The Accelguard Chronicles

The Accelguard Chronicles is a 2023 Japanese-American anime superhero web film based on the Pokémon anime series created by Satoshi Tajiri, Junichi Masuda and Ken Sugimori. Co-produced by YouTube Premium, The Pokémon Company, OLM, Inc., Legendary Digital Media, Sony Pictures Television, Cinemand, Original Film, Point Grey Pictures, Skydance Productions, Production I.G, TMS Entertainment, Toho, and Neon and released by YouTube, the film was directed by Tetsuo Yajima from a script he co-wrote with the screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and an original idea from Shōji Yonemura and is the twenty-fourth Pokémon film overall, the first Pokémon film to be set in the same timeline as the anime since Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel (2016) and the first Pokémon film to be released exclusively online. It focuses on Ash Ketchum assuming the eponymous superhero alter ego after the assassination of his Unovan friend Charles, the original Accelguard, with help from the Blaziken Mask, PA551MIAN, and other superheroes.