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Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade

PK24   メロエッタのキラキラリサイタル Meloetta's Dazzling Recital

First broadcast Japan July 14, 2012 United States February 15, 2013

English themes Opening None Ending Dance, Dance, Dance

Japanese themes Opening None Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Koitabashi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa Additional credits

Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade (Japanese: メロエッタのキラキラリサイタル Meloetta's Dazzling Recital) is the 24th Pikachu short of the Pokémon anime. It aired alongside Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice and was available for the English audience from February 15, 2013 to March 24, 2013 through Pokémon TV on the official Pokémon website.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Pikachu and its Pokémon friends gather for a very special event: the Mythical Pokémon Meloetta is giving a once-a-year performance at Lunatone Rock! As the full moon rises, the Melody Tree sprouts up from the stage, growing the Melody Berries that enhance Meloetta’s song. But when a battle breaks out in the audience, the Melody Berries are scattered far and wide! Can Pikachu and the others track down these special Berries so Meloetta’s show can go on—and can they find them before Meowth does?

Plot

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The narrator starts explaining about the Pokémon forest. Pikachu and his friends looks at the sky. Suddenly, the moon begins to glow, and Meloetta appears. Meloetta lands on the ground, and plants the Melody Tree. Then, it sings the Relic Song which makes the tree grow and sprout Melody Berries. Meowth becomes excited and starts scratching Crustle, which makes it use Sandstorm. The Sandstorm breaks the tree, and the Melody Berries blast off. Meloetta manages to catch one of the berries as the other four scatter. Pikachu and friends then start searching for the Melody Berries while Meowth searches for them as well, trying to impress Meloetta. Pikachu and friends eventually manage to gather all Melody Berries and give them to Meloetta, making Meloetta become happy and sing in the end.

Major events

• Cilan's Crustle is revealed to know Sandstorm.
• Meloetta is revealed to know Psychic.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Characters

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Scraggy (Ash's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Crustle (Cilan's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Meloetta (anime)
• Pichu (Spiky-eared Pichu)
• Pichu (Pichu Brothers)
• Chikorita
• Pichu
• Piplup
• Croagunk
• Bulbasaur
• Squirtle
• Totodile
• Corphish
• Turtwig
• Chimchar
• Togepi
• Psyduck
• Charmander
• Cyndaquil
• Torchic
• Treecko
• Mudkip
• Munchlax
• Tepig
• Diglett (multiple)
• Dugtrio
• Drifblim
• Snorlax
• Clamperl
• Kecleon
• Pachirisu
• Mime Jr.
• Wynaut
• Riolu
• Plusle
• Minun
• Larvitar
• Mew
• Celebi
• Jirachi
• Manaphy
• Shaymin

Cast

Cast
Narrator	Erica Schroeder	Narrator	Natsuna	出演	夏菜
Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	Pikachu	Ikue Ohtani	ピカチュウ	大谷育江
Meowth	Carter Cathcart	Nyarth	Inuko Inuyama	ニャース	犬山イヌコ
Axew	Kayzie Rogers	Kibago	Minami Tsuda	キバゴ	津田みなみ
Snivy	Michele Knotz	Tsutarja	Megumi Hayashibara	ツタージャ	林原めぐみ
Pignite	Marc Thompson	Chaoboo	Wasabi Mizuta	チャオブー	水田わさび
Oshawott	Lisa Ortiz	Mijumaru	Misato Fukuen	ミジュマル	福圓美里
Scraggy	Jason Griffith	Zuruggu	Akeno Watanabe	ズルッグ	渡辺明乃
Emolga	Mika Kanai	Emonga	Mika Kanai	エモンガ	かないみか
Pansage	Eli James	Yanappu	Chika Fujimura	ヤナップ	藤村ちか
Crustle	Tom Wayland	Iwapalace	Shin-ichiro Miki	イワパレス	三木眞一郎
Wobbuffet	Kayzie Rogers	Sonans	Yūji Ueda	ソーナンス	うえだゆうじ
Meloetta	Megumi Nakajima	Meloetta	Megumi Nakajima	メロエッタ	中島愛

Trivia

• This was the first Pikachu short released alongside a movie since Gotta Dance!!.
• This Pikachu short is the only time when Meloetta's original singing voice was kept in the English dub.
• Most of the wild Pokémon in this Pikachu short are ones Ash and/or his friends have once owned.
• This is the first Pikachu short to be dubbed into English and released since Pikachu's Island Adventure.
• This marks the first time a Pachirisu other than Dawn's appears in the anime.
• During the events of this Pikachu short, likenesses of Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, and Shaymin appear in the background. Their locations are revealed during the dance number at the end.
• An extended version of Look Look☆Here is used as the ending theme.
• A Piplup used Water Gun even though it was a move that it was unable to legally learn at the time. This is no longer the case as Piplup is now able to learn Water Gun as of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

Gallery

• 

  A stone and branch in the shape of Mew

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  A rock in the shape of Shaymin

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  A rock in the shape of Jirachi

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  Celebi's silhouette on a tree

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  A lake in the shape of Manaphy

Errors

• The Pichu standing next to Spiky-eared Pichu and the Pichu Brothers is implied to be the Pikachu-colored Pichu, but it appears as a normal Pichu.

Dub edits

• The version of this Pikachu short used in Camp Pokémon cuts approximately a minute-and-a-half of footage: when Meowth attacks Crustle and it uses Sandstorm, when Meowth say he needs a nap and Wobbuffet agrees, when Axew fights with Scraggy, when Piplup, Oshawott, Squirtle battle with Corphish, when Psyduck uses Water Gun on Meowth and Wobbuffet, when Meowth complains while flying through the air, and when Meowth and Wobbuffet land on Crustle and they blast off. This is likely due to the fighting in the cut footage being considered inappropriate for the app's intended audience.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	美洛耶塔的閃令令音樂會
	Mandarin	美洛耶塔の閃亮音樂會 / 美洛耶塔的闪亮音乐会
French		La sérénade de Meloetta
Italian		La serenata di Meloetta
Korean		메로엣타의 반짝반짝 음악회
European Spanish		La serenata de Meloetta

External links

• Official website for Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade (Japanese)

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