Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan

Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan (Japanese: 名探偵ピカチュウ ～華麗なるモーニングルーティン～ Detective Pikachu ~Splendid Morning Routine~) is an short released on the official Pokémon YouTube channels worldwide and on Weibo and Bilibili in mainland China on October 25, 2023.
==Blurb==
Detective Pikachu just wants to film his morning routine, but Tim has a bigger problem: his flan has disappeared from the fridge! It’s definitely a mysterious case, but if anyone can solve it, this dynamic duo can in the animated short “Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan”!
==Plot==
 is filming his morning routine, drinking coffee, having an apple for breakfast, and reading the newspaper. Just then, Tim arrives, and finds his missing from the fridge. While Pikachu is annoyed at Tim for ruining his shoot, Tim accuses Pikachu of eating his flan, which he was looking forward to having later. Pikachu doesn't know what Tim is talking about, and explains his shoot, saying that sharing daily activities online is very popular. Tim tells Pikachu not to change the subject, and asks who could have eaten his flan if it wasn't Pikachu. Hearing the sound of a , Tim turns around and is surprised by a . Pikachu explains that his friend Munchlax is helping him with the shoot. Tim says that Munchlax looks like a Pokémon who eats a lot, causing a banana hidden in Munchlax's fur to fall out. Tim notices that this was a banana he and Pikachu bought earlier, which causes Munchlax to run off in fear. Tim chases Munchlax, who slips on a skateboard and is thrown at the ceiling fan. A lot of food hidden in Munchlax's fur begins to fall out as Munchlax hangs onto the fan, until Pikachu turns the fan off and Tim catches Munchlax. Munchlax admits to taking the banana, but doesn't know anything about the flan. 
Pikachu feels this mystery calls for a great detective, and he and Tim surmise that the flan must've disappeared when Tim had gone out for a morning walk. Tim realizes that since Pikachu was shooting a video, the camera may have caught something on film. Pikachu and Tim review the footage, finding that the flan was still in the fridge when Pikachu opened it for his breakfast, and remaining closed in view of the camera until Tim opened it later and found the flan missing. This means that the crime took place inside a sealed room. Printing out photos from the footage, Pikachu feels something looks odd in both of them. Opening the fridge, Pikachu gets a bolt of brilliance, figuring out who the flan thief is. Pikachu points to an apple, which leaps out of the fridge and starts to roll away. Tim catches the apple, which turns out to be an . Pikachu theorizes it must've been mixed with the fruit they bought earlier. 
Later, drinking coffee, Pikachu states that it tastes best after solving a case. Tim asks how Pikachu figured out that the culprit was an Applin, with Pikachu explaining that the position of the fruit inside the fridge had changed. Tim compliments Pikachu's powers of observation, to which Pikachu states that solving cases before breakfast is nothing out of the ordinary for a great detective. Tim, however, notes that Pikachu was in the middle of having breakfast. Munchlax eats the banana, and seems to remember something important. Pikachu tells Tim that they have a new client, and a busy day ahead of them.
==Characters==
===Humans===
* Tim Goodman
===Pokémon===
* ()
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==Cast==
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==Staff==
Supervising Director 	
* Naomi Iwata
Director / Storyboards 	
* Hiroshi Chida
Script 	
* Masashi Suwa
Script Support 	
* Kimiko Ueno
* Europe Kikaku
Character Designs 	
* Fujimoto Gold
Concept Design 	
* OKACHEKE
CG Supervisor 	
* Yasuhisa Niizato
Character Modeling 	
* Seiji Tayama
* Fumi Nakai
* Yutaka Kasama
* Yoshinori Nakashima
Background / Prop Modeling 	
* Koji Umegaki
* Yumi Minauchi
* Emanuel Putra Prapaskah
Rigging 	
* Masaya Takahashi
* Yuji Kaneko
* Mayukh Datta
* Mitsuaki Watanabe
* Mototsugu Yuasa
* Sandeep Betharia
* Jigar Shah
* Soumya Padhi
Look Development 	
* Guo Lei
* Yutaro Tada
Layout / Animation Supervisor 	
* Hiroshi Shimada
Layout / Animation 	
* Minako Kanazawa
* Miyuki Kamiya
* Satomi Kegai
* Saki Fujiwara
* Haruki Nakagawa
* Yukiko Inaishi
* Takuya Hashimoto
Effects 	
* Kana Kitta
* Shungo Kiuchi
Lighting / Compositing Supervisor 	
* Teo Kai Keat
Lighting / Compositing 	
* Adria Gutawa
* Hamzeh Alkailani
* Angela Soewandi
* Lee Yi Xian
Production Management 	
* Shiori Kuramatsu
* Ryoma Mochizuki
* Yuzuki Karibe
* Wong Ching Ching
* Putri Nurul Sabrina
* Phalak Anjum
* Monalisha Nikalje
Production Editor 	
* Daisuke Tsukioka
Production Support 	
* Polygon Pictures Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
* Polygon Studios India Private Ltd.
* Quack-luck Inc.
Sound Director 	
* Masafumi Mima
Sound Effects 	
* Shizuo Kurahashi
* Sachiko Nishi
Audio Recording 	
* Sayaka Ninomiya
Audio Recording Assistance 	
* Mana Aida
* Kana Kubota
Music 	
*
Mixing Engineer 	
* Masanori Hata
Music Production Management 	
* Ayano
Music Production 	
* Soranane Inc.
Sound Production 	
* Glovision Inc.
Sound Production Management 	
* Sound Production
* Naoki Kishida
Line Producer 	
* Shiho Tanaka
Producer 	
* Ryo Nakaoka
Animation by 	
* Polygon Pictures Inc.
Pokémon series of video games and original Pokémon character concepts and designs were developed by	
* GAME FREAK inc.
The original Detective Pikachu video game was developed by 	
* Creatures Inc.
Original Creator, Detective Pikachu 	
* Hiroyuki Jinnai
* Yasunori Yanagisawa
Pokémon CG review 	
* Atsuko Ujiie
Supervisory Cooperation 	
* The Pokémon Company
Supervisor 	
* Tsunekazu Ishihara
Project Cooperation 	
* Toshio Miyahara
* Yoshitaka Fujiwara
* Yoshiyuki Koie
* Kosuke Sugai
* Sanami Makino
* Masahiko Masuda
==Video==
English
Japanese
==Trivia==
* The title of the video on the official English Pokémon YouTube channel by The Pokémon Company International was originally formatted as Detective Pikachu and the Mystery of the Missing Flan.Detective Pikachu and the Mystery of the Missing Flan 🍮🔎 - YouTube (archived)
* In the video description of the Japanese and Pokémon Asia releases, the short is described as having been released "in the languages of 19 countries and regions" (Japanese: ). Although the short did receive 19 distinct dubs — Japanese, English, Bengali, Cantonese (Hong Kong), Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Mandarin Chinese (Mainland China), Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Tamil, Telugu, and Thai — there is not a one-to-one correspondence between some of these languages and a single country or region.
* Only the Japanese upload of this short contains ending credits; uploads in other languages end by directly fading to black.
==In other languages==
==References==
Category:Animation
de:Meisterdetektiv Pikachu und der verschwundene Pudding
es:Detective Pikachu y el misterio del flan desaparecido/Un nuevo caso para Tim y Pikachu: la desaparición del flan de Tim
it:Detective Pikachu e il mistero del dolce scomparso
zh:名偵探皮卡丘～華麗的早晨儀式～