Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan

Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan

名探偵ピカチュウ ～華麗なるモーニングルーティン～ Detective Pikachu ~Splendid Morning Routine~

YouTube release Japan October 25, 2023 United States October 25, 2023

English themes Opening None Ending

Japanese themes Opening None Ending None

Credits Animation Polygon Pictures Inc. Screenplay 諏訪雅 Masashi Suwa Storyboard 千田宏 Hiroshi Chida Assistant director 千田宏 Hiroshi Chida Animation director 島田寛志 Hiroshi Shimada No additional credits are available at this time.

Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan on The Pokémon Company International's official English YouTube channel. Detective Pikachu ~Splendid Morning Routine~ on The Pokémon Company's official Japanese YouTube channel. Review thread on BMGf

Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan (Japanese: 名探偵ピカチュウ ～華麗なるモーニングルーティン～ Detective Pikachu ~Splendid Morning Routine~) is an animated short released on the official Pokémon YouTube channels worldwide and on Weibo and Bilibili in mainland China on October 25, 2023.

Blurb

Detective Pikachu just wants to film his morning routine, but Tim has a bigger problem: his flan has disappeared from the fridge! It’s definitely a mysterious case, but if anyone can solve it, this dynamic duo can in the animated short “Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan”!

Plot

Detective Pikachu is filming his morning routine, drinking coffee, having an apple for breakfast, and reading the newspaper. Just then, Tim arrives, and find his flan missing from the fridge. While Pikachu is annoyed at Tim for ruining his shoot, Tim accuses Pikachu of eating his flan, which he was looking forward to having later. Pikachu doesn't know what Tim is talking about, and explains his shoot, saying that sharing daily activities online is very popular. Tim tells Pikachu not to change the subject, and asks who could have eaten his flan if it wasn't Pikachu. Hearing the sound of a clapperboard, Tim turns around and is surprised by a Munchlax. Pikachu explains that his friend Munchlax is helping him with the shoot. Tim says that Munchlax looks like a Pokémon who eats a lot, causing a banana hidden in Munchlax's fur to fall out. Tim notices that this was a banana he and Pikachu bought earlier, which causes Munchlax to run off in fear. Tim chases Munchlax, who slips on a skateboard and is thrown at the ceiling fan. A lot of food hidden in Munchlax's fur begins to fall out as Munchlax hangs onto the fan, until Pikachu turns the fan off and Tim catches Munchlax. Munchlax admits to taking the banana, but doesn't know anything about the flan.

Pikachu feels this mystery calls for a great detective, and he and Tim surmise that the flan must've disappeared when Tim had gone out for a morning walk. Tim realizes that since Pikachu was shooting a video, the camera may have caught something on film. Pikachu and Tim review the footage, finding that the flan was still in the fridge when Pikachu opened it for his breakfast, and remaining closed in view of the camera until Tim opened it later and found the flan missing. This means that the crime took place inside a sealed room. Printing out photos from the footage, Pikachu feels something looks odd in both of them. Opening the fridge, Pikachu gets a bolt of brilliance, figuring out who the flan thief is. Pikachu points to an apple, which leaps out of of the fridge and starts to roll away. Tim catches the apple, which turns out to be an Applin. Pikachu theorizes it must've been mixed with the fruit they bought earlier.

Later, drinking coffee, Pikachu states that it tastes best after solving a case. Tim asks how Pikachu figured out that the culprit was an Applin, with Pikachu explaining that the position of the fruit inside the fridge had changed. Tim compliments Pikachu's powers of observation, to which Pikachu states that solving cases before breakfast is nothing out of the ordinary for a great detective. Tim, however, notes that Pikachu was in the middle of having breakfast. Munchlax eats the banana, and seems to remember something important. Pikachu tells Tim that they have a new client, and a busy day ahead of them.

Characters

Humans

• Tim Goodman

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Detective Pikachu)
• Munchlax
• Applin

Cast

Cast
Detective Pikachu		Detective Pikachu	Koichi Yamadera	名探偵ピカチュウ	山寺宏一
Tim Goodman		Tim	Yuto Uemura	ティム	上村祐翔
Munchlax		Gonbe	Chie Sato	ゴンベ	佐藤智恵
Applin		Kajicchu	Chie Sato	カジッチュ	佐藤智恵

Staff

Supervising Director	Naomi Iwata
Director / Storyboards	Hiroshi Chida
Script	Masashi Suwa
Script Support	Kimiko Ueno Europe Kikaku
Character Designs	Fujimoto Gold
Concept Design	OKACHEKE
CG Supervisor	Yasuhisa Niizato
Character Modeling	Seiji Tayama Fumi Nakai Yutaka Kasama Yoshinori Nakashima
Background / Prop Modeling	Koji Umegaki Yumi Minauchi Emanuel Putra Prapaskah
Rigging	Masaya Takahashi Yuji Kaneko Mayukh Datta Mitsuaki Watanabe Mototsugu Yuasa Sandeep Betharia Jigar Shah Soumya Padhi
Look Development	Guo Lei Yutaro Tada
Layout / Animation Supervisor	Hiroshi Shimada
Layout / Animation	Minako Kanazawa Miyuki Kamiya Satomi Kegai Saki Fujiwara Haruki Nakagawa Yukiko Inaishi Takuya Hashimoto
Effects	Kana Kitta Shungo Kiuchi
Lighting / Compositing Supervisor	Teo Kai Keat
Lighting / Compositing	Adria Gutawa Hamzeh Alkailani Angela Soewandi Lee Yi Xian
Production Management	Shiori Kuramatsu Ryoma Mochizuki Yuzuki Karibe Wong Ching Ching Putri Nurul Sabrina Phalak Anjum Monalisha Nikalje
Production Editor	Daisuke Tsukioka
Production Support	Polygon Pictures Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Polygon Studios India Private Ltd. Quack-luck Inc.
Sound Director	Masafumi Mima
Sound Effects	Shizuo Kurahashi Sachiko Nishi
Audio Recording	Sayaka Ninomiya
Audio Recording Assistance	Mana Aida Kana Kubota
Music	Conisch
Mixing Engineer	Masanori Hata
Music Production Management	Ayano
Music Production	Soranane Inc.
Sound Production	Glovision Inc.
Sound Production Management	Sound Production Naoki Kishida
Line Producer	Shiho Tanaka
Producer	Ryo Nakaoka
Animation by	Polygon Pictures Inc.
Pokémon series of video games and original Pokémon character concepts and designs were developed by	GAME FREAK inc.
The original Detective Pikachu video game was developed by	Creatures Inc.
Original Creator, Detective Pikachu	Hiroyuki Jinnai Yasunori Yanagisawa
Pokémon CG review	Atsuko Ujiie
Supervisory Cooperation	The Pokémon Company
Supervisor	Tsunekazu Ishihara
Project Cooperation	Toshio Miyahara Yoshitaka Fujiwara Yoshiyuki Koie Kosuke Sugai Sanami Makino Masahiko Masuda

Video

English

By Pokemon

Japanese

By PokemonCoJp

Trivia

• The title of the video on the official English Pokémon YouTube channel by The Pokémon Company International was originally formatted as Detective Pikachu and the Mystery of the Missing Flan.
• In the video description of the Japanese and Pokémon Asia releases, the short is described as having been released "in the languages of 19 countries and regions" (Japanese: 19の国と地域の言語). Although the short did receive 19 distinct dubs — Japanese, English, German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Mandarin Chinese (Mainland China), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali — there is not a one-to-one correspondence between some of these languages and a single country or region.
• Only the Japanese upload of this short contains ending credits; uploads in other languages end by directly fading to black.

In other languages

Language		Title
Bengali		বিখ্যাত গোয়েন্দা পিকাচু ~ জমকালো সকালের রুটিন Bikhyāta Gōẏēndā Pikācu ~ Jamakālō Sakālēra Ruṭina
Chinese	Cantonese	名偵探皮卡丘～華麗的Morning Routine～ Míng Zhēntàn Píkǎqiū ~Huálì de Morning Routine~
	Mandarin	名偵探皮卡丘～華麗的早晨儀式～ Míng Zhēntàn Píkǎqiū ~Huálì de Zǎochén Yíshì ~ * 跟着名侦探皮卡丘，用推理来破解难题吧！Gēnzhe Míng Zhēntàn Píkǎqiū, yòng tuīlǐ lái pòjiě nántí ba! *
Dutch		Detective Pikachu en het mysterie van de verdwenen pudding
French		Détective Pikachu et le mystère du flan disparu
German		Meisterdetektiv Pikachu und der verschwundene Pudding
Hindi		डिटेक्टिव पिकाचू ～द ग्रैंड मॉर्निंग रुटीन Ditektiv Pikaachoo ～Da Graind Morning Ruteen
Indonesian		Detektif Pikachu: Rutinitas Pagi Cemerlang
Italian		Detective Pikachu e il mistero del dolce scomparso
Korean		명탐정 피카츄 ~화려한 모닝 루틴~ Myeongtamjeong Pikachyu ~Hwalyeohan Moning Lutin~
Brazilian Portuguese		Detetive Pikachu e o mistério do pudim desaparecido* Tim e Pikachu partem para mais um caso quando o pudim de Tim desaparece*
Spanish	Latin America	Detective Pikachu y el misterio del flan desaparecido* Un nuevo caso para Tim y Pikachu: la desaparición del flan de Tim*
	Spain	Detective Pikachu y el misterio del flan desaparecido
Tamil		கிரேட் டிடெக்டிவ் பிகாச்சு ~~ அற்புதமான மார்னிங் ரொட்டின்~~ Kirēṭ Ṭiṭekṭiv Pikāccu ~~ Aṟputamāṉa Mārṉiṅ Roṭṭiṉ~~
Telugu		డిటెక్టివ్ పికాచూ ~అద్భుతమైన మార్నింగ్ రొటీన్~ Ḍiṭekṭiv Pikācū ~Adbhutamaina Mārniṅg Roṭīn~
Thai		ยอดนักสืบพิคาชู กิจวัตรสุดยอดในยามเช้า Yxd nạk s̄ụ̄b phikhāchū kicwạtr s̄ud yxd nı yām chêā

References

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