Oh, am I allowed to update again? Are you going to start your usual news campaign now, Pokemon? Next generation you shouldn't leave us in such a lull! :p

The Pokemon Smash TV show page on the official Japanese Pokemon website just updated. As expected, for the May 19th episode, Junichi Masuda will appear to deliver Pokemon X and Y news: "The god of Pokemon games, Mr. Masuda, will come to the studio and give us lots of surprising new info (on Pokemon X/Y)!" Thanks goes to Gin for the translation.

Considering news about X and Y has been extremely dry, this will probably be the first major news burst, especially since summer is starting now. The website does not say that the show will be the first in the world to deliver the news because CoroCoro will have the news first and will be available in stores beforehand. CoroCoro will probably leak later this week or early next week, so stay tuned!

The two-pack Plasma Freeze blister packs will feature either a holo BW76 Electrode or a galaxy holo reprint of Moltres from Next Destinies. Each blister comes with a booster pack from the set and a Reshiram/Zekrom coin.

The three-pack blisters will come with either a Druddigon or Landorus promo, both of which were promo cards in Japan. Their English promo numbers are currently unknown. These blisters come with a Plasma emblem coin and three booster packs from the set.

Plasma Freeze will be released in stores on May 8th, though the likelihood of these appearing then will vary widely.

Electrode - Lightning - HP100
Stage 1 (Team Plasma) - Evolves from Voltorb

[L] ElecBeam: 20 damage. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Paralyzed.
[L][C][C] Selfdestruct: 100 damage. This Pokemon does 100 damage to itself.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 0

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Landorus - Fighting - HP110
Basic Pokemon (Team Plasma)

[F][C] Extrasensory: 20+ damage. If you have the same number of cards in your hand as your opponent, this attack does 30 more damage.
[F][F][C][C] Rock Tomb: 90 damage. The Defending Pokemon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn.

Weakness: Water (x2)
Resistance: Lightning (-20)
Retreat: 2

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Druddigon - Dragon - HP100
Basic Pokemon (Team Plasma)

[C] Taunt: Switch 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokemon with the Defending Pokemon.
[R][W][C] Boost Claw: 60 damage. During your next turn, each of this Pokemon's attacks does 30 more damage (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

Weakness: none
Resistance: none
Retreat: 3

Update #3 (Monday, 2:30 PM) - All of the scans are now up! Thanks everyone below for sending them in, the community really appreciates it!

Plasma Freeze prereleases took place today, and as expected, the set is mainly comprised of cards from BW8 Spiral Force and Thunder Knuckle.

The only real surprise is that "Super Energy Retrieval" has been renamed to "Superior Energy Retrieval," which was probably a decision TPCi made to prevent the older Neo Genesis print from being used in tournament decks since its new wording is radically different. In Japan, the Spiral Force card has the exact same name as the original print in Gold, Silver, to a New World... (their Neo Genesis set). Scratch that, the Japanese name of the Neo card is actually slightly different than the Japanese name of the Spiral Force card. My mistake!

Thanks goes to Torterra Chips, MetalPikachu3500, Robert R., r3skyline, Armando M-P, Agent Spectre, Jessica C., Sean, Noah R., Juicy, Marine, David M., Paty, Laith L., and Hector C. for generously sending in their scans!

A European distributor has announced the fall 2013 tins: they will feature Lugia-EX, Deoxys-EX, and Thundurus-EX. The three tins will probably be released in America in September. The Pokemon-EX will more than likely feature new artwork.

Update (Friday, 2:00 PM) - The official site edited their news story to now say that the download is only for BW2.

A new Wi-Fi event has been announced for a Level 100 Deoxys. The download will take place from May 8th to May 31st for the English versions of Black, White, Black 2, and White 2.

If the Deoxys matches the Masuda Deoxys event from last December, it will come inside a Dusk Ball holding a Life Orb and with the moves Nasty Plot, Dark Pulse, Recover, and Psycho Boost.

Update (4:30 PM) - Full trailer details below thanks to Puddizzle.

Japanese variety show Oha Suta just finished airing a new trailer for the 16th movie. It revealed that Mewtwo has a female voice; in the first movie, Mewtwo's voice was male in both Japanese and English. This means that this Mewtwo is not the same one that we've always known (will we find out why there is a different Mewtwo?). Mewtwo tells Ash and crew that it was created by humans just like the Genesect, to which Ash says "What do you mean?" The Genesect escaped from Team Plasma and are fighting to reclaim "their world," obviously because they were revived from 300 million year old fossils and the world they used to know is gone.

The end of the trailer shows footage from the Eevee mini-movie and is more than likely hinting at Sylveon's type. If the mini-movie isn't doing something psychedelic, it appears that Sylveon has some sort of magical or illusionary powers - its feet glow as they touch the ground, send out pulses of light, and then the sky changes. At this point though, nothing is very obvious and it would seem Pokemon just wants us to keep chasing our tails. :p

For the first time in the Japanese TCG's history, the July set will not be a set containing new cards. It won't even be BW10. A 93-card set called "EX Battle Boost" will be released on July 13th featuring reprints of cards from the BW series. In this way, the set will probably be like America's exclusive Call of Legends set where the cards are reprints with new artwork.

On the same day, two additional products will be released: a Mewtwo vs. Genesect half deck as well as a 4-pack blister with a new Genesect promo. No other information is known about them at this time.

Many fans have been hoping that with the worldwide release of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y that the Japanese and English TCG will finally be synched together. If America were to skip this set, that would in fact be possible. America received Call of Legends to bide time until the release of Generation V - it was a set containing reprints of previous cards with new artwork (which Japan never received). The same thing could happen here, but reversed: since Japan is a set ahead of us, they could be using this throwaway set to bide time until Generation VI and allow us to catch up to them. And of course it wouldn't be the first time America skips out on releasing a bunch of Japanese cards.

There will be other signs to let us know if America plans to skip this set and we'll be sure to let you know as soon as we see them. This is definitely the first sign. If Pokemon ever wanted to have a simultaneous TCG release, this time period right now would definitely be the golden opportunity to pull it off.

April's CoroCoro has leaked, confirming that the "new Pokemon" is indeed a new forme of Mewtwo. On the third page below, it compares the old and new versions of the 16th movie's posters, saying "Mewtwo, who was in the background, has awakened and become a new forme!" Thanks goes to Gin for the translation! The pages do not contain any other new information.

The issue also includes the first part of the 16th movie's manga adaptation, some of which you can browse through below. Since we see a flashback to Mewtwo inside its test tube, we can probably assume the movie will recount at least some of the first movie. We will find out more about Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo's Awakening on April 18th when a new trailer for the film is set to air.

The Plasma Freeze prerelease promo will be Metagross, the booster box promo Japanese players received when buying a box of BW8 Spiral Force and Thunder Knuckle. Players who attend prereleases will also receive a deck box featuring Plasma Freeze's booster pack artwork on each of its sides.

Metagross – Psychic – HP140
Stage 2 – Evolves from Metang

Ability: Plasma Search
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for a Team Plasma card, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterwards. You can’t use more than one Plasma Search ability each turn.

[P][C][C][C] Psycho Trip: 60 damage. The Defending Pokemon is now Confused.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Update (5:00 PM) - Added high quality artwork, screenshots, and the official press release below.

Pokemon Smash has just revealed the supposed new "Mewtwo forme," as you can see below. If it is a new forme, it appeared to use moves that its normal form can already use, such as Psywave, Energy Ball, Shadow Ball, and Blizzard (it used six different moves in their trailer, but probably just for demonstrative purposes).

Pokemon.com just uploaded the same video of the Pokemon, calling it "A New Pokemon with a Familiar Look," which is odd since if it were a new Mewtwo forme, they should have called it "An Old Pokemon with a New Look." Since neither Pokemon Smash nor Pokemon.com specifically called it Mewtwo, it may not actually be Mewtwo - perhaps it could be a new clone of Mew, such as Mewthree, an evolution of Mewtwo, or something else? However, this ambiguity could be a marketing tool to keep speculation running high, which Pokemon is of course famous for.

We should note that when Kyurem's new formes were officially revealed, they were also called "new Pokemon" rather than new formes.

It was also revealed that a new Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo's Awakening trailer will be revealed on April 18th and that we'll find out more information about this "new Pokemon" then (if CoroCoro doesn't spoil it first).

It’s been more than a month since the reveal of Sylveon—the newest evolution of Eevee. Fans have debated which type this new Pokémon will be when it debuts in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, launching worldwide in October. Today, the mysteries of the newest Pokémon titles continue to grow with the unveiling of a Pokémon that is strangely familiar to Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo! This special reveal was made just moments ago on the “Pokémon Smash” television show in Japan.

This new Pokémon shares many traits with Mewtwo and it’s suspected that the newly discovered Pokémon has a connection with Mewtwo—a powerful Pokémon that debuted in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue.

What is this new Pokémon? How will you encounter it in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y? When will you know more? One thing is clear, your readers will certainly want to debate the meaning of this new Pokémon!