The official Japanese Twitter/X account for the Pokémon franchise announced a new anime titled Dragonite and the Mailman. The new anime will premiere on the official Pokémon YouTube channel on Pokémon Day, which is February 27.
The anime focuses on Hana, a girl that admires a Dragonite who serves as a postal worker. When she gets a letter addressed to no one, she sets out to find the sender alongside her Fuecoco. The sender is a boy named Rio, who wants to send the letter to his father in the Kanto region. With his father’s birthday approaching, it seems like he might not be able to receive the letter on time.
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「Pokémon Day2025 記念アニメーション」
『カイリューとゆうびんやさん』
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ポケモン公式YouTubeチャンネルで公開‼️
＼次回の情報公開は2月13日🗓️
お楽しみに👀 pic.twitter.com/z8FWPHEgDu— 【公式】ポケモン情報局 (@poke_times) February 6, 2025
CoMix Wave Films, the studio responsible for producing Makoto Shinkai’s films, will produce the new Pokémon Dragonite and the Mailman anime. Taku Kimura is directing the anime, and Kentarō Nana is writing and supervising the script. Asuka Dokai is the character designer, Maho Aoki is the animation designer and director.
Tasuku Watanabe is the art director of Pokémon Dragonite and the Mailman. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End composer Evan Call will be composing the new anime and theme song “Kami Hikōki (Paper Airplane)” by yorushika vocalist suis.
Previously, the third part of the Pokémon Horizons: The Series premiered on August 9, 2024 for Netflix. Set in the Paldea region, Pokémon Horizons: The Series is a new show from the Pokémon universe. For the first time in decades, Ash Ketchum is not the main character of the series as dual protagonists Liko and Roy set out on an action-packed adventure. Sprigatito and Fuecoco join the two trainers.
