Pokémon: Mewtwo - Prologue to Awakening

This short Pokémon anime special serves as a prologue to the feature film Genesect and the Legend Awakened. It focuses on Mewtwo, a powerful Pokémon that keeps its distance from both humans and other Pokémon. The story shows how Mewtwo comes to master a new form and its extraordinary speed and fighting ability, before the character crosses paths with Ash and his friends in the later movie. The special also introduces the trainer Virgil and his Eevee partners, including a newly evolved Sylveon, though the central thread follows Mewtwo's own path toward a confrontation and its determination to avoid contact with people.

Kunihiko Yuyama directed the twenty-minute special, the twenty-second of the twenty-eight films he has directed in chronological order, arriving between Genesect and the Legend Awakened and Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. Hideki Sonoda wrote the screenplay, and the voice cast includes Rica Matsumoto as Ash, Ikue Otani as Pikachu, Mamoru Miyano as Cilan, Aoi Yuki as Iris and Unsho Ishizuka as Professor Oak.

Produced in Japan and released in July 2013, the special belongs to the adventure, animation, family and science fiction genres. It has a modest following on TMDB, where it holds a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from 20 votes.