Pokemon Movie 15: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi

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Synonyms: Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Best Wishes 2: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi, Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! 2 the Movie: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi, Pokemon Best Wishes!: Kyurem vs. the Sacred Swordsman Keldeo, Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi

Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスターベストウイッシュキュレムVS聖剣士

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Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 14, 2012

Producers: TV Tokyo, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, TOHO, Studio Jack

Licensors: The Pokemon Company International

Studios: OLM

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 1 hr. 11 min.

Rating: PG - Children

Statistics

Score: 6.48¹ (scored by 31,328 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #7179²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3027

Members: 53,020

Favorites: 7

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Synopsis

Mythical Pokémon Keldeo wishes to join the Swords of Justice, a group of Pokémon traveling around the world, helping out those in need. To do so he must first harness the power of his horn and learn the move Sacred Sword, and he decides to challenge Kyurem, a Legendary Dragon residing in an abandoned mine located within an icy crater. Confident as he is at first, it soon occurs to Keldeo that he is not yet ready for the fight.

Meanwhile, as Satoshi and his friends travel across the Unova region, they stumble across an injured Keldeo. At the same time, Kyurem goes on a rampage, drawing energy from other Legendary Pokémon and disturbing the balance of power in the entire region.

Now backed by his new friends, Keldeo must overcome his weaknesses and face Kyurem once again, now with the fate of the world at stake.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Gekijouban Pocket Monster Best Wishes: Kyurem vs Seikenshi Keldeo
Other:	Pokemon: Meloetta no Kirakira Recital
Parent story:	Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2

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Characters & Voice Actors

Satoshi

Main

Matsumoto, Rica
Japanese

Pikachu

Main

Ootani, Ikue
Japanese

Dent

Main

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Iris

Main

Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Keldeo

Main

Nakagawa, Shoko
Japanese

Virizion

Main

Honda, Takako
Japanese

Terrakion

Main

Yasumoto, Hiroki
Japanese

Cobalon

Main

Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Kyurem

Main

Takahashi, Katsumi
Japanese

Kojirou

Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

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Staff

Yoshikawa, Chouji

Producer

Mori, Takemoto

Producer

Okamoto, Junya

Producer

Hosoya, Nobuyuki

Assistant Producer

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Opening Theme

"Yajirushi ni Natte! (やじるしになって!)" by Matsumoto Rika

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Ending Theme

"Memories" by Rola (ローラ)

Reviews

Aug 10, 2020

Aryale

Recommended

This is me, once again writing a pokemon movie review.
If you've seen my other reviews you can probably tell that this is my guilty pleasure anime. Not that there is anything wrong with this, just that it's seen as very childish and people bad talk it for being so. (hate to break it to you, but not all animes have nudity in them and some romantic mc; but ngl I ship goh and ash in the new season.... goh is def gay)

Anyways, there isn't much to talk about except for the fact that the pokemon talk and kyurem is bipolar.
Probably one of ...

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Nov 12, 2013

Luru86

Mixed Feelings

This movie was nothing surprising on the Pokemon front: Ash, Iris and Cilan get caught up in another adventure, this time with a new Pokemon called Keldeo - whose interrupted battle with a powerful dragon-type Kyurem has put Keldeo's friends at risk.

After a somewhat slow beginning with Keldeo desperately trying to prove itself, the story picked up and rolled steadily all the way to the end. The story itself wan't surprising, with Ash encouraging Keldeo to face its fears and the eventual conclusion which really shouldn't surprise anyone in this concept.

Team Rocket didn't get featured (other than in a blink-and-miss shots irrelevant to the movie ...

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Jul 13, 2023

Chaotic_beauty

Not Recommended

Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice is not insulting like some other bad Pokemon sequels. Still, it's completely devoid of any outstanding elements. There's virtually nothing I can praise this film for.

The art quality seems to have slightly decayed since the last film. I'm not sure whether to pin this on use of unremarkable locations and directing or if it's really true. Either way, this not-even-feature-length cartoon, boasts multiple locations we've seen before - albeit, slightly edited this time around. Train sequence in the mountains is a carbon copy of the one in Shaymin's adventure. The city has no features to distinguish it from a ... dozen of other cities in the Pokemon universe. The only unique location present is Kyurem's arena - and it's not an interesting one to see. While there is some neat coreography in the final battle accompanied by some nice animation, you won't lose yourself in it for longer than a minute. Unbelievable character development and feats clearly summoned by needs of the plot will make you groan. With this faint praise out of the way and music not worthy a mention, lets move to the real problems - characters, dialogue and plot.

"This place is not meant for humans" - Kyurem, warning Ash & company to leave a human built, post industrial era, metal structure.

The biggest problem with the film is Keldeo himself. This pony is insufferable. His personality can be summed up as egoistical, rash and cowardly. The film never attempts to make us care about him, as it asumes we already do. In the same way, film asumes we'll believe in character development which never actually occured. A confession of an obvious lie with no symbolic significance isn't a groundbreaking character moment. In the same way, Ash did a half-assed job at helping him, being little more than an audience stand in. He shouldn't've been in the film in the first place. The supporting ponies of justice aren't much better. Each one of them acts like a stereotype and has nothing to do except spout exposition. Kyurem himself is not connected to Reshiram and Zekrom in any tangible way and the arbitary idea of making him a traditional enemy of the brony squad seems poorly taught out.

Plotwise, the film boasts a few impressive achievements. This marks the first pokemon sequel in which our heroes trespass, blatantly destroy city property, and then steal airships and trains with no reprecussions whatsoever. It also boasts the surprising achievement of happening at night so that we see no more than three people in the whole city. Beyond that, one of my favorite continuity errors is a malfunction on air ship's engines which lead to its fall... that never occurs because five minutes later Iris is flying as if nothing happened. No explanation given, of course. This should paint the picture much more vividly than a boring plot synopsis ever could.

I could ramble on and on, but I don't feel like it. Avoid this film.