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Jirachi: Wish Maker (Japanese: 七夜の願い星　ジラーチ Nanayo no Negai-boshi Jirāchi, Wishing Star of Seven Nights: Jirachi) is the 1st Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation movie, and 6th of all Pokémon movies. It was first shown in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2003. It was released on video and DVD for North American audiences on June 1, 2004.

Summary

While Ash and his friends are at a carnival celebrating the appearance of the Millennium Comet, they befriend Jirachi, a Pokémon that awakens every thousand years alongside the comet. Of the trainers, it is Max who Jirachi becomes friendly with. However a former Team Magma scientist, working as a magician at the carnival, wishes to use Jirachi to bring forth Groudon.

Characters

Human

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• May
• Max
• Butler
• Diane

Pokémon

• Jirachi
• Absol
• Flygon
• Salamence (Butlers)
• Pikachu (Ash's)

Pokémon debuts

• Jirachi
• Kirlia
• Absol
• Flygon
• Salamence
• Tropius
• Linoone

Cast

				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
May	Veronica Taylor	Haruka	KAORI
Brock	Eric Stuart	Takeshi	Yuji Ueda	タケシ	うえだ　ゆうじ
Max	Amy Birnbaum	Masato	Fushigi Yamada
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
Butler	Wayne Grayson	Butler	Koichi Yamadera
Diane	Megan Hollingshead	Diane	Riko Mahise
Jirachi	Kerry Williams	Jirachi	Tomiko Suzuki
Narration	Mike Pollock	Narration	Unshō Ishizuka

Trivia

• This is the first Pokémon movie to go direct to video for its American release.

• The Wishing Star May bought looked like a Native America Dreamcatcher. It sort of fits, considering the man who sold it to her did look Native American.

• Butler's sole purpose of being a magician is to find a boy who should be chosen to protect Jirachi for the nights it stayed awake.

• The ending song, Make a Wish, is the first time that the U.S. dub left the original Japanese lyrics preformed by Hayashi Asuka. It was also combined with English lyrics preformed by Cindy Mizelle.

• This movie manifests itself in the form of a cameo in Pokémon Colosseum. The trainer is named Rider Zalla, and owns a Jirachi, (the star) Flygon, Absol, (Wild Pokémon befriended during the movie) Kirlia, Mightyena, and a Dusclops (Pokémon belonging to Butler). Interestingly enough, she (possibly a reference to Max's motherly role for Jirachi, or Dana, as the trainer also has blonde hair) can be found as the 77th trainer on Battle Mode's Single Battle Mount Battle. After losing, she says "You left me in your dust!"

Dub edits

• In the dub when Ash is talking with Max, he made a reference to Misty.