Hoopa — The Mischief Pokémon

Hoopa — The Mischief Pokémon

おでまし小魔神フーパ The Mini Djinn Appears: Hoopa

First broadcast Japan June 19, 2015 United States December 3, 2015

English themes Opening None Ending Happy Hoopa

Japanese themes Opening None Ending ゲッタバンバン

Credits Animation Team Kamei Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 高橋ナオヒト Naohito Takahashi Assistant director 川崎逸朗 Itsurō Kawasaki Animation director 空流辺広子 Hiroko Kūrube No additional credits are available at this time.

Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Hoopa — The Mischief Pokémon (Japanese: おでまし小魔神フーパ The Mini Djinn Appears: Hoopa) is a special episode that serves as a prologue to Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. It was available in Japan along with the purchase of a ticket for the eighteenth Pokémon movie. It first aired in Canada on November 14, 2015, along with Hoopa and the Clash of Ages and Lights! Camera! Pika!. In the United States, it was added to the official Pokémon website on December 3, 2015. The episode was made available on the official Japanese YouTube channel from July 9 to 14, 2016.

Blurb

After Baraz sets off to find the Prison Bottle for Hoopa, Meray remembers how the three of them grew up together. The young Baraz decides that Hoopa should use its rings to help people instead of playing tricks on them, but it doesn’t always go as planned. Hoopa tries to help a farmer who’s desperate for rain, but showers him with candy instead! When they return the candy to the baker Mira, she sets them to work at her shop—where Hoopa tries to help, but ends up breaking Mira’s precious statue. The kids do their best to reassemble it, but the end result is…rather colorful. Mira is angry at first, but then laughs at their creative repair job and offers them some donuts. Hoopa is immediately enthralled—and back in the present, as Meray and Hoopa make their way to Dahara City, they plan to eat more donuts while they wait for Baraz to return!

Plot

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Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline.

Debuts

Humans

• Baraz
• Meray

Characters

Humans

• Baraz
• Meray
• Lucianne
• Pit
• Kevie
• Old Man Dom
• Mira

Pokémon

• Braviary (Baraz's; present only)
• Hoopa (anime)
• Marill
• Azumarill
• Graveler
• Phanpy

Cast

Cast
Hoopa	Lori Phillips	Hoopa	Rie Kugimiya	フーパ いましめら	釘宮理恵
Meray	Emily Woo Zeller	Mary	Ayane Sakura	メアリ	佐倉綾音
Baraz	Daniel J. Edwards	Barza	Junko Takeuchi	バルザ	竹内順子
Kevie	Robby Duncan Sharpe	Kopou	Kei Shindō	コプー	真堂圭
Pit	Peter Mills Weiss	Bit	Kiyotaka Furushima	ビット	古島清孝
Lucianne	Eliza Bent	Luca	Karin Nanami	ルカ	奈波果林
Mira	Zoe Martin	Grandma Mila	Miyako Itō	ミラばあさん	伊東みやこ
Old Man Dom	Chuck Bedford	Grandpa Dam	Kensuke Satō	ダムじいさん	佐藤健輔

Trivia

• This special aired between XY078 and XY079 in Japan.
• Like two previous specials Mewtwo — Prologue to Awakening and Diancie — Princess of the Diamond Domain, this episode leads directly into Hoopa and the Clash of Ages.
• There is no To Be Continued screen at the end of the episode.
• Music from Hoopa and the Clash of Ages is used in this special.

Dub edits

The deleted scene

• The scene in which Hoopa summons a Manneken Pis statue that then "urinates" on Baraz is removed entirely.
  • Due to this edit, the dialogue in the said scene was altered as well. In the original, Baraz tells Hoopa that they'll need ivory to fix the broken statue, prompting Hoopa to summon him the statue. When Baraz says that it's a wrong kind of ivory, Hoopa instead summons a Phanpy, but Baraz protests that the ivory in it cannot be used, since it's inside the Phanpy. In the dub, Baraz instead asks Hoopa to bring them "something fancy", thus explaining Phanpy as Hoopa mishearing what Baraz said.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		撈撈小魔神 胡帕
Korean		링의 소환 후파

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