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"Revelation Lugia" (幻のポケモンルギア爆誕)	"Pikachu's Exploration Party" (ピカチュウたんけんたい)

Read all about the fascinating history of the ending theme here in a page I call "Revelation Lugia" The Ending Theme Saga.

How was CoroCoro Comics covering the movie back in 1999? Take a look at this fascinating time capsule of a very different era in this franchise's history.	"A Day in the Life of Yadoking" (ヤドキングのいちにち) is an approximately three minute short that aired on TV-Tokyo on January 1st, 2000. It features the Yadoking from the movie Revelation Lugia.

Character model sheets and other pre-production artwork can be found here.

The official English title for this movie in Japan, as seen on its title screen and various promotional materials, is "Revelation Lugia." The title is not a translation of the Japanese title (that would be "The Mythical Pokémon Lugia's Explosive Birth") and instead just seems to be a title the movie producers thought would sound cool. The 4Kids dub ended up going with a completely different title altogether.

Speaking of the movie's title, Takeshi Shudo apparently wasn't comfortable with the Japanese title "The Mythical Pokémon Lugia's Explosive Birth" and instead preferred to refer to the film as "the second Pokemon movie" instead. He explains that the flashy word the title uses to stand out, bakudan (爆誕), doesn't actually exist in the dictionary but is instead a made-up word that's a combination of "explosive" (爆) and "birth" (誕).  Mr. Shudo was uncomfortable with this word because it brings to mind hibakusha, the (somewhat derogatory) term used to describe those who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945. Mr. Shudo was born a few years after the war ended but he still remembered being in first grade and finding out that one of his upperclassman was a hibakusha. For him, the bakudan used in the movie's title doesn't mean "explosive birth" (which doesn't even make sense, he adds, since nothing is actually born in the movie) but instead means "birth affected by the (atomic) bomb." When the title was proposed during the writers' meeting Mr. Shudo said he didn't raise any objections but that years later, looking back, he doesn't remember why he kept his mouth shut. He goes on to admit that he's probably the only person who thinks about the title this deeply.

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