I choose you!

Movie: I Choose You! Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! Current ? MS019 MS021 ? Information Staff credits 絵えコンテ (Storyboard) Shoji Yonemura 演出えんしゅつ (Director(s)) Kunihiko Yuyama Studio OLM, Inc. Distributed by Toho Company Ltd. Licensed by Viz Media The Pokémon Company International In other countries Flag of Japan Anglosphere [a] Release date July 15, 2017 Home video release December 20, 2017 Title Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! Release date(s) November 5, 2017 Home video release(s) February 13, 2018 Notes ^ a: signifies that it only applies to the US, UK, CA, AU, NZ and SG More Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (劇場版げきじょうばんポケットモンスター キミにきめた！, Gekijō-ban Poketto Monsutaa Kimi Ni Kimeta!?, lit. Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You!) is the first movie to be in a different timeline, instead of the actual timeline and the 20th-anniversary special. It was released on July 15, 2017. The movie serves as a reboot of the movie series. It takes place in a different continuity than the main anime series and serves as a loose retelling of the first season of the anime. The Power of Us and Secrets of the Jungle take place in this same continuity. Blurb When Ash Ketchum 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, Ash and Pikachu become close friends and true partners—and when they catch a rare glimpse of the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh in flight, they make plans to seek it out together, guided by the Rainbow Wing it leaves behind. Trainers Verity and Sorrel join Ash on his journey. Along the way, Ash catches an abandoned Charmander, raises a Pokémon from Caterpie to Butterfree and then releases it to follow its heart, and meets the mysterious Mythical Pokémon Marshadow.