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Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (movie)

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[ sequel of Pokémon - Destiny Deoxys (movie) ]

Related anime:
    Pikachu no Obake Carnival (movie)
    Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (movie) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Mew and the Wave-Guiding Hero- Lucario
Pocket Monster Advance Generation: Myuu to Hadou no Yuusha (Japanese)
Pokémon 8 - Lucario e o mistério de Mew (Portuguese)
Pokémon 8 - Lucario en het Mysterie van Mew (Dutch)
Pokémon: Lucario y el misterio de Mew (Spanish)
ポケットモンスター アドバンスジェネレーション ミュウと波導の勇者 (Japanese)
神奇寶貝 夢幻與波導の勇者 路卡利歐 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: In the town of Lohta, a festival is thrown praising "Aaron the Wave Leader Hero" who, according to the legend passed down through the town's generations, stopped a war centuries ago by using the power of "the Tree of the World's Origin." Satoshi and Pikachu participate in a battle to decide this year's hero and after their victory, they are chosen as the "Wave Leader Hero." A grand dance party is held in the castle to celebrate the victor, but suddenly the phantom Pokemon Mew appears and takes Pikachu. Soon afterwards, the Wave Leader Pokemon "Lucario" is freed from his centuries-long seal and meets Satoshi. Satoshi must solve the various mysteries of where Pikachu is, what Mew's after, what the secret of the legend of the Wave Leader is and how it ties in with Lucario's hidden past as he makes his way to "the Tree of the World's Origin" with Lucario.
User Ratings: 188 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 16 votes (dub:8, sub:7, Spa.dub:1)
 Excellent: 31 votes (dub:16, sub:10, edit.dub:3, Por.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 34 votes (dub:25, sub:7, ?:1, edit.dub:1)
 Good: 42 votes (dub:24, sub:12, edit.dub:3, raw:1, Por.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Decent: 41 votes (dub:24, sub:11, edit.dub:2, Spa.dub:1, Dut.dub:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 6 votes (dub:4, sub:2)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:2, ?:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (dub:3, Rus.sub:1)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:4, edit.dub:2, dub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 483 users, rank: #1110
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.053 (Good+.05), std. dev.: 1.9993, rank: #1568
Weighted mean: 6.949 (Good-.05), rank: #1698 (seen all: 6.98 / seen some: 6.36 / won't finish: 5.58)
Bayesian estimate: 6.977 (Good-.02), rank: #1398
Running time: 105 minutes
Vintage: 2005-07-16
Premiere date:
2005-07-16 (Japan)
2006-06-30 (Taiwan)
2006-09-19 (USA) (CANADA)
2007-06-16 (Spain, TV broadcast on Jetix)
2007-11-11 (Netherlands, TV broadcast on Jetix)
2008-02-04 (Cartoon Network Latin America, only Mexico)
2008-02-08 (Cartoon Network Latin America, the remaining countries of Latin America)
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Battle Frontier" by Yaa Aki
Ending Theme:
"Song of Origin" by PuffyAmiYumi
"We Will Meet Again" by Jim Malone
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 9
Comment:
This is the last Pokemon release dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment.
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Related reviews:
    Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

Related releases:
    Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (Dub.DVD) 2006-09-19 (from $14.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kunihiko Yuyama

Screenplay: Hideki Sonada

Storyboard:
Kunihiko Yuyama
Soichi Masui
Tetsu Kimura
Yoshikazu Miyao
Yuji Asada

Music: Shinji Miyazaki

Original Concept:
Junichi Masuda
Ken Sugimori
Satoshi Tajiri

Character Design:
Kazuaki Moori
Sayuri Ichiishi
Tokuhiro Matsubara

Art director: Masatoshi Muto

Animation director:
Akihiro Tamagawa
Chisato Ikehira
Katsunori Kimizuka
Kunihiko Natsume
Masahiro Aizawa
Mika Takahashi
Takayuki Shimura
Takuya Matsumoto
Yuko Inoue

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Cgi director: Makoto Sato

Director of Photography: Takaya Mizutani

Executive producer:
Hiroaki Tsuru
Masakazu Kubo

Producer:
Choji Yoshikawa
Junya Okamoto
Takemoto Mori
Yukako Matsusako

2nd Key Animation:
Akihito Aoki
Chisato Kawaguchi
Eisuke Matsubara
Motoaki Satou
Yoshimichi Masuko
Yukiko Shimizu

Animation Check:
Fujika Enomoto
Shinichi Murooka
Yoko Kasama
Yuki Saito

Animation producer:
Shukichi Kanda
Toshiaki Okuno

Animation Supervisor: Youichi Otabe

Art Supervision: Katsuyoshi Kanemura

Assistant director:
Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Masahiko Watanabe
Masakatsu Iijima
Naohito Takahashi
Yuji Asada
Yumi Kamakura

Assistant Executive Animation Director:
Kazumi Sato
Koichi Taguchi
Tokuhiro Matsubara

Color:
Mizue Ueda
Takako Uemura

Color design:
Miyuki Sato
Norimichi Yoshino

Color Keys:
Miyuki Sato
Noriyuki Yoshino

Dance Scene Assistance:
Ayaka Chimura
Misato Matsuoka
Mitsugu Kawasaki

Design Work:
Kazumi Sato
Kenichi Nagai
Masayuki Goto
Midori Harada
Shigeyuki Koresawa
Shiro Kudaka
Yoshikazu Miyao
Yuko Inoue

Editing: Toshio Henmi

Executive animation director: Kazuaki Moori

In-Between Animation:
Dai Fukuyama
Daisuke Miyazaki
Hiromi Itou
Hiromi Shudō
Jun Kiguchi
Junpei Fukuchi
Kanako Oikawa
Masami Yamashita
Masato Ishii
Miki Kuribayashi
Mitsue Akiyama
Miyo Ōno
Naoko Iijima
Naoko Takeichi
Natsuko Takeuchi
Noriaki Saito
Sumika Momo
Tomoyuki Itamura
Toshiaki Ōhashi
Yukiko Shimizu

Key Animation:
Akiko Nakamura (OLM Team Iwasa)
Atsuko Watanabe (Studio Live)
Daisuke Yoshida (Studio Live)
Hideki Takahashi
Hideyoshi Takahashi (Studio Cockpit)
Hiromi Naganawa (Studio Cockpit)
Hiromi Niioka
Hiroshi Kamishina (Studio Live)
Hiroshi Koujina
Jun Yukawa (Studio Live)
Junko Isaka (OLM Team Iwasa)
Katsuyuki Tamura
Kazuhisa Kosuga
Kazuma Uike
Kazunobu Hoshi
Kyoko Matsubara
Kyouko Takeuchi (Studio Live)
Makoto Arashiro (Studio Cockpit)
Masaaki Iwane (Studio Cockpit)
Masami Takebuchi (OLM Team Iwasa)
Mayumi Fukushi (Studio Live)
Midori Nagaoka (OLM Team Iwasa)
Minato Sawa
Miwa Sakai (Studio Live)
Neiko Hino (OLM Team Iwasa)
Nishiki Itaoka (Studio Live)
Riku Satō
Satoru Iriyoshi
Shiro Kudaka
Shoichi Masuo
Tadaaki Miyata
Tatsuya Annoura (Studio Cockpit)
Tomoaki Yamazaki
Tomoko Takei (OLM Team Iwasa)
Toshihiko Masuda
Toyoo Ashida (Studio Live)
Tsuneo Ninomiya
Yoshihiro Takeda
Yosuji Kudo (Studio Live)
Yu Maruyama
Yukari Kobayashi
Yukio Okano

Music producer:
Kazuo Shinohara
Yuuji Saitou

Original Score:
Go Ichinose
Morikazu Aoki

Production Advancement:
Haruka Uchida
Mika Kurihara
Takuma Kondō
Tetsuya Koiso
Yasuaki Fujii
Yoshinobu Ōsugi

Production Desk: Yasuteru Kamei

Production manager: Tsukasa Koitabashi

Production Supervision: Tsunekazu Ishihara

Sound Recording Mixer: Juji Nakamura

Theme Song Performance: PuffyAmiYumi (END)

 

Daisuke Namikawa as Lucario

Fushigi Yamada as Masato

Ikue Ohtani as Pikachu

KAORI as Haruka

Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi

Yuji Ueda as Takeshi

Akihiro Nishino as Freddy

Becky as Kid Summers

Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth

Kouichi Yamadera as Aaron

Kumiko Okae as Jenny

Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi

Momoko Kikuchi as
Eileen
Leen

Shinichiro Miki as Kojiro

Yûta Kajiwara as Usohachi

Atsushi Kakehashi as Registeel

Chie Satou as Gonbe

Chinami Nishimura as Wakasyamo

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Manyula (1)

Eiji Miyashita as Regirock

Jun Fukushima as Manyula (2)

Katsuyuki Konishi as Heigani

Koichi Sakaguchi as Hellgar

Koro Gisatomi as Myuu

Kunihiro Kawamoto as Regice

Miyako Ito as Manene

Natsuki Yoshihara as Chirean

Noriko Hidaka as Mother

Satomi Koorogi as Mew

Takeshi Aono as Banks

Tomoe Hanba as Zenigame

Unshou Ishizuka as Narrator

Japanese companies 

Animation Assistance:
Angle
Animal-ya
Anime House
Anime R
Anime Spot
APPP
AZETA PICTURES
Dr. Movie
Dragon Production
EMUAI
Flying Dragon Cartoon Studio
Front Line
Kino Production
Kyung Kang ANIA
Magic Bus
Mugenkan
Musashino Staff
Nomad
Oh production
Radix 02
RIC
Seigasha
Snow Light Staff
Studio A.P.P.P.
Studio Angle
Studio Gimlet
Studio Line
Studio Live
Studio MAT
Studio Mu
Studio One Pack
Studio Takuranke
Studio Victory
Synergy Japan
TNK
Tokyo Animation Center
Wao World

Animation Production: OLM Team Koitabashi

Audio Production: HALF H·P STUDIO

Backgrounds:
Art Max
Atelier BWCA
Atelier Rourke
Shanghai Superman
Studio Jack

CG Production: OLM Digital

Key Animation:
Studio Cockpit
Studio Live
Team Iwasa

Photography:
OLM Digital
Studio Cockpit
Studio Cosmos
T Nishimura

Production: Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.

Recording Studio: Studio Aoi

English cast 
English staff 
(none)

Amy Birnbaum as Max

Eric Stuart as Brock

Ikue Ohtani as Pikachu

Veronica Taylor as
Ash Ketchum
May

Addie Blaustein as Meowth

Eric Stuart as James

Mike Pollock as Narrator

Rachael Lillis as Jessie

Addie Blaustein as Corphish

Jason Griffith as Sir Aaron

Lisa Ortiz as Agent Summers

Sean Schemmel as Lucario

Matthew Charles

English companies 

Distributor: Viz Media

Licensed by: Pokemon USA, Inc.

Production: 4Kids Entertainment (Dub)

French staff 
French cast 

Directeur De Plateau: Jean-Daniel Nicodème

 

Anthony Lopresti as Pierre

Aurélien Ringelheim as Sasha

Christophe Hespel as Seigneur Aaron

Guylaine Gibert as Max

Maia Baran as FLora

Catherine Conet as Jessie

Catherine Connet as Jessie

David Manet as James

Philippe Tasquin as Miaous

French companies 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director:
Amparo Valencia (Spain dub)
Gerardo Vásquez

 

Adolfo Moreno as Ash Ketchum (Spain dub)

Beatriz Berciano as Max (Spain dub)

Cristina Yuste as Aura (Spain dub)

Gabriel Gama as Brock

Gabriel Ramos as Ash

Iñaki Crespo as Lucario (Spain dub)

Javier Balas as Brock (Spain dub)

Marco Portillo as Max

Mariana Ortiz as May

Amparo Valencia as Jessie (Spain dub)

Eduardo Del Hoyo as Narrator (Spain dub)

Iván Jara as James (Spain dub)

José Escobosa as Meowth (Spain dub)

Lorenzo Beteta as Sir Aaron (Spain dub)

María Antonia Rodríguez as
Ilene (Spain dub)
Rin (Spain dub)

Olga Velasco as Kidd Summers (Spain dub)

Diana Perez as Jessie

Fernando Hernández as Banks (Spain dub)

Gerardo Vásquez as
Meowth
Narrator

Nallely Solis as Kidd Summers

Ricardo Tejedo as Lucario 

Roberto Mendiola as Lucario

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network L.A.
Televisa Canal 5 (Mexico)

Distributor: Televix

Dubbing:
Candiani Studios
Soundub (Madrid, Spain)

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Director: Fred Butter

Translation: Hilde de Mildt

Theme Song Performance: Herman van Doorn

 

Christa Lips as Ash

Fred Meijer as Brock

Ikue Ohtani as Pikachu

Bas Keijzer as Meowth

Fred Butter as Lucario

Hilde de Mildt as Jessie

Jeroen Keers as Narrator

Lot Lohr as Max

Nicoline van Doorn as May

Paul Disbergen as James

Kirsten Fennis as Lady Ilene

Dutch companies 

Broadcaster: Jetix Netherlands

Dubbing: Fred Butter Soundstudio

DVD Distribution: RCV

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 

Dubbing Director: Gilmara Sanches

Translation: Elaine Pagano

 

Alfredo Rollo as Brock

Fábio Lucindo as Ash Ketchum

Tatiane Keplermaier as May

Tiago Keplermaier as Max

Afonso Amajones as Lucario

Armando Tiraboschi as Meowth

Fernanda Bulara as Kidd Summers

Isabel Cristina de Sá as Jesse

Márcio Araújo as James

Wendel Bezerra as Sir Aaron

Fábio Moura as Narrador

Priscila Ferreira as Princesa

Robson as Banks

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster: RedeTV! (Brazil)

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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