7 bits of trivia about the new movie from director Kunihiko Yuyama
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>"Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You!" is a parallel world split off from episode 1 of the TV series"
>When Satoshi and Pikachu saw Houou in the first episode of the TV series, no Rainbow Feather fell down. In this year's movie, we enter a parallel world the moment that Houou feather falls. This event thus creates a split between a world where the feather fell and a world where the feather didn't fall. In the TV series, Satoshi is currently continuing his adventures in search of Pokémon he's yet to meet in the world where the feather didn't fall.
>"Satoshi chose Pikachu in the anime series out of consideration for the children playing the video games."
>(The first episode of the TV series depicts the 10th birthday of Satoshi, a boy living in Masara Town, which is the day he can become qualified to be a Pokémon Trainer. He was supposed to receive a partner Pokémon from the Okido Laboratories, but he overslept, and all that was left for him was a Pikachu that did not take kindly to humans.)
>In the first Pokémon video game (released in 1996 for the Nintendo Game Boy) players can choose between a Fushigidane, a Hitokage and a Zenigame as their first Pokémon. When we were creating the anime, we took pity on the children that would have chosen one of the two Pokémon Satoshi didn't pick, so we decided to give him an entirely different one, choosing Pikachu for this purpose. Pikachu was a very likable Pokémon, since it was able to express both cuteness through its looks and strength through its "100 000 Volts" of electricity. When we first started making the show, I liked the idea of it being able to last for 3 years, and now it's gone on for 20. This is thanks to Pikachu's characteristics keeping the series on air. Pikachu really is amazing.
