The Pokémon Company has announced that the Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery short anime is now streaming in English on the official Pokémon YouTube channel.
Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery initially premiered on February 27, 2025 during Pokémon Day. The anime focuses on Hana (VA: Riko Fukumoto), 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.
CoMix Wave Films, the studio responsible for producing Makoto Shinkai’s films, produced the Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery anime. Taku Kimura directed the anime, and Kentarō Nana wrote and supervised the script. Asuka Dokai is the character designer, Maho Aoki is the animation designer and director. Tasuku Watanabe is the art director of the anime. The anime’s theme song is “Kami Hikōki (Paper Airplane)” by suis from yorushika and Evan Call, composer of the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End anime.
