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Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (Japanese: ミュウと波導の勇者 ルカリオ Mew and the Wave Hero) is the third Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation movie, and 8th of all Pokémon movies. Premiering in Japan on July 16, 2005, it introduced four new Generation IV Pokémon, Lucario, Bonsly, Mime Jr. and Weavile. As indicated by the title, Mew plays a large part, supplementing its appearance in Mewtwo Strikes Back. Regice, Regirock and Registeel and Ho-Oh also appear, though the latter is only a cameo role as one of Mew's transformations. This movie was the last production to be released by 4Kids Entertainment, though it was actually completed before Pasta La Vista.

Plot

On a visit to a kingdom near Kanto, Ash inadvertently releases a Lucario that had been sealed away by a hero of legend. At around the same time, a Mew kidnaps Pikachu and Meowth and brings them to a haven known as the Tree of Beginning that is set up to prevent humans from entering at all costs. Ash enlists the help of Lucario to retrieve Pikachu while discovering just what the hero's intentions were.

Main article: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (Plot summary)

Cast

Guide the wave of a big hit!
Back row, from left: Kōichi Yamadera, Becky, Momoko Kikuchi, Pikachu, Kumiko Okae, Rica Matsumoto, Kunihiko Yuyama, Lucario
Front row, from left: Akihiro Nishino, Yūta Kajiwara

				出演
Ash Ketchum	Veronica Taylor	Satoshi	Rica Matsumoto	サトシ	松本梨香
Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	ピカチュウ	大谷育江
Brock	Eric Stuart	Takeshi	Yūji Ueda	タケシ	うえだ　ゆうじ
May	Veronica Taylor	Haruka	KAORI	ハルカ	KAORI
Max	Amy Birnbaum	Masato	Fushigi Yamada	マサト	山田ふしぎ
Jessie	Rachael Lillis	Musashi	Megumi Hayashibara	ムサシ	林原めぐみ
James	Eric Stuart	Kojirō	Shin'ichirō Miki	コジロウ	三木眞一郎
Meowth	Maddie Blaustein	Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama	ニャース	犬山イヌコ
Lucario	Sean Schemmel	Lucario	Daisuke Namikawa	ルカリオ	浪川大輔
Mew	Satomi Kōrogi	Mew	Satomi Kōrogi	ミュウ	こおろぎ　さとみ
Banks	Pete Zarustica	Banks	Takeshi Aono	バンクス	青野　武
		Mother	Noriko Hidaka	母親	日髙のり子
Munchlax	Darren Dunstan	Gonbe	Chie Satō	ゴンベ	佐藤智慧
Combusken	Darren Dunstan	Wakasyamo	Chinami Nishimura	ワカシャモ	西村ちなみ
Corphish	Maddie Blaustein	Heigani	Katsuyuki Konishi	ヘイガニ	小西克幸
Squirtle	Eric Stuart	Zenigame	Tomoe Hanba	ゼニガメ	半場友恵
Houndoom	Kōichi Sakaguchi	Hellgar	Kōichi Sakaguchi	ヘルガー	坂口候一
Mime Jr.		Manene	Miyako Itō	マネネ	伊東みやこ
Weavile	Eric Stuart	Manyula	Daisuke Sakaguchi	マニューラ	阪口大助
Weavile	Eric Stuart	Manyula	Jun Fukushima	マニューラ	福島　潤
Chimecho	Bella Hudson	Chirean	Natsuki Yoshihara	チリーン	吉原ナツキ
Regirock	Eiji Miyashita	Regirock	Eiji Miyashita	レジロック	宮下栄治
Registeel	Atsushi Kakehashi	Registeel	Atsushi Kakehashi	レジスチル	梯　篤司
Regice	Kunihiro Kawamoto	Regice	Kunihiro Kawamoto	レジアイス	河本邦弘
Narration	Mike Pollock	Narration	Unshō Ishizuka	ナレーション	石塚運昇
Special appearances by		Special appearances by		特別出演
Aaron	J. Griff	Aaron	Kōichi Yamadera	アーロン	山寺宏一
		Jenny	Kumiko Okae	ジェニー	岡江久美子
Rin / Ilene		Rene / Irene	Momoko Kikuchi	リーン／アイリーン	菊池桃子
Kidd Summers		Kid Summers	Becky	キッド・サマーズ	ベッキー
Freddy	Darren Dunstan	Freddy	Akihiro Nishino (King Kong)	フレディ	西野亮廣 (キングコング)
Bonsly		Usohachi	Yūta Kajiwara (King Kong)	ウソハチ	梶原雄太 (キングコング)

Staff

Created by 原案	Satoshi Tajiri Jun'ichi Masuda Ken Sugimori	田尻　智 増田順一 杉森　建
Production supervisor スーパーバイザー	Tsunekazu Ishihara	石原恒和
Animation supervisor アニメーション監修	Yōichi Kotabe	小田部羊一
Executive producers エグゼクティブプロデューサー	Masakazu Kubo Hiroaki Tsuru	久保雅一 鶴　宏明
Producers プロデューサー	Chōji Yoshikawa Yukako Matsusako Jun'ya Okamoto Takemoto Mori	吉川兆二 松迫由香子 岡本順哉 盛　武源
Animation producers アニメーションプロデューサー	Toshiaki Okuno Shūkichi Kanda	奥野敏聡 神田修吉
Screenplay 脚本	Hideki Sonoda	園田英樹
Storyboard 絵コンテ	Kunihiko Yuyama Tetsu Kimura Sōichi Masui Yūji Asada Yoshikazu Miyao	湯山邦彦 木村　哲 増井壮一 浅田裕二 宮尾佳和
Assistant directors 演出	Yūji Asada Hiroaki Yoshikawa Yumi Kamakura Masahiko Watanabe Masakatsu Iijima Naohito Takahashi	浅田裕二 吉川博明 鎌倉由美 渡辺正彦 飯島正勝　 高橋ナオヒト
Assistant director associate 演出助手	Yoshimobu Tokumoto	徳本善信
Character staging キャラクター設定	Kenji Matsushima Kōji Nishino	松島賢二 西野弘二
Staging assistance 設定協力	GAME FREAK inc. The Pokémon Company	GAME FREAK inc. The Pokémon Company
Character design キャラクターデザイン	Kazuaki Mōri Tokuhiro Matsubara Sayuri Ichiishi	毛利和昭 松原徳弘 一石小百合
Executive animation director 総作画監督	Kazuaki Mōri	毛利和昭
Assistant executive animation directors 総作画監督補	Tokuhiro Matsubara Kazumi Satō Taguchi Kōichi	松原徳弘 佐藤和巳 田口広一
Animation directors 作画監督	Yūko Inoue Masahiro Aizawa Senri Ikehara Takuya Matsumoto Takayuki Shimura Mika Takahashi Katsunori Kimizuka Kunihiko Natsume Akihiro Tamagawa	井ノ上ユウ子　 相沢昌弘 池平千里 松本卓也 志村隆行 高橋美香 君塚勝教 夏目久仁彦 玉川明洋
Color keys 色彩設計	Miyuki Satō Noriyuki Yoshino	佐藤美由紀 吉野記通
Colorist 色指定	Takako Uemura Mizue Ueda	上村貴子 上田みず恵
Art supervisor 美術監修	Katsuyoshi Kanemura	金村勝義
Art director 美術監督	Masatoshi Mutō	武藤正敏
Director of photography 撮影監督	Takaya Mizutani	水谷貴哉
CGI	OLM Digital	OLM Digital
CGI director CGI監督	Makoto Satō	佐藤　誠
Dance scene assistance ダンスシーン協力	Misato Matsuoka Ayaka Chimura Mitsugu Kawasaki	松岡美里 千村彩花 川崎美嗣
Editor 編集	Toshio Henmi	辺見俊夫
Editorial assistants 編集助手	JAYFILM Daisuke Imai Yoshiki Ushiroda	ジェイ・フィルム 今井大介 後田良樹
Music 音楽	Shinji Miyazaki	宮崎慎二
Music producers 音楽プロデューサー	Kazuo Shinohara Yūji Saitō	篠原一雄 齋藤裕二
Sound recording mixer 劇場用レコーディングミキサー	Jūji Nakamura	中村充時
Original score (partial) 一部原曲・作曲	Gō Ichinose Morikazu Aoki	一之瀬　剛 青木森一
Sound director 音響監督	Masafumi Mima	三間雅文
Recording studio 録音スタジオ	Aoi Studio	アオイスタジオ
Audio production 音響制作	HALF H·P STUDIO	HALF H·P STUDIO
Production 制作	Shōgakukan Production	小学館プロダクション
Animation production アニメーション制作	OLM Team Koitabashi	OLM Team Koitabashi
Director 監督	Kunihiko Yuyama	湯山邦彦

Trivia

• This movie introduces the concept of aura to the series.
• This is the second movie in which a character dies and is not resurrected. The first was Pokémon Heroes, where Latios sacrificed himself to save Alto Mare from a humongous tidal wave. This time two characters died, Lucario, and Sir Aaron.
• This is the first time, since the 5th movie, that the corresponding theme song is played during the opening credits (this time it is the Advanced Battle theme).
• The castle is based on Neuschwanstein, a castle in Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany. (From [1])
• There are scenes from the past movies hidden in the movie in the credits:
  • Brock has the same reaction to leaving Kidd as he did to Rebecca in the previous movie. Both female characters were voiced by Becky in the Japanese version.
  • Kidd visits Forina and meets Butler and Diane.
  • Ash and co. walk through the streets of an old-style European town, which could be interpreted as either Alto Mare or Rota.
  • The first half of the closing scene of the credits resembles the first half of the closing scene of the credits of Pokémon Heroes.
• The strings section of the movie score is performed by Koike Strings, and was recorded on June 11, 2005. Koike Strings official website
• In this film, Bonsly is pronounced "bons-lee", but in subsequent anime episodes the pronounciation has been 'bons-lie', similar to 'bonsai', from which Bonsly takes its name.
• During the scene where Ash remembers the scene from EP001, you can hear part of Aim to be a Pokémon Master playing as the background music.
• The two parties of Pokémon, Red and Green, reference the original two versions of Pokémon, Red and Green.
• May's Munchlax is the only one of the main characters' Pokémon besides Pikachu to appear on the front cover.
• This is the second movie in a row where a Munchlax appears on the front cover.
• This is the only Pokémon movie so far that does not have a legendary Pokémon as the main featured Pokémon.
• This is the only Pokémon movie that has legendary Pokémon from each of the first three generations: Mew from Generation I, Ho-Oh from Generation II and Registeel, Regirock, and Regice from Generation III.
• When Mew is transformed into Ho-Oh in the dub, Pigeot's voice is used .

Box office performance

Source: goo 映画

The general screening of Mew and the Wave-Guiding Hero: Lucario ran for 6 weeks from July 16 to August 26, 2005.

2005	July 16 - 17	July 23 - 24	July 30 - 31	August 6 - 7	August 13 - 14	August 20 - 21	August 27 - 28
Overall ranking	► 2nd	► 2nd	► 2nd	▼ 3rd	► 3rd	▼ 4th	▼ 7th
Domestic movies	► 1st	► 1st	► 1st	▼ 2nd	▲ 1st	▼ 2nd	▼ 4th
Anime movies	► 1st	► 1st	► 1st	▼ 2nd	▲ 1st	► 1st	► 1st

The movie had grossed 4.11 billion yen by September 2005, and the final figure was 4.3 billion yen (US$36.4 million), placing it second in Japan in 2005 only to Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle.

Related links

• Article on Wikipedia
• Screenshots on Bulbagarden Archives