"Myuu to Hadou no Yuusha: Rukario" Heads up synopsis *Spoiler*

[Altomare Latios]

Hi, it's me. I haven't posted something like this in a long time. But Archaic asked me for a guide whenever I get it done. This from the top of my head, so obviously there could be a few mistakes.

Quick points
- The promotion giveaway this time was a Myuu keychain and a Reji card. I believe there is more than one kind of card. But I saw another kid with the same card I got, so there could be just one kind of card. I got a Rejirokku if anyone's curious.
- There is no Pikachu short. The total length of the movie is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes. 1 hour 45 minutes if you include the trailers.
- Unlike the last two movies, there is an intro song. But it's not a remixed anime intro. In fact... I don't know what it is. :S
- There is no ultimate enemy. In fact, nobody had bad intentions to begin with, except maybe Kiddo. In a quick summary, this is just to tell Rukario and Aaron's story while Satoshi is getting Pikachu back.
- Rukario sees himself as Aaron's "Shuujin". Looking that up, it means prisoner. So he has a hard time understanding the now "make friends" thing with captured Pokemon in the modern time.
- Rukario can see something I call "Wave Vision". Basically he can see the environment in terms of a sort of "Wave Energy". If any of you watch Naruto, it's exactly the same ability Neiji has: seeing Chakra. Satoshi and Aaron carry the same Wave Energy, which is the reason why Rukario mistakes Satoshi as Aaron.


- A long time ago, far away from the region of Kanto, two kingdoms were going to wage an all out war. Rukario scouted ahead to report the impending danger to Aaron. Aaron goes out ahead in hopes to intervene, because the war is about to begin right in front of the Tree of the World's Beginning, which is a very important place on the world. Looking overhead is also Houou who apparently does nothing yet to intervene. After Rukario reports his findings to Aaron, Aaron goes out from Orudoran Castle to the tree. He meets up with Rukario and sets off. Before he does though, he traps Rukario in his septor, which is apparently similar to a PokeBall.

- It's unknown (or I didn't catch it) how long ago the event was, but apparently it's a mere fairy tale in a modern day town by Orudoran Castle. Satoshi and company visit the castle in what seems to be an annual festival of Aaron, the Wave Guiding Hero. Ash participates in a tournament to determine a symbolic hero for the ball later on. Satoshi wins the tournament, with Kiddo being his last opponent. Takeshi, like every other girl, has the hots for her.

- At the ball, Airin explains what the whole ceromony is about, and Jeeni (Airin's maid) present's Satoshi with Aaron's sceptor. Apparently Rukario is still inside, and mistakes Satoshi as Aaron (There's a painting of Aaron behind Satoshi, at one scene, purposely showing that Satoshi looks exactly like Aaron), asking him simply "Why?". Nobody but Satoshi hears, but he ignores it and the ball goes on. At times he wants to do something, but Jeeni tells him he has to act like a real hero until the end of the ceromony, so he just sits in a throne like chair.

- Myuu, who found its way into the castle earlier, is disguised as an Aipomu, and decides to party with Pikachu. Satoshi and Haruka release their Pokemon so they could have some fun too. Myuu leads them upstairs.

- Takeshi asks Kiddo to dance, after a while Kiddo asks Takeshi to get a drink. She slips off though to another part of the castle where she travels around from the outside rooftops to locate Myuu's position. Nyaasufollows her, but crashes into a window when he slips from a rooftop. When Kiddo finds Mew, she sends two Manyuura to attach a gadget on it. Evidently this fails because the other Pokemon with Myuu defend the assualt. Masato earlier followed them, only to catch a glimpse of Myuu. Ultimately Pikachu expends too much energy, Myuu teleports Pikachu, Nyaasu, and itself away, transforming into a Pijiotto and flies off.

- At the end of the ball, Jeeni tells Satoshi to do the Hero's Pose (the same pose Aaron is doing in the painting). When he does, Rukario speaks again, and is released. When Rukario goes up to Satoshi, he realizes he made a mistake and is confused. He runs off exploring the castle finding it's not quite the same. At first he's a bit hostile about it, but once he finds out Airin is the ancestor of Riin (the queen who was in Orudoran Castle a long time ago), he calms down.

- Satoshi and company, along with Airiin and Jeeni don't really know what to do with Rukario, and Rukario is wondering where Aaron is. Masato comes down telling the others that he saw Myuu, but nobody believes him. Kiddo comes back and confirms what Masato saw, and that Myuu took Pikachu and Nyaasu to the Tree of the World' Beginning. Nobody knows that place more than Rukario, and Kiddo, who Satoshi and company find out from Takeshi it's really Kiddo, decides to help them since she's always looking for an adventure.

- Kiddo drives the crew in her humvee while Rukario runs ahead to lead the way. Along the way, they encounter Usohachi, who follows them after some time. They also encounter a Time Flower, which is a crystaline plant that records what happened in the past. When they get as close as they can to the Tree of the World's Beginning, Rukario encounters a Time Flower which has the event where Aaron sealed him in his septor. Rukario is upset to see this event with his own eyes, and Satoshi finally understands why he's been a rather anti-social earlier.

- Rejirokku finds them and attempts to drive everyone away, but Rukario defends them while they find a way into the tree. Once inside the tree, Satoshi is eager to find a way to Pikachu, who's at the top. Kiddo releases some probes to gather information to send to her employer. Then the crew with Rukario decide to head on. Rejirokku however finds them again and they're forced to hurry things up.

- The tree is basically a wide network of tunnels and veins, and it's really platuea upon platuea forming a tree-looking moutain. Throughout this time, Satoshi and company, along with Kiddo and Rukario travel these tunnels while trying to find Pikachu. Along the way they encounter Rejiaisu and Rejisuchiiru.

- Kiddo's probes apparently activates a defense mechanism that the Tree has and all of her probes are gobbled up by a red blob.

- At some point, Satoshi and Rukario split up in order to elude the Reji's away from Takeshi, Masato, Haruka, and Kiddo. The four will find a way out while Satoshi and Rukario find a way to Pikachu. When the four try to find a way, they encounter the red blobs. They take Takeshi, Haruka, and Masato, but Kiddo manages to escape.

- Satoshi and Pikachu meet up in a windy crevice with horizontal crystal pillars transversing across it. They eventually meet, but fall short. Kiddo rescuse Satoshi and Myuu appears as well.

- While Satoshi and the rest escape, the Rejirokku and Rejisuchiiru trap them in a room. Rukario is grabbed by Rejisuchiiru and the red blob sneaks up on Kiddo and Satoshi. They both release all their Pokemon before it's too late (apparently the blob won't touch Pokemon). Satoshi's Pokemon tries to help but the blob slips away into the ground. The Reji's stop their actions and Rukario's rather upset by this. Myuu however uses its energy to get those who were "eaten" back. However this costs Myuu too much energy and the Tree begins to collaspe.

- Rukario, Satoshi, Kiddo, and Myuu find the Tree's core, but they don't know how to save the Tree. On the side, Rukario finds Aaron encased in crystal, causing him to be even more upset. He finds a Time Flower of what Aaron was doing here and how he ended up like that, it also shows the solution to saving the Tree. Aaron gave Myuu his "Wave Energy", giving Myuu enough power to save the tree, but at the expense of his life. Rukario has a similar Wave Energy and attempts to do the same, but his power isn't enough by himself. Satoshi apparently also has the same Wave Energy as Aaron, so both of them give their energies to Myuu. At the last minute, Rukario pushes Satoshi out of the way and Myuu gets enough energy to save the Tree.

- After Myuu saves the Tree, Rukario collaspes near where Aaron is, and bumps into another Time Flower. This time it shows Aaron after he gave his energy up, and he begins saying a last few words to thank Rukario for what he's done. Rukario finally is at peace understanding why Aaron sealed him up. When Rukario dies, his spirit combines with Aaron's crystalized form and dissapears, rising up to the sky.

- Pokemon Ranger is most likely a movie. There was a sihoulette of a trainer that remarkebly resembles Satoshi throwing a PokeBall. That was it for the annual teaser.

And that's basically the end.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Ah, so that's what happened when Aaron disappeared inside the Tree...

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Well crap, looks like they've completely abandoned the "Mew-is-possibly-evil" plot that the first two movies (well, ok, the background to the first one and the Ancient Mew card in the second one) hinted at...

Either way...well honestly, it doesn't sound that interesting. More gratutious "Ash-is-a-legendary-hero" garbage that's even more forced at us than it was before.

 

[Kasumi]

So another movie without a real villian. I'm sorry to say this, but how lame...

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

That depends on how you classify 'villians'. Your classification is probably similar to mine, where I don't consider Mewtwo, Jirarudan, or Molly Hale to be villians (anti-hero and two antigonists, respectivally)

 

[Sabonea]

I suppose there was no reason given for the similiarities between Aaron and Satoshi, huh? If that's the case I'm kinda disappointed. But at least the rest of the movie sounds fairly interesting.

 

[bell02+]

v_v;; It's unfortunate what happens to rukario, I hope they still make him a secret monster or legendary in the vein of Deoxys, and Mewtwo, or at least in the ranks of Latias and Latios. (I'd still want him to be presented like Jirachi though)

 

[Nomekop Oen]

hi evreebodee... =)


Uh,so did you like the movie? How would you score it on a scale of 1 - 10?



And was the animation better than the last movie?

 

[Archaic]

Xeno...Master, not Prisoner. =p

 

[Zhen Lin]

Hmm, didn't notice the pun. 囚人 shūjin is prisoner, 主人 shujin is master. (Long vowels count!)

However, the term used by a few Pokeani posters is 従者 jūsha, which is servant. About the dying scene, in particular, one poster wrote:

アーロンさんが死ぬ間際にルカリオのことを「我が友」って。師弟とか主と従者じゃなくて、友達。

Just before Aaron died, he said, on the issue of Lucario, "my friend". Not teacher & student, not master & servant, friend.

 

[Altomare Latios]

Yeah, it's probably Juusha. I knew I would have trouble remembering the word.

 

[Argy]

I'm glad to hear that there's a Butler and Diane cameo in the credits.

Now, what do we do about a pedia summary?

 

[Altomare Latios]

Upon further research, "Hadou" means a lot of things in this movie, for some reason.

Litterally Hadou means wave guidance.
Hadou is the name of the energy both Rukario and Aaron can control (Ash too if you throw him in).
Hadou is different for everyone, because everyone has a different wave oscillization, except Ash and Aaron. Apparently only few can control Hadou.
Hadou exists in all solid objects.
Rukario's style of attack, I'm getting some inference, is "Hadou".

Basically... Hadou = Chakra in Naruto terms!

 

[Habunake]

Seen some pics on Spp(Don't know hwere he got them though, Latios do you know?)

This movie looks awesome! What id Bonsly sound like?

 

[MondoTR]

The pics are probably from the previews of the movie.

 

[Silktree]

The following may be phrased as statements, but not having watched the movie, I would like to receive comments from those who have, or raise the attention of those who will.

I have to say that this movie carries on the previous movie's main flaw--the overwhelming feeling that the chain of events has little reason behind it. After following the news on the movie since its announcement, one expects the loose ends to be tied in the climax, as opposed to a stale order of occurrences. It would appear that a role of a true villain is required for this to be pulled off, whether a misguided one or one that is truly conceited and indifferent to the environment.
The manga adaptation of the Deoxys movie substituted the affable Yuko with Haruno, Professor Lund's backstabbing assistant who wished to exploit Deoxys' crystal core. While it was fairly obvious from the start that this was to be one of the many differences in the manga adaptation, it at least crossed my mind that revealing Yuko to be a villain would account for a good climax. In this movie's case, the manga adaptation was quite close to the movie itself, sending no misleading impressions. However, it was the fact that Kiddo's actions at the beginning of the movie were questionable that led me to believe it would be further developed, making her the villain. Since that did not happen, it seems that the only factors behind the movie's events are Mew's mischievous nature and Kiddo's curiosity. This is not much more than Deoxys' apparently unexpected crash-land in the previous movie. It is even more ironic in this movie, as the entire world would have been endangered if the World-origin Tree had collapsed, and for a much less justified reason than in the last time (when a war was involved). There is also an uncanny resemblance between the attack of Larousse City's blocks and that of the World-origin Tree's leukocytes. Finally, the actual climax in the Deoxys movie was the revelation that Deoxys had been merely longing for a friend (the happy ending being their leaving earth together, with Tory's overcoming his fears of Pokemon), compared to Lucario's death scene after having come to understand Aaron's intentions (the happy ending being their reunion in the after-world, with Aaron's viewing Lucario as his friend).

Aside from the comparison to last year's movie, my list of notes is as follows:

* I expected a similar opening as the one in the Jirachi movie, in which Brendan made a cameo appearance prior to Ash's introduction. This time, the trainer would be Leaf (the female character from FireRed/LeafGreen; she should be referred to as Blue only in the context of the manga, as her canon name in the games is Leaf, but her name would presumably be different in the anime). I actually expected such a cameo in last year's movie, considering that the recent games at the time were FireRed/LeafGreen (the Deoxys promotion in conjunction with the movie even pertained to these games). I still had hopes for this to be redeemed in this movie, with the series taking place in Kanto and focusing on FireRed/LeafGreen more than before, not to mention the key role of Mew- Kanto's phantom Pokemon. If she had made an appearance, it would have been nicely parallel to the Jirachi movie. In writing this, I hope to be pleasantly surprised by learning that this detail could have been accidentally omitted.

* The land of Orudoran is said to be far away from the Kanto region. If I had no knowledge of the fact that the Battle Frontier is scattered throughout Kanto in the anime, I would think that Orudoran is a vast island that is part of an archipelago south to Hoenn (as detailed here). Knowing better, it must be in the vicinity of the Battle Factory, which would be in Northern Kanto. It is possible that the land is stretched across Kanto's mountainous parts, but since the distance from Kanto is said to be great, it is likely further in the north, out of the Kanto map. In the modern days, there is no longer a kingdom, and the land must be part of a new region. This will likely only be verified when a new Pokemon world map is released in honor of a future movie, as was done last year with the Deoxys movie.

* The elements of the plot are analogous to the second and fifth movies (the same holds for the third and sixth movies, as well as the fourth and seventh movies). The legend and festival of Rota are analogous to the legend and ceremony of Shamouti Island, in that Ash is the chosen one who has to live up to the legend. In the same way that history repeats itself so that Lucario has to sacrifice itself to save the World-origin Tree as Aaron did in the past, so did Latios have to sacrifice himself to save Altomare when put under the same risk as in the past. There was a cameo in the credits of the fifth movie, comparing the villain characters to that of the second movie. Ultimately, the human characters in this movie did not bear resemblance to the ones from either the second or fifth movie, so the cameo in the credits actually compared Kiddo to Diane from the sixth movie.

* As I expected, the interaction between Mew and Lucario is limited. From what I can tell, the movie focuses more on Lucario than on Mew, yet there is a reason for the inclusion of both of them in the movie's title. The plotline was written around Lucario, while Mew was added to the picture for the simple reason that the need to distribute it to the GBA games was a convenient setup to increase the movie's popularity--in recent years promotions were held in conjunction with the movies, distributing Jirachi and Deoxys, respectively. Granted, Mew was indicated to be the subject of the movie when it was first announced, not Lucario. In each of the cases of the Lugia movie and the Latias/Latios movie, the silhouettes of the Pokemon were revealed as soon as the movie was announced (Lugia was known as "Pokemon X"). This time, they evidently felt that they could keep Lucario a secret for longer, as Mew's role is justifiable once one considers that it was overshadowed by Mewtwo in the first movie. They used the opportunity to compensate for the lack of coverage on Mew compared to Celebi and Jirachi, each of which had its own movie. Mew was incorporated into the plotline by making it in charge of the World-origin Tree, which is capable of soothing angry hearts, suiting Lucario and Aaron's needs. Aaron delivered his energy to Mew for it to restore the tree after it had been used to stop the war; Lucario did the same under different circumstances. In other words, Lucario has no part in Mew's legend as the ancestor of all Pokemon, and the two are not likely to have any kind of connection outside the movie.

* Regirock, Regice and Registeel's role in the movie is equivalent to Rayquaza's role in the previous one. They wrongly believe that the World-origin Tree has been invaded, and attack accordingly. Although they act as guardians, they only cause harm by attacking the group. Mew does not directly interact with them, but by controlling the tree it is also able to put them to stop. The movie does not invent any real relationship between Mew and these Pokemon, nor should it when there is absolutely no merit to do so. The Regis' notable contribution to the movie lies in their defeat to Lucario, which proves to be a legendary Pokemon through this. The plotline otherwise makes Lucario inferior to Aaron, which might strike one as odd if it is supposed to be a legendary Pokemon. Incidentally, the manga adaptation includes a part in which Lucario refers to the Regis as stubborn creatures which will fight to no end--I assume that this remains unaltered in the movie. This suggests that these Pokemon may actually share a history that will be reflected beyond the movie (in the games; the anime is not guaranteed to mention these Pokemon again, as was the case with Rayquaza, whose important role in Emerald was completely ignored).

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

There was a cameo in the credits of the fifth movie, comparing the villain characters to that of the second movie. Ultimately, the human characters in this movie did not bear resemblance to the ones from either the second or fifth movie, so the cameo in the credits actually compared Kiddo to Diane from the sixth movie.

Comparing? The only impression I got was that they were just reading up on him (possibly with intent to rob him blind if given the chance)

 

[Silktree]

Comparing? The only impression I got was that they were just reading up on him (possibly with intent to rob him blind if given the chance)

Quite obviously, I was not referring to the actions of the characters. In my eyes, the meaning behind these cameo appearances is to pinpoint the similarities of characters from different movies.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

So...if it's not a reference to the actions, then what *is* it a reference to? Blind ambition is really the only thing they had in common. And the point with Kid and the two from 6 kinda shows this...

I suppose I'm unsure how a conclusion can be drawn from a single example, especially when the second one would seem to go against it. Also, wasn't 5 rife with cameos anyway?

 

[Altomare Latios]

I found out that the intro to the movie is "Battle Frontier". The next anime intro!

Oh and I found some key quotes, when Ash and Lucario have the arguement:

Ash: ピカチュウは、俺を信じてくれてるし、俺もピカチュウを信じている! (Pikachu trusts me, and I trust Pikachu!)

Lucario: 何が信じているだ！人は信用できない。 (What trust? People aren't dependable)

Lucairo: お前うも都合が悪くなれば、ピカチュウを捨てるかもしれない。 (You in these unfortunate circumstance should just abandon Pikachu.)

Ash: 俺は絶対ピカチュウを捨てたりしない! (I will never abandon Pikachu!)

And that's when they fight.

On a side note, 捨てる litterally means to throw away. You can tell Lucario was pretty upset there.