The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Yokan and Rotom! / Sandwichman and Junji Inagawa Talk About the Appeal of the Movie / The Latest News on the Mythical Pokémon 'Victini' / Group Member Yamamoto's Television Viewer Battle (羊羹とロトム！ / サンドウィッチマン・稲川淳二さんが映画の魅力を語る / 幻のポケモン「ビクティニ」最新情報 / 山本隊員が視聴者バトルに登場), aired today in Japan.

This weeks rerun theme, is the continuation of last weeks new Ghost Pokémon theme, Testing the Shocked Feelings!? Ghost Pokémon Big Special （ドッキリ キモ試し！？ゴートポケモン大特集）. Yokan and Rotom! was this weeks repeat episode which features all the different formes of Rotom in the Forest Mansion.

A preview clip of this weeks episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl (ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド＆パール), DP187 - Fierce Full Battle! Satoshi VS Shinji!! (激闘フルバトル！サトシ対シンジ！！) was played that displayed a few new images. Satoshi and Shinji will finally have a full battle rematch during the quarter-final round of the Sinnoh League. The episode airs on Thursday August 12th, 2010.


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To celebrate the launch of Movie 13 - The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (神奇寶貝 幻影の霸者 索羅亞克) in Taiwan, the Japanese voice actors for Satoshi and Hikari, Rica Matsumoto (松本梨香) & Megumi Toyoguchi (豊口めぐみ), visited the country for the launch in theaters. Taiwan is the only other country outside of Japan to get the 13th movie in theaters. Below is a few screenshots from the movie debut there.


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During the Pokémon Game Arena segment, a video was shown that has the player battling Victini. I showed that Victini can use Quick Attack 9でんこうせっか), Endure (こらえる) and Confusion (ねんりき). A new location was also revealed, Liberty Garden Tower (リバティガーデンとう).


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Characters and Pictures from this episode have been added to the episode guide. You can also comment and discuss this episode on the forum. Also be sure to rate this and other episodes in the episode guide.

What's with the 8 and 12 and 7 stuff on the preview?

It just says Thursday August 12th 7 O'Clock