Pocket Monsters - Rayquaza Rising - Additional Cast Members Announced
A press release was posted on September 20th, 2024, which announced additional cast member for the Rayquaza Rising arc. Misato Fukuen played Seille, Yu Shimamura played Briar and Marika Kohno played Sazare. A new trailer for the popular anime Pocket Monsters (airs on the TV Tokyo Network ever...
Rachael Lillis is Diagnosed with Cancer - gofundme Campaign
Pokémon English dub anime fans know voice actor Rachael Lillis for her many roles in the early episodes of the series. Unfortunately, Rachael Lillis has breast cancer that has spread to her spine and is in a nursing home and can barely walk. Her sister Laurie Orr has started a gofundme campaign ...
Sarah Natochenny Wins Audience Webby Award for My Pokémon Journey Retrospective Video
Sarah Natochenny won the Audience Webby Award in the Social Media - Celebrity/Fan category for her My Pokémon Journey retrospective video about her time as Ash Ketchum in the English anime dub. As of the award announcement date, April 25th, 2023, the video has 2.9 million views and close to 500K...
17th Voice Actor Awards - Rica Matsumoto and Ikue Otani win the Kids Family Award
Some of the winners of the 17th Voice Actor Awards, which recognize the most memorable voice actors and works of the year in Japan, were announced on February 21st, 2023. The Kids Family Award, chosen from the perspective of children, went to Ikue Otani, who played Pikachu, and Rica Matsumoto, w...
MCM Comic Con London May 2023
To celebrate 25 years since the initial release of Pokémon: The First Movie, MCM is hosting an English dub cast reunion during MCM Comic Con London May 2023. Join Veronica Taylor, Jay Goede, Eric Stuart & Rachael Lillis all weekend! Photo ops and autographs will be available. The ticket price ra...
Pocket Monsters Anime 25th Anniversary Special - VS Elite Four 1 Hour Battle Special
On March 12th, 2022, The Pokémon Company published a press release for the VS Elite Four 1 Hour Battle Special (VS四天王1時間バトルスペシャル) which aired on Friday, April 1st, 2022 at 6:55pm on TV Tokyo. It was a special to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the anime originally airing on April 1st, 1997. The o...
Pokémon the Movie Coco Blu-ray Special Limited Edition
The official Pocket Monsters movie site has updated and has announced the Pokémon the Movie Coco Blu-ray Special Limited Edition for 7,200 yen, the standard blu-ray for 5,500 yen and the DVD release for 4,500 yen (tax included). The film will be available to purchase on those three release versions ...
GalaxyCon - Classic Pokémon Cast March 26th, 2021 / Current Pokémon Cast May 7th, 2021
GalaxyCon began as an event company in large convention centers for 20,000 to 50,000+ attendees. They have sinced branched out to include Virtual events so that fans can meet celebrities and get personalized autographs without having to travel. GalaxyCon Live gives fans a chance to chat one-to...
Pokémon Voice Actors To Raise Funds For The Brick Theater With Virtual Event
The Broadway community and fifty Pokémon cast members are hosting a fundraising stream for The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, New York, United States, which is a non-profit venue that had to postponed all shows back in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. They will be holding this free virtual ev...
Takara Tomy - Pocket Monsters - Pokémon Zukan - Rotom Phone
Takara Tomy will release a Pokémon Zukan - Rotom Phone (ポケモン図鑑 スマホロトム) in Japan on July 18th, 2020 for 9,889yen including tax. The dex includes 500 Pokémon entries and voices from the Pocket Monsters anime. High resolution images of the product have been added to an Imageboard thread. It...
Pokémon Masters - Special Event Double Trouble
DeNA has announced a special event featuring Jessie and Arbok from Team Rocket. The voice actors for the English version of the event will be added at a later date as there was recording scheduling issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Japanese Pocket Monsters anime Rocket Gang voice actors thoug...
Voice Actor Kumiko Okae has died at 63 years old
Kumiko Okae (岡江久美子) died of pneumonia caused by complications from being infected with COVID-19 at 5:20 on April 23rd, 2020. She was 63 years old. Pocket Monsters fans know her as the voice of Jenny in the 8th movie Mew and the Hero of the Wave - Lucario. Source: https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/...
Next Generation World Hobby Fair Winter 2019
The official Pocket Monsters Sun and Moon anime website has announced that there will be a Pokémon booth at the Next Generation World Hobby Fair Winter 2019. Some of the voice actors from Pocket Monsters Sun and Moon will be in attendance for a Pokémon Anime Special Live and Talk Stage (ポケモンアニメス...
Oha Suta - June 12th, 2014 / Movie 17 Press Reading
On Thursday June 12th, 2014 episode of Oha Suta, host and Pokémon alumni Kōichi Yamadera (山寺宏一) presented clips and footage from the 17th Pocket Monsters movie that featured Diancie. Footage from the Movie 17th Press Reading which took place on Wednesday June 11th, 2014 was also shown. All of the gu...
Voice Actors Revealed for Pocket Monsters THE ORIGIN / BGM Music on XY Soundtrack
The official Japanese Pokémon website as well as their official Twitter account have announced the voice actors for the upcoming OVA special Pocket Monsters THE ORIGIN (ポケットモンスター THE ORIGIN). Junko Takeuchi (竹内順子) who is best know for her voice acting role as Naruto Uzumaki will voice Red. Katsuji M...
