center to be in operation in Japan. The Pokémon Center will be located on the third floor of AER in Miyagi Prefecture, Aoba Ward, Sendai (宮城県仙台市青葉区中央1-3-1アエル3階). Earlier this year the Tohoku area was devastated by a powerful earthquake that caused a tsunami.

Source: http://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2011/09/110903_p01.html?a001=news

The official Korean Pokémon website has announced two more events that will start in September. First the Darkrai that was distributed earlier in the year in Japan will be distributed by infrared communication at various Home Plus (홈플러스) locations in Korea from September 3rd, 2011 until September 25th, 2011.

Players in Korea who purchase the Pocket Monsters Black White Mini Guide Book (포켓몬스터 블랙·화이트 하나도감미니) will receive a passcode to unlock Polligon (폴리곤) on the Korean Pokémon Global Link Dream World. This is exactly the same way the Porygon was distributed in Japan. It will be available from September 21st, 2011 until April 27th, 2012. Players will also receive a password to unlock the Porygon-Z C-Gear skin.


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The C-Gear information has been added to our C-Gear list and the Polligon and Dakeurai have been added to our Event Pokémon database.

Sources: http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/html/news/news_view.asp?N_idx=499 & http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/html/news/news_view.asp?N_idx=501

The Japanese Pokémon Global Link website has announced the details for the upcoming Japan Cup (ジャパンカップ) Wi-Fi tournament that will take place from September 15th, 2011 until September 19th, 2011. Registration takes place on the Japanese Daisuki Club from September 7th, 2011 until September 14th, 2011 or until the 10,000 player limit has been reached. The tournament results will be published on September 28th, 2011.

The tournament rules are similar to the World Championships rules as player cannot use Victini, Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem. Pokémon are restricted to level 50 and those Pokémon entered above level 51 will be downgraded to level 50. All Double battles will take place over Wi-Fi.

It was also announced that the Pokémon World Championships 2011 C-Gear which was distributed in the United States earlier this year will also be available in Japan from September 7th, 2011 until October 4th, 2011.

Source: http://ja.pokemon-gl.com/about/sp/japancup/

The official Korean Pokémon website has announced that two new Korean Global Link Event download Pokémon will be available from August 25th, 2011 @ 15:00 until September 30th, 2011 @ 15:00. The first event is the Pokémon Global Link Popular Vote (포켓몬 인기투표) that started in June. The event is similar to the Japanese Global Link vote where Arceus ended up winning. The results are in for the Korean vote and Rayquaza (레쿠쟈) won. The password to unlock it is 「에어록」. Full details of the Rayquaza were not announced. Ditto came in 2nd place, Pikachu came in 3rd place, Kyorge in 4th place, Regigigias came in 5th place, Groudon came in 6th place, Giratina came in 7th place, Charizard came in 8th place, Lugia came in 9th place and finally Garchomp came in 10th place. Only Rayquaza will be distributed.


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Also announced was a Togekiss (토게키스) which will also be distributed on the Korean Global Link. The password for the Togekiss will be posted on the Naver Fun Jr website. The Togekiss is the same as the one that is distributed on the Japanese Global Link to players on their birthday. No such restriction applies to the Korean version as players just need to enter the password to unlock it. Below are the details for the Togekiss.

Sugimori Art	Event Pokemon Info	Sprites	Moves
	Held Item: None Pokeball: Dream Ball Species: Togekiss/토게키스 Nickname: Set by Player OT Name: Set by Player Level: 10 Gender M		1. ExtremeSpeed 2. Aura Sphere 3. Air Slash 4. Present

Source: http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/html/news/news_view.asp?N_idx=492 & http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/html/event/event_On_view.asp?pFlag=Y&idx=165

Nintendo Poland in association with our affiliate Pokémon Valhalla have announced that a Pokémon Day event has been announced for Warsaw, Poland on August 20th, 2011. A special Celebi will be distributed at the event, there will be a Pokémon Video Game tournament and an art contest.

Also announced was the Polish television debut and DVD release of the 13th Pokémon movie, Pokémon Zoroark: Mistrz Iluzji. The movie will air on August 27th, 2011 on Disney XD Poland and then the DVD will be released on September 22nd, 2011. This will be one of the only Polish Pokémon DVD's ever released and will also feature Russian and English audio.

Below is the press release and the information on the event Celebi.

Press Release

Już w sobotę 20 sierpnia wszyscy miłośnicy Pokemonów będą mieli okazję spotkać się z innymi fanami w pubie Merlin w Warszawie na Polu Mokotowskim, powymieniać tam swoimi stworkami i powalczyć między sobą podczas specjalnej imprezy organizowanej przez Pokemon Valhallę pod patronatem Nintendo Polska w związku z premierą filmu Zoroark: Mistrz Iluzji na antenie Disney XD. W trakcie jej trwania przeprowadzone zostaną konkursy z nagrodami, a główną atrakcją tego dnia będzie możliwość pobrania specjalnego Celebi na jedną z gier czwartej generacji (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold lub SoulSilver). Pokemon ten jest nie tylko kolejnym wpisem w Pokedeksie i świetną pomocą w bitwach, ale może także posłużyć do odblokowania specjalnych wydarzeń - w HeartGold oraz SoulSilver można dzięki niemu cofnąć się w czasie i spotkać tajemniczego Giovanniego, z kolei po przesłaniu do gry Black lub White pomaga zaprzyjaźnić się z małym Zoruą. Celebi i Zorua dadzą się bliżej poznać podczas premiery telewizyjnej filmu, która odbędzie się zaledwie tydzień po Dniu Pokemonów, 27 sierpnia o 8:05 i 15:15.

Ponieważ jest to pierwsze wydarzenie tego typu w Polsce, a chcielibyśmy się do niego dobrze przygotować, prosimy wszystkich, którzy są pewni lub niemal pewni swojej obecności na Dniu Pokemonów o wpisanie się do specjalnego formularza. Dla Was to tylko parę sekund, a dla nas może się okazać bardzo pomocne.

Source: http://www.nintendo.pl/news/2011/08/dzie-pokemonw

Pokemon Information

Sugimori Art	Event Pokemon Info	Sprites	Moves
	Held Item: Jaboca Berry Pokeball: Cherish Ball Species: Celebi/セレビィ Nickname: CELEBI OT Name: WIN2011 Level: 50 Gender N		1. Leaf Storm 2. Recover 3. Nasty Plot 4. Healing Wish

On day three of the Pokémon World Championships 2011 in San Diego, California, visitors were given the opportunity to receive a Scrafty. Below is the press release.

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	Held Item: Leftovers Pokeball: Cherish Ball Species: Scrafty/ズルズキン Nickname: Scrafty OT Name: WORLD11 Level: 50 Gender M

The Pokémon World Championships 2011 Scrafty has been added to our event database. There you can find information about Event Pokémon from around the world.

Get Scrafty in Your Game!

The always cool Scrafty is making a special appearance at Worlds this year, and it’s brought along with it some special moves good for any Pokémon Trainer and it’s also good for battle!

Scrafty has made quite an impression this year in the Pokémon Video Game Championship series. It was found on many of the winning teams at National events across the globe, and now those players who are lucky enough to attend the 2011 Pokémon World Championships can get a battle-ready Scrafty in their Pokémon Black or Pokémon White Version Game Cards.

Pokémon World Championships And not only is this one of the coolest Pokémon from the Unova region, it comes with not one, but two hard-to-get Egg Moves—Fire Punch and Drain Punch!

And if its attack wasn’t high enough, with its Moxie Ability, when it gets a knock out, its Attack goes up one level each time!

Couple that with its type-compatible move Payback and the ready-for-anything defensive move Substitute—made even more powerful by the Leftovers held item it comes with—this Scrafty is not only going to start out strong, it’s also going to be around for a while.

Don’t miss the opportunity to add this Pokémon to your party starting at 10:30 A.M. at the Guest Services Desk.

Source: http://www.pokemonworldchampionships.com/2011/updates/article/day3/get-scrafty-in-your-game

Ticket sales for the latest Pocket Monsters movies Victini and the Light Hero - Reshiram / Victini and the Dark Hero - Zekrom (ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム / ビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム) reached 3 million on August 14th, 2011. The movies dropped to 5th place in box office sales in their 5th week according to eiga.com's ranking.

SKE48 members Seira Satō (佐藤聖羅), Akane Takayanagi (高柳明音) and Anna Ishida (石田安奈) were on-hand at a special presentation at TOHO Cinemas Nagoya Bay City location. In commemoration of 3 million ticket sales, a Victini and Pikachu made of macarons was unveiled. They contained 5053 macarons and it took 15 staff members from 8am the day before to finish them from foundations they started work on three weeks earlier. Below are a few pictures from the event.


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Source: http://www.moviecollection.jp/news/detail.html?p=2876

The 2011 Pokémon World Championships are underway in San Diego, California with many fans competing in the TCG and Video Game world championships. One highlight for many fans was the special song presentation by MTM with Battle Woman M. The members of the band were revealed at the 2011 World Championships as part of the Opening Ceremony to the surprise of many. Battle Woman M is Misaki Momose from Pokémon Smash, GAME FREAK director Junichi Masuda plays the keyboards, Shinji Miyazaki is the bassist and finally Creatures president Hirokazu Tanaka is the drummer.

The song Battle Gene M (バトル遺伝子Ｍ) and the group MTM （mystery thunder mask) were first presented on Pokémon Smash 43 but the reveal was clouded in mystery and the band members were all wearing complete face masks so it was hard to identify them. It was revealed a few weeks ago that the songs lyrics are by Akihito Toda, the original Music is by Junichi Masuda and the Arrangement was done by Shinji Miyazaki but the fact that they were also band members was not revealed till the Opening Ceremony performance. Below are some pictures from the Opening Ceremony and more are available on our imageboard thread.


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Sources: http://www.pokemonworldchampionships.com/ and http://ptcg.creatures.co.jp/event/7051

The Ichibancon 3 anime convention has announced that Pokémon alumni voice actors Veronica Taylor and Eric Stuart will be two of the guests of honor at the event.

Ichibancon is an anime convention in the area of Charlotte, North Carolina. They will be having a 4-day weekend event from January 5th, 2012 until January 8th, 2012. There will be tons of fun events to attend, a dealers room, video showings, an artist alley, a big video and tabletop game room, an awesome rave, plenty of good panels, cosplay contest and much more!

Source: http://ichibancon.com/guests.php

The official Japanese Pokémon website has announced the Sing Pikachu (うたうピカチュウ) event as part of their promotion of the popular song Can You Say the Pokémon? BW (ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ) by Takeshi Tsuruno (つるの剛士). This Pikachu will know the move Sing. The Pikachu will be distributed at 'a-nation for Life' events from July 30th, 2011 until August 28th, 2011 as well as at Can You Say the Pokémon? BW Pokémon Heave-ho! It's Summer! It's Fine! It's Pokémon! (ポケモン言えるかな？BW ポケモンわっしょい！～夏だ！元気だ！ポケモンだ！～) events held in Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka, Sapporo and Tokyo from July 30th, 2011 until August 21th, 2011. The Pikachu is a female, Level 30 and knows the following moves: Sing, Teeter Dance, Encore and Electro Ball. It also has the Hidden Ability Lightningrod.

The Pokémon Say TAP app was released on July 15th, 2011 in Japan. The application is free to download off of the iPhone app store and can also be played online with a PC at the Official Japanese website. The Android version will be released later this summer. Players can tap Pokémon card type symbols to the beat of the song that are displayed on the cell phone screen to help them memorize the new 5th generation Pokémon.

Sources: http://www.4gamer.net/games/104/G010490/20110715051/ & http://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2011/07/g110715_01.html