This years Pocket Monsters movie, Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin, has been announced for release on DVD later this year. It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2008 and will now be released on DVD December 19th, 2008.

The DVD will be released by Media Factory and Shogakukan and it will have a manufacturers retail price of 4179yen (including tax). The catalog number for the DVD is ZMBS-6016 and the running time is approximately 100 minutes. The DVD will also include the following standard extras: Creditless Opening and Endings, Illustration Setting Material Photo Gallery, a Collection of idea sketches, and Previews. A rental DVD is scheduled to be released on the same day as well.

For those that order the First Press release of the DVD, it will include a Shaymin Neckless/Bracelet and a Domino's Pizza discount voucher which has an expiration date of March 31, 2009 and is only valid in Japan.

Many were hoping that there would be a Bluray High Definition release of this movie with the previous announcement that Media Factory had begun releasing titles on Bluray. Unfortunately today's announcement did not have any information regarding a Bluray release of this movie.

The DVD has been added to our DVD Database. There you can view a complete listing of Pokemon DVD's available worldwide. The DVD is available for Pre-order from Amazon.co.jp