Gekijouban Pocket Monster Best Wishes! Victini to Kuroki Eiyuu Zekrom movie

related to Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! (TV) ]

Alternative title:
Gekijōban Pocket Monster Best Wishes! Victini to Kuroki Eiyū Zekrom (movie)
Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! Victini and the Black Hero
劇場版ポケットモンスター ベストウイッシュ ビクティニと黒き英雄 ゼクロム (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, science fiction

Premiere date:
2011-07-16 (Japan)

Preview video streamed; TV series, Pokémon Black & White games launched last month

The official website for the Pokémon anime films has announced that the first Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! film will open in Japan next summer. The website is already streaming a 20-second announcement video. The Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! television anime series premiered on September 23; this latest Pokémon anime series ties into Nintendo's Pokémon: Black and Pokémon: White games, which also launched on Japanese Nintendo DS portable game consoles last month. http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/



Sentai Filmworks opted not to dub this one and includes only clean opener and closer for Extras, though they did also include the associated OVA episode. Although all of the content presented in this release is uncensored, some controversy has arisen over whether or not this is truly the most uncensored version of the series, as scene from episodes 9 and 10 both use SD artwork in places where the Japanese DVD releases apparently used regular artwork and more involved nude scenes; for instance, the breast competition between Rin Rin and Shouren happens entirely off camera in this release but was fully detailed in the Japanese release. Controversy has also erupted over the release due to Sentai apparently using the error-riddled subtitles from the original Crunchyroll stream of the series. Regardless of whether the subtitles were borrowed or created in-house – and the lack of any mention of a Subtitle Editor in the English credits suggests the former – they represent one of the worst examples of basic text editing to date on an anime DVD release, as nearly every episode has multiple instances of basic grammar mistakes, stuff that should have been caught on even a casual editing pass.

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