Pokémon Movie 2017 Officially Announced

As per the usual Holiday tradition, the first trailer for the next Pokémon Movie has been released!

Airing on the Japanese variety show, Oha Suta, the next Pokémon movie will premiere in Japan on July 15th, 2017 and is called Pokémon, I Choose You!

The trailer showcased random landscapes, such as Pallet Town, and showed Ash putting on his hat and picking up a Pokéball followed by Pikachu looking a bit confused at the end. The official poster (shown above) features Ash & Pikachu in a field with Ho-Oh.

Thoughts on this departure from the usual yearly Pokémon film? Disappointed it won’t be focused on Alola, or ecstatic for this celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the anime?

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1,081 thoughts on “Pokémon Movie 2017 Officially Announced”

  1. Ughhhhhh an hour and a half left…
    All the stupid Christmas music is getting old quick…

    But as soon as I get home I believe the last of my Pokemon should be finally be EV trained and I just need to power grind and I’ll have a full team….that will just be walled by all those stupid legends hogging battlespot

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      • Bah I want to stab my ears with a sharpened piece of peppermint everytime I hear those overused songs

        Christmas is just another day, for the fifth straight year no big epic game or product to look forward too but I kinda lost faith in my parents being able to procure high end consoles for Christmas time since it takes a dedicated gamer to follow release dates and acquiring them before the market is bled dry (nothing against them but it’s just a very cutthroat market that you have to be informed)

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          • Just Gen 7 mons, waiting to transfer many from Gen 6. But I’m not like 100% breeding, I’m also ranking up Festival Plaza, enjoying Poke Pelago, and other daily things xD

          • Yeh I figured you were. Personally I’m just starting from scratch, breeding whenever I get some spare time. Got about 7-8 competitive mons so far.

          • Ahh, that’s great! The only competitive one I’ve bred and have ready for battle is Shiny Decidueye xD I also have Zygarde EV trained and Lv 100, but I’m not gonna be using him in battles haha, more of an in-game enjoyment for battling through the League etc lmao.

          • I haven’t collected all the Zyagrde cells, but honestly if I’m gonna use one competitively I would use the 50% forme with Sub Coil set. Had some fun with it last gen (100% is completely broken with the same set).
            Sometimes I don’t even know if I’ll do much competitive battling this gen, but i’m breeding just for the sake of it :p

          • That’s the Zygarde I have :3 I’m honestly the same, not sure how much I’ll battle, but I still enjoy collecting them and having the options available for the chances that I do 😀

  2. So I talked it over with some friends at YouTube and they agree that there is anti-white sentiment in Sun and Moon. There’s a good chance that conservative YouTuber E;R will do an exposed video on it.

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  3. So is no one going to take note of the newest anime episode rather than feeding the trolls?

    The fact that Litten isn’t immediately pally with Ash is great, we might actually get genuine development before Ash catches him

    Like a better Krokorok

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  4. i’m hunting for a shiny salandit. I have a cute charm male sylveon but the first 10 salandit were all males! How is it possible? It’s a 66.6% chances of getting a pokemon of the opposite gender…

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  5. I’m actually kind of excited, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched either the pokemon anime, or their movies. But with the Sun and Moon anime looking really good, and this movie possibly being great, it could get me back into watching pokemon

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  6. Just a random idea (not the best of ideas), but with all this trainer card stuff why don’t we use the teams on the cards and battle with them after Pokebank comes out? Like we train up the Pokemon on the cards that are avaliable in SM, then we use Pokemon only avaliable in past gens once PB is out. It would be fun IMO.

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  7. Comment Question: What is everyone’s signature Pokemon? What is the ability and moves you would have gone with your Pokemon?

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  8. So if anyone remebers, last night I was breeding to get the right nature randomly. Everyone told me not to do it, that it would take forever.

    Well I got the right nature on the first egg. 😛

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  9. Does anyone have a clip of the epic funky foot-stomping, bum-bumping, eye-erasing, nasal-nogging, mouth-massacring Marowak dancing?

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  10. Got my shiny salandit after 90 sos and of course it’s a male. Should I kill it and continue to 255 or the chances are over and I should end the battle better?

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