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Pocket Monster Crystal: Raikou Ikazuchi no Densetsu (special)

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Alternative title:
A Lenda do Trovão (Portuguese)
Il leggendario Pokémon tuono / Ragazzi coraggiosi / Il Cristallo magnetico (Italian)
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))
Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy
Themes: monsters
Objectionable content: None
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: 139 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:3)
 Very good: 27 votes (sub:16, dub:10, others:1
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Good: 44 votes (dub:22, sub:14, edit.dub:3, raw:3, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Decent: 24 votes (dub:13, sub:8, ?:2, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 18 votes (dub:7, sub:5, edit.dub:4, raw:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Weak: 5 votes (?:1, sub:1, dub:1, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 461 users, rank: #2246 (of 9585)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.597 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.6695, rank: #5408 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 6.560 (Good−), rank: #5410 (of 9708) (seen all: 6.66 / seen some: 5.51 / won't finish: 5.22)
Bayesian estimate: 6.644 (Good−), rank: #4768 (of 7289)
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
Unit Director:
Hirohito Ochi
Takashi Ikehata
Music: Shinji Miyazaki
Original creator: Satoshi Tajiri
Character Design:
Norihiro Matsubara
Sayuri Ichiishi
Art Director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Chief Animation Director: Sayuri Ichiishi
Animation Director:
Norihiro Matsubara
Yūko Inoue
Mechanical design:
Masayuki Goto
Norihiro Matsubara
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Director of Photography: Takaya Mizutani
Producer:
Makiko Iwata (TV Tokyo)
Takemoto Mori

3D CG: Akio Kazumi
Animation producer: Shukichi Kanda
Animation Supervisor: Yōichi Kotabe
Assistant producer: Tsuyoshi Fukuda
Associate producer: Choji Yoshikawa
Background Art: Katsumi 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
Editing Assistant: Hiroaki Itabe (Jay Film)
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 Satō
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 Saitō
In-Between Check: Fujika Enomoto
Key Animation:
Akira Takeuchi
Daisuke Kamei
Eikichi Takahashi
Etsushi Mori
Fumiko Kon
Hatsuki Tsuji
Hideyuki Hakuya
Hiroshi Konno
Katsuichi Nakayama
Kazuaki Mōri
Kōichi Taguchi
Koji Watanabe
Masaaki Iwane
Miho Nakata
Norihiro Matsubara
Satoru Iriyoshi
Sayuri Ichiishi
Shiro Kudaka
Shōichi Masuo
Tadaaki Miyata
Takayuki Uragami
Tatsuya Annoura
Yukari Kobayashi
Yūko Inoue
Yuri Chigira
Yūzō Satō
Mixing: Nobuhei Hirano
Music Composition:
Go Ichinose (partial score)
Junichi Masuda (partial score)
Morikazu Aoki (partial score)
Opening Animation:
Hirohito Ochi
Katsuichi Nakayama
Kazuaki Mōri
Masamitsu Hidaka
Sayuri Ichiishi
Tadaaki Miyata
Yūzō Satō
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:
Gakuji Nomoto
Hiroyuki Jinnai
Kunimi Kawamura
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)
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
Ryōka 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
English cast
English staff
Translation: Kaz Sano
Producer: Alan Kingsberg

Adaptation: Alan Kingsberg
ADR Coordination: Kristen Thorne
ADR Engineer:
Alon Namdar
Jason Cushing
Joseph Shalack
Michael Knoblauch
Questar Welsh
Richard Alvy
Ron London
Shawn Conrad
Suzanne Goldish
Assistant AVID Editor:
Abel Bautista
David J. Etzold
Assistant Music Producer: Michael Brady
Assistant producer: Jason Lam
Associate producer: Kara Krupnick
AVID Editor: Chris Guido
International Coordination: Gia DeLaney
Mixing:
Michael Knoblauch
Shawn Conrad
Music Composition:
John Lissauer
Manny Corallo
Ralph Schuckett
Music Editing:
Elaine Walker
Jen Scaturro
Music producer: Julian Schwartz
Post-Production Coordinator: Chris Guido
Post-Production Graphics:
Jennifer Obrotka
Kana Hashimoto
Lucialie Dumaguing
Paul J. Baccash
Rob Bruce
Ryan Kelly
Production Accounting: Fran Saporito
Production Assistant: Rebecca O'Neil
Production Supervision: Brenda Dillon
Voice Direction: Anthony Salerno
Caren Manuel as Marina
Sean Schemmel as Jimmy
Sebastian Arcelus as Vincent

Dan Green as Eugene
Marc Thompson as Attila
Veronica Taylor as Hun

Andrew Rannells as Shinji
Bella Hudson as Nurse Joy
Corey James as Kudo
Darren Dunstan as Croconaw (Wani-Wani)
Eric Stuart as
Magnemite
Magneton
Professor Sebastian
Sandshrew
Voltorb
Katsuyuki Konishi as
Meganium
Raikou
Kayzie Rogers as
Azumarill
Misdreavus (Little Miss)
Lee Quick as Officer Jenny
Maddie Blaustein as
Alakazam
Scientist
Michael Haigney as Hitmonlee
Paul Liberti as Professor Elm
Rachael Lillis as
Chansey
Jigglypuff (Pink)
Spinarak
Susumu Chiba as Typhlosion
Veronica Taylor as Sentret
Wayne Grayson as Vincent 
Yuka Komatsu as Ledyba
Yukiji as Raichu

Anthony Salerno
Kathy Borland
Pete Zarustica
English companies
Audio Post Production: 4Kids Entertainment
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network (England, shown as part of PkC)
YTV
Distributor: 4Kids Entertainment (edited version)
Licensed by: 4Kids Entertainment
Production: 4Kids Entertainment
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Amparo Valencia (Spain dub)
Dubbing Director: Gerardo Vásquez
ADR Script: Amparo Valencia (Spain dub)
Alex Saudinós as Vincent (Jackson) (Spain dub)
David Robles as Jimmy (Spain dub)
María del Mar Jorcano as Marina (Spain dub)

Alejandro García as Attila (Spain dub)
Eduardo Del Hoyo as Eugene (Eusine) (Spain dub)
María Jesús Nieto as Hun (Spain dub)

Benjamin Rivera as Jimmy (Kenta)
Eduardo Del Hoyo as
Narrator (Spain dub)
Professor Elm (Spain dub; ep 2)
Gaby Ugarte as Marina
Gerardo Vásquez as Narrator
Isacha Mengíbar as Officer Mara (Spain dub)
Juan Lombardero as Professor Sebastian (Spain dub; ep 1)
Pablo Tribaldos as Kudo (Spain dub)
Pilar Martín as Nurse Joy (Spain dub)

Alex Saudinós (Spain dub; eps 1-2)
Eduardo Del Hoyo (Spain dub; ep 1)
Pablo Tribaldos (Spain dub; ep 2)
Pilar Martín (Spain dub; eps 1-2)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network L.A.
Jetix
Dubbing Studio:
Candiani Studios
Telson (Madrid, Spain)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Paolo De Santis as Jimmy
Tosawi Piovani as Marina

Claudio Beccari as
Eugene
Professor Sebastian
Federico Danti as Narrator
Gianluca Iacono as Professor Elm
Leonardo Graziano as Attila
Massimo Di Benedetto as Vincent
Monica Bonetto as Officer Jenny
Renato Novara as
Kudo
Shinji
Sonia Mazza as
Hun
Nurse Joy

Gianluca Iacono
Riccardo Rovatti
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Italia 1
Dubbing: Merak Film
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Charmaine Cordoviz as Marina
Louie Paraboles as Jimmy

Ely Martin as Eugene
Jefferson Utanes as Hun

Candice Arellano as Officer Jenny
Jefferson Utanes as
Kudo
Vincent
Olive Madredejos as Nurse Joy
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: GMA Network
Dubbing: ALTA Productions
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Dubbing Director: Gilmara Sanchez
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
Ricardo Sawaya as Professor Sebastian (Dr. Shiranui)
Sérgio Corsetti as Doutor Shiranui 
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network Brasil (shown as part of Poké. Chronic)
RedeTV! (shown as part of Poké. Chroni)
Dubbing Studio: Centauro
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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