Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai

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Gekijōban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai
A promotional ad for Gekijōban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai
Directed by	Kunihiko Yuyama
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) Shogakukan Productions (Japan)
Release date(s)	July 14, 2007 (Japan)
Language	Japanese
Preceded by	Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2007)

Gekijōban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド&パールディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ, Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Daiyamondo to Pāru Diaruga Tai Parukia Tai Dākurai^?, lit. “Theatrical release Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai”), is the 10th Pokémon anime film that will be released in Japanese theaters in July 14, 2007. As indicated by the film title, Dialga, Palkia, and Darkrai will be the featured Pokémon.

As with all Pokémon films, it was announced after the ending credits of the previous Pokémon film; in this case, Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.

The film’s tagline: 神と呼ばれたポケモンたちのバトル。今、新たなる物語が始まる Kami to yobareta Pokemon-tachi no batoru. Ima, arata-naru monogatari ga hajimaru. “A battle between the Pokémon called gods. Now, a new story begins.”

1 Cast
2 Director outline
3 Setting
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Cast

Character	Japanese voice
Ash/Satoshi	Rica Matsumoto
Dawn/Hikari	Megumi Toyoguchi
Brock/Takeshi	Yuji Ueda
Pikachu	Ikue Otani
Jessie/Musashi	Megumi Hayashibara
James/Kojirō	Shinichiro Miki
Meowth/Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama

[edit] Director outline

The director of the 10th Pokémon movie, Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai, Kunihiko Yuyama (湯山邦彦), wrote about the movie on the official blog for the movie. When the movie was first revealed as Dialga VS Palkia, he explained the rationale for the title and also outlined the plot.

Dialga and Palkia are like the face of Diamond and Pearl; as representative Pokémon, I thought I would like to have Dialga and Palkia in the title of the movie…and there’s no way to do that except with Dialga VS Palkia, is there? Usually we discuss with the departments above until a title is selected, but this time unlike previous occasions, we unanimously decided to go with the straight, simple, Dialga VS Palkia.

Dialga rules time, and Palkia rules space, so the scale of the story is large, but, since the design of Dialga and Palkia was that they lived in an alternate dimension, so we decided that their fight in the alternate dimension would affect reality—the world of Satoshi and friends—Dialga and Palkia will appear before Satoshi and friends and drag the city they have arrived at into it as well—in a manner that will raise the question of, if they destroy this city, isn’t it possible that they will destroy the whole world as well?

I would also like to involve the main characters’ Pokémon in the movie, who we haven’t really been able to portray in the past. Not only Satoshi, Hikari and Takeshi’s Pokémon will appear in the movie, but there will also be many Pokémon belonging to guest characters. To put in as a single sentence, I would like it to be a very lively movie with a festive atmosphere.^[1]

With the recent revelation of Darkrai’s involvement in the movie, Kunihiko Yuyama further elaborated on the nature of the film.

Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai. This is the first movie for Diamond & Pearl, so I wanted to include Dialga and Palkia. So the title chosen then could only have been Dialga VS Palkia. But this time we added another Pokémon, Darkrai, which is also making its debut, so we ended up deciding to include all three in the title. Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai… There’s nothing else but this, is there?

Darkrai is a Darkness Pokémon, but, one cannot know what it really is like. It could be an evil Pokémon, and it could be a good Pokémon. It is a Pokémon that holds the key to the movie this time: Will it be an ally to Satoshi and friends, or will it be an enemy - one can’t tell from the beginning. That’s all I can say at the moment.

Dialga is a time-ruling Pokémon, and Palkia is a space-ruling Pokémon. The two them live in a dimension that is completely different in terms of space and time, and by some chance they end up meeting each other. A conflict arises as a result of that. The biggest theme in Pokémon is communication. Communication is not just understanding each other, but also mutually accepting the differences and existence of the other when one type of person meets another type of person. This time, how will Satoshi and friends calm the conflict between Dialga and Palkia, two Pokémon which should not and must not meet…? Ultimate communication (究極のコミュニケーション) - that is the theme of the movie this time. I think that it would be nice to illustrate this most important theme of Pokémon in the movie.

[edit] Setting

Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai is to be set in an area based on Barcelona, Spain.^[2] The staff visited this area in September 2006 to form a basis for the movie’s setting.