Pokemon: Twilight Wings 5th Episode Moved to June 5 Due to COVID-19

Studio Colorido's short anime series "Pokemon: Twilight Wings" for the Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield Nintendo Switch RPG games announced on their official Twitter account on May 15 that its fifth episode moved to June 5 due to the effects of the pandemic COVID-19 on its production. The fifth episode was originally scheduled to show this month.

Pokemon: Twilight Wings will consist of seven five-minute episodes. On January 15, Episode 1 showed on YouTube with the following episodes every month.

Pokemon: Twilight Wings is about in the Region Galar, where Pokemon battles held and developed as a culture for everyone. In seven episodes, it will show the dreams of Galar's people in detail, truths they will face, difficulties they must succeed, and struggles they must fix. Also, to these new Pokemons, you can expect to see a variety of Pokemon first found in the Galar region appearing in the capsule series. The anime will be a drama showing the struggles and conflicts of young people living in the Galar region.

The assigned Director for this new anime is Shingo Yamashita (League of Legends: A New Journey director, Yozakura Quartet, Hana no Uta Episode Director, Fate/Apocrypha Key Animator of episode 23). Sawa Kinoshita is the Scriptwriter, and Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, ERASED, Fruits Basket) is the Script Supervisor. Shin Ogasawara as the Character Designer and Izumi Hirose as Color Designer. Takamasa Masuki and Yusuke Takeda are the Art Directors. Masato Takahashi is in charge of the 3D Computer Graphics. Lastly, Katsuhito Ogawa as the Photography Director and Masafumi Mima as the Sound Director.