Challenge the World!

Challenge the World! (Japanese: キミに会えた！ I Met You!) is an commercial promoting the 2023 Pokémon World Championships, taking place in .
The commercial was released on the Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel on July 22, 2023, on the Western Pokémon YouTube channels a day later on July 23, 2023, on the Asian Pokémon YouTube channels on July 28, 2023, and on the Korean Pokémon YouTube channel on August 4, 2023.
==Plot==
A girl holding a plush toy flies into Yokohama, Japan to compete in the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. After making a video call to her friends and fellow players who are also attending the event, she enters the convention center with her friends awaiting her near the entrance. As they head inside, begin to appear around the venue.
Each of the girl's friends are competing in a different event at the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. The first to play is competing in the 2023 World Championships. As he steps onto the stage, the area appears to transition into a grassy meadow. The boy begins the match with his and has it use a -type attack against his opponent's . Gholdengo retaliates with a Charged Attack, launching coins at the boy's , who uses a Protect Shield to negate the attack. The opponent then has his Salamence use its Charged Attack against Melmetal just as it readies a .
The scene then cuts to the 2023 World Championships, where another one of the girl's friends is competing. After a coin is flipped to determine the players' turn order, she reveals her Lugia V card. The competitors' surroundings transition once again, this time to a jungle flooded with water, and the Pokémon cards appear as tangible Pokémon. appears behind the girl while her flies out to confront the opponent's . The opponent commands her to attack, and it unleashes a blast of purple energy. Lugia retaliates with an equivalent blue blast, and their powerful moves collide before the scene cuts away again.
At the 2023 World Championships, a 5-on-5 match is played on Theia Sky Ruins with , , , and against , , , and . The girl's next friend is commanding Greninja. The Greninja is wearing Holowear as it faces the Lucario wearing , but both sets of clothes dematerialize before the battle starts. Mew charges up a green ball of energy that's then kicked by Tsareena, launching it into the opposing Aegislash. The opposing team's Cinderace and Lucario retaliate, working together to fire off a and at Greninja, who dispels both attacks. Comfey attaches itself to Greninja, and the two ride Greninja's to the opposing team's goal zone. Greninja grabs a bundle of Aeos energy while traveling, then scores in the goal zone.
The scene cuts a final time to the 2023 Video Game World Championships, played in . The girl runs onto the stage, and the background transitions to the academy's schoolyard. She sends out her and , housed in a Friend Ball and Poké Ball respectively. Her opponent sends out his from its Dusk Ball and from its Dive Ball, and the battle begins. Dondozo fires an attack at Meowscarada that it avoids, and the latter retaliates by using . Iron Bundle then uses , but the girl stallizes her Dragonite into a , removing its weakness to moves. The Dragonite responds in turn with .
The girl wins the match and her friends arrive to congratulate her on the victory as she throws her Pikachu plush into the air in celebration. Some time later, the group heads outside the convention center, just as a Pikachu falls from the sky in the same manner that her plush did. She reaches out to grab it, with her friends by her side.
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==Staff==
*The layout for the TCG section of this animation was drawn by .https://web.archive.org/web/20230727134419/https://twitter.com/r_nkym_/status/1684539038752206850?s=20
==Cast==
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==Videos==
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===Staff Artwork===
This is a collection of unofficial Pokémon artwork drawn by staff.
Fan artwork drawn by Maho Takagihttps://twitter.com/mh_e99/status/1682996917662519297
==Trivia==
* This commercial marks the debut of , , , , and in animation.
** Additionally, it marks the first time that the move and the Unite Moves and were depicted in animation.
* Tatsugiri appearing as one of the first Pokémon shown in the commercial may be a reference to the real-world distribution of a Tatsugiri at the 2023 Pokémon World Championships, though the Tatsugiri distributed is a Stretchy Form Tatsugiri while the one in the commercial is a Curly Form Tatsugiri.
===Errors===
*The segment of this animation has two inaccuracies to the game that it is depicting.
** does not have any attack that uses a green ball of energy. It can use and , but neither of those are a match for the animation.
**Lucario's Holowear and 's Holowear disappear before the battle, when this is not the case in the game. Holowear can start to display selectively based on the user's level, but it does not dissapear under any circumstance.
==In other languages==
==External links==
* Official website
* Japanese official website
==References==
Category:Animation
es:Campeonato Mundial Pokémon 2023 Tráiler animado/¡Desafía al mundo!
zh:终于遇到你啦！