Licensed by Viz Media. Kids Entertainment. The Pokmon Company International. Home video December 2. September 1. 9, 2. Pokmon Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation the Movie Mew and the Wave Hero Lucario Gekijban Poketto Monsut Adobansu Jenershon My to Had no Ysha Rukario, lit. Mew and the Wave Guiding Hero Lucario, is the eighth Pokmon anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. It was released in theaters in Japan on July 1. Japanese DVD release on December 2. The English dub made its worldwide DVD debut in Australia on August 1. US release following on September 1. VIZ Media. The English dub of the movie premiered in the US for the first time at the 2. Comic Con in San Diego, California. The movie aired in the United Kingdom in July 2. Cartoon Network and it continues to air on CITV. While the Australian DVD has only one disc with slideshows as the sole extras, the North American DVD set comes with the redubbed The Mastermind of Mirage Pokmon special included on the 2nd disc as a bonus feature, as well as a Making Of feature on the first disc along with sketches similar to the slideshows on the Australian DVD. However the Australian DVD has a widescreen presentation while the American release does not. This is also the last film to have been dubbed in English by 4. Kids Entertainment, with the original cast. The background for Pokmon Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was based on visits by Yuyama to Bavaria, Germany. Neuschwanstein Castle and Linderhof Palace were used as the basis of the films setting. Hajimari no Uta, the ending theme for the Japanese version of the movie, is performed by Puffy Ami. Yumi. The ending theme for the English dub was We Will Meet Again performed by John Siegler and Eric Stuart. Pokmon Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was one of the four nominees for the American Anime Awards Best Anime Feature award, but it lost to Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Plot. Lucario and the Mystery of Mew opens over the foggy landscape of Rota, with Ho Oh flying overhead. Then it goes to Lucario, who is jumping from rock to rock. Suddenly he stops. He surveys the landscape, but sees only fog and rock. He then closes his eyes and calls upon the aura. He sees the aura of everything, and sees the aura past the fog. In one direction, he sees a giant army of men and Pokmon dressed in red armor. He releases the aura and turns in the other direction. He closes his eyes and calls upon the aura once more. He sees the aura past the fog and sees another giant army in the opposite direction as the first one. These men and Pokmon were wearing green armor. They were both marching toward each other for a horrible battle. Lucario releases the aura and looks toward the sky and sees Ho Oh flying over a cliff. As he watches Ho Oh disappear into the fort, a Houndoom with red armor pounces over the cliff and attacks Lucario, along with two more. He runs up a cliff and toward a crystal colored light blue. He touches the crystal and calls with telepathy Hear me Sir Aaron. The crystal glows bright and the message is transferred. Then you see a castle with Sir Aaron and Queen Rin, and a crystal near them glows bright. Sir Aaron runs toward the crystal and touches it. He hears the message Sir Aaron, please. Whats the matter Lucario says Sir Aaron, who also has the power of aura. The two armies are about to clash, my master says Lucario And our kingdom is caught between them. Once the fighting starts well all be destroyed. There is a pause, and Queen Rin turns toward where the armies will collide, a look of despair on her face. Once the armies reach this palace, our kingdom will fall she says. Then its back to Lucario, where the Houndoom finally caught up with him. They have him in a circle, and one shoots a yellow shot at him. He dodges it and runs. They follow and one shoots another beam. Again, Lucario dodges. He jumps to the face of a cliff, and one Houndoom uses Iron Tail. Lucario dodges, but this time it was very close, and the dust from the crash got in his eyes and temporarily blinded him. He jumps to the side and tries to rub the dust out, but the Houndoom again shoot a beam. Luckily, Lucario uses his aura to sense it and jumped out of the way. He is still blinded, and he has nowhere to go. All three Houndoom lower their heads, and release a gigantic flamethrower. Lucario senses it, and does an acrobatic leap into the air, does a few flips, and lands in the middle of two of the Houndoom. Using his aura, he makes two aura balls from his hands and launches them at the two Houndoom. He then raises both hands and doses a big ball at the last Houndoom. Then it goes back to the castle. I will not flee the palace when the armies attack says Queen Rin. My fate will be the same as the rest of my kingdom. Sir Aaron says But your highness, there will be no survivors. He lowers his head, lifts his staff that looks oddly like Lucario and raises it into the air. The staff signalled Pidgeot and Aaron jumped on top of it. They fly through the fog to the oncoming armies. Skarmory from the armies attack Sir Aaron and Pidgeot in the air. Pidgeot took a few hits, but managed to get Sir Aaron safely on the ground. Then Pidgeot flew away. He turns and sees an oncoming army, with Lucario running toward Sir Aaron. Using his aura, Lucario finds Sir Aaron. Sir Aaron he says with his telepathy. He stops on a ledge underneath Lucario being sealed away in Sir Aarons scepterhim. I knew youd come. Lucario says Sir Aaron What happened to your eyes Dont worry about me, master says Lucario. Sir Aaron turns around and says to Lucario Dont call me that. Im no longer your master. Ive abandoned the queen and the kingdom. Ill never return Lucario says But. Sir Aaron starts running away. Master, wait says Lucario. He runs after him, Sir Aaron turns around and throws his scepter at Lucario. The scepter glows. Sir Aaron yells Lucario, but he is turned into aura energy and is stored into the septar. As Sir Aaron runs away, Lucario sees through the diamond in the top of the septar Why masterWhy. The Full Patema Inverted Cartoon on this page. The scepter glows one final time, and Lucario was sealed inside. It then shows the tree of beginning, and you start to hear a sound, like a siren. It then goes to the castle. That sound says Queen Rin Its coming from the tree of beginning. Its crying. It zooms out and you see both armies about to collide. It then zooms in on the tree of beginning, and the crystals start to glow. It goes into one of the tunnels, and youre at the mouth. Then you see Ho Oh land on a rock, and it was actually Mew. Mew flies down away from view. Then you see the armies again. They collide. Aarons Pidgeot flies back to the castle and hands Queen Rin Aarons scepter. She takes it and Pidgeot flies away. She looks at the scepter Sir Aaron. She watches in the distance the tree of life, and it glows green. Then, all the crystals in the kingdom glow green. She looks around and is in awe at the sight. Then, green pulsations go from the tree of beginning, spreading everywhere. The armies stop and stare at the glow from the tree. Rin then realizes that Aaron saved the kingdom and starts to cry. Queen Rin and the Tree of BeginningAnd then the queen understood what Sir Aaron had done. The wise knight, realizing there was only one hope for the kingdom, had gone to the Tree of Beginning, the home of Mew. The terrible forces that threatened her kingdom were suddenly transformed. All at once, anger and hatred changed into understanding and hope.