The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Usohachi King and Manene Queen!? / Group Member Yamamoto Catches a 150km/h Ball in Professor Red's 'Future Vision Box' Invention? / Group Member Akiyama's Television Battle Debut! (ウソハチキングとマネネクイーン！？ / レッド博士の発明品「未来ビジョンボックス」で山本隊員が時速150kmのボールをキャッチ？／視聴者バトルに秋山隊員が登場！), aired today in Japan.

Director Golgo walks into the headquarters to see everyone standing around with a bunch of trash on the floor. Angry that the room is a mess he asks them why its so dirty. Suddenly a wind picks up and more trash appears and a newspaper hits Golgo in the face. Realizing the rest of the crew wasn't responsible for the mess he apologizes by making a pun and says "gominasai" (ごみなさい) instead of "gomennasai" (ごめんなさい). 'Gomi' is trash. Shoko then introduces this weeks theme and Red introduces the repeat episode title.

This week featured a continuation of last weeks rerun theme, 'Pikachu and Nyarth's Nice Little Talks', and Usohachi King and Manene Queen!? from Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Usohachi, Manane, Nyarth and Pikachu get separated from everyone else after a battle in the massage tent sent them flying into the city. Will they reunite with their friends?! A full summary of this episode is available in the episode guide.

Professor Red walks into the room with his latest invention the RED 057 Future Vision Box (RED 057 未来ビジョンボックス). Red explains that it will show them the future as the 'Back to the Future' theme song which generally plays through episodes actually fit well during this scene. Red pulls out a picture of Yamamoto who is laying on the floor unconscious. Shoko-tan walks in right after with her latest creation a Rice Choco Omelet (オムチョコライス) which she feeds to Yamamoto who is reluctant to eat it. Moments later he falls over on the floor unconscious just as the picture moments earlier showed.

Robert and Lucario then head out of the headquarters with the Future Vision Box. Baba decides to try it out again and flips the switch to reveal a picture of Yamamoto dressed up as a baseball catcher with the caption that he caught a 150km/h fastball. The decide to test Yamamoto to see if he could actually catch a ball going that fast by setting up a pitching machine. On the 3rd pitch, he actually manages to catch it, once again Red's future machine was correct.

Akiyama decides to try the box again and pulls out a picture of Baba this time. On the picture it states that he was able to run 50 metres in 7 seconds. Akiyama and Yamamoto get out a stop watch and get Baba to run as fast as he could but gets a time of 8.57 seconds. They decide to recruit track runners to pull him to increase his speed. With there assistance, Baba was able to run it in 7.44 seconds, once again proving Red's future machine was correct.

The announcer reminded viewers of the currently running Pokémon Card Game Present Campaign to help promote the upcoming 13th Pocket Monsters movie: The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク). Two sets of cards are available to those people that submit the required information between April 28th, 2010 and June 30th, 2010. The first set is Ho-oh and Lugia and the second set includes Raikou, Suicune and Entei. Only 2000 sets will be available to those that enter the campaign.


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Shoko introduced the Pokémon Sunday audience to the official cover art for the upcoming Pocket Monsters Black and White along with their respective version legendaries Reshiram (レシラム) and Zekrom (ゼクロム). The information was released on the official websites the day before.


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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 178 - Farewell, Rocket Gang! Nyarth's Love!? (さよならロケット団！ニャースの恋!?) aired on Thursday in Japan.

Having been told by Joy that Denji-san was ready to battle Satoshi, the gang heads towards the Nagisa Gym. While on their way they encounter a girl who's Nyarmar gets stolen by Nyarth who is in love with Nyarmar. Will Satoshi and friends be able to rescue Nyarmar?!

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Magna Pacific has announced a bunch of new DVD's for Australia including Pokémon Arceus & The Jewel Of Life which aired earlier in the year. The North American DVD was announced earlier this year for a Spring of 2010 release but a date has yet to be finalized. The French and Japanese DVD's were released in December 2009. The Arceus & The Jewel Of Life DVD will be released in Australia on June 2nd, 2010.

Magna Pacific also announced box sets for Pokémon Season 3: Johto Journeys and Pokémon Season 4: Johto Leauge Champions which will also be released on June 2nd. Pokémon All-Stars DVD's featuring Togepi, Pikachu and Wobbuffet were also announced.

The DVD's have been added to the database. There you can find Pokémon DVD information for releases around the world.

Source: http://www.magnapacific.com.au/

The yearly Pocket Monsters movie script reading took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 26th, 2010. In attendance were the main voice actors for the upcoming movie: Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド＆パール 幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク)

Koichi Yamadera (山寺宏一) has once again returned to play the part of Gūn (グーン) and Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子) has returned for her 4th Pocket Monsters movie to play the part of Proof (プルーフ).

Also in attendance were Takanori Jin'nai (陣内孝則) who voices Kōdai (コーダイ), Katō Natsuki (加藤夏希) who voices Rioka and finally Takashi Tsukamoto (塚本高史) who voices Kurt (クルト).


Left to Right: Pikachu, Katō Natsuki (加藤夏希), Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子), Takanori Jin'nai (陣内孝則), Takashi Tsukamoto (塚本高史) & Koichi Yamadera (山寺宏一).

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Satoshi and friends arrive in Crown City (クラウンシティ) to watch the Pokémon Backer World Cup (ポケモンバッカー・ワールドカップ). The city is a beautiful combination of old building and streets, modern buildings and lush vegetation. While there, Satoshi meets the Pokémon Zorua (ゾロア) and decides to help it look for its friend.

Suddenly, after 20 years and with the threat of an impending crisis in Crown City, the legendary Pokémon Celebi returns as Zoroark (ゾロアーク) terrorizes the city with its transformations into Raikou, Suicune and Entei. What is Celebi's fate? What will Satoshi and Pikachu do to save the city and the Pokémon...

Images from the press conference are available on the imageboard thread.

Source: http://career.oricon.co.jp/news/76600/full/

The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 177 - Concluding Rival Battle! Hikari VS Nozomi!! (決着ライバル対決！ヒカリＶＳノゾミ！！) aired on Thursday in Japan.

The Sinnoh Grand Festival has reached the climax as Nozomi and Hikari prepare to battle against each other. Who will be victorious? Note: Links from this news article contain major series spoilers.

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The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Forest of Pikachu / The Announcement of Pocket Monsters BW Material Including 'Partner Pokémon' and 'Zorua and Zoroark's moves' (ピカチュウのもり / ポケットモンスターBW「パートナーポケモン」「ゾロア・ゾロアークの技」等を発表！), aired today in Japan.

This week featured a continuation of last weeks rerun theme, 'Pikachu and Nyarth's Nice Little Talks', and Forest of Pikachu was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Satoshi's Pikachu discovers a forest full of other Pikachu's. Curious to find out more about the Pikachu's in this forest, Satoshi attempts to be friendly with them, only for them to run away. Rocket Gang shows up and tries to capture all the Pikachu's. Can Satoshi and friends stop the Rocket Gang and rescue the Pikachu's?

In this episode, Robert is sent out dressed as reporters looking for the latest scoop on the upcoming 13th movie The Ruler of Illusions Zoroark (幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク) and Pokémon Black and White (ポケットモンスター ブラック・ホワイト).

Robert's first stop was a Pro Wrestling Dojo. A paper with the scoop information was attached to one of the wrestlers who were practicing in the ring. Akiyama enters the ring and tries his best to get it off his foot but he is afraid that he will get hurt. Finally all three members of Robert enter the ring. Akiyama gets body slammed but after the wrestler attempts to body slam him again, Akiyama manages to avoid it and wrestler is stunned from his attempt. Yamamoto quickly grabs the paper off the wrestlers foot and Robert heads back to the PokéSun Headquarters.

Upon arriving at the headquarters, Shoko-tan reveals that Jun'ichi Masuda (増田順一) from GAME FREAK had sent them a DVD labeled 'Top Secret' (秘) and the video is played. A new battle scene video showing the graphics from the upcoming games is displayed. Raikou is seen using Aura Sphere (はどうだん) against an Entei which then is revealed to be Zoroark. It is revealed that Zoroark has a new ability called Illusion (イリュージョン) which allows it to transform into various Pokémon including Entei that was shown in the video.


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In the next segment, Robert and Director Lucario head out into the forest with Celebi. While there they encounter a bag on the ground and they open it to reveal Japanese comedian and contortionist Esper Ito (エスパー伊東). He preforms a few tricks including putting his body through a tennis racket. Upon returning to the Headquarters, Shoko-tan plays another video. In the video it shows Celebi in the Ilex Forest and it starts glowing and then takes the player back in time. The player is then seen battling Rocket Gang Boss Sakaki with his Nidoking and the players Celebi as the video ends.

In the third an final segment featuring Robert, they are sent to the Trick Art Museum. Yamamoto is seen standing on a wooden plank that appears to be spanning across a deep hole. Akiyama and Baba attempt to help him but Yamamoto looses his balance and begins to fall off the plank only to realize that what looked to be an endless pit was a solid floor. In another exhibit, Yamamoto looks through a hole into a room where Akiyama looks to be a few feet taller than Lucario. They finally come upon a lobster exhibit with a chest. They take the chest and return with it to the PokéSun Headquarters only to find out that its empty.

A chest appeared in the room and the crew needed to raise and lower black and white flags in the order that the announcer indicated without making a mistake. Shoko-tan was first and managed to get the chest to be lowered a bit. Golgo went next and as a trick near the end, he had to make a strange face instead of moving the flags. He was also successful and the chest was lowered again. Finally Akiyama went and he almost exclusively had to do funny faces until the final instruction which was to raise the white flag to throw him off guard. He wasn't fooled and was also successful. The chest was fully lowered.

As a follow up to last weeks episode, the silhouettes of the three new starter Pokémon were finally revealed. The information was also posted in Coro Coro which was released the day before.

Picture	Pokémon	Info	Ability	Type	Height	Weight
	Tsutaja (ツタージャ)	Grass Snake Pokémon	Overgrow	Grass	0.6m	8.1kg
	Pokabu (ポカブ)	Fire Pig Pokémon	Blaze	Fire	0.6m	9.9kg
	Mijumaru (ミジュマル)	Sea Otter Pokémon	Torrent	Water	0.5m	5.9kg

Battle videos showing the three starter Pokémon are displayed just after they are revealed. Tsutaja (ツタージャ) is seen using Leaf Storm (リーフストーム), Pokabu (ポカブ) is shown using Flamethrower (かえんほうしゃ) and finally Mijumaru (ミジュマル) is shown using Water Pulse (ずのはどう).


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The new starters artwork was also shown. Players are able to choose either one of these characters upon starting the new games.
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The Isshu Region (イッシュ地方) was announced and a picture of Hiun City (ヒウンシティ) was shown. A video of the streets of the city was also shown. The players character walks around with a lot of other computer controlled characters on the streets of the city.


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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 176 - Semi-Finals! Who will Advance to the Finals!? (セミファイナル！決勝へ進むのは！？) aired on Thursday in Japan.

The Sinnoh Grand Festival is continuing at the Lakeside Resort and Hikari prepares to face Musashi in semi-finals Contest Battle round. In the other semi-final match, Nozomi battles against Naoshi. Who will move onto to the finals?!

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The latest episode of Pokémon Sunday, Lord Nyarth's Island!? / Group Member Baba Trains in order to Win Back the Pokémon Battle Throne! / The Announcement of the New Pokémon XX! (おニャースさまのしま！？ / 馬場隊員がポケサンバトル王座奪還を目指して特訓！／新ポケモンの○○を発表！), aired today in Japan.

This weeks episode started with the Pokémon Sunday crew wishing Shoko-tan a happy birthday as she celebrated it on May 5th. They brought out a large box which ended up being a large ice cream cone hat. She thanked them and put the hat on and introduced this weeks repeat episode.

This week featured a continuation of last weeks rerun theme, 'Pikachu and Nyarth's Nice Little Talks', and Lord Nyarth's Island!? was this weeks repeat episode. In this episode, Nyarth is separated from his friends on an island where the inhabitants treat him as their god. A full summary for this episode is available in the episode guide.

Professor Red started off the live action segment of the show by revealing his latest invention, the RED 056 Guess the Pokémon Quiz SHOW! (クイズポケモンあてまSHOW!). The device is based on the recently released quiz board game with the same name that gets players to put a card into the device and slowly reveal the Pokémon behind the screen. Screenshots from the board games commercial are posted below. Professor Red adapted his machine to put people in it instead and then asked the crew to guess who they thought was behind the screen.

Shoko was able to guess the first person behind the screen, Handsome Yamamoto, after he made a few funny faces against the screen. The next person to be revealed was Shoko-tan Akiyama which Golgo guessed correctly. Akiyama was dressed up just like Shoko which scared the real Shoko-tan a bit.


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In Baba's recent battles, he hasn't done very well and the crew believes that his battling is currently weak. Baba vows to regain his fighting spirit and return to his position as the strongest battling member in the Pokémon Sunday crew. He decides to go to the Pokémon Center to battle people there. He looses his first double battle and then quickly looses his second one. Both times the challengers smack him with a fan. Hoping that his practicing had increased his luck and skills, Baba was challenged by the in-studio guest of the week to a battle. Unfortunately for Baba, he lost and he had to give up his Kyorge.

During the Pokémon Game Arena segment, the three Pokémon silhouettes were revealed. More information regarding them will be announced on next weeks episode.


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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 175 - Manmoo, Pachirisu! Finish it with Ice Chandelier!! (マンムー、バチリス！決めろ氷のシャンデリア！！) aired on Thursday in Japan.

The Sinnoh Grand Festival is continuing at the Lakeside Resort and Hikari prepares to face Urara in the Contest Battle round. Urara is looking forward to defeating Hikari but who will move onto the next round?!

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The latest episode of Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl 174 - The Grand Festival Begins! The Art of Flame and Ice!! (グランドフェスティバル開幕! 炎と氷のアート！！) aired on Thursday in Japan.

The Sinnoh Grand Festival has begun at the Lakeside Resort and Hikari prepares to participate in the Appeal round. All of her rivals have arrived and have qualified to participate in the tournament as well. Who will do well in the Appeal round and move onto the next round?!

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