>>59173246It says right there. 2000. Maybe during the winter since it snows during the movie.
>>59173246After the first 1999 pokemon movies
>>59173246>>59167437see the bottom of this thread
>>59173246I always assumed during the Orange Islands. Also fitting since its an island itself
>>59173246Between Charizard Chills and The Pokemon Water War.
>>59173367TLDR, between Pokemon Water War and Food Fight
>>59173246Movies take place in a different timeline/universe like Dragon Ball
>>59173569Movies 20, 21, and 23 do, but most of the movies take place in the main series timeline. This one specifically is referenced during the Whirl Islands miniarc in Johto, with the characters talking about having met Lugia in the Orange Islands..
>>59173569That's only true after Movie 20. Most of them are Schrodinger canon(nothing to confirm or unconfirm outside of maybe 'X character has seen X Pokemon before and only saw it in the movie") which a couple exceptions.>Rise of Darkrai has Dawn get a lunar wing she uses in the Darkrai episode later, and by proxy this means the Giratina and Arceus movies are canon since all 3 are direct sequels>A Deoxys episode near the end of Hoenn has a character look up research and data on Deoxys from an anime professor, who was a movie character who did that research in the movie>The Mewtwo Movie is foreshadowed heavily in the show and thus Mewtwo Returns is also canonAnd finally>In the Baby Lugia episode of Master Quest, both James and Ash directly say they saw a Lugia in the Orange Islands and Ash mentions riding oneSo it's canon
>>59173584Also Movie 5 was canonized by Journey, Ash spends 10 episodes hanging out with a Latias, and it's revealed in the end to be the daughter of the Latias from the 5th movie, with a brief appearence of Bianca >>59173507>>59173522the duality of mon
