<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $26.9 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation the Movie: Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy (劇場 版 ポケットモンスター アドバンス ジェネレーション ポケモン レンジャー と 蒼海 の 王子 マナフィ, Gekijōban Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon Pokemon Renjā to Umi no Ōji Manafi), is a 2006 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, and the ninth Pokémon film . The story follows Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum, his Pikachu, and his friends May, Max and Brock as they help a Pokémon Ranger deliver the Mythical Pokémon Manaphy to an undersea palace called Samiya while evading mercenaries led by Phantom the Pirate . It was released on July 16, 2006 in Japan, and aired on Cartoon Network in North America on March 23, 2007 . </P> <P> An egg belonging to the Mythical Pokémon Manaphy is found floating in the sea by mercenary Phantom the Pirate, but it is subsequently stolen from him by Jack "Jackie" Walker, a Pokémon Ranger disguised as one of Phantom's crew members . Walker escapes Phantom's ship and joins the Marina Group, a traveling circus family that specializes in Water - type Pokémon, to deliver the Manaphy egg to Samiya, an undersea palace built by the People of the Water, whom the Marina Group are descendants of . Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum, his Pikachu, and their friends Brock, May, and Max become lost on their journey and encounter the Marina Group in their search for water, inadvertently becoming involved with Walker's mission . </P> <P> When Phantom leads an assault after the Egg, Manaphy hatches in May's arms, who presumes she is its mother . The group eventually escapes Phantom by running into a network of ruins belonging to the People of the Water, where Ash and his friends learn about Samiya . Walker declines Ash and his friends' further involvement with his mission and departs in a boat with the Marina Group toward Samiya . However, Manaphy shows discomfort and starts crying without May's presence, forcing Ash and his friends along anyway . Manaphy's natural instincts lead the boat toward Samiya, and to Walker's dismay, May and Manaphy bond closer . Walker warns May of Manaphy's destiny to become Samiya's leader and that she will eventually need to part ways with it . May understands, but is distraught nonetheless . Lizabeth, the Marina Group's daughter, comforts May and gives her a bracelet known as the People of the Water's Mark as a memento of her time with Manaphy . One day, May loses her bandanna to the wind and Manaphy embarks far into the ocean to retrieve it . Ash and his friends, board a submarine operated by Lizabeth to search for Manaphy, eventually finding it along with Samiya during the expected lunar eclipse . Unbeknownst to them, Phantom had been in pursuit the whole time . </P>

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