Pokémon Specials Plot
Various TV specials, shorts, and movie shorts related to Pokémon the Series. Other content include recaps, clip shows, and promotional material.
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Pocket Monsters, Fall Special!
A recap of the first 27 episodes of the original anime.
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Pikachu's Winter Vacation
A series of winter and Christmas themed shorts. The first two segments are Christmas Night & Kanga Games.
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Pikachu's Rescue Adventure
Ash, Misty, and Tracey deciding bringout all of their Pokémon, and the go off somewhere. While sleeping, Togepi falls down a steep hill and disappears into a hole. Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Marill, Venonat and Psyduck follow Togepi. They end up in a giant tree where Pikachu appears to have lived in before.
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Pikachu's Winter Vacation 2
A series of winter and Christmas themed shorts. The second release contains Winter Games & Stantler's Little Helpers.
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Pocket Monsters Anime Chou Hyakka: Pocket Monsters Kingin Zukan Super Select
A recap where the characters remember the encounters with Pokémon from Johto.
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TV-ban Pocket Monsters Special Masara Town-hen Recaps: Fierce Battles! Pokémon League!!
The third of three rental VHS tapes recapping the first saga of the anime.
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Pichu & Pikachu's Winter Vacation 2001
A series of winter and Christmas themed shorts. The third and last release contains Delibird's Dilemma, Snorlax Snowman, and Trouble in Big Town.
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The Legend of Thunder!
A made for television special that showcased the legendary Raikou, as well as brand new trainers. It became the first three episodes of Pokémon Chronicles. This was based on the release of Pokémon Crystal and is called as such in the Japanese title.
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Pikachu's Ghost Festival!
Pikachu and his friends have a picnic when they discover a Ghost Festival. The walk in to it, and find out that it is haunted by Ghost Pokémon and other Pokémon such as Koffing, Lickitung, Ditto, and Cubone. Meowth also discovers the Ghost Festival and gets scared out of his mind. Pikachu makes friends with the ghosts, and they work together to make Meowth run out of the Festival.
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Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
A Pokémon scientist named Dr. Yung has invented a Mirage System that can recreate extinct Pokémon. Ash, Misty, and Professor Oak are asked to help test it out, but the Mirage System is suddenly taken over by a being called the Mirage Master! It's up to Ash and his friends to stop this mysterious villain - but when the Mirage Master steals classified Pokémon data and created a Mirage Pokémon so powerful that Ash and Pikachu can't defeat it, will out heroes still find a way to save the day?
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Pikachu's Island Adventure
Pikachu and the other Pokémon were at the beach, when a weakened Wynaut approaches them. It tells them that its friends were attacked by Meowth and the other Team Rocket Pokémon, as well as an Exploud and a Hariyama, because Meowth wanted to take over their playground, which resides on a nearby island. After hearing Wynaut's story, Pikachu and the others decide to help them take back their playground, and begin to train them, so that they can rescue their island from the clutches of Meowth.
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!
A boy wakes up to find that he's been turned into a Squirtle and can now understand the Pokémon Language. He learns that disasters have been happening lately and rescue teams have been formed. He joins his friends Charmander and Chikorita on Team Go-Getters. They get an assignment where they must go to the Sinister Cave to find the older brother of a Pichu. However, they have rivals on the mission – Team Meanie, a team of mean Pokémon Ekans, Medicham, and Gengar. Will they be able to rescue Pikachu and beat Team Meanies?
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Pikachu's Exploration Club
The fourth short premiered on ANA flights on August 1, 2007.
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness
Chimchar is ready to join an exploration team, and with his newly human turned pokémon friend Piplup, he is ready for any challenge that may arise, inclduing Grovyle's plot to steal a Time Gear.
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Pikachu's Great Ice Adventure
While playing in the ocean near a tropical resort, Pikachu & Co. get in a scuffle with Team Rocket's Pokémon. This scuffle causes the Pokémon to wind up miles away in an Ice-covered Paradise. However, when they get there, they are seperated soon find that certain Pokémon in the area require their assistance. Will they be able to reunite with their friends and help these Pokémon out?
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness
Having become stronger as a team and joined forces with Grovile, Piplup and Chimchar head to the Hidden Land in order to stop the destruction of time. Grovile explains that Dialga, Master of Time, has been going crazy with its home of Temporal Tower collapsing, and is in the process of becoming the evil Primal Dialga of the future. The only way to stop the destruction of time is to defeat Dialga. When Lapras brings them to the Hidden Land, Team Poképals head to the Old Ruins in order to ride the Rainbow Stoneship to Temporal Tower.
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Pikachu's Big Mysterious Adventure
The seventh short premiered on ANA flights on August 1, 2010.
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Nibi Gym - The Greatest Crisis Ever!
Takeshi has returned to Nibi City so he can study to become a Pokémon Doctor. However, a Nurse Joy that is a Pokémon Inspection Officer declares that the Gym Leader change was not certified. Hearing this, Forrest challenges Nurse Joy to a battle to prove his worth as the new Pewter City Gym Leader. Will Forrest defeat Nurse Joy and succeed Brock as the new Gym Leader of Pewter City?
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Sing Meloetta: Search for the Rinka Berries
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Dent to Takeshi! Gyarados no Gekirin!
Dent visits Johto on a fishing trip and finds a Gyarados who is behaving oddly. He relays the information to the local Pokémon Center, where Takeshi is working, and an investigation commences.
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Pocket Monsters XY Pre-Start Special: Road to Kalos
Prequel special to the Pocket Monsters XY series.
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Pokémon: Mega Evolution Special III
Alain and Steven must find a way to stop an apocalyptic clash between Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza before these titans turn the Hoenn Region into a ruin.
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Hoopa's Surprise Ring Adventures: Wake Up
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Hoopa's Surprise Ring Adventures: Heated Battle
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Hoopa's Surprise Ring Adventures: Shooting Star
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Pokémon: Mega Evolution Special IV
Alain has returned to Kalos with Lysandre to be tested in a match against ten Mega Evolved Pokémon. Alain loses his Mega Stone and Key Stone if he fails. Meanwhile, Chespin discovers scientists performing experiments on an unknown Pokémon, which leads it to fall victim to a mysterious illness.
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Uncover All the Mysteries! The Pocket Monsters XY&Z Complete Overview Special!!
A look back at all the adventures in Pocket Monsters XY&Z.
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Shaking Island Battle! Barboach VS Whiscash!
(Never Aired) Ash and friends help Chōta get rid of the Barboach and Whiscash causing tremors on Jojo Island, when Team Rocket gets an idea to use the Pokémon for themselves.
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Team Rocket VS Team Plasma! (1)
Original 23rd episode of the Best Wishes! (Black & White) anime that was delayed indefinitely due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. While initially planned to be broadcast at a later date, the episode was never aired and was subsequently written out of continuity with the release of "Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!".