On Thursday June 12th, 2014 episode of Oha Suta, host and Pokémon alumni Kōichi Yamadera (山寺宏一) presented clips and footage from the 17th Pocket Monsters movie that featured Diancie. Footage from the Movie 17th Press Reading which took place on Wednesday June 11th, 2014 was also shown. All of the guest voice actors for the movie were in attendance for the press reading. Images from the episode are on the Imageboard thread.


Yoshiko Mita plays Xerneas, her first ever anime role. She describes Xerneas as the originator of life itself. "It has this air, this aura around it." Yamadera joked that Mita has such an aura around her as well.

Mayu Watanabe will be narrating the short. She was nervous at first, but she's been wanting to be in a Pokémon movie for so long and calmed down because she was having so fun dubbing.

Marilyn is played by Rika Adachi. She had a lot of fun working together with Yamadera in the scenes that were shown on Oha Suta.

The comedy duo Nakagawa-ke consists of Tsuyoshi Nakagawa who plays Nite and Reiji Nakagawa who plays Algus. Yamadera jokes that they got cast because they have the same last name as Shoko-tan. Nite doesn't speak any actual Japanese lines, just Poké-language.


Photos from the press reading are also on the Imageboard thread.