Pokemon Movie 20: Kimi ni Kimeta!

When Satoshi oversleeps on his 10th birthday, he ends up with a stubborn Pikachu instead of the first partner Pokémon he wanted! But after a rocky start, Satoshi and Pikachu become close friends and true partners—and when they catch a rare glimpse of the Legendary Pokémon Houou in flight, they make plans to seek it out together, guided by the Rainbow Wing it leaves behind.

Trainers Makoto and Souji join Satoshi on his journey. Along the way, Satoshi catches an abandoned Hitokage, raises a Pokémon from Caterpie to Butterfree and then releases it to follow its heart, and meets the mysterious Mythical Pokémon Marshadow. When they near their goal, the arrogant Cross—Hitokage’s former Trainer—stands in their way! Can Satoshi and Pikachu defeat this powerful Trainer and reach Houou as they promised, or will their journey end here?

(Source: Official site)

Satoshi Main

Matsumoto, Rica Japanese

Pikachu Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Lucario Main

Furushima, Kiyotaka Japanese

Pochama Main

Kozakura, Etsuko Japanese

Marshadow Main

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Makoto Main

Satou, Shiori Japanese

Souji Main

Hongo, Kanata Japanese

Houou Main

Kojirou Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Serena Supporting

Katou, Hiroyuki Producer

Hawana, Dina Producer

Chiku, Atsushi Producer

Yuyama, Kunihiko Director, Storyboard

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Jun 6, 2022

Machete-kun

Recommended

This review will try it's best to be spoiler-free.

To anyone curious about this film, it's more or less a "soft-reboot" of the original Pokémon anime. Catered towards a younger generation, giving them some sort of idea what Ash's adventures were when it first aired (all the while giving its own take on the said journey).

Any veteran Pokémon fan would somewhat be disappointed by the cast of characters as they're no longer the original familiar faces we grew up with, but take note that this film is for the newer Pokémon fans. It's a fresh take on Ash's journey per se.

Story: 6/10
The flow somewhat has the ... gist of the original story of the anime, there are noticeable changes if you compare the story of the film to the anime. But all in all, the plot of the movie has the idea of the original but misses some key parts of the original in order to make up with the film's run time.
Ash goes back to the beginning of his journey but with more Pokémon from different generations.

Art: 7/10
If you've been following Pokémon ever since the first film, you can really tell the improvements of the animation and art style. There are some scenes that are drawn beautifully and battle scenes where you can really feel the battle. Given that it's an anime film, you can expect the animation team to go all out.

Sound: 7/10
The soundtrack is amazing you can feel nostalgic with the rendition of the Pokémon theme and some music taken from the series as a whole.

Characters: 6/10
If you read the MAL page of the film, then yes. Brock and Misty are no longer Ash's companions. Instead, we get two new characters with different goals and dreams. Depending on how you accept them is purely up to the viewer, but personally I'd take Brock and Misty over the newer companions. It's not the nostalgia that's talking, but its more because they're more memorable than Souji and Makoto.

Enjoyment: 8/10
Well, it's Pokémon. Even if they changed the story of Ash in this re-imagining, the fight scenes are always enjoyable. Aside from that, the film also has moments that touch the little nostalgic hearts we have for this series (one in particular made me cry personally, made me remember all the memories I had with the series).

Overall, I'd give it a 7, the film is more catered for newer Pokémon fans. From the plot, to the characters, to pretty much everything, it all aims to please young kids that are first exposed to the series. To any older fans out there, the film is somewhat nostalgic, even if everything is changed, the general idea of Ash's first journey still remains the same.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 28, 2022

Luru86

Mixed Feelings

*** minor spoilers? ***


This movie rehashes the first Pokémon season(s), more or less, but instead of a fresh start, it feels like a repeat performance with slight tweaks – like one of those recap episodes in the middle of a season. The plot is disjointed. Knowing how amazing characters the first seasons of the TV show had, these ones here and the relationships they try to create with the main character, feel very weak and underdeveloped – not to mention incredibly rushed.

Also, I cringed at talking Pikachu.

So many parallels to the original Pokémon movie, but not making any of it better.

I hear there’s going to ... be another new movie in 2018, and I fear they’ll just keep doing this same thing: recapping old events, giving them a little twist, entering weak new characters to fill the space around Ash, and simply upgrading it with better animation.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 1, 2019

ZeraX

Not Recommended

"Hey let's rewrite everyone's childhood memory of the series with a reboot movie that only focus on two Pokemon of Ash's team and screw everything else" - TPC

Such a shameless excuse for a movie.

Ash had Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Charizard, now they removed all of them except for two for no reason.

The story is basically the same but they replaced interesting and fun characters (Misty and Brock) with bland, dull and boring characters that do nothing to the plot and literally are just there to show their Lucario and Piplup to sell merchs.

Charizard story is a retelling for the worse.
Pikachu is cringy and an annoying ... asshole as ever.

The legendaries have no real plot except of course just being there for nostalgia and of course merchs.

The whole movie is a bad excuse to attract nostalgia fans, and you might have fun watching it the first time but overall it's terrible and awful.

In the good side, the art and music are good and the action scenes are fun too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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