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Pocket Monster Crystal: Raikou Ikazuchi no Densetsu (special)

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[ spinoff of Pokémon (TV) ]

Alternative title:
A Lenda do Trovão (Portuguese)
Pokémon Chronicles - The Legend of Thunder
Pokémon Crystal - Raikou, The Legend of Thunder
Pokemon Crystal: Raikou The Legend of Thunderbolt
The Legend of Thunder
ポケットモンスター クリスタル ~ライコウ 雷の伝説~ (Japanese)
神奇寶貝 雷公 雷の傳說 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Kenta, a Pokemon master in the making, meets up with his childhood friend, Marina, at a Pokemon Center, to see how their skills have developed. Their battle is interrupted by a thunderstorm and the arrival of Bashou and Buson, two Roketto-Dan members using the Crystal System (which attracts Electric-type Pokemon). Their ultimate goal is to, under the guidance of Shiranui-hakase, bring Pokemon back to Sakaki. Kenta and Marina stumble upon this plan, and they try to stop it, but things get more difficult when the legendary Pokemon Raikou is captured.
User Ratings: 91 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Very good: 16 votes (sub:10, dub:5, Por.dub:1)
 Good: 28 votes (dub:13, sub:9, raw:3, edit.dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Decent: 16 votes (sub:7, dub:7, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 14 votes (dub:6, edit.dub:4, sub:3, raw:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (dub:1, ?:1, sub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 277 users, rank: #1501
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.593 (Good-.40), std. dev.: 1.6705, rank: #2340
Weighted mean: 6.493 (Decent+.49), rank: #2390 (seen all: 6.64 / seen some: 5.13 / won't finish: 5.98)
Bayesian estimate: 6.593 (Good-.40), rank: #1972
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage:
2001-12-30
2005-09-09 to 2005-09-23 (Canada, YTV)
2005-12-01 to 2005-12-05 (Latin America)
2006-06-03 to 2006-06-17 (USA, Cartoon Network - Toonami)
Opening Theme:
"Aratanaru Chikai (Acoustic)" by Naomi Tamura
Ending Theme:
"Aratanaru Chikai" by Naomi Tamura
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 7
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Chief Director: Kunihiko Yuyama

Director: Masamitsu Hidaka

Screenplay: Atsuhiro Tomioka

Storyboard:
Hatsuki Tsuji
Hirohito Ochi

Music: Shinji Miyazaki

Original creator: Satoshi Tajiri

Character Design:
Sayuri Ichiishi
Tokuhiro Matsubara

Art director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura

Chief Animation Director: Sayuri Ichiishi

Animation director:
Tokuhiro Matsubara
Yuko Inoue

Mechanical design:
Masayuki Goto
Tokuhiro Matsubara

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Takaya Mizutani

Producer:
Makiko Iwata (TV Tokyo)
Takemoto Mori

3DCGI: Akio Kazumi

Animation producer: Shukichi Kanda

Animation Supervisor: Youichi Otabe

Assistant Editor: Hiroaki Itabe (Jay Film)

Assistant producer: Takeshi Fukuda

Associate producer: Choji Yoshikawa

Background Art: Katsuki Takao (Studio Jack)

Color design: Norimichi Yoshino

Color Key: Akemi Nagao (EMUAI)

Composite:
Kazuyuki Yamamoto (OLM Digital)
Shinsuke Ikeda (OLM Digital)
Yoshiko Chatani (OLM Digital)

Conceptual Character Artist:
Atsuko Nishida
Hironobu Yoshida
Ken Sugimori
Motofumi Fujiwara
Muneo Saito
Rena Yoshikawa
Satoshi Ohta
Shigeki Morimoto

Digital Manager: Kenji Otake

Editing: Toshio Henmi

Finish Animation:
Akari Matsushima
Aya Kawasaki
Ayako Miura
Hiromi Nakagawa
Hiroshi Ōhashi
Hitomi Suzuki
Jun Otaki
Mami Shimizu
Masahiro Nakazawa
Mayumi Tsukada
Mika Onoda
Miki Arai
Miyuki Hirama
Nao Sato
Saori Goda
Sayo Tanaka
Tatsumi Yukiwaki
Tomomi Edano
Yuki Koike
Yumi Fujita

Graphic Design: Keiichi Yamamoto (Birakocha)

In-Between Animation:
Akari Fukunaga
Atsushi Itagaki
Daisuke Kamei
Daisuke Miyazaki
Ikuo Yoshida
Junko Watanabe
Keiko Tsujimura
Miki Kuribayashi
Mizuho Tajima
Noriaki Saito
Shinichi Murooka
Soji Ninomiya
Sumika Momo
Takako Uetake
Takashi Tsuge
Yoko Kasama
Yuki Saito

In-Between Check: Fujika Enomoto

Key Animation:
Akira Takeuchi
Daisuke Kamei
Eikichi Takahashi
Etsushi Mori
Fumiko Kon
Hatsuki Tsuji
Hideyuki Hakuya
Hiroshi Konno
Kazuaki Moori
Koichi Taguchi
Koji Watanabe
Masaaki Iwane
Miho Nakata
Satoru Iriyoshi
Sayuri Ichiishi
Shiro Kudaka
Shoichi Masuo
Shoichi Nakayama
Tadaaki Miyata
Takayuki Uragami
Tatsuya Annoura
Tokuhiro Matsubara
Yukari Kobayashi
Yuko Inoue
Yuri Chiaki
Yuzo Sato

Mixing: Nobuhei Hirano

Music Composition:
Junichi Masuda (partial score)
Morikazu Aoki (partial score)
Tsuyoshi Ichinose (partial score)

Opening Animation:
Hirohito Ochi
Kazuaki Moori
Masamitsu Hidaka
Sayuri Ichiishi
Shoichi Nakayama
Tadaaki Miyata
Yuzo Sato

Planning:
Keisuke Iwata (TV Tokyo)
Masakazu Kubo
Takashi Kawaguchi

Production Advancement:
Haruyasu Makino
Takashi Kodama

Production manager: Tsukasa Koitabashi

Program Publicity: Namie Hashio

Recording Assistant: Ryoko Nashimoto

Setting Assistance:
Hiroyuki Jinnai
Kunimi Kawamura
Takeshi Nomoto

Sound Effects: Daisuke Jinbo

Sound Producer:
Michiyoshi Minamisawa
Takeshi Nishina

Sound Production Desk: Akiko Nakamura

Special Effects: Noriyuki Ohta

Supervision: Tsunekazu Ishihara

Theme Song Performance: Naomi Tamura (OP & ED)

Unit Director:
Hirohito Ochi
Takashi Ikehata

Video Editing: Nobuhiro Nagayoshi (IMAGICA)

 

Kazusa Murai as Marina

Kenji Nojima as Kenta

Yukiji as Raichu

Ayako Shiraishi as Joy

Chinami Nishimura as Junsa

Daiki Nakamura as scientist

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Junichi

Hidetoshi Nakamura as Dr. Shiranui

Katsuyuki Konishi as
Meganium
Raikou

Kazuhiko Inoue as
Narration
Professor Utsugi

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Buson

Ryoka Yuzuki as Mauma

Shinji Kawada as Minaki

Susumu Chiba as Bakufuun

Toshikazu Fukawa as Kudo

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Bashou

Yuka Komatsu as Ladyba

Yumi Touma as
Minaki (child)
Purin (Pink-chan)

Japanese companies 

3D Graphics: OLM Digital

Animation Production: Oriental Light and Magic (Team Koitabashi)

Backgrounds:
Art Max
Studio Jack

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Composite:
OLM Digital
T2 Studio

Finish Animation: OLM Digital

In-Between Animation:
Anime House
Anime R
Anime World Osaka
AZETA PICTURES
Dragon Production
EMUAI
Kino Production
Musashino Staff
Snowlight Staff
Studio Jungle Gym
Studio MAT
Tokyo Animation Center
Wombat
Yumeta Company

Key Animation:
Animation DO
Nakamura Production

Music Assistance: TV Tokyo Music

Production: Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.

Production Cooperation: JR Kikaku

Sound Production: Half HP Studio

Telop: Maki Pro

English cast 
English staff 
(none)

Sean Schemmel as Jimmy

Vanessa Yardley as Marina

Dan Green as Eugene

Veronica Taylor as Hun

Katsuyuki Konishi as
Meganium
Raikou

Susumu Chiba as Typhlosion

Wayne Grayson as Vincent

Yuka Komatsu as Ledyba

Yukiji as Raichu

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network (England, shown as part of PkC)
YTV (Canada)

Distributor: 4Kids Entertainment (edited version)

Licensed by: 4Kids Entertainment


Spanish staff 

Dubbing Director: Gerardo Vásquez

Spanish cast 

Benjamin Rivera as Jimmy (Kenta)

Gaby Ugarte as Marina

Gerardo Vásquez as Narrator

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Cartoon Network L.A.

Dubbing Studio: Candiani Studios

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 

Dubbing Director: Gilmara Sanches

 

Letícia Quinto as Marina

Rodrigo Andreatto as Jimmy (Kenta)

Yuri Chesman as Vincent (Junichi)

Cláudia Carli as Han

Mauro Eduardo as Eugene (Eusine)

Fábio Moura as Narrador

Fátima Noya as Enfermeira Joy (Nurse Joy)

Márcio Marconato as Atila

Sérgio Corsetti as Doutor Shiranui

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network L.A. (Brasil) (shown as part of Poké. Chronic)
RedeTV! (shown as part of Poké. Chroni)

Dubbing Studio: Centauro


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Top-Insight International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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