Chronologically placing of Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon special?

[Ash_Pokemaster]

I recently got to get the 10th Anniversary special through a trade with a friend of mine. However, I was a bit off the Pokemon Anime for about a year. I know am about in the time that 7th Movie takes part (which means in Advanced Challenge). I have a question regarding the Special. Is it long after the 7th Movie or before it? I know nothing is official, but what do you think?

 

[Habunake]

It takes place somewhere around the 8th movie, as May has Squirtle and they are back in Kanto.

Although, it may be uncannon.

 

[Lil Brother]

It takes place way after the Lucario movie since Pikachu knows Volt Tackle in it...

For now, I'll say it takes place whenever it airs in Japan.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Well, it definitely comes before AG171, and fairly certainly before AG159 because the series director, Masamitsu Hidaka, is still credited in the special, whereas from AG159 on there is no director credited, and from AG171 on (with the exception of AG172) there is a new director.

(Alternatively, the dubbers simply forgot to update their credits.)

 

[ashita]

does anyone have any idea when (or indeed if) the mastermind special will air in thr UK?

 

[FabuVinny]

Nothing has been said. If it does, my guess is that it will be aired sometime around the airing of the final batch of Advance Battle episodes.

 

[Cybersai]

It was a special made for the U.S., it may not air in other countries like the UK at all.

 

[Rayne]

Though, you can pick it up and import when it's released on DVD.
But IMO it's not something I'd personally decide to watch over again.

 

[Lil Brother]

We don't know if it will air in the UK! It's airing in Japan, who'se to say it won't air elsewhere?

(And I loved the special.)

 

[Zhen Lin]

We don't know if it will air in Japan. Just because a Japanese script exists (the original screenplay is Japanese) doesn't mean they actually recorded it... or if they even did the lip-flaps according to it.

 

[Lil Brother]

Hmm? What about that stuff of it airing in Japan February 2007? Was that a lie or rumor?

 

[Cybersai]

We're going to be in Shinou in February of 2007, this special clearly takes place in Kanto, (hence Misty/Oak, the group and their Pokemon), so it probably won't air after the BF saga is over.

 

[Dogasu]

Hmm? What about that stuff of it airing in Japan February 2007? Was that a lie or rumor?

That was a fan mistranslation. The rumor goes that Kasumi's Japanese voice actor reported in a blog that a special was airing in February 2007; what she really said, however, was that they recorded voices for a special episode back in February 2006.

What that special is or when it will air or if she was even talking about a Pocket Monsters special is still anybody's guess. However, a lot of fans are assuming she's talking about a Japanese dub of "The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon."

 

[Argy]

We don't know if it will air in Japan. Just because a Japanese script exists (the original screenplay is Japanese) doesn't mean they actually recorded it... or if they even did the lip-flaps according to it.

If Team Rocket's motto was any indication, the lip-flaps were according to the Japanese script.