ThePokemonfranchise has a long history of featuring its Legendary and Mythical creatures in movies set throughout the anime canon. In the build-up toPokemon The Movie: Coco, set to release this June in Japan, thepartial silhouette of a new Mythical Pokemonwas unveiled by CoroCoro magazine yesterday, and now the full thing has been posted online.
This addition to the pantheon of MythicalPokemon, whose appearance seems to blend tiger-like features with a sort of primate build, has a lot of visual similarities to the outfit worn by a human character Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pikachu will encounter in a jungle during the film. Fansites like PokeBeach.com, where the silhouette appears to have been first released, also point out that the thirty-second trailer for the movie features a baby version of the jungle-dwelling character and the shrine used by Celebi in 2001’s Pokemon 4Ever.
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According to the CoroCoro magazine spread, the mysterious new Pokemon will be fully revealed on Pokemon Day, February 27, which will mark the 24th anniversary of when the franchise came to be. Apoll looking for the most popular Pokemonhas also been set up to celebrate Pokemon Day, and is preparing to close tomorrow.
The new Mythical Pokemon will also be coming toPokemon SwordandShieldon the Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. It will be joining a host of creatures appearing in the Galar Region thanks to theSwordandShieldExpansion Pass, which was announced during a Nintendo Direct early last month.
As previously mentioned,Pokemonhas a history of doing movie tie-ins to promote special Pokemon: Celebi inPokemon 4Ever, Arceus in 2009’sArceus and the Jewel of Life, and multiple Kalos representatives in 2016’sVolcanion and the Mechanical Marvelamong them. The practice dates back to the original 1998 movie, which has a CGI remake calledPokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolutionbeing released on Netflixfor Pokemon Day.
ThoughSwordandShieldwere originally criticized for removing a chunk of the National Pokedex, that complaint has in-part been mitigated by the reveal that more Pokemon will be added into the game over time. WithPokemon Homenow availableto store the huge catalog of monsters in, fans of the series will just have to wait and see how this new Mythical Pokemon will fit into their collections.
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