385 - JIRACHI
"Jirachi will awaken from its sleep of a thousand years if you sing to it in a voice of purity. It is said to make true any wish that people desire."
When you wish upon a star... Today's Pokemon of the Day is Jirachi! The painfully cute and woefully unobtainable hidden Legendary for Generation III, following in the footsteps of Mew and Celebi, Jirachi was actually the first Pokemon to be distributed via the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection...and a good thing to, because it was unavailable in any of the Hoenn games unless you were lucky enough to have either Pokemon Channel in the EU or the Pokemon Collosseum bonus disc in the US. Jirachi has the power to grant wishes...somehow. In the anime, it cannot create objects, but teleports them instead. In the manga you have to write on the tags on its head, and as it only has three tags, it can only grant three wishes. In the games it doesn't bother to specify how Jirachi grants wishes, only that it does. Its signature move is the rather ominously named Doom Desire, so it's probably pretty bad in the games. Jirachi's only major anime appearance was in its own movie, the creatively titled Jirachi Wish Maker, in which it woke up for a week, was kidnapped by a rejected scientist and forced to create a weird Groudon clone and, worst of all, had to hang out with May's little brother, Max. No wonder it only wakes up once every thousand years...
Share your opinion, memories, and experiences of Jirachi! As well as the
general questions in the first post of this topic, here are some fun things to think about:
- What one true wish would you ask Jirachi to grant you?
- When did you obtain your first event Jirachi?