jynx said:
I am very confused! @_@|||
But I don't think that Raikou is made of cameo...
Besides, the theme song of that special is called Pokettarii Monsutarii in JaPAN.
A question:
Have you ever seen the episode where these screenshots (below) came from, on television or DVD or VHS in English?
If the answer is 'Yes' then the special has been dubbed and you can skip the rest of this post.
If the answer is 'No' then the special isn't dubbed yet. Currently, Raikou made two appearences into the Pok?mon anime. The first one is during the episode called "Houndoom's Special Delivery" in the Johto League Champions season. Raikou made an appearence for around 2 sec in that episode. A cameo of Raikou.
The second appearence is in a special called "Pokemon Crystal: Raikou, Legend of Thunder". This 'Raikou special' (with a length of 45 minutes) is, as the title says, about Raikou. Ash en his friends aren't in this special. Instead it has Kenta, Marina and Junichi as the main characters. Oh yeah, the opening song of this special is called 'Anataranu Chikai' (Renewed Oath).
As far as I know this special has only be released onto the Japanese television. It was never released on DVD's, only as rental VHS.
In an other episode (outside the Raikou special), during the Johto League Silver Conference (Master Quest), Ash has to battle against Jun'ichi. 4Kids gave Jun'ichi the dubname Jackson. Right before Ash and Jackson starts the battle he says something like "Hee Yoshi and Dani, watch me win the match". (I'm terrible when it comes to remembering quotes. ^_^')
Anyway since in the Japanese version Jun'ichi says something like "Hee Kenta and Marina, watch me win the match". So it is assumed that Yoshi is the dubname of Kenta and Dani is the dubname of Marina. BUT..... Kenta and Marina were never seen in this episode. This explains "The special must be dubbed, because there are dubnames of Kenta and Marina"-problem.
I hope this cleared things out. :)