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No one knows where the road will take us

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We're ready, set, cause now it's time to go

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Maybe we can finally see

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Who we're meant to be

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We're ready, set, cause we're ready

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Every journey, your heart's filled with love

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Now we've got some side to glory

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Together you and I will touch the stars

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And then, if you and I are over again

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Cause even if we lose our way

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Do what we say

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Can we go?

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Can we go again?

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And did it better than last time?

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Can we go?

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Can we go again?

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When there's less than a lot of time

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Today, we're gonna win

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From our hands

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We're gonna get

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Oh, yeah

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Corrupts the mood, your face sticks

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Follow us on a path to the unknown

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Still in trouble, we're gonna win this

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See when we're walking big, true love

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And then, what's gonna win our love again?

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We'll see that every win of the day

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You know we say

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Here we go

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We go again

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There is nothing left

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We go again

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Here we go again

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Let me last in my time

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If you want to be the way you are now and then

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So we go

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So we go

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So we go again

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Hello trainers and good morning

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To start things off, we are about to take you on a musical journey from the past through the present.

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Celebrating 30 years of Pokémon, we'll start today by bringing you the great music of Kanto.

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I'm your conductor, Charlie Rosen, and we are the 8-Bit Big Band.

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Thank you so much. Please enjoy.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, that journey through Kanto was actually only just the start of our program this morning,

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Trainers.

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Join me as we travel across generations to celebrate the amazing 30-year legacy of Pokemon.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you!

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I'm not a good guy.

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I'm not a good guy.

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I'm not a good guy.

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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the 2026 Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP.

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Well, Radha, let's give it up one more time for our fabulous dancers and the eight-bit big band.

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I mean, come on. No matter when you first discovered Pokemon, I hope hearing those meddlies from our orchestra

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transported you back to some happy and cheerful memories.

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Hi, I'm Gabby Durden. I'm your host for this weekend's festivities.

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And just like you I've loved Pokemon since I was a small child forming my first score memories

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So I'm beyond honored to be here on this stage coming alive from San Francisco, California

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This weekend is extra special for all of us one part of our event commemorates the hard work of our trainers as they

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conclude their journey to become world champions across four types.

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Pokemon Champions,

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the Pokemon Trading Card Game,

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Pokemon Go,

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and Pokemon Unites.

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And, and, and, even more adventure awaits

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with our first ever Pokemon XP,

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where we couldn't be more excited for you

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to join us for activities, panels, attractions,

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and much more throughout the weekend.

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All right, two incredible events.

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One unforgettable weekend.

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And you better believe we're gonna make sure

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it's one for the record books.

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But I think we should get things started, shall we?

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It is my pleasure to introduce to the stage

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to the stage, the president and CEO of the Pokemon Company, Mr. Tsunekazu Ishihara!

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Hello, trainers.

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and welcome to the 2026 Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP.

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First, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone gathered here today,

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as well as all of you from around the world joining us online.

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I'm really delighted that we can all be here together on Pokemon 30th Anniversary.

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I'm really delighted that we can all be here on Pokemon 30th Anniversary.

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Whether you're here to compete for the title of World Champion,

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or you come with family and friends to enjoy Pokemon XP,

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I'm truly delighted that we can all be here together on Pokemon 30th Anniversary.

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We are going to have a lot of fun this weekend.

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We are looking forward to the end of this weekend.

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We are looking forward to the end of this weekend.

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for many years to come.

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And to all the competitors who have battled their way here,

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truly your hard work, passion, and determination

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inspire future trainers to dream of one day standing on this very stage.

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You truly represent both an aspiration and a source of hope for the next generation.

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Just by being here today, you are helping pass those dreams onto the future.

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Take pride in that and enjoy every moment of the competition.

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if you give it your best to the very end.

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And with that, I wish you all the best of luck in your battles.

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Thank you, Mr. Ishihara, for setting the stage, oh, so beautifully.

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I can feel the energy in this room.

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I can sense the excitement to compete.

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More than 2,000 trainers have descended upon San Francisco

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to test their skills and fight with all their might

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to become the next Pokemon World Champion.

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Competitors, the time has come.

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Please make your way over to the play tables

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to kick off your matches.

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And before we get into the action, our casters are prepped to walk you through everything

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in store this weekend.

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So everybody, let the 2026 Pokemon World Championships begin!

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Hello and welcome to the first ever Pokemon XP.

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We are thrilled to be bringing you all the action live here from Root Place A Road.

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I'm Anna Prosser, joined by Rachel, Glitter and Josh.

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Good morning y'all.

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Good morning.

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We're so excited to be here.

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We hope you're here with us and you get to experience everything that's going on

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here at Pokemon XP.

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And if you're not or whether you want to keep an eye on everything going on,

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we will be bringing you all of the action here live streamed as well from the desk.

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We are all so stoked to be here at the first ever Pokemon XP and we want to tell you all about what's going on here today

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So the way it's gonna work here at our desk is we're gonna talk to a few really cool people

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We're gonna tell you about a few really cool things

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We're gonna drop a few codes and we're also gonna show you a lot of the panels that are going on here at Pokemon XP

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So we'll chat with you and then today you'll get to see behind-the-scenes with Ardman Pokemon Tales

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The Misadventures of Surfetched and Pichu will also have Spotlight on Pokemon Pokopia,

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Pokemon TCG, the making of full-art card illustrations, 30 years of Pokemon celebrating

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past, present, and future, and Pokemon TCG Pocket, cards, creators, and clashes from

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B-Series to what's next. So, if you stay tuned here, you're going to see those today as well

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as a few times that we've gone running around to see what's going on so we can show you

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you what it's like to be here. In fact, I think Josh, you got to walk around

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Recraza Road today.

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Oh, I did. And it was a blast. And it's so great to see so many people here

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celebrating 30 years of Pokemon and to everybody watching at home. There is so

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much to celebrate. And there's a lot for me to catch up on as well.

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Yeah, I am an OG 151 fan and it has been phenomenal to see not only the

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different types of Pokemon that are available, but just the old school

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Pokemon being represented and as folks will know you is my favorite so it's

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great to see some you in the mix as well. That's actually a great segue to we we

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got at least just a little moment to talk about our favorite Pokemon memory

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before we get started with the day so Josh do you have a favorite? Oh I do it's

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okay I got a number of them but I'm gonna pick one and that's gonna be. We get to tell ours too so you guys do lose a one.

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Pokemon Go. I'm playing in downtown Burbank. I'm walking around burning

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some calories and I just so happen to see a friend of mine I haven't seen

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years. Shout out to Joey Lefeter and we were so ecstatic to see each other we

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decided to grab some dinner talk about life and so it was really bringing old

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friends back together and I'll never forget that moment.

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What about you?

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Okay for me, I feel like this might end up making that this is my very first

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Pokemon event ever so just one thank you for having me but if we're talking

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about memories it might have to be the first time I ever went to Japan

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and got to actually experience a Pokemon Center in person.

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I mean, I've been a fan my entire life,

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but being able to kind of experience that first hand

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and be fully immersed in the world like that

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is just something I will never forget.

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Absolutely.

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What about you, Rachel?

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Oh, Pokemon and I go way, way back.

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I was that perfect age when Pokemon came out

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where I was like, I'm gonna be a trainer.

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That's my career choice.

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Oh, my parents, so wonderful,

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drove me all over the state of New Jersey

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a Pokemon League at Toys R Us, to the mall tours to see the Pikachu Beetle back in the

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day, and I've been on board ever since, so to be here today and to be hosting next to

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you Anna, the Pokemon Queen in my life, what a special tree we've got.

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Yeah, Rachel and I go way back hosting things in eSports and actually my favorite memory

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has to be Pokemon Worlds.

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My first time ever was here in San Francisco and I know that that's kind of a very

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specific Pokemon memory but sitting here in that nostalgia right now feels so cool

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and getting to have another first doing Pokemon XP so I'm feeling I'm feeling a

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little emotional today it's really exciting for each other and all of the

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energy of everyone just being here together loving the same thing is just

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so cool it's contagious and the whole city has been so welcoming and so

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lovely the entire time so huge shout out to San Francisco everybody that's

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help make this possible. Yeah. And we also want to hear from you. We want to hear what

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you're up to here at Pokemon XP or what you like seeing at Pokemon XP. So don't forget

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that you can use the hashtag Pokemon XP in order to chat with us wherever you post social

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media. We'll be keeping an eye out for your posts and your photos and maybe share some

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of them. You feel really good. To Joshua's point, Pokemon XP and Pokemon Worlds has

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spilled out into the city. We saw trucks yesterday advertising our Boater garbage

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pickups, there's advertisements on every bus stop. It really does feel the Pokemon

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world has kind of expanded out and so if you're out there wherever you are in the

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world, we would love to know what your Pokemon XP experiences like. Send us how

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you are celebrating because it's a global celebration this year. We also, as I

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mentioned, have a few things for you if you're watching and one of the first

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is coming up right now and that is that we have a Pokopia Island code for

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you. Now, if you're not familiar with Pokopia, Glitter, I saw you playing yesterday.

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I've been able to put it down, I'm not gonna lie. I haven't been, it's absolutely obsessed.

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Yeah? I believe that we're actually, oh there it is, there's the code, we're

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able to show it to you. And this is, Pokopia is a cozy game, it's for you to

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sit down and make a life with Pokémon on your island playing as Ditto. And

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you can use this Cloud Island password, whether you're here at Pokémon XP

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or at home and you can visit an island that is themed for Pokemon XP and World.

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I have not seen it yet and I am so excited. I cannot wait to see what they have.

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Gooder, what about you?

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I think that's going to be what I'm doing. As soon as we are done today, I'm going to be inputting

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the code and making sure that I get everything added into my account ASAP.

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I know. I'm hoping that there's like some special items or something like that.

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I don't want your stardust. You're going to want to make your stars.

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So Pokemon has been taking feedback from the community about what Pokemon they're going

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on the islands. Yeah, I have been hoarding my stardust. I am so ready for everything that might be there.

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So also remember that DLC part one is available now. Bubble Basin is out for Pocopia. I've been

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really enjoying that. And DLC part two is coming in late 2026. So if you have already picked up

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and put down Pocopia, now is a great time to pick it back up. Who are you hoping is on the

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the island Rachel. I'm hoping we get to see the EV evolutions there. I like so much gathering

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them all together. That was a big special thing I did on my Palatown Island and I know it

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just really makes it when you see all the EV evolutions in one big pile. That was absolutely

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a major goal of mine. It was getting all of those EV evolutions and a fun thing in

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the game is that you have to find these special treats to give them in order for

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them to appear and I felt very motivated to do it.

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I couldn't believe how well the treats matched the Pokemon and I do hope some creative Pokemon

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community members out there have maybe re-traded those in real life.

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If so, that would be a great send on the Pokemon XP hashtag.

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I want to see all your Pokemon inspired snacks if that's possible.

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I mean, and the opportunity for all of the new builds.

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In water!

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Uh huh.

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I mean, like this is a completely different terrain than what you've been working

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with in Pokopia so far.

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So that's arguably one of the most exciting parts because if you've been looking at the

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custom builds of Pocopia community has been managing to put together, they are literally

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works of art.

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So I can't wait to see what all of the people who specialize in building come up with in

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this new dream.

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I've been having this experience of Pokemon that in the past I've kind of been like,

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ah, for me, that in Pocopia when they just show up a lot, they happen to be around,

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I start loving them. Kramerant has been a completely new discovery for me. I have a whole Kramerant page in my TCG collection binder, just the no thoughts open eyes.

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I've come to love them so much. Is there any Pokemon that have surprised you recently that have been like, I wasn't paying much attention to this Pokemon, but now there's something special about them?

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Well, Rayquaza is one. I've definitely gotten to know a lot more for sure. And like I said, there's so much for me to catch up on, but this is a wonderful opportunity for anybody to jump into

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This game with this code and to have a little bit more of that

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I'm gonna enjoy my day. It'd be a lazy Sunday where it's raining outside

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Perfect opportunity to dive in up but for those of you that want maybe a little bit more action

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I want to get out of the house a lot of different options out there in the world of video games when it comes to Pokemon

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But super excited to see all these different opportunities and other codes are gonna be available throughout our broadcasts

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So people can definitely stay tuned for

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Any Pokemon that are coming to mind for you guys surprises recently that have been showing up for you

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I never thought that I would like Pelliper.

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Yes.

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No!

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I do!

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I just can't get enough of the cuteness of Pelliper.

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Mm-hmm.

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That might have to do with the show as well, but...

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True.

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True.

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Any comment to mine for you, Rachel?

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It was a slow creep, but I looked down one day and I was like,

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gosh, I sure own a whole bunch of Slowpoke.

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Um, I think this might be one of my favorites, and of course, Impocopia.

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Such a guy.

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Such a little guy.

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Just a guy.

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Just a guy.

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Yeah.

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You brought a plushie.

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I actually just, since we have plushies coming out, I also, I have my favorite little,

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I need to go get my mind-shot.

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Dragon who's not a dragon, my stretchy tattoo gear.

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You had a plush in your hands, you still have it in me?

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I do.

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I do.

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She's down here.

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Hold on.

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She's exploring space.

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Boom.

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Sorry, Glitter.

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We didn't give you the memo.

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I'd like to see my bag.

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I think you have my munchie.

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I don't want to do that during the break.

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In fact, we actually have a video coming up, so we'll throw to that in just a moment.

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And that video is behind us, UC Rayquaza Road.

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There's a whole area here that has been themed for Pokémon.

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So many cool places to take photos, things to look at, ways to celebrate Pokémon.

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And Josh, you got to walk around and do that.

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I know we're going to watch the video in a second, but any thoughts before we do?

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This is a special place in order for us to be right here in the heart of San Francisco

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And to see this little friend everywhere that is part of the Pokemon XP.

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So let's go ahead and take a look.

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Let's do it!

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We are here at Reqlaezer Road where 50,000 people from around the world are ready to celebrate 30 years of Pokemon.

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Let's go ahead and check it out.

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Check it out.

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We have taken over this entire street where you can showcase or see the showcase of everything

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Pokemon happening here over the entire weekend.

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Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we're going to be live, twitch.tv slash Pokemon XP where

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you can tune in and get those coveted Twitch drops.

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But right here, we want to showcase this brand new car.

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Well, it's brand new to me, but this is fantastic.

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Is it electric powered?

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That's the question we're going to be asking everybody on Twitch.

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As we mosey on over here, we got popcorn and water for free for everybody.

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That's right.

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Water and popcorn free for everybody.

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Making sure that you got your sustenance because you got to make sure that you get

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what you need because we're going to be outside.

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We're outside here on Marquiza Road.

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A nice little lounge here over to the left, over to the right, allowing people just

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to relax and enjoy their day here in beautiful San Francisco

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because there is so much to do at this event.

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We have pretty much taken over downtown San Francisco

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and it's gonna be a blast.

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So we also host a beautiful photo booth here.

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There will be a line.

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Plenty of people taking photos

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in front of this beautiful mural.

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Then over on this side is gonna be the stage.

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This is where myself and our wonderful team of hosts

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We're gonna be talking about everything

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when it comes to Pokemon.

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We got interviews with developers, artists,

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creatives from around the world.

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They're gonna be showcasing what makes Pokemon Pokemon.

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30 years is definitely something to celebrate

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and it's taken a huge effort across

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an international team of very talented artists.

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As we move a little bit further,

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we got Team Blue versus Team Red.

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That's Blastoise versus Charizard.

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So you get to choose which team are you on.

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I want to know which team are you fighting for?

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Now right behind me, we have the trolley,

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beautiful looking trolley, really a very nice tribute

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to San Francisco, a beautiful city

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that has really welcomed every fan of Pokemon with open arms.

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And right behind me, we have our friends from Santa Cruz who will be showcasing these beautiful

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skateboard decks along with a couple cool tricks.

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We've seen a lot of tricks so far here for our preview night.

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We're looking forward to seeing a lot of activity in this section and some major grinders.

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Take a look at that pokeball.

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All right, follow me.

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There's way more to check out.

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I'm not even halfway done.

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And they will be hosting some tours

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and a couple of special presentations,

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so make sure to tune in as we showcase

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other elements that are happening right here,

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live at Requizal Road.

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This entire convention center is full.

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50,000 people are here to celebrate 30 years

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of the video games, the anime, the card game

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and everything in between.

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And it looks like we got some LEGO stuff happening.

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Let's go check it out.

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Over to my left. We have a building center for Lego with instructions so kids can put together the basin and build from there

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Now this is going to be quite a treat everybody

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There is going to be a big Pokemon that's gonna be put together right over here

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And that's gonna be happening throughout the entire weekend

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So make sure to tune in and check out the progress and hopefully by Sunday. It's gonna be complete and look fantastic

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Fantastic. Well, I get to help maybe a little bit

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But I want to make sure that I don't knock it down with my clumsy self

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But shout out to lego very excited to see all these different characters gonna be coming to life

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Hi everybody, you know who this is behind me you can take a picture and right here. I requase the road

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Now right around the corner

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We do have the gardens which features a number of different activities for all our folks that love to be

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outdoors. We're having a blast here at Pokemon XP and we know you are too. Another opportunity

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for people to pose. Behind me is the stage where we're going to have a DJ and other special

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presentations happening right here on this road to help celebrate everything Pokemon

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and further down we got a couple cute stuff you definitely want to check out. Now this

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This is one of my favorite showcases here at Pokemon XP.

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It's one of the cutest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

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Now how do they stay in the carriage?

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That's a secret that I'll let everybody know at the end of the day on Sunday.

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And here on the opposite side of our Quasar Road we have Krabby's Cove where folks can

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enjoy live music and other special presentations.

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We look forward to seeing so many people here celebrate Pokemon and we look forward to

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bringing it to you live on Twitch.tv.

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Pokemon XP.

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We'll see you online.

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Josh, that was fun.

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Did you enjoy yourself?

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I did and it's really crazy to see what that road was like

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towards the end of preview night compared to today

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where it's just almost absolutely full.

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So there's lounges, there's great cafes, sandwich shops,

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so people can get that substance they need

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because there is gonna be plenty to do this entire weekend.

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Have you too gotten a chance

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to explore Rayquaza Road at all yet?

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A bit, yeah.

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Yeah, we were wondering around together yesterday

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and I was really looking to see Pikachu.

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That's my goal, so I haven't managed it yet.

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You haven't seen Pikachu yet?

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We'll have to fix that.

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I'm really excited.

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There's a stage called the Worf Stage,

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way, way back behind us,

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and there's going to be some musical acts there.

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In fact, Toasty Marcinello,

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who was part of the opening ceremony last year,

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who was on the soundtrack that I got to sing with,

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she's going to be performing there, I think,

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in one of the shows,

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so I'm gonna try to catch that between things.

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But I'm really excited about the presence of music,

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and we had even the dancers

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and the amazing orchestra in the opening ceremony.

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What are you guys looking forward to,

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whether it's music related or otherwise?

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I think music is a great shout and a music has always been part of Pokemon's history

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And I think there's so many iconic musical scores and just little folks that you can pick up on you know the generation

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You know what town you just walked into so to have music be such a central part of the celebration here

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Pokemon XP makes a lot of sense

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I am still jamming out to the song that you and Nate wants to battle put out last year

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but we had so many great songs that came in the official soundtrack this year and

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And yeah, there's a lot to enjoy if you're right in the Pokemon community because you get the first access to a lot of that

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Shout out to here. We go again the new Nate wants to battle song on the same right song here that you heard during the opening video

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It was amazing

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I'm responsible for it

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There are some uncredited background vocals on that song

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You may have heard but miss jigglypuff, but enough about me and my really talented husband

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What about you?

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What are you looking forward to, Glitter?

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Or what music is exciting for you here?

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I mean, I'm on board just for the fact

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that we're hearing the music in a totally different or like

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orchestral setting.

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So I think that's really fun because anytime you

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take video game music and kind of make it this grand

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production, it's gorgeous.

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It's beautiful.

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It's entertaining.

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And it like it hits you in the feels.

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I want to be listening to that all day.

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I don't know.

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Can we get them to play?

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Just like constant background music running

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So we can enjoy that. And also I have questions for Josh about the yoga pose.

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Oh, at the end of that, like we were, we were hitting,

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hitting yoga poses off the entire weekend.

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I mean, you got the great music,

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get a little bit of yoga and you got the inspiration of Pikachu.

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So with everything all together,

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it really does create a concentration of celebration.

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But I think for me this morning,

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it definitely was listening to the soundtrack, the old school music and just to,

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as you said, feel the instruments in the same room,

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but also the energy of the crowd.

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And last night, we had a small presentation

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from some of the representatives from the city

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and from Pokemon, and to see a lot of the staff members

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that got to take a peek at everything

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that we're going to be hosting today,

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you could feel the energy really start

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to build until the end of the night

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until now we've opened up the doors to everybody else.

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So everything really makes a big difference

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when you get to do it live.

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And for those of you that can join us here live,

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we're happy to have you here to watch our broadcast.

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And we're going to give you even more sneak peeks

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and a tour of different booths and different developers

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and have some great interviews,

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so we hope you stick around all weekend long.

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Speaking of that, we kind of breezed through

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the day one schedule of panels.

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We told you what's gonna be on,

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but I wanna hear from you all

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what you're most excited to see today,

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or rather to show our audience today,

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since a lot of you have gotten those sneak peeks already.

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Do I get to go first?

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Yeah, go.

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I cannot wait for everybody to see the Lego booth.

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Yeah.

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And I'm very excited about the Lego booth.

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I know Josh is excited about the Lego booth as well.

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If you haven't seen the Pokemon Lego that's happened,

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those sets are insanely cool.

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I won't spoil why we're going to talk about it later,

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or you'll see it if you're walking around on the show floor,

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but they are unlike any Lego set you've ever seen.

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Yeah, and that's going to be the teaser.

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Oh, okay.

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I'm really hyped up now.

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I thought I knew what you were talking about,

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but I think you know more than any of us right now.

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The glitter in your eyes, as you're saying this,

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I'm so excited.

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What about you, Rachel?

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But you know, when Pokemon Go fan, I mean, when Pokemon Go came out, that was a life-changing

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year and I've been playing ever since.

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It's been such like a great thing to add to my life.

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I'm outdoors more.

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I'm active.

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I love the community.

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And I got to go down to the Pokemon Go booth and catch up with Kastro, who's the senior

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community manager down there and they had so much interesting stuff that's coming

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out during the year.

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They're doing so much for the community.

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So if you're a big Pokemon Go fan, or you're thinking about getting into it

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maybe. It's a great place to stop for some information and they have a really really cool booth.

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Yeah. What about you Josh? Anything else to shout out today that you're excited for people to see?

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Pinball. Yeah, pinball machines are going to be showcasing a little bit later and when it comes

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to old school gaming, pinball is just one of those elements that folks like us are like,

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you know what? Let me stand for a little bit and see what high score I can get in this

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machine. So I'm excited to work with a couple influencers and one of the game devs for the

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pinball machine from Stern and there are a number of different elements when it comes to pinball

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that you would think wouldn't be that intricate just by glancing at it but the mechanics and the

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strategy of trying to understand what's the best move that I can make with gravity working against

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you the entire time I'm always excited to see what type of design goes behind those machines

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and how these players can get the high school question yes uh fan of pokemon pinball here

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rumble pack old-school Game Boy. How would you say the experience relates?

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I would say almost one-to-one.

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Oh, well, yeah. I'm sold.

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Yeah, they've captured the same spirit, so.

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I'm with the native pinball machine.

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I am very excited today because I got a sneak peek at the 30th celebration booth for the

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Pokemon TCG.

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Oh.

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And I'm really curious what footage they're going to use because there was quite a

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lot of it that was just me kind of going, ah!

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I think you yourself reported that you you tried a little bit upon entering the booth

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I did not expect that I it'll be really interesting to see if that makes it in the video

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But we walked in and I was so overwhelmed with the love and care and honor that was given to some of this artwork that

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I have come to love so much and that I'm so excited to see and to celebrate

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So I did get really excited and I'm really excited for all of you to see it

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And we also have a panel today the making of full-art card illustrations

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Which I'm really excited to watch because I don't know a whole lot about that process other than what I learned at the booth

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And you know what I see on the cards, so I'm really excited to see that

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I think that's a testament to Pokemon in general for the last 30 years to see the care the love the

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artistry the talent all poured into

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Everything that makes Pokemon and this stems back to one of my favorite stories about the history of Pokemon when they were making the animated show

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So, they had everybody that was involved play the game.

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So they could really understand what the world was.

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And as they move forward with the story

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and to highlight certain Pokemon,

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but not to make it to where the people

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that had purchased the original Pokemon games

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were like left out, no.

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They really created a world

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and this world has really stood the test of time.

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And it's so great to see that same level of care

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and energy and emotion and artistry.

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And yeah, some of us may get a little bit verklempt

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when we're experiencing that.

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I think I will maybe have a couple of tears

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at the end of Sunday night.

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watching the championships, but it's a testament to really see all of this different artwork

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and energy for these many years exhibited here.

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I really think that's what feels special so far to me about Pokemon XP is just getting

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to be around a bunch of people who are here just because they love the same thing.

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You know, I feel like that's a really special feeling in gaming and in fandom.

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Yeah, well, we talked about being fans of it from very early on for all of us,

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but even if you step away from the fandom for a little bit, I always find it's a

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great time.

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better time in fact to get involved in Pokemon. Every year there's a new way to play, a game that

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supports a new interest or experience and the community grows and grows. I think my favorite

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thing that I've seen over these last 30 years is how it's become a generational fandom. You have

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grandparents, you have parents, you have kids involved, you have little babies and little Pikachu

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outfits. I think that Pokemon has given us so much as examples to move through the world

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and be kind to each other and interact with each other that it's really become an incredible

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space to come into, more than a game, more than an animated series or anything.

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So I'm going to be the huge Pokémon lord and history fan on the desk here today.

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I'm going to try and keep it contained, but I'm getting reclaimed just thinking about

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how much kindness Pokémon has modeled throughout the years that its fan base has really picked

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up and carried into the world.

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My nephews and niece are here for the first time.

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You know, I've been doing this for a while and they were just born the oldest

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when I started doing this.

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And I was like, this is a starter Pokemon.

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Your first partner.

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This is Pop Leo.

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Here's some cards.

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Put them on the floor.

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You like these.

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And so now they're here for the first time.

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And I'm so proud to get to show them this.

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And honestly, coming to Pokemon XP

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for their first experience, they were like, what do we do?

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And I was like, don't worry.

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You'll get here and you'll know.

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What to do.

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We only have a little bit more time

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before we get into our next panel.

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We may have time to play a game,

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But before we do, I just want to make sure that we have some time glitter to talk about what you saw with Ardman.

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Yes, so that's going to be the first panel coming up.

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But I'm really excited for this because I am a fan of every series that's ever come out for Pokemon.

01:03:40.980 --> 01:03:47.420
And I think this new one with Ardman is going to be such a pleasant,

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different version of what people would expect out of an animated series when it comes to Pokemon.

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obviously Pokemon Tales, The Misadventures of Surfetched and Pichu.

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This is classic stop motion claymation animation.

01:04:04.460 --> 01:04:06.100
That makes sense for everybody at home.

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It is, if you've seen the teaser trailer,

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the teaser trailer already, it's beautiful.

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It's going to have that quirky sense of cuteness and comedy

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that kind of comes along with traditional art work.

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And I think that it is the most perfect collaboration

01:04:23.780 --> 01:04:25.340
doing this with Pokemon.

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I mean, what better set of characters

01:04:28.180 --> 01:04:32.340
to be working with on a show to do that type, that style

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of animation to begin with.

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And there is a booth here kind of celebrating that.

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And one of the cool things you can see at the booth

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is that there is like a display, not in clay,

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but essentially kind of to that scale

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to illustrate what they were doing in creating this show.

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you can kind of see surfetched and Pichu and the size of what they were working with in creating the show.

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There's also a photo opportunity with surfetched and Pichu. Super cute.

01:04:58.380 --> 01:05:06.780
And I think it's just really fun to check out because I think if you are a fan of any of the series that had happened over the last 30 years,

01:05:06.780 --> 01:05:11.080
then you definitely want to check this out because it's going to be completely different than what you would have expected.

01:05:11.080 --> 01:05:17.480
I'm so excited to see that. I feel like seeing Pokemon in different mediums is something that I've really enjoyed over the years.

01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:22.000
And I feel like that's also seeing this stop motion

01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:23.880
animation behind the scenes.

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I feel like that's always fascinated me as a child,

01:05:26.520 --> 01:05:27.880
now as an adult.

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Is that, do you feel the same way?

01:05:29.240 --> 01:05:31.580
Yes, because if you think about the amount of time

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and effort that goes into, here's the shot,

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we move the clay.

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Here's the shot, we move, this is a labor of love

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in order to make something that high quality,

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that enjoyable, that beautiful.

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It is so many people pouring their souls into this work,

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and we are going to reap the benefits of that,

01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:53.880
just by getting to consume the media.

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Absolutely.

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And it reminds me of the memories

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of seeing the first animated film in theaters,

01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:01.440
and what that meant to a lot of us of, like,

01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:03.760
this is something that's really serious here

01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:06.160
for the Western audience, and to see that continue to grow.

01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:07.680
And I know, Rachel, you have a great memory

01:06:07.680 --> 01:06:09.120
from watching the film as well.

01:06:09.120 --> 01:06:09.480
Oh, gosh.

01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:10.760
You can remember being in the theater.

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We're talking about Me Too Strikes Back,

01:06:12.560 --> 01:06:17.600
that first movie that came out and as Pikachu ran up the spiral staircase dodging those

01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:22.440
YouTube Pokeballs the kid behind me was going run Pikachu run and if you're out there buddy

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I think about you once a week so please like let me know hit me up on the Pokemon XP hashtag

01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:33.240
I just want to know you're doing well but from that movies debut like it really showed

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Pokemon's power to move us with stories so many iconic quotes from that to carry

01:06:38.040 --> 01:06:41.640
on the tradition all the way now to this claimation media.

01:06:41.640 --> 01:06:42.840
There have been the poke tunes.

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There are so many.

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I know you're a fan of them all.

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So I'm listening them to you, Glitter, but so many great different

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one here on stories told in the world.

01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:52.520
Twilight Wings was incredible.

01:06:52.520 --> 01:06:53.760
Pokemon Generations.

01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:55.760
Keep going.

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I'm a big fan and I'm so interested in the panel

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for so many reasons.

01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:02.400
But I want to know why surfaced?

01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:03.640
Why Pichu?

01:07:03.640 --> 01:07:05.560
Like you said, there's so many Pokemon available,

01:07:05.560 --> 01:07:07.480
so many characters in the world.

01:07:07.480 --> 01:07:09.920
There's got to be a great reason they ended up with these two.

01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:12.080
I'm hoping it's because they're adorable.

01:07:12.080 --> 01:07:15.120
I mean, they're going to be wandering the wilds of Galar.

01:07:15.120 --> 01:07:17.320
They are going to be getting themselves

01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:20.560
into some misadventures through their attempts

01:07:20.560 --> 01:07:22.400
to help and protect fellow Pokémon.

01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:26.720
So it, I mean, I don't even know what the storylines

01:07:26.720 --> 01:07:28.760
are going to be, but I can already imagine

01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:30.160
what could possibly ensue.

01:07:30.160 --> 01:07:31.360
I love misadventures.

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.240
Like what makes something a misadventure

01:07:33.240 --> 01:07:35.000
as opposed to just an adventure?

01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:36.360
I'm very excited to see.

01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:38.960
We only have a few more minutes before that panel,

01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:40.600
but instead of just dropping you off

01:07:40.600 --> 01:07:43.380
and letting you wait for that panel,

01:07:43.380 --> 01:07:44.880
why don't we play a little game?

01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:47.480
Why don't we make fools of ourselves for their amusement?

01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:48.600
What do you think?

01:07:48.600 --> 01:07:53.280
I mean, this is a classic Pokemon desk game

01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:56.920
where I will give one of us a whiteboard and pens,

01:07:56.920 --> 01:08:00.200
and you will do your best to from memory draw a Pokemon

01:08:00.200 --> 01:08:02.320
and try to get us to guess which one it is.

01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:04.360
And you're going to start for us as an example, right,

01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:13.520
All right. And this is funny too because we're not even gonna pick from a hat. We're

01:08:13.520 --> 01:08:18.800
gonna just let us choose. So let's see what I can do here. Are you ready? Okay. Ooh,

01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:24.240
which color? Color is important. It's already an important decision being made. Arcanine.

01:08:24.240 --> 01:08:29.240
9. Charizard, Amanda. Oh, come on. There we go.

01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:33.240
Oh, Scholio Pete.

01:08:33.240 --> 01:08:37.240
Oh. Huntail.

01:08:37.240 --> 01:08:40.240
Wait, this is actually... Rayquaza.

01:08:40.240 --> 01:08:46.240
That's gonna make go to it. Let's see. These are big... Wait, I can't see anything.

01:08:46.240 --> 01:08:50.240
Gyarados! Yes! But it's a shiny one.

01:08:50.240 --> 01:08:57.840
It's a shiny, it's a shiny Gyarados, that's why the color was important, yeah.

01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:59.520
Alright, do we have time for one more?

01:08:59.520 --> 01:09:00.520
I think we do.

01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:04.640
I don't hate the Huntail Shout or the Electrosha, you know, they were really scary Gyarados.

01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:06.640
That's actually pretty good.

01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:11.080
You're just gonna burn and ate somebody's ice.

01:09:11.080 --> 01:09:12.880
Alright, who wants to go next?

01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:14.880
Now that I have broken the ice.

01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:17.600
Oh, if you want to pass over to me, I'll give it a shot.

01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:18.600
Okay.

01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.240
Uh, would you like all the colors or a particular color?

01:09:21.240 --> 01:09:23.200
I will just take the black.

01:09:23.200 --> 01:09:24.200
OK, OK, OK.

01:09:24.200 --> 01:09:24.800
OK.

01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:25.360
Good clue.

01:09:25.360 --> 01:09:25.960
Umbreon.

01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:26.680
Black or white is it?

01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.280
Umbreon.

01:09:28.280 --> 01:09:28.800
Shiny.

01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:29.320
All right.

01:09:29.320 --> 01:09:31.000
All right, we've got a little bit of wind here.

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So we're going to try to keep our papers down.

01:09:33.360 --> 01:09:33.760
Thank you.

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OK, all right.

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Here we go, folks.

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We're watching.

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Boltzorp.

01:09:41.080 --> 01:09:42.880
What?

01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:44.720
So what was this?

01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:47.200
Uh, I'm looking at Magnum.

01:09:47.200 --> 01:09:49.200
G.O.D.! G.O.D.!

01:09:49.200 --> 01:09:51.200
Yes!

01:09:51.200 --> 01:09:53.200
Wow!

01:09:53.200 --> 01:09:55.200
Wait, hold on. I don't even think...

01:09:55.200 --> 01:09:57.200
Did the audience at all get this?

01:09:57.200 --> 01:09:59.200
Did they? Yeah.

01:09:59.200 --> 01:10:01.200
And she guessed G.O.D.

01:10:01.200 --> 01:10:03.200
You're welcome.

01:10:03.200 --> 01:10:05.200
You know her so much.

01:10:05.200 --> 01:10:07.200
This is why Claire is here.

01:10:07.200 --> 01:10:09.200
Yes.

01:10:09.200 --> 01:10:11.200
Well, with that, we are ready to send you off to our next panel.

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That's going to be behind the scenes with

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future we hope you enjoy.

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And we are back.

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Okay everybody, thank you for joining us here.

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Are you ready to make history?

01:15:24.200 --> 01:15:28.200
Are you ready for the first Pokemon XP panel?

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That's right.

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Are you ready to hear about the Ardman animated series,

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Pokemon Tales, The Misadventures of Surfex and Pichu?

01:15:41.200 --> 01:15:49.200
I am too. Very excited for this panel. Please welcome to the stage Phil Rindon.

01:15:57.200 --> 01:16:11.180
Thank you Joe. Wow. How's it going everyone? So exciting. We're thrilled to be able to share a real early look at a new project from the

01:16:11.180 --> 01:16:15.780
Pokemon Company International, The Misadventures of Surfech and Pichu.

01:16:15.780 --> 01:16:20.820
This is a comedy adventure series and it's told from the perspective of Pokemon, so we're

01:16:20.820 --> 01:16:24.340
going to give you a little bit more sense of what that really means.

01:16:24.340 --> 01:16:28.260
It's produced in stop-motion animation or stop-frame animation, so you're going to

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learn a little bit more about that process.

01:16:30.380 --> 01:16:34.220
And it's produced in partnership with the incredible team at Ardhaman Animation

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Studios in Bristol, England.

01:16:36.500 --> 01:16:41.500
You might know their work from Sean the Sheep, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Grime.

01:16:41.500 --> 01:16:45.500
Yes, they're the best. It's my pleasure to introduce them on stage.

01:16:45.500 --> 01:16:49.500
We've got some of the team members with us. First up is our director, Tom Parkinson.

01:16:49.500 --> 01:17:01.500
Next up is Nat McKay, Ardman's Creative Director of Development.

01:17:01.500 --> 01:17:10.500
And he just arrived just off the airplane, our head of puppets, Jimmy Young.

01:17:10.500 --> 01:17:14.500
He's got his suitcase so he made it in time.

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All right, let's have a seat.

01:17:19.500 --> 01:17:20.500
Thanks.

01:17:20.500 --> 01:17:23.500
I'm happy you made it, Jimmy.

01:17:23.500 --> 01:17:26.500
Just all for fun.

01:17:26.500 --> 01:17:33.500
Well, before we get into the show a little bit, why don't you guys explain a little bit about your roles and what you do on the show?

01:17:33.500 --> 01:17:34.500
So, Tom, why don't you start?

01:17:34.500 --> 01:17:38.500
So, yeah, I'm Tom Parkinson. I'm the series director.

01:17:38.500 --> 01:17:41.060
I'm also one of the writers on the show and

01:17:42.900 --> 01:17:49.380
Actually, one of the people that has kind of developed this from its very infancy since if it's a wee baby like three years ago

01:17:49.380 --> 01:17:50.540
I guess

01:17:50.540 --> 01:17:53.060
So yeah, I've sort of developed it with the team at Ardman

01:17:53.460 --> 01:17:55.960
And how about yourself now? So hi, I'm Nat Mackay

01:17:55.960 --> 01:18:01.240
I work as creative director in the development team at Ardman and I also have been working on developing this show

01:18:01.540 --> 01:18:06.820
Also one of the writers with Tom and a few other people. So yeah doing it for I think it's four years four years

01:18:08.500 --> 01:18:13.500
And Jimmy I'm yeah, so I'm puppet great lead I lead a team of excellent puppet makers

01:18:13.500 --> 01:18:17.640
And we are in charge of making all the puppets for the show so cool

01:18:18.140 --> 01:18:21.140
And I think I just got to ask a big you know important question

01:18:21.740 --> 01:18:23.620
Who are your favorite Pokemon?

01:18:23.620 --> 01:18:28.220
Who is my favorite Pokemon? Who's your favorite Pokemon time? Well apart from the two

01:18:28.620 --> 01:18:32.640
Heroes of our show my favorite Pokemon is Appleton

01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:35.640
Oh, yeah. Good one.

01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:42.640
You know, no reasons other than they're made of apple pie.

01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:46.640
And it's a dragon. I mean, I love dragons and I love apple pies, so what's not to love?

01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:48.640
That's a good one. And how about yourself, Nat?

01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:53.640
So I guess mine's probably a bit of an obvious choice, but it's how I started with Pokemon,

01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:55.640
and it was my star's Pokemon, so mine is Charminder.

01:18:55.640 --> 01:18:57.640
Oh, yeah.

01:18:57.640 --> 01:19:00.640
Obvious, you know, every Pokemon has great choice.

01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:02.640
Jimmy, last one please.

01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:06.640
It's got to be LaChunx for me. Love the chill thighs.

01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.640
That's what I'm all about, just chilling.

01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:13.640
That's a great trio. It's a good pick.

01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:16.640
Well, before we get into some of the creative,

01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:20.640
we're really excited to give you all a very first look

01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:24.640
at our teaser that is being premiered right now in this moment

01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:26.640
when I click this button.

01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:29.640
So let's give it a look. Here we go, everybody.

01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:31.640
Everybody

01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:01.640
Hmm

01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:09.040
Pokemon tales the misadventures of

01:20:18.240 --> 01:20:21.800
Looks looks amazing and we are thrilled to

01:20:22.520 --> 01:20:24.940
Announce that Disney Plus is our exclusive

01:20:24.940 --> 01:20:30.060
Global Streaming Partner will be the home for this show available for everybody in

01:20:31.020 --> 01:20:32.180
2027

01:20:32.180 --> 01:20:38.420
Thrilled to see it on Disney Plus. So exciting really cool for everyone to get to get to see this show

01:20:40.620 --> 01:20:46.340
That was a real tease Tom so will you give everyone like a little bit of a kind of a taste of what this show is really about

01:20:46.780 --> 01:20:52.780
Yeah, I'll give you the overview. It's some it's a comedy adventure series. It's a stock friend show like you said

01:20:52.780 --> 01:21:05.780
but it follows our heroes, Sofecht and Pichu, a gallant knight and a trusty squire on a kind of medieval quest around the region of Galar.

01:21:05.780 --> 01:21:17.780
This is going to be all set in Galar. And these two guys are questing and their aim is to protect and serve and to help any Pokémon in need.

01:21:17.780 --> 01:21:20.820
We've kind of given it this kind of medieval twist.

01:21:20.820 --> 01:21:23.940
It does definitely feel like a knight in squire kind of show.

01:21:25.780 --> 01:21:28.180
As I said, it's set in Galar, which is cool.

01:21:28.180 --> 01:21:31.220
There's loads of cool locations there that we can explore.

01:21:33.060 --> 01:21:38.420
And each episode, they kind of encounter a new Pokemon or a group of Pokemon

01:21:38.420 --> 01:21:43.380
and kind of get involved in adventures and capers and hijinks with those other Pokemon.

01:21:43.380 --> 01:21:49.380
One of the unique things about our series is there are no humans in it, okay?

01:21:49.380 --> 01:21:57.380
So this is kind of like taking a look at what the Pokemon get up to in the wild, away from any human eyes, okay?

01:21:57.380 --> 01:22:00.380
So that's kind of the bottom line.

01:22:00.380 --> 01:22:06.380
And without humans it means that's really told from that Pokemon POV. What does that really mean there?

01:22:06.380 --> 01:22:11.380
Yeah, I mean it means that we've had to dig in a lot deeper in terms of their personalities,

01:22:11.380 --> 01:22:14.500
really trying, they have to drive the storytelling which seemed really fun.

01:22:14.500 --> 01:22:18.420
It's been a really fun challenge. There's no dialogue and that's been another

01:22:18.420 --> 01:22:22.740
fun challenge in terms of just yeah lots of character comedy. So yeah it's been a

01:22:22.740 --> 01:22:27.340
fun, fun challenge but hope you guys will enjoy it. And how did this kind of

01:22:27.340 --> 01:22:33.180
partnership, this collaboration really start? So I think it was back in 2022,

01:22:33.180 --> 01:22:37.900
I mean stop motion takes a long time, but back in 2022 we were at the

01:22:37.900 --> 01:22:44.060
the Anisee Animation Festival, and Sarah Cox, who's the Chief Creative Officer at Ardman,

01:22:44.060 --> 01:22:47.100
was talking to a friend and they were like, oh, there's someone that wants to speak to

01:22:47.100 --> 01:22:50.980
you, but we can't say who, but you should definitely take the call. So of course with

01:22:50.980 --> 01:22:54.380
an intriguing line like that, you're going to take the call. So Sarah took the call,

01:22:54.380 --> 01:22:58.980
and of course it was Pokemon, and so we were all very, very excited. But before we

01:22:58.980 --> 01:23:03.340
even spoke about kind of the actual project, we spoke about our kind of creative values

01:23:03.340 --> 01:23:07.220
as companies, and it was really clear in that first chat that it was going to

01:23:07.220 --> 01:23:14.900
ones for collaboration. It's amazing and with the show setting Galler make sense to kind of work

01:23:14.900 --> 01:23:20.660
with a bridge studio and then also the non-verbal nature in the background you guys have with Sean

01:23:20.660 --> 01:23:27.220
the sheep working with real physical comedy and really animating kind of character filled animals

01:23:27.220 --> 01:23:32.020
makes perfect sense for that collaboration and that dedication to craft and comedy and

01:23:32.020 --> 01:23:35.780
and storytelling really aligned for Pokemon and with Ardent.

01:23:35.780 --> 01:23:42.780
So couldn't be more excited about this collaboration.

01:23:42.780 --> 01:23:45.940
I think we should talk a little bit about our characters.

01:23:45.940 --> 01:23:47.660
Let's talk a little bit about our heroes.

01:23:47.660 --> 01:23:50.620
Tom, will you give us a little info about our surfetch?

01:23:50.620 --> 01:23:51.620
I'll talk about surfetch.

01:23:51.620 --> 01:23:54.140
Yeah, I mean, when I first saw surfetch,

01:23:54.140 --> 01:23:56.620
I thought, well, actually, there

01:23:56.620 --> 01:23:59.980
is kind of a classic Ardent character.

01:23:59.980 --> 01:24:01.940
They're just so funny to look at.

01:24:01.940 --> 01:24:06.320
There's a duck type, kind of heavy,

01:24:06.320 --> 01:24:09.760
kind of thick-set and waddling kind of duck,

01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:12.080
but they've got this enormous leak

01:24:12.080 --> 01:24:13.600
that they wheeled as well.

01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:15.720
And I just think that there's something inherently funny

01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:16.720
about that already.

01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:20.160
But Sufek just got these nightly pretensions.

01:24:20.160 --> 01:24:23.760
They want to be this great night in our show.

01:24:23.760 --> 01:24:25.880
And there's just something really funny

01:24:25.880 --> 01:24:28.240
about having these high aspirations,

01:24:28.240 --> 01:24:31.880
but not quite, not ever able to escape the fact

01:24:31.880 --> 01:24:38.880
In fact, you're actually a bumbling, slightly waddling duck at the same time.

01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:42.880
When we were developing the character, we sort of thought like,

01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:48.880
it's a fact that there's this type of guy who's got the manual on how to be a great knight,

01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:54.880
and he's read it cover to cover, and just knows all the ins and outs of what it requires to be a great knight.

01:24:54.880 --> 01:25:00.880
But then when things go slightly off the page, or things put out of play amount of his comfort zone,

01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:05.020
zone then things go wrong quite a fast. So he's kind of like a classic

01:25:05.020 --> 01:25:09.440
urban hero in that he's flawed and he's slightly bumbling but he's got a good

01:25:09.440 --> 01:25:13.680
heart and he always gets there in the end. And then every night is supported

01:25:13.680 --> 01:25:18.040
by their squire. Absolutely. We have our Pichu for the show. So here's the cutest

01:25:18.040 --> 01:25:22.480
squire on earth. Yeah and it was really important to look at them as a comedy duo.

01:25:22.480 --> 01:25:25.880
So you know even just visually they look really different but in terms of

01:25:25.880 --> 01:25:29.720
their personalities Pichu is obviously adorable, fun, lots of beautiful

01:25:29.720 --> 01:25:34.400
energy but we also wanted to not make them feel too young like a baby, we wanted them

01:25:34.400 --> 01:25:38.080
to have like this kind of warm edge almost so you know they will challenge

01:25:38.080 --> 01:25:42.160
Sefetch when they're being completely unreasonable. We kind of sort of see

01:25:42.160 --> 01:25:47.960
pictures are like a little teenager in a way, cheeky, slightly mischievous, not too young.

01:25:47.960 --> 01:25:52.560
I guess where Sefetch kind of has read the manual but kind of the real life scares

01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:55.320
and pictures kind of a bit more grounded and that kind of bit more just

01:25:55.320 --> 01:25:59.520
roles with it so they're a fun balance in how in that balance how do they really

01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:04.880
complement each other what are there what drives them I guess adventure really

01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:09.040
suffix wants to go on these nightly quests peachy just wants to have fun

01:26:09.040 --> 01:26:12.080
yeah they might they probably don't even know what a night is they just were

01:26:12.080 --> 01:26:16.680
there because they love suffaction where suffix goes as a venture and fun and

01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:21.440
and you know you mentioned sort of like kind of bringing that comedy out and

01:26:21.440 --> 01:26:24.480
finding that classic Ardman kind of feeling.

01:26:24.480 --> 01:26:25.840
What does that really mean, you know,

01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:27.800
when you're thinking about that as a storyteller,

01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:30.240
as a director, what do you find that?

01:26:30.240 --> 01:26:32.760
Well, we've got a show, like you said,

01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:34.600
no dialogue in this show, okay?

01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:36.240
So we have to do a lot of work

01:26:36.240 --> 01:26:38.400
making it funny in other ways.

01:26:38.400 --> 01:26:40.720
So that's where we really have to make these characters,

01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:43.280
their personalities, their expressions,

01:26:43.280 --> 01:26:44.520
the way they look at each other,

01:26:44.520 --> 01:26:47.520
little eye darts, obviously their physical movement.

01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:49.320
We have to find comedy in all of that.

01:26:49.320 --> 01:26:51.640
And I think that's what we do really well at Ardman, you know?

01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:53.480
That's what we do.

01:26:53.480 --> 01:26:56.040
It's a door.

01:26:56.040 --> 01:26:57.000
It looks amazing.

01:26:57.000 --> 01:26:59.040
And these are the actual puppets.

01:26:59.040 --> 01:27:00.560
Yeah, these are stills of our puppets.

01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:01.060
That's right.

01:27:01.060 --> 01:27:01.560
Yeah.

01:27:01.560 --> 01:27:03.680
It's so cool.

01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:07.280
I guess, like, next, I think we

01:27:07.280 --> 01:27:11.480
should talk a little bit about maybe the world, right?

01:27:11.480 --> 01:27:12.720
I think we should talk about Galler.

01:27:12.720 --> 01:27:14.520
We should talk about kind of bringing that to life

01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:16.560
and where that inspiration came from.

01:27:19.320 --> 01:27:23.320
You said in the show on Gallow, what does that really mean for you, Jimmy?

01:27:23.320 --> 01:27:26.320
So it has very similar similarities to the UK.

01:27:26.320 --> 01:27:29.320
It feels sort of wild and expansive.

01:27:29.320 --> 01:27:32.320
It feels real, but not a fantasy.

01:27:32.320 --> 01:27:36.320
And, you know, elements are based sort of where we are in Bristol.

01:27:36.320 --> 01:27:40.320
So the rolling hills, we've got the mountains like in Scotland and Wales.

01:27:40.320 --> 01:27:44.320
We have sort of vast areas of like birch and oak trees.

01:27:44.320 --> 01:27:49.320
And it has some similarities in that world.

01:27:49.320 --> 01:27:52.320
Oh, some great pictures up on the screen.

01:27:52.320 --> 01:27:55.320
So this is images from the show that we're looking at.

01:27:55.320 --> 01:27:57.320
Yeah, this is one of our sets from the show.

01:27:57.320 --> 01:28:01.320
As Jimmy says, Galar's kind of a vast region, right?

01:28:01.320 --> 01:28:05.320
So we've got ice caves, we've got big dark scary forests,

01:28:05.320 --> 01:28:08.320
we've got mushroom forests, we've got loads of stuff

01:28:08.320 --> 01:28:12.320
that we've been kind of inspired from the visuals in Sword and Shield.

01:28:12.320 --> 01:28:17.500
But we kind of take it into our own and expand it upon and made it in a sort of

01:28:17.500 --> 01:28:24.380
urbanized way really. It's absolutely beautiful. It's amazing. And all of this

01:28:24.380 --> 01:28:27.980
that we're looking at, this is built, this is hand-built, this is produced, that

01:28:27.980 --> 01:28:31.940
argument. There's a set, people can actually actually back over there and

01:28:31.940 --> 01:28:36.060
kind of give a taste to that. We should talk a little bit about kind of what

01:28:36.060 --> 01:28:40.820
it goes into to craft this world and kind of build everything. Jimmy, can you

01:28:40.820 --> 01:28:45.620
take us through just the simple process of making, the simple, I say simple, not

01:28:45.620 --> 01:28:51.300
that simple, of making a tree. Like there's a lot of trees on the show. What do

01:28:51.300 --> 01:28:54.900
you do? How do you, how does this come about? So what I should say first of all,

01:28:54.900 --> 01:28:58.740
unlike live action when you can just go out and find a sex or you're going to

01:28:58.740 --> 01:29:02.780
shoot in the real world, everything in the stop motion world has to be built

01:29:02.780 --> 01:29:06.700
and it's normally built by hand. So we're looking here at just an

01:29:06.700 --> 01:29:11.180
under structure of some trees from the art department and that gets covered in

01:29:11.180 --> 01:29:16.140
polystyrene or foam and the team are carving that with like wire brushes or

01:29:16.140 --> 01:29:20.900
hot wires or just sort of sanding those and getting the shapes right and here

01:29:20.900 --> 01:29:24.700
we have Nicola here from the art department and she's sort of cutting

01:29:24.700 --> 01:29:29.860
like chunks of foam and she's sort of hand carving with a knife and a

01:29:29.860 --> 01:29:33.420
blade and all those pieces are all individually shaped and they're little

01:29:33.420 --> 01:29:36.100
tiny blocks that get stuck on the tree. There's got to be a few hundred

01:29:36.100 --> 01:29:37.580
blocks those on there.

01:29:37.580 --> 01:29:40.020
So that's every piece of bark.

01:29:40.020 --> 01:29:41.180
Every single piece of bark.

01:29:41.180 --> 01:29:41.980
Of every tree.

01:29:41.980 --> 01:29:43.140
Yeah.

01:29:43.140 --> 01:29:46.180
That's pretty amazing.

01:29:46.180 --> 01:29:48.260
And then obviously the team then start painting it.

01:29:48.260 --> 01:29:52.180
So obviously giving a bit of the base tones in here,

01:29:52.180 --> 01:29:53.300
getting the shading down.

01:29:53.300 --> 01:29:55.220
And then what's really great about the world

01:29:55.220 --> 01:29:57.820
that we've created is the color palette.

01:29:57.820 --> 01:30:01.100
It's really quite vibrant in different areas.

01:30:01.100 --> 01:30:05.500
And so the hard edges, the solid edges of the trees

01:30:05.500 --> 01:30:12.500
complemented with all the soft undergrowth, the plants, the flowers.

01:30:12.500 --> 01:30:16.500
Really adding depth to the Pokemon world.

01:30:16.500 --> 01:30:21.500
So every element that we're seeing here, this is handmade, sculpted.

01:30:21.500 --> 01:30:22.500
Crafted by the team.

01:30:22.500 --> 01:30:24.500
Wow, it's absolutely beautiful.

01:30:24.500 --> 01:30:28.500
Really comes together and brings together life in this amazing way.

01:30:28.500 --> 01:30:34.500
And this shot here is a classic shooting space at the studio.

01:30:34.500 --> 01:30:39.380
studio. Obviously the set is on a wooden base here and we have all the accoutrements for

01:30:39.380 --> 01:30:44.040
shooting. We have cameras, all the lighting set up. And you can kind of see in the top

01:30:44.040 --> 01:30:49.620
right hand corner these little pieces of glass and it sort of adds the dappled look

01:30:49.620 --> 01:30:55.140
from the trees, the canopy as the light passes through that. And it's just, we're layering,

01:30:55.140 --> 01:30:58.520
layering this environment. Here we have Heather here. She's sort of what we call

01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:01.260
dressing the sex of the birch forest.

01:31:01.260 --> 01:31:06.780
And this is that abode like shadow in the foreground that's sort of made by...

01:31:06.780 --> 01:31:11.740
And our sort of DOP Laura will sort of set this all up and sort of like painting with

01:31:11.740 --> 01:31:12.740
lights.

01:31:12.740 --> 01:31:14.460
What is the DOP?

01:31:14.460 --> 01:31:15.460
Director of Photography.

01:31:15.460 --> 01:31:16.460
Very cool.

01:31:16.460 --> 01:31:18.780
Director of Photography Laura.

01:31:18.780 --> 01:31:20.420
And then how about this one?

01:31:20.420 --> 01:31:22.980
So this one, no humans in this show.

01:31:22.980 --> 01:31:26.740
This feels a little human.

01:31:26.740 --> 01:31:28.740
Relics of humans.

01:31:28.740 --> 01:31:30.740
Yeah, we never, yeah.

01:31:30.740 --> 01:31:37.820
And not so explicit but there obviously have been humans in this in our world and potentially there are but yeah

01:31:37.820 --> 01:31:39.820
We don't see them. Not yet

01:31:39.820 --> 01:31:45.860
And a lot of the sort of the architecture as well is is based around sort of like the UK medieval history and things

01:31:45.860 --> 01:31:48.660
I even take lots of elements around the country. They've sort of

01:31:49.100 --> 01:31:52.060
Played their part within the design the production design of the show

01:31:53.900 --> 01:31:59.940
And this shot here we have busy our production designer on the left and we have Simon our art director

01:31:59.940 --> 01:32:03.940
And Tom's giving a brief here about sort of the miniature set.

01:32:03.940 --> 01:32:09.940
So not only do we build huge, quite big sets, we're obviously shooting a lot of stuff in miniature.

01:32:09.940 --> 01:32:14.940
And that's like our opening set pieces, sort of our wide shots.

01:32:14.940 --> 01:32:16.940
Why do characters come through?

01:32:16.940 --> 01:32:18.940
Why would you shoot stuff in miniature?

01:32:18.940 --> 01:32:22.940
So in the audience of, like, make Galar feel as expansive as possible,

01:32:22.940 --> 01:32:25.940
we work on different scales, okay?

01:32:25.940 --> 01:32:30.540
So we have our puppets on one scale, and we have a set that then suits them.

01:32:30.540 --> 01:32:38.240
But then we also have whole mountain ranges in miniature, like ice caves and sort of establishing shots.

01:32:38.240 --> 01:32:41.040
We go quite small, but they look super cool.

01:32:41.040 --> 01:32:47.040
And it just allows us to create a bigger looking world, essentially.

01:32:47.040 --> 01:32:50.240
So this image is from one of these kind of wide shots.

01:32:50.240 --> 01:32:50.740
Yeah.

01:32:50.740 --> 01:32:51.840
Jimmy's going into his luggage.

01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:52.740
Should I go into my luggage?

01:32:52.740 --> 01:32:53.540
What's in the box?

01:32:53.540 --> 01:32:54.240
I think you should go into your luggage.

01:32:54.240 --> 01:32:55.240
Bring out your underpants.

01:32:55.240 --> 01:32:56.740
Box of Kicks.

01:32:56.740 --> 01:32:57.740
And here we go.

01:32:57.740 --> 01:33:00.300
Probably won't see them from there.

01:33:00.300 --> 01:33:01.260
You have to win.

01:33:01.260 --> 01:33:01.940
Yeah.

01:33:01.940 --> 01:33:03.900
So we're playing with different scales.

01:33:03.900 --> 01:33:05.740
We have our OG scale.

01:33:05.740 --> 01:33:08.100
And then we have our 1, 10th and 1, 5th scale.

01:33:08.100 --> 01:33:11.020
And this is what's in the shot here.

01:33:11.020 --> 01:33:12.860
And this is our smaller scale, right?

01:33:12.860 --> 01:33:13.740
That's our smaller scale.

01:33:13.740 --> 01:33:17.060
And some of the elements actually move as well.

01:33:17.060 --> 01:33:20.100
And little Pute's head turns and the shield moves.

01:33:20.100 --> 01:33:21.420
And we have, like, in the pocket team,

01:33:21.420 --> 01:33:23.220
we have some really talented painters.

01:33:23.220 --> 01:33:24.620
I've got really old eyes.

01:33:24.620 --> 01:33:27.700
I can't paint this detail.

01:33:27.700 --> 01:33:31.460
So I left some of the younger members of the team.

01:33:31.460 --> 01:33:37.620
And then for animation, how does that scale and process work?

01:33:37.620 --> 01:33:41.020
I'm just curious about if this is the miniature scale.

01:33:41.020 --> 01:33:41.520
Yeah.

01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:43.020
So what I really love about that one

01:33:43.020 --> 01:33:46.580
we sort of talked about at the beginning.

01:33:46.580 --> 01:33:48.260
For me, when we start animating, it's

01:33:48.260 --> 01:33:49.980
very simplistic animation.

01:33:49.980 --> 01:33:53.060
And it feels like there's sort of a child animating

01:33:53.060 --> 01:33:54.900
with their own toys on the set.

01:33:54.900 --> 01:33:58.180
And I think that, again, is bringing that extra layer.

01:33:58.180 --> 01:33:58.940
That's amazing.

01:33:58.940 --> 01:34:02.660
And the Pokemon world is just full of these incredible

01:34:02.660 --> 01:34:07.860
creatures, diverse shapes, sizes, ways of movement,

01:34:07.860 --> 01:34:08.900
personalities.

01:34:08.900 --> 01:34:11.060
You guys are telling stories with them and adding even more

01:34:11.060 --> 01:34:12.580
personality.

01:34:12.580 --> 01:34:16.060
The team at Ardman's done just a fantastic job at bringing

01:34:16.060 --> 01:34:19.180
these creatures to life in a way that we've never seen

01:34:19.180 --> 01:34:20.660
before.

01:34:20.660 --> 01:34:24.220
And I think you're about to pull out one of those creatures.

01:34:24.220 --> 01:34:24.820
Let's do it.

01:34:24.820 --> 01:34:25.660
Should we get this one out?

01:34:25.660 --> 01:34:28.420
I think we should get one out.

01:34:28.420 --> 01:34:29.940
Don't delay anymore.

01:34:29.940 --> 01:34:30.860
Don't drop it.

01:34:30.860 --> 01:34:31.700
One of our stars.

01:34:35.620 --> 01:34:37.380
So this is one of our actual puppets.

01:34:37.380 --> 01:34:38.980
This is a shooting puppet from the show

01:34:38.980 --> 01:34:40.740
that I've brought along here.

01:34:40.740 --> 01:34:42.660
This is so fetched.

01:34:42.660 --> 01:34:43.980
I'm going to pass it down to Tom.

01:34:43.980 --> 01:34:47.860
And maybe Tom can explain a little bit more.

01:34:47.860 --> 01:34:52.300
So yeah, I mean, this is our scale of puppet that we animate with.

01:34:53.260 --> 01:34:54.900
This is fully poseable.

01:34:54.900 --> 01:34:55.740
It's incredible.

01:34:55.740 --> 01:35:00.700
It's got a whole structure of mechanisms inside that allow the animator to do

01:35:00.700 --> 01:35:02.100
all sorts of crazy things.

01:35:03.420 --> 01:35:06.300
I can't do those things on stage right now, but even like the hair,

01:35:06.780 --> 01:35:10.340
his feathers on top, obviously the beak opens.

01:35:10.820 --> 01:35:12.420
We swap out the eyes here.

01:35:12.420 --> 01:35:14.060
The shape of the eyes changes.

01:35:14.060 --> 01:35:19.780
you know animation is extremely painstaking but like to get any expressions

01:35:19.780 --> 01:35:24.580
just swapping out taking a frame swapping things out taking a frame we have

01:35:24.580 --> 01:35:29.000
different arms actually for different action we'll take these arms off and

01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.540
put different ones on when he loses his leak and shield in certain situations

01:35:32.540 --> 01:35:39.740
arm yeah it's some real piece of work an incredible piece of work from your

01:35:39.740 --> 01:35:46.740
And you guys call them puppets, but I think of puppet, I think of, you know, classic sort of hand puppets.

01:35:46.740 --> 01:35:55.740
But our stop motion puppets are manipulated by hand outside of the puppet, which Tom's been kindly demonstrating for us.

01:35:55.740 --> 01:36:01.740
You're just maneuvering that, and you're setting the pose, and for animation you then take a photo,

01:36:01.740 --> 01:36:08.740
and then you change the pose again, take another photo, and the process of animation is when you've got a series of photos together,

01:36:08.740 --> 01:36:14.940
you'll play it back at the correct speed and that gives the illusion of movement stop motion animation.

01:36:14.940 --> 01:36:23.240
It's incredibly laborious and painstaking, but we really, you know, we love doing it and I think our audiences love seeing it.

01:36:23.240 --> 01:36:26.740
So I think it's worth it. It's a long process, but I think it's worth it.

01:36:26.740 --> 01:36:29.240
This is our surface. Should we show our squire?

01:36:29.240 --> 01:36:29.740
Yes.

01:36:29.740 --> 01:36:30.240
Yeah.

01:36:35.240 --> 01:36:36.240
So adorable.

01:36:36.240 --> 01:36:37.740
You'll see over there.

01:36:38.740 --> 01:36:43.740
So, much smaller. How does scale work when you're...

01:36:43.740 --> 01:36:49.740
Yeah, you choose about sort of 12 centimetres I think roughly from the feet to the top of the head.

01:36:49.740 --> 01:36:55.740
When we started at the beginning talking about puppet design, we had to sort of figure out a scale.

01:36:55.740 --> 01:36:59.740
So, we have to make something that the animators can use every day.

01:36:59.740 --> 01:37:06.740
If it's too small, like technically very difficult, and the animators would get annoyed with us because it would be very difficult.

01:37:06.740 --> 01:37:12.740
It's okay using the miniatures for one-off, but for a long show that's taken about a year or so to do,

01:37:12.740 --> 01:37:17.740
we want to have a great scale and also then we have to think about the rest of the cast in the show

01:37:17.740 --> 01:37:24.740
if the puppets then become too big. So Obstaclean for instance is twice the size of Obstaclefetched

01:37:24.740 --> 01:37:28.740
and if Pucci was bigger and everybody would be bigger and they would be enormous

01:37:28.740 --> 01:37:30.740
and we needed so much space in Bristol to film it.

01:37:30.740 --> 01:37:35.740
We'd have a half to compromise and this is the scale that we've started with.

01:37:35.740 --> 01:37:40.540
Let's take everyone through that development process, that build process.

01:37:40.540 --> 01:37:43.740
We've got some cool photos to show, so maybe we can start here.

01:37:43.740 --> 01:37:46.040
How does it all begin, Jimmy?

01:37:46.040 --> 01:37:48.840
So we're really lucky with Pokemon.

01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:52.140
They've sent us so much research and information.

01:37:52.140 --> 01:37:55.940
So we're talking about illustrations, we're talking about TV shows,

01:37:55.940 --> 01:37:58.940
also the stuff from the games as well, it's been really useful.

01:37:58.940 --> 01:38:03.340
What's brilliant about the games is it has a lot of information about the movement

01:38:03.340 --> 01:38:08.140
and all the poses and all the special abilities of all the Pokémon in this Pokémon world.

01:38:08.140 --> 01:38:16.940
And then Tom and I will sit down and discuss what he wants from those puppets related to the story, the script.

01:38:16.940 --> 01:38:19.140
So what he has in his mind.

01:38:19.140 --> 01:38:26.940
So like, yeah, while the puppets have been designed and created, Nat and I and the writing team have got stories in mind for them.

01:38:26.940 --> 01:38:31.540
So we've got certain things we know that we're going to want the puppet to do for our stories.

01:38:31.540 --> 01:38:36.540
And that information is really important for you guys, so that the puppets can actually attain what we're after.

01:38:36.540 --> 01:38:42.540
Yeah, and then once Tom's happy and Pokemon are happy, we sort of start doing some of our first couple of sculpts.

01:38:42.540 --> 01:38:49.540
We have Lee and Bloxy. Lee is sort of our main sculptor for the show, and Bloxy is one of our chief designers as well.

01:38:49.540 --> 01:38:55.540
And we're sitting down, it's very, puppet making is very much a collaboration. It's not a one person job.

01:38:55.540 --> 01:39:00.540
So because I have a team of about 15 people, we'll start discussing how we're going to make those puppets

01:39:00.540 --> 01:39:03.540
and then we sort of break off into smaller teams and what you'll find is

01:39:03.540 --> 01:39:07.540
certain teams will handle different puppets.

01:39:07.540 --> 01:39:11.540
So here we have blocks here doing the soldering on the bench,

01:39:11.540 --> 01:39:15.540
some of the internal mechanics of our puppets which help them move

01:39:15.540 --> 01:39:20.540
and we're thinking about how they're going to move inside

01:39:20.540 --> 01:39:24.540
so there's a level of complexity there and then we've got to think about

01:39:24.540 --> 01:39:25.980
OK, well, how are we going to make the bodies?

01:39:25.980 --> 01:39:27.340
What are we going to make the bodies from?

01:39:27.340 --> 01:39:30.420
So P2, for instance, has a silicon body,

01:39:30.420 --> 01:39:32.540
like a rubber body.

01:39:32.540 --> 01:39:35.140
And the silicon is very much like baking a cake.

01:39:35.140 --> 01:39:37.100
You add two different ingredients.

01:39:37.100 --> 01:39:38.700
You mix into a bowl.

01:39:38.700 --> 01:39:40.660
You add some pigment, which gives it

01:39:40.660 --> 01:39:42.460
a really vibrant yellow.

01:39:42.460 --> 01:39:44.140
And then you inject into a mold.

01:39:44.140 --> 01:39:46.380
So we have this really lovely squishy body

01:39:46.380 --> 01:39:48.340
that we're able to do all those things with.

01:39:48.340 --> 01:39:52.140
We're using rapid prototyping, 3D printing.

01:39:52.140 --> 01:39:56.020
And that's around the heads, and producing

01:39:56.020 --> 01:39:58.220
the different heads with the Pikachu puppets,

01:39:58.220 --> 01:40:00.460
and also like Tom explaining about the eye shapes

01:40:00.460 --> 01:40:01.300
and things like that.

01:40:01.300 --> 01:40:05.500
So we're using a whole host of different techniques,

01:40:05.500 --> 01:40:08.500
sort of very traditional and more modern,

01:40:08.500 --> 01:40:09.620
with the 3D prints from this world.

01:40:09.620 --> 01:40:13.820
So it's a lot of craft involved in those puppets.

01:40:13.820 --> 01:40:16.460
And this is always really about executing

01:40:16.460 --> 01:40:18.820
that performance, staying true to who these Pokémon

01:40:18.820 --> 01:40:26.820
that we already know and love and then also being able to make sure that physically they can do the things they need to do to tell the stories.

01:40:26.820 --> 01:40:27.820
Yes, that's right.

01:40:27.820 --> 01:40:38.820
So my job at the end of the day is to provide the animation team with the very first prototype puppet and then they'll start doing a series of testing

01:40:38.820 --> 01:40:42.820
and that's when we start developing the character, seeing if there's any issues with the puppets,

01:40:42.820 --> 01:40:45.820
that we may have to go back and change.

01:40:45.820 --> 01:40:50.820
That's the radius of exploring the character.

01:40:50.820 --> 01:40:54.820
So that testing, you're testing the physical nature of the puppet,

01:40:54.820 --> 01:40:58.820
but you're also sort of continuing to develop who these characters are.

01:40:58.820 --> 01:41:00.820
Yeah, that's the most exciting bit.

01:41:00.820 --> 01:41:04.820
Once we get a puppet that's working, we road test it.

01:41:04.820 --> 01:41:07.820
We do extensive sort of development test session on it.

01:41:07.820 --> 01:41:09.820
We don't just figure out if it works.

01:41:09.820 --> 01:41:13.440
We also then go, well, who is this character?

01:41:13.440 --> 01:41:15.520
How do they move?

01:41:15.520 --> 01:41:18.600
And different characters, there's so many brilliant,

01:41:18.600 --> 01:41:20.080
different characters in Pokemon.

01:41:20.080 --> 01:41:21.720
They're all going to move differently, aren't they?

01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:25.440
So we'll spend a whole period of road testing with the

01:41:25.440 --> 01:41:26.040
puppet.

01:41:26.040 --> 01:41:30.240
We've got a development animator who will put them

01:41:30.240 --> 01:41:33.000
through their paces and try and find the character,

01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.920
try and find the personality in the way that they

01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:42.120
March in the way that they crawl around or the way that they leap this is all like really informative stuff, you know

01:41:42.960 --> 01:41:50.340
We should show some of those. Yeah, should show us something. Can I just say like at the beginning me and Tom was really quite nervous

01:41:51.160 --> 01:41:54.880
About our first animation test was so fetched about how it was going to move

01:41:55.920 --> 01:41:59.840
Why were you about to see it? Why were you nervous? Well, there's a lot of silicon in there

01:42:00.120 --> 01:42:02.560
It's quite like it's quite a solid

01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:06.560
He's heavy. This is a big puppet.

01:42:06.560 --> 01:42:10.560
I remember we were like, how is this thing going to move?

01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:12.560
Like how are we going to get finesse out of it?

01:42:12.560 --> 01:42:14.560
But we're going to show you a test, I think.

01:42:14.560 --> 01:42:17.560
So we're going to show you all for the first time

01:42:17.560 --> 01:42:20.560
some of these very early animation tests

01:42:20.560 --> 01:42:22.560
of both Sirfetched and Pichu.

01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:26.560
And this is kind of these characters coming to life

01:42:26.560 --> 01:42:28.560
for the first time for the first time.

01:42:28.560 --> 01:42:30.560
Alright, let's roll it.

01:42:32.560 --> 01:42:34.560
So fetched

01:43:02.560 --> 01:43:03.560
It's amazing.

01:43:05.560 --> 01:43:07.560
We can keep the lights down, we'll be here soon.

01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:38.560
So adorable.

01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:44.560
I mean, these are these puppets.

01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:47.560
Yeah, these are these puppets doing all that testing.

01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:50.560
Yeah, those were the first time they were bought to life, as it were.

01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:56.560
And you can see, actually, with the peachy one, you know, Jimmy said these are made of silicon and mechanics inside.

01:43:56.560 --> 01:44:01.560
But actually, when it was rolling around, when peachy was rolling around, we swapped to plasticine.

01:44:01.560 --> 01:44:03.960
So we do we do mix it up. We kind of use our

01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:11.600
Standard plasticine stuff as a kind of cheat sometimes and for you now like you see these characters

01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:14.120
You've been writing them who thinking about them from a story perspective

01:44:14.280 --> 01:44:19.640
Yeah, it's all theory up until that point and when you see that first animation Tesla. Oh, okay

01:44:19.640 --> 01:44:23.560
This is good. It's gonna work and I think you know when you're writing you go, you know

01:44:23.560 --> 01:44:25.560
They walk to a place and it's kind of you know

01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:31.780
That's just their walking to face and then you kind of seeing how the animation team make that funny and make it character

01:44:31.780 --> 01:44:36.060
It's just such an amazing part of process. They really come to life on the screen. It's wonderful

01:44:36.060 --> 01:44:42.500
It's it's so beautiful and I noticed on Pichu Pichu is zipping around. We saw like a fact

01:44:43.140 --> 01:44:46.400
But this is animation tests. What what were we seeing?

01:44:46.400 --> 01:44:50.560
Well, we decided to like Pichu's got so much energy and they're an electrotype

01:44:50.560 --> 01:44:52.740
So we've decided to get them to this this little kind of

01:44:52.740 --> 01:44:57.340
of a whispered electric behind them when they move super quick.

01:44:57.340 --> 01:44:59.020
It's a really nice way of contrasting

01:44:59.020 --> 01:45:02.420
with the waddling, heavy, surfaced Peachtree zips,

01:45:02.420 --> 01:45:04.100
or we gave them these little zips.

01:45:04.100 --> 01:45:06.060
And that's just a piece of acetate,

01:45:06.060 --> 01:45:09.020
or several shapes of acetate that we animate.

01:45:09.020 --> 01:45:10.580
It's like a transparent film.

01:45:10.580 --> 01:45:11.900
That's right, yeah.

01:45:11.900 --> 01:45:13.300
Cut, cut, yeah.

01:45:13.300 --> 01:45:15.340
Yeah, and it just describes their movement, basically.

01:45:15.340 --> 01:45:19.540
You can sort of very simply take a frame here,

01:45:19.540 --> 01:45:22.500
take a frame there, and put the little acetate zip

01:45:22.500 --> 01:45:24.060
between them and we've got movement.

01:45:24.060 --> 01:45:26.220
Was that part of the plan going into the testing

01:45:26.220 --> 01:45:27.060
that you knew this is?

01:45:27.060 --> 01:45:28.260
Well, I think it came from the testing.

01:45:28.260 --> 01:45:31.660
Yeah, it was like one of the development animators

01:45:31.660 --> 01:45:34.980
like trying things, experimenting, having fun,

01:45:34.980 --> 01:45:37.260
playing with the new puppet.

01:45:37.260 --> 01:45:41.620
So this animation testing, we just saw some,

01:45:41.620 --> 01:45:44.900
kind of have sets of builds, how puppets are made.

01:45:44.900 --> 01:45:46.780
But there's a huge team involved in this

01:45:46.780 --> 01:45:48.220
and everything comes together.

01:45:49.060 --> 01:45:50.540
How big is the team at argument?

01:45:50.540 --> 01:45:52.460
Really, how many people are working on this show?

01:45:52.460 --> 01:45:53.980
maybe some stats, Phil, if you want to.

01:45:53.980 --> 01:45:55.180
It's massive.

01:45:55.180 --> 01:45:59.660
So there are 262, I'm going to say,

01:45:59.660 --> 01:46:02.980
just to cover myself, people from Ardham working on this.

01:46:02.980 --> 01:46:05.780
So it's a huge, huge team.

01:46:05.780 --> 01:46:09.300
And one episode will take, so this is from the start,

01:46:09.300 --> 01:46:10.980
so the very start, the writing process,

01:46:10.980 --> 01:46:13.740
all the way to the end, 110 weeks.

01:46:13.740 --> 01:46:14.580
So.

01:46:14.580 --> 01:46:15.420
Two years.

01:46:15.420 --> 01:46:16.660
Yes, a long old time.

01:46:16.660 --> 01:46:17.900
I mean, the shoot where, you know,

01:46:17.900 --> 01:46:20.020
you'll actually have your puppets on sets filming

01:46:20.020 --> 01:46:25.300
doing the animation in about six weeks. So there's so much prep and post around that as well.

01:46:25.300 --> 01:46:28.180
So there's so many different roles across the whole project.

01:46:28.180 --> 01:46:31.060
And how many episodes are sort of happening simultaneously?

01:46:31.060 --> 01:46:32.500
I mean, because that's...

01:46:32.500 --> 01:46:35.380
Two or three, two or three, yeah, they run in parallel.

01:46:36.340 --> 01:46:37.700
Sort of overlap each other.

01:46:37.700 --> 01:46:41.140
Yeah, we've only got so many puppets we can use, so we can't shoot them all at once.

01:46:41.140 --> 01:46:44.020
We've only got so many animators, you can't shoot it all at once.

01:46:44.020 --> 01:46:49.780
So we kind of, we have a long schedule and we drip feed the shooting of it.

01:46:49.780 --> 01:46:51.780
Each animator I think has their own...

01:46:51.780 --> 01:46:59.780
Yes, there's about 12 to 13 people surfaced in 13 Pichu's for the series.

01:46:59.780 --> 01:47:01.780
So it's not like one animator...

01:47:01.780 --> 01:47:02.780
No.

01:47:02.780 --> 01:47:07.780
No, that would be impossible because they're in a lot of scenes, you know, like across the series.

01:47:07.780 --> 01:47:09.780
It would take eternity.

01:47:09.780 --> 01:47:15.780
So I think each animator per week does about 13 and a half seconds per week of animation.

01:47:15.780 --> 01:47:17.780
13 and a half seconds work.

01:47:17.780 --> 01:47:19.540
Yeah, that's amazing.

01:47:19.540 --> 01:47:21.460
And how do they keep consistent?

01:47:21.460 --> 01:47:24.180
How do you guys kind of keep make it so that it doesn't

01:47:24.180 --> 01:47:26.620
matter who's animating and surfetched, it really always

01:47:26.620 --> 01:47:27.740
feels like surfetched?

01:47:27.740 --> 01:47:31.580
So when we get our puppet, in the development period,

01:47:31.580 --> 01:47:35.060
with that puppet, we write what we call an animation Bible.

01:47:35.060 --> 01:47:38.780
And that is all of the clips that you see the tests go

01:47:38.780 --> 01:47:39.300
into that.

01:47:39.300 --> 01:47:41.460
And then written documents go into that.

01:47:41.460 --> 01:47:44.980
And kind of like do's, don'ts, everything that the

01:47:44.980 --> 01:47:47.460
development animators learn about that puppet, they

01:47:47.460 --> 01:47:51.780
right down and it's kind of like any new animators fighting with us working with us

01:47:51.780 --> 01:47:55.780
will read it and read it again and read it again until they really fully know that

01:47:55.780 --> 01:48:00.780
character and they know how to animate that character before then going and

01:48:00.780 --> 01:48:04.340
shooting basically. It's amazing it's incredible. It's a lot of process. There's

01:48:04.340 --> 01:48:11.220
I mean 200 and how many people? 62. 62 people. Like can you just share a couple of

01:48:11.220 --> 01:48:15.740
other roles that maybe people might not expect that are on the

01:48:15.740 --> 01:48:17.780
So we have our amazing production team.

01:48:17.780 --> 01:48:20.620
We've spoken about writing, animators,

01:48:20.620 --> 01:48:22.820
lots of different roles within Puppets.

01:48:22.820 --> 01:48:25.060
Any fun roles with the edit team?

01:48:25.060 --> 01:48:28.620
There's storyboard team, writers, drawing these things.

01:48:28.620 --> 01:48:32.900
I was in the studio one time and I got introduced to a spark.

01:48:32.900 --> 01:48:35.020
So this was a job I'd never heard of before.

01:48:35.020 --> 01:48:35.660
Say that again.

01:48:35.660 --> 01:48:36.620
Spark.

01:48:36.620 --> 01:48:37.460
A spark.

01:48:37.460 --> 01:48:38.020
A spark.

01:48:38.020 --> 01:48:38.980
I think it's a spark.

01:48:38.980 --> 01:48:39.820
No, a spark.

01:48:39.820 --> 01:48:40.300
Not to me.

01:48:40.300 --> 01:48:40.860
A spark.

01:48:40.860 --> 01:48:42.500
A spark is a spark.

01:48:42.500 --> 01:48:44.020
So a spark is an electrician.

01:48:44.020 --> 01:48:50.020
Oh, how irresponsible for all the lighting and making sure we don't blow ourselves up with all the electricity

01:48:50.020 --> 01:48:53.020
just running through the studio, like, teach you.

01:48:53.020 --> 01:48:56.020
All these pictures running around, they cause problems.

01:48:56.020 --> 01:48:59.020
There is a role called Puppet Rangler, which is my favourite title,

01:48:59.020 --> 01:49:04.020
because it does sound like someone's just running around the studio trying to grab back the puppets, so it's a great role.

01:49:04.020 --> 01:49:05.020
And what do they do?

01:49:05.020 --> 01:49:07.020
They make sure the puppets are where they need to be.

01:49:07.020 --> 01:49:09.020
They literally run around the studio.

01:49:09.020 --> 01:49:12.020
They put the puppets back to bed at night, they tuck them up.

01:49:12.020 --> 01:49:20.180
Actually there was a position called a rigger and just in those animation tests you could

01:49:20.180 --> 01:49:24.260
see Pichu running around and there was like a metal wire coming and so that's the rigging

01:49:24.260 --> 01:49:29.360
that is needed to hold them up it's like scaffold and then in our VFX process that

01:49:29.360 --> 01:49:34.060
is deleted you know we rub that out it's one of those little tricks of the trade.

01:49:34.060 --> 01:49:38.500
That's very cool and then all this whole team brings us together and now we're going

01:49:38.500 --> 01:49:46.500
I want to show a clip that was the very first finished shot that was delivered over two years ago for our pilot.

01:49:46.500 --> 01:49:53.500
So this shot showed up at TPCI and we saw this and it was just remarkable.

01:49:53.500 --> 01:50:00.500
And for us at Pokemon, working with you, every time we receive material, it really is like opening a gift.

01:50:00.500 --> 01:50:05.500
It's amazing and this was the first time we really got to see everything come together.

01:50:05.500 --> 01:50:07.500
So we're gonna give you guys that look.

01:50:30.980 --> 01:50:32.480
Amazing.

01:50:32.480 --> 01:50:35.280
So that was about, I think, 13 seconds-ish.

01:50:35.280 --> 01:50:36.240
So that's a week.

01:50:36.240 --> 01:50:39.240
That was one, that was something to me.

01:50:39.240 --> 01:50:41.120
And the animators were like, that's how it works, too.

01:50:41.120 --> 01:50:43.200
Yeah, yeah.

01:50:43.200 --> 01:50:45.800
And then all of the other teams kind of on that.

01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:46.920
Truly, truly.

01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:50.160
It's definitely a team effort.

01:50:50.160 --> 01:50:54.200
So we've talked a lot about Sifat,

01:50:54.200 --> 01:50:55.400
we've talked a lot about Pichu.

01:50:55.400 --> 01:50:57.960
There's also a lot of other Pokemon.

01:50:57.960 --> 01:51:01.320
I'm just curious, are there any other kind of Pokemon

01:51:01.320 --> 01:51:03.080
that you are excited to show on the series?

01:51:03.080 --> 01:51:07.760
we've seen some stuff in the teaser, any other highlights from this Pokemon that you'd

01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:13.840
like to talk about? I mean it was such a fun, what a fun job we got to look at all the Pokemon

01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:18.440
on the side, who's going to be in our series which is a very, very fun part. I mean we

01:51:18.440 --> 01:51:24.200
we did focus specifically on Galar. Yeah the Galarian. Yeah trying to make it feel

01:51:24.200 --> 01:51:28.160
as Galar. Rich is possible and looking at their different personalities, trying to

01:51:28.160 --> 01:51:32.680
work out who would bring like really fun stories and challenge our heroes in some

01:51:32.680 --> 01:51:37.400
ways and yeah it was a it was literally yeah to my opening presence that was like

01:51:37.400 --> 01:51:41.840
it's kind of someone else's toys I mean like just visually they're stunning and

01:51:41.840 --> 01:51:46.840
and but as soon as we started looking at some specific characters they lent

01:51:46.840 --> 01:51:51.160
themselves to certain stories like like every show needs a kind of antagonists

01:51:51.160 --> 01:51:56.800
to some degree so we always still went we went straight towards a scabalier as

01:51:56.800 --> 01:52:02.320
like the Nemesis or the antagonists to the great nightly suffetch, you know a

01:52:02.320 --> 01:52:06.520
scabally again a night that could challenge and compete against them so

01:52:06.520 --> 01:52:11.760
the scabally it pops up quite a bit. It was like really fun to build Jimmy for

01:52:11.760 --> 01:52:17.880
your team to kind of get action. So for me it was Obstegu, it was a really quite a long

01:52:17.880 --> 01:52:22.240
process it was at sort of we've made a lot of other puppets or characters

01:52:22.240 --> 01:52:28.400
Pokemon before then and so it's the culmination of all the different designs

01:52:28.400 --> 01:52:33.320
that we're using sort of then sort of working that into obstacoon scale

01:52:33.320 --> 01:52:38.440
just the way it looks as well and technically it was a big achievement

01:52:38.440 --> 01:52:41.680
from the puppet department because a lot of that is all cast in one it's not

01:52:41.680 --> 01:52:45.760
separate pieces so being so large casting it and obviously the graphic

01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:50.280
nature of the Pokemon as well. He's massive isn't he? He's heavy. And any

01:52:50.280 --> 01:52:55.080
actually you need to be quite hench animator to even move his limbs around

01:52:55.080 --> 01:53:01.280
like he's big, too fella. Jimmy is like an obstegoon type. Jimmy is an obstegoon.

01:53:01.280 --> 01:53:07.880
And what's great we're obviously highlighting what the animation

01:53:07.880 --> 01:53:13.520
development animation team are doing seeing some of the shots coming back

01:53:13.520 --> 01:53:17.720
out of the units of obstegoon those early tests because it's such a large

01:53:17.720 --> 01:53:23.480
puppet. It just blew me away. All the jaw mechanism that was working, and all the tongues

01:53:23.480 --> 01:53:30.920
and it was just really top-notch stuff. So for any kind of unexpected surprises, Pokemon

01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:36.160
that you didn't think you'd fall in love with, or maybe you changed their attitude

01:53:36.160 --> 01:53:41.080
about them? I think for me it was Caravalast who saw them in their trailer. I think when

01:53:41.080 --> 01:53:47.000
we were writing that episode we were struggling about how to place them in the series

01:53:47.000 --> 01:53:49.480
And then we were talking, kind of talking them through,

01:53:49.480 --> 01:53:53.320
and then we spoke about this kind of snooty way to vibe to them.

01:53:53.320 --> 01:53:55.920
And it just worked so well in the story,

01:53:55.920 --> 01:53:57.360
and I love them as a character.

01:53:57.360 --> 01:53:59.800
They're fantastic, and they've got such a vibe.

01:53:59.800 --> 01:54:02.000
Them and Pichu have got a great dynamic as well.

01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:03.320
So yeah, that was really...

01:54:03.320 --> 01:54:08.840
Yeah, Cara Blast, we've sort of cast them as Escavalier's squire.

01:54:08.840 --> 01:54:12.760
So, where Escavalier and the Sufetia competing

01:54:12.760 --> 01:54:14.040
or challenging each other,

01:54:14.040 --> 01:54:16.960
We have this kind of squat face-off between

01:54:16.960 --> 01:54:18.640
Karabalast and Kichu.

01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:19.480
It's kind of cool.

01:54:19.480 --> 01:54:20.960
It's good relationship.

01:54:20.960 --> 01:54:22.600
And that seems like a very classic

01:54:22.600 --> 01:54:25.360
argmin kind of formula for comedy also.

01:54:25.360 --> 01:54:27.080
Yeah, comedy duos.

01:54:27.080 --> 01:54:29.160
And were there any other kind of great moments

01:54:29.160 --> 01:54:31.240
working on the show, just fun highlights

01:54:31.240 --> 01:54:34.560
outside of the characters themselves?

01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:36.320
I think for me, like the most exciting thing

01:54:36.320 --> 01:54:38.280
is just being allowed to play

01:54:38.280 --> 01:54:41.120
in this incredible world of Pokemon.

01:54:41.120 --> 01:54:44.360
Like, you know, there's just so many characters.

01:54:44.360 --> 01:54:47.120
And Galaaf, to me, is just such an exciting place

01:54:47.120 --> 01:54:48.120
to go and play.

01:54:48.120 --> 01:54:52.920
We've got icy mountains, ice caps, ice caves.

01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.080
And then we've got the mines.

01:54:55.080 --> 01:54:56.760
We've got mushroom forests.

01:54:56.760 --> 01:55:00.640
We've got so many different locations and environments

01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:03.120
that we can just go and have the benches.

01:55:03.120 --> 01:55:04.440
It's a really cool show.

01:55:04.440 --> 01:55:08.320
I can't wait to show more stuff to you guys.

01:55:08.320 --> 01:55:13.200
It's like, you know, next year's a long way away, but it can't come quickly enough for us.

01:55:13.200 --> 01:55:17.280
We just want to get it out there and share what we've been working on.

01:55:17.280 --> 01:55:20.800
And all of this is, you know, you're talking about adventure, but this is Ardman.

01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:21.200
Yeah.

01:55:21.200 --> 01:55:22.640
This is an Ardman show.

01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:28.560
So bringing that Ardman tone and comedy was so fun to be able to kind of see how this could be.

01:55:28.560 --> 01:55:34.960
Yeah, that collaboration, our show, really pushing the quality and the characters and the slapstick.

01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:38.960
It was a warm and reverent humour. It was a really good experience.

01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:44.960
I think it's a really exciting show for Ardman. It's slightly different from what we've done before.

01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:49.960
I think it feels really fresh. Everyone there is so excited about it.

01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:52.960
When we started working on it, we were all just grinning.

01:55:52.960 --> 01:55:57.960
The crew were all the way just motivated because of the excitement.

01:55:57.960 --> 01:56:01.960
We've got some big super fans on the project as well.

01:56:01.960 --> 01:56:05.360
So, obviously, collecting cards for a very long time, playing the games,

01:56:05.360 --> 01:56:08.120
and obviously, those people being involved within the team,

01:56:08.120 --> 01:56:10.600
and everyone's just super pumped for the show,

01:56:10.600 --> 01:56:12.120
and very excited to be working on it.

01:56:12.120 --> 01:56:14.880
And at Pokemon, we're Ardman fans,

01:56:14.880 --> 01:56:17.880
so it was really great to work with you all,

01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:21.880
and I think there was always kind of trying to find these moments.

01:56:21.880 --> 01:56:26.640
Ardman did an incredible job at kind of bringing Pokemon to life,

01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:27.920
and we also said, like,

01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:30.120
well, how do we make sure that this can feel Ardman?

01:56:30.120 --> 01:56:34.960
You know we saw that Pichu Tastri said either with that plasticine, we think about Ardman

01:56:34.960 --> 01:56:39.120
often we think about clay, plasticine.

01:56:39.120 --> 01:56:43.600
There was a moment early on where there was sort of a gag cut away.

01:56:43.600 --> 01:56:45.840
Do you want to kind of set this up a little bit?

01:56:45.840 --> 01:56:51.020
This is a throwaway comedic moment in our show but I think it pretty much typifies like

01:56:51.020 --> 01:56:54.800
a real cross between Ardman and Pokemon.

01:56:54.800 --> 01:56:57.120
It's Ardman doing Pokemon.

01:56:57.120 --> 01:56:58.120
You should show it.

01:56:58.120 --> 01:57:03.180
It's a moment a throwaway moment, but I find it hilarious. So when this is just a still image

01:57:03.760 --> 01:57:09.840
It's people who have seen Wallace and grommet or chicken rum will get it. All right. We're just gonna show this still

01:57:10.000 --> 01:57:12.000
It's only a still isn't it?

01:57:13.360 --> 01:57:15.900
Not what I think of when I think of Pichu

01:57:17.920 --> 01:57:19.920
Geez

01:57:20.440 --> 01:57:26.940
It's one of those but maybe our Pichu this is so so in our show this feels right

01:57:26.940 --> 01:57:34.940
Yeah, it's a moment. Our peachy doesn't have teeth like that, but it's a great little gag cutaway.

01:57:34.940 --> 01:57:40.940
And I feel like that's what's been the best thing about this is that Pokémon have allowed us to express ourselves in it.

01:57:40.940 --> 01:57:44.940
You know, make it an odd man show with their characters. It does feel very odd.

01:57:44.940 --> 01:57:48.940
Yeah, there's loads of fun and there's loads more coming your way.

01:57:48.940 --> 01:57:53.940
It's so funny. It's so cool. So we'll get a couple of those moments.

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they're rare, they don't happen often, but when they happen they're pretty

01:57:59.340 --> 01:58:06.980
hilarious. I mean really like truly incredible to be working with you all and

01:58:06.980 --> 01:58:13.140
you know like seeing that, seeing that Ardman moment you know it's not just

01:58:13.140 --> 01:58:18.220
making a Pokemon show now, really is being at Ardman working on this. You know

01:58:18.220 --> 01:58:22.340
Jimmy you're a Pokemon fan before this project started. You know when when

01:58:22.340 --> 01:58:27.300
And that puppet came across, you desk, you know, how did that feel?

01:58:27.300 --> 01:58:31.140
In terms of sort of for you, yeah, it is so very exciting.

01:58:31.140 --> 01:58:36.020
I was like super pumped for the Beyond the Project.

01:58:36.020 --> 01:58:42.380
What I'm really interested to see and what I love is the personalities that we're giving

01:58:42.380 --> 01:58:43.380
to all these characters.

01:58:43.380 --> 01:58:49.060
I'm really excited for the Pokemon family and for all of you and see how you sort

01:58:49.060 --> 01:58:54.340
like them and the personalities that we've given to the Pokemon characters in our world.

01:58:56.180 --> 01:59:01.220
And then Tom, you mentioned kind of really making this such a great collaboration and so much fun

01:59:01.220 --> 01:59:06.660
that this exchange of creativity is happening on the show, but for you personally, like where,

01:59:07.780 --> 01:59:10.420
how did this feel? How did this all come together?

01:59:11.700 --> 01:59:15.940
Well, I just think it's a combination of two amazing studios. I feel really lucky that

01:59:15.940 --> 01:59:19.940
that we've been allowed in to come and play with the Pokemon characters. So thank you.

01:59:19.940 --> 01:59:25.940
Yeah, I'm just, I said privilege really, you know, and I think the quality of what we're making

01:59:25.940 --> 01:59:29.940
is blowing our minds at Arman, and I'm hoping that everyone's going to love it when it comes out.

01:59:29.940 --> 01:59:31.940
Actually, can I give a little shout out to the crew at Arman?

01:59:31.940 --> 01:59:32.940
Yes, please.

01:59:32.940 --> 01:59:37.940
Especially Zoe, our producer, who couldn't be here today, but yeah.

01:59:37.940 --> 01:59:39.940
Yes.

01:59:39.940 --> 01:59:42.940
Everyone back in Bristol.

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Season 1 is still in production, she's still finishing up Season 1.

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Too busy to come. No, yeah, a big thanks to all of Arman, because they're the best crew ever and they have Tylus.

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That's very cool. And Nat, you know, you picked your Charmander as a kid, you know, a few years have passed and here you are with Pokemon again.

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again, if you could go back and kind of tell, you know, Nat playing Red, picking their Charmander,

02:00:11.660 --> 02:00:12.860
but what would you say to yourself?

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Well, I mean, I don't think I believe that this is a real job.

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It's a great job, but yeah, overwhelming.

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It's been fantastic.

02:00:19.700 --> 02:00:20.700
That's really cool.

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I mean, you know, there's so many Pokemon fans here, and there's so many people who

02:00:25.100 --> 02:00:30.180
just love, you know, the world, the characters, and just to think that you can kind of

02:00:30.180 --> 02:00:36.340
be involved with the production or with the brand in so many different ways, just so exciting.

02:00:36.340 --> 02:00:41.780
So we're, you know, we couldn't be more grateful to be working with you all on this amazing

02:00:41.780 --> 02:00:46.700
project. The show really is beautiful and the team of Ardman has done just a stunning

02:00:46.700 --> 02:00:52.660
job at bringing Gala to life, bringing these Pokemon to life and really similar to, you

02:00:52.660 --> 02:00:57.940
can't wait to show the world more of a Survection Pichu. We should watch that teaser one more

02:00:57.940 --> 02:01:04.900
time. Now with more context of what you've all seen, maybe you'll watch it with a slightly

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different appreciation and maybe catch little things in this teaser. So here we go. One more time.

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Yeah!

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Ha ha ha!

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Yeah!

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Yeah!

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Yeah!

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Hmm.

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Uh oh.

02:01:41.940 --> 02:01:43.940
Ugh!

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Pokemon Tales, the Misadventures of...

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The Patch!

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And...

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The Tue!

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So good.

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And Tom,

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2027 is just around the corner so far away. Everyone go check out the show on Disney Plus next year.

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We've got a display just over there. Yes. There's other stuff to see and do.

02:02:10.460 --> 02:02:15.500
So we've got our display booth right over there. Go check out those. Those are the actual scale.

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Those are handmade. Everything's hand-painted. That's one of those trees.

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A different tree. There's a tree from all shooting set. Go check that out.

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Surfection Pichu will be appearing there throughout the weekend get your photos taken with Surfection Pichu if you see

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Nat, Jimmy, Tom, or myself just say hi. We'd love to say hi to all of you

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Check it out. Thank you all for joining us for this panel

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It was it was a thrill to show this for the first time

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Thank you for the the reaction and up next is Pocopia

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Stick around this game is incredible

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Thank you all for joining us, and see you all soon.

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I

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Oh

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I

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Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP.

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I'm Anna Prosser here with Rachel and Glitter at the desk,

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and we are so, so stoked to be here on Rayquaza Road

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in San Francisco for the first ever Pokemon XP.

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We just watched a really cool panel.

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Did you see everything you wanted to see, Glitter?

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I did.

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I did see everything I wanted to see specifically.

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The reaction shot that we had of Pichu

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towards the end, full teeth in the terrified face.

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I was like, this is what I wanted out of Armin.

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and this is exactly perfect.

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Yeah, you had mentioned the teeth were a specific thing

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that you were looking for, right?

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It's just one of like their signature,

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I guess things that you would see

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in a lot of their other animations.

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And I feel like on PG specifically,

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it couldn't have been any more perfect.

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Absolutely.

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All right, in case you're just joining us

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and you're like, what's going on here?

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Like I said, this is the first ever Pokemon XP

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and our job here is to bring you a glimpse

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of everything going on in one place.

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So if you're watching the livestream,

02:15:49.380 --> 02:15:54.560
going to see some videos of us going and experiencing things here at Pokemon XP as well as many

02:15:54.560 --> 02:15:59.420
of the panels that are available to watch at Pokemon XP like the one you just watched.

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Also here at the desk we have the distinct honor of dropping a few things for you.

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There are some stream rewards for you to watch.

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So let's take a look at exactly what those are and how you can get your hands on them.

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First of all for well Rachel do you want to tell us the first one Pokemon TCG live

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I believe?

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Yeah, you can pick up some Mega Evolution Pitch Black Booster packs, you got six of them for you.

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We also got some Build and Battle Event Entry Tokens, then of course, when you're loading up Pokemon TCG Pocket

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to play all those delicious new Team Rocket-based cards and open those packs, call those Hour Glasses.

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That 24-hour glass, if you're playing Pocket, you know what that's worth, and if you're not playing Pocket, download it!

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It's free! It's on the App Store, I promise.

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promise. And of course while you're in the after, make sure you got Pokemon Go too because

02:16:46.180 --> 02:16:52.900
we got the Pokemon XP Costumed Pikachu. We love her, she's an icon and she could be yours

02:16:52.900 --> 02:16:57.460
in Pokemon Go. All you can do is watch 30 minutes on Twitch slash Pokemon XP.

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That's right and you can see in that how to earn column, it basically has to do

02:17:00.700 --> 02:17:04.980
with what you're watching and for how long. So be sure that you're tuned into the

02:17:04.980 --> 02:17:09.820
right stream at the right time and watching for the requisite amount of time. You can

02:17:09.820 --> 02:17:16.180
find us of course at Pokemon XP on Twitch, as well as everywhere on the Pokemon channel.

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But now, you can spend that time watching while we have an incredible interview with our guest.

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Welcome, Swainani!

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Thank you so much for having me, excited to be here.

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Yeah!

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Tell us, in case people aren't familiar with you, who are you?

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What do you do?

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Yeah, so I talk about a ton of anime and manga stuff across YouTube, TikTok and

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Instagram, and of course I've also just been a lifelong Pokemon fan, so excited

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to be here.

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The requisite question is, what is your favorite Pokemon?

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Neuvern for me.

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Nice.

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Nice.

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I saw you catch your shiny Neuvern in ZA.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you very much.

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That was a very exciting time for me.

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Go ahead.

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As a big fan of animation, we were talking on the desk earlier,

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so I'm just going to jump right into it with you.

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So many different Pokemon animations exist out there.

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Do you have a favorite one of those

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that you feel like best encapsulates the story?

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Oh gosh, best encapsulates the story.

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I know for me, I'm just super nostalgic for my childhood era,

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So that would be the Diamond Pearl era of the anime just because Dawn was there

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Cynthia was there some of my favorite characters and always go back to that one whenever I need a little

02:18:16.120 --> 02:18:17.040
nostalgia

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Nice and this I was gonna say is this your first Pokemon XP, but it's all of our first

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So how has it been for you so far? What are you feeling? Yeah, it's been great

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I mean obviously we're only here in day one, but if the atmosphere has been amazing this year

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It is such a big venue

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I was here last year for Pokemon Worlds in Anaheim and even just the jump from 25 to 26 has been quite big

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So excited to see everything this year has to offer

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Obviously we just got through the panel there about the misadventures surfaced and Pichu give me your thoughts on what we heard

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Yeah, it was really exciting to see a teaser

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I know we'd only just seen a couple clips before so

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Ardman is a company that does such interesting stuff with their claimation

02:18:55.960 --> 02:18:59.960
So it was really cool seeing a bunch of different Pokemon represented and I'm kind of excited to see

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which ones appear as we learn more about the series.

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Yeah, absolutely. Are you, you know, as you're here at Pokemon XP,

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are you mostly focused on those kinds of content,

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anime, series, those kinds of things?

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Are there other things that you're keeping your eye out for here?

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Yeah, for sure. Obviously, the Urban Panel is very exciting for me and all this stuff,

02:19:17.960 --> 02:19:19.960
but I'm also a big fan of the TCG art,

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so all of the artist spotlights and panels they have here will be very exciting for me as well.

02:19:23.960 --> 02:19:28.960
And then, of course, the merch, as everyone has been very excited for.

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I have my own Pokemon Center slot later this weekend.

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So excited to check that out a bit later into the column.

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I feel like it's a good strategy to have it a little later

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in the weekend because we all got the chance

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to go a little bit earlier and we're like,

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ah, I should have picked that up.

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Oh, I should have picked, so you get all the time

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to figure out what you need to put on your list.

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For sure, yes.

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It's been, I wanna say a little bit of FOMO,

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but obviously not FOMO since I'll be there,

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but just kinda seeing everyone,

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seeing it and knowing I gotta wait until the end

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of the weekend, but it's building up

02:19:54.720 --> 02:19:56.320
anticipation, so.

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Is there any of the World Special

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or the PXP special stuff that you're looking for?

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I have to say the backpack where you have the rocket ship

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and it has a little capsule to put in plush in

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is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

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So.

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Yeah, in the video they had the Mew in it.

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It's a little bubble Mew.

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So cute.

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What plush would you put in there?

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I would put my Neuron.

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Hopefully it would fit.

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I gotta stay on brand.

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Absolutely.

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I am here for that.

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So with Neuron as a favorite,

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has Neuron appeared in any animation in a way

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it is special to you that that you've singled out it's a good question I think

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for me anime-wise the one I'm most akin towards is Pip-Lup just because it's so

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cute Dawn's obviously one of her top Pokemon so I think no even I'm not

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actually sure how often it gets to appear so hopefully hoping fingers crossed

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to Ardman if you're listening, if you can somehow.

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Ooh!

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Make a request to Ardman.

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Dear Pikachu, please input.

02:20:52.080 --> 02:20:55.080
Yeah, Miss Dear Pikachu, please, if you can.

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I mean, I don't hate that chat, though, because, like you said, if we saw the teaser already,

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we've got definitely some new faces in there.

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When we saw Kara Blast, we saw Obstacle, and Alcremie, Impidimp.

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There are definitely opportunities for more Pokémon to get involved in the animated side of things.

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If you had to pick a legendary Pokemon to see show up in Ardman, what would you prefer?

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Well, for a talk in Mythical 2, I love Darkrai.

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I don't know how you'd be able to bring that in, but I would absolutely love that.

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Also just the Gen 4 Mons in general, I'm very nostalgic for.

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So, some of the timekeepers, yeah, Dialga, Palkia, any of those.

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Thinking about stop-motion Darkrai is really cool.

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Yeah, right?

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I think I've given them really hard tasks, really big, complex ones, but I think it's somehow doing, you know.

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Yeah. Well, you've talked about how cool it is to be here at the very first Pokemon XP, but this is not the only Pokemon destination that you've had the chance to visit.

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You actually saw you got out to the Fossil Museum as well?

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Yes, I had the chance to visit the Fossil Museum in Chicago. That was a really great time.

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I think any time you have those huge statues of different Pokemon, it's really exciting.

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and just seeing them in fossil form as well is really, really cool.

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What was the experience like being in a museum like that?

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Yeah, it was really cool because they did a great mix of mixing real science with Pokémon.

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So you would learn a little bit about the Pokémon and then you would learn about its real life inspiration.

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So it did a really nice mix of learning and just like the fun of seeing your favorite Pokémon.

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I think you went to the baseball game last night, is that true?

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Yes, I was at the baseball game. The drone show was a very, very exciting time.

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exciting time but even just throughout the game they had fun little graphics like

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whenever when there was a home run you got to see Charizard that was the one

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home run of the game yeah so it's just really cool being able to go mix all

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these different interests between you know science and Pokemon with the

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fossil museum and now baseball and poker yeah in case you weren't familiar

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there was a giant game a baseball game that was themed all for Pokemon and

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celebrating Pokemon worlds and Pokemon XP and I think there was even a

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Jersey that fans got that was Pokemon specific.

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Yes, I almost wore it today.

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I didn't. I was afraid of the cold a little bit, as you can see.

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It's a little windy.

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The Jersey is very, very cool.

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I think that's so neat, like mixing our favorite.

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Sport, as it were, with other favorite sport.

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It's really fun. Yeah.

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I mean, isn't that kind of what's so amazing about Pokemon in general

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is that its ability to cross over into so many different

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communities and genres and still work and totally make sense and kind of bring

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together a new crowd of people. Yeah for sure. I even looking forward to Pokemon

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Night Out coming out in October as well. So many of that's mixing music and

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Pokemon with some DJ sets so there's just a lot of opportunity to kind of

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mix fandoms. Now speaking of fandom there are so many people here who are

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experiencing this event for the first time or people at home who are

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looking forward to experiencing it sometime. What advice would you have

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for someone or where would you tell them to start or what would you

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Tell them about this experience.

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Yeah, I think just take a second to take it all in.

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There's a lot going on here,

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but a great place to start for this one specifically

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was the opening ceremony this morning was fantastic.

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There was a performance from a big band of different music,

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but I think just throughout the convention,

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kind of enjoy it, take it in, take time to talk to people.

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There's plenty of friendly faces

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and just enjoy the convention in general.

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There's a lot going on here.

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So you mentioned last year you went to Anaheim

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and you got to witness worlds now with XP,

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with how things have grown.

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How do you think the Pokemon community that's been able to come and enjoy this has responded?

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Because competitive is a great way to enjoy Pokemon, but there's so many different ways to do it.

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Yeah, I think XP is a great opportunity to expand some of the stuff that was offered last year,

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being the TCG Artist panels where they talked about the inspiration behind some of their cards,

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the opportunities, obviously, that there being much more merchants this year and just so many more things.

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I think the crowd has really enjoyed the ability to kind of spread out.

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and when you're not watching the competitive,

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which you should also definitely watch,

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you can enjoy the other activities offered.

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You mentioned the art of the TCG cards.

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I'm also very interested in that.

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Later today, we're gonna have a little sneak peek

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at the booth from inside with a video.

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But tell me a little bit about why you like the art

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on Pokemon cards or what you're looking for here,

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or what you wanna learn about on the art

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on Pokemon cards right here.

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Yeah, I think one of the really exciting things

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is that every artist has a pretty unique style.

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I know we were talking a lot about Ardman earlier.

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Yuka Mori does these gorgeous clay cards,

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and that's part of the reason I was so excited

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for the Ardman series, and I know she's here

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for workshops with some lucky fans.

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Unfortunately, could not get an RSVP,

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but I know that the people there

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are really going to enjoy that

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and just enjoy all the different styles.

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There's one person who crochets,

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there's many different styles.

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It doesn't even have to just be pen and paper.

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So it's really cool being able to see

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how everyone puts their own spin on your favorite characters.

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I think I saw even down there a little bit of a gallery of some of those play

02:25:49.640 --> 02:25:52.680
features right? Yeah. They have a walkthrough where you can see actually

02:25:52.680 --> 02:25:57.560
Mori's art that she made for the cards and I didn't get to look around all the

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other sides. Maybe there's even more down there with the crochet. I cannot wait to

02:26:00.800 --> 02:26:03.920
explore the floor. And speaking of the floor, we don't want to keep you too

02:26:03.920 --> 02:26:07.280
long. I know you've got lots to do but is there any shout outs you want to

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give? Any thoughts you want to leave the Pokemon fans at home with before

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we say goodbye to you? Yeah just shout out to everyone who's been here for

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30 years of Pokemon whether you're coming in just now or you're a Gen 1 fan

02:26:19.400 --> 02:26:23.160
It's been so amazing to meet everyone and kind of say hi and experiences together

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So I hope that chatter continues online awesome, and where can people find you if they want to yeah

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You can find me Instagram YouTube tick tock at Swainami SW a y and a hem I

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Awesome. Thank you so much for coming. It was really nice to see you have a great time

02:26:37.120 --> 02:26:40.840
Yeah, so nice meeting you all. It's a fantastic time. Thanks. Thanks for coming

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All right now don't stop watching because we have some very exciting twitch drops for you

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Let's check those out right now some things that you can pick up from watching the twitch stream now

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Here's how you do it. You've got to visit rewards.pokemon.com

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Log into your Pokemon trainer central account or make one if you don't have one

02:26:57.840 --> 02:27:03.960
Link that to your twitch account and then watch your desired stream for a period of time earn those rewards

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So all you have to do is tune in and you can get some really really cool twitch drops

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Also remember if you would like to watch us in other languages you can turn on the twitch

02:27:12.720 --> 02:27:20.520
closed caption extension and that will watch with translated captions so you can you can watch us speaking in other languages via text if you would like to

02:27:21.560 --> 02:27:23.000
I'm very excited about that

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I think that some of the twitch drops were some badges that were very especially cute

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Yes

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There is a Pokemon XP twitch badge that I definitely want for my profile because of all the people

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that I'm so excited to get this Twitch badge.

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I want you to have it, but also I want it very much

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because I wanna remember that I was here

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and I wanna flex it on Twitch

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for the rest of my Twitch career.

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Yeah, we've got our mobile devices

02:27:44.460 --> 02:27:45.700
just logged into Twitch under here

02:27:45.700 --> 02:27:47.340
making sure we're getting all of those dropped.

02:27:47.340 --> 02:27:48.180
I know.

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Also, I'm very distracted.

02:27:49.100 --> 02:27:50.500
I'm sorry, there's, look at these vending machines.

02:27:50.500 --> 02:27:52.260
Look, I'm sorry, look how cute these are right there.

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Everything is-

02:27:53.100 --> 02:27:53.940
It's adorable.

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I'm sorry to be talking about right now.

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And they have the cutest display backpacks

02:27:58.940 --> 02:28:01.500
for their plushies that are in a vending machine chain.

02:28:01.500 --> 02:28:03.620
The Rallet commitment is beautiful.

02:28:03.620 --> 02:28:08.020
The meta of the plushies this year has really stepped up a notch.

02:28:08.020 --> 02:28:09.020
We've seen Elja.

02:28:09.020 --> 02:28:10.020
Yeah, I got it!

02:28:10.020 --> 02:28:11.020
I got it!

02:28:11.020 --> 02:28:12.020
I got it!

02:28:12.020 --> 02:28:13.020
Wow, the wrap.

02:28:13.020 --> 02:28:14.020
That looks so good!

02:28:14.020 --> 02:28:15.020
I choose the one in the middle.

02:28:15.020 --> 02:28:16.020
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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The fans have been so creative, though.

02:28:18.500 --> 02:28:21.940
We're in the best spot to watch everybody go by here on Requizer Road, and I have

02:28:21.940 --> 02:28:24.020
seen Nurse Joy with her cart of Pokeballs.

02:28:24.020 --> 02:28:26.140
I'm watching a beautiful Jill Dion walk by.

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I am seeing so many fans showcasing their fandom in so many beautiful ways with

02:28:29.780 --> 02:28:30.780
a treat.

02:28:30.780 --> 02:28:35.040
Now, speaking of fans showcasing their fandom, let's check out some of your tweets and things

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you've had to say about Pokemon XP right now.

02:28:37.740 --> 02:28:38.740
Excuse me.

02:28:38.740 --> 02:28:39.740
Excuse me.

02:28:39.740 --> 02:28:40.740
It is.

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Got a little wind in my throat out here.

02:28:44.500 --> 02:28:45.500
Yeah.

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We would love to see what you have in store for us on social media in just a moment.

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But, guys, tell me a little bit about what you are looking at from this vantage point

02:28:54.020 --> 02:28:55.020
here.

02:28:55.020 --> 02:28:59.140
We've got the back end of Rayquaza Road.

02:28:59.140 --> 02:29:00.140
Oh, here we go.

02:29:00.140 --> 02:29:04.820
There it is. Here's your This Could Be Us of Pokemon World.

02:29:04.820 --> 02:29:06.680
Oh, but I love that.

02:29:06.680 --> 02:29:10.320
Wait, no, that's a meme format that needs to go further.

02:29:10.320 --> 02:29:12.760
Take this. Take this Pokemon community.

02:29:12.760 --> 02:29:15.320
Yes, I need this. I need this photo.

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So cute. Where are those diddos?

02:29:17.400 --> 02:29:18.740
I need to find them.

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They come beneath the gardens.

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Yes, they must be.

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Yeah, we're just around the corner

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from us is the Yerba-Wayne Gardens.

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So please do check this out.

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That out and let us know what that is.

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That's from SunnyTTE.

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Thank you so much Sunny and that's been one of the coolest things

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I've seen as we've walked around the venue preparing is they've got all these little areas where these incredible Pokemon statues are set on these little

02:29:38.240 --> 02:29:41.800
Diarramas you can pop right into and here's another favorite the ferris wheel

02:29:41.800 --> 02:29:43.800
I don't see and nor anything about

02:29:44.080 --> 02:29:51.740
Who's king of team plasma on there much smaller ferris wheel, but we've made it work here for this couple and that's from Koopa and

02:29:51.740 --> 02:29:55.960
Jay we are out here. Just like you looks like a New Jersey, maybe

02:29:55.960 --> 02:30:00.820
New Jersey proud to see it glad you're out here represent if T rocket lived

02:30:00.820 --> 02:30:04.000
anywhere be there. Alright Andre's L1997 says these

02:30:04.000 --> 02:30:09.760
pokecology sculptures look amazing wow. That's gorgeous. My goodness how did I

02:30:09.760 --> 02:30:12.800
I haven't even seen all of these things yet I'm so glad you guys are taking

02:30:12.800 --> 02:30:17.040
pictures. My queen in the trees look at her she's beautiful. I love I want to

02:30:17.040 --> 02:30:22.420
give her some honey so she'll give me some patterns items in pokokia. And we

02:30:22.420 --> 02:30:25.400
talked about the Pokemon fossil museum we had swenami up here the

02:30:25.400 --> 02:30:29.960
Book Ecology books as well do a beautiful job of taking kids' passion for Pokemon, and

02:30:29.960 --> 02:30:30.960
I say kids, I mean me.

02:30:30.960 --> 02:30:34.960
And relating it to real world things, so, there's a lot of education in there, there's

02:30:34.960 --> 02:30:38.520
a lot of ways to get excited about so many real world things through Pokemon, and this

02:30:38.520 --> 02:30:40.080
is a beautiful example.

02:30:40.080 --> 02:30:42.720
You're just reminding me there's even more things I need to go pick up from the show

02:30:42.720 --> 02:30:44.120
floor, I need to get some books.

02:30:44.120 --> 02:30:45.120
Some books, yes.

02:30:45.120 --> 02:30:50.800
Alright, this is Posh Queen says, I love the Pokemon XP jacket so much, the glowing

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patches are such a nice touch, especially Jirachi, my witch wish definitely came true.

02:30:56.800 --> 02:30:57.800
Oh well said.

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I didn't know they glowed!

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I was just gonna say that!

02:30:59.800 --> 02:31:00.800
Did the patches glow?

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Posh Queen, thank you!

02:31:01.800 --> 02:31:05.800
I'm gonna go stand in the sun and then I'm gonna darken my jacket.

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Yes, we are learning so much from you.

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This is very important.

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And it's great honor.

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Yes.

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It sure does.

02:31:11.800 --> 02:31:12.800
It goes with that hair very, very well.

02:31:12.800 --> 02:31:14.800
Thank you so much Posh Queen.

02:31:14.800 --> 02:31:17.800
This is a bit of a factor of the Pokemon community overall.

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Overall, when the games came out, red and blue, you had to learn about what was in each

02:31:22.240 --> 02:31:23.840
other's games by talking to each other.

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When Pokemon Go came out, they didn't tell you everything.

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They wanted the community to talk to each other and teach each other.

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So friends, you teach me, I teach you.

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Take pictures around Pokemon XP, or wherever you are celebrating this event, and please

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send them in because you're learning so much.

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What does Penguin have?

02:31:39.760 --> 02:31:40.760
Pin rally complete.

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Oh, right.

02:31:41.760 --> 02:31:42.760
Oh, right.

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That's impressive.

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That's impressive.

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Legend.

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So as you can see, there's a map there.

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that you can stop at throughout Pokemon XP and you can pick up pins in order to complete the Pin Rally.

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I personally, even if I don't complete them all, I need the Umbreon.

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So I'm going to need to go down there and get that for the Pin Rally back.

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It wouldn't match your jacket.

02:32:00.760 --> 02:32:01.760
I know.

02:32:01.760 --> 02:32:03.760
Wow, thank you Penguin.

02:32:03.760 --> 02:32:07.760
Congratulations on that completion so fast. Must have done it immediately.

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Yeah.

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Record time. Well played.

02:32:09.760 --> 02:32:10.760
Yes.

02:32:10.760 --> 02:32:14.760
Now you have to sit on the champions throne for the next champion to walk up, potentially unseat you.

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I'm learning from Gary here, but you've got this.

02:32:16.760 --> 02:32:18.760
What a shame has to sit on the throne.

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Oh no.

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Thank you so much everyone who shared with us.

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Remember you can use the hashtag Pokemon XP to have your contact featured

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and to tell us what's going on out there.

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We are really excited to see all these things that we can only see so far.

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So you must be our eyes and ears and go out.

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But don't worry, we actually did get a chance to go out and make some videos yesterday.

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You two will get to make some today and we're going to see a lot of the special events going on

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We will bring them to you from here as well

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That's our job. That is our job. Honestly pretty amazing. I do love my job, right?

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Yeah, as I put on my my my rocket arm this morning and you know, slung my slow poke over my shoulder

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I was like off to the office

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It really is a good day and coming up soon

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We actually have another panel for you again if you're just tuning in the purpose of this stream is for us to bring you all

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Of the action from Pokemon XP

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So that's gonna be us going and experiencing things to show you that's gonna be a showing you the content

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We did from socials and that's also going to be bringing you some panels for Pokemon XP

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The next one is going to be the spotlight on the Pokemon

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Pocopia game all three of us very interested in Pocopia

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Super not a lot of time a super normal normal amount of Pocopia play time among the three of us

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Yeah, absolutely. What are the rules about just getting the switch out and play right now? Like are we, should we?

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I feel like if I've ever had a job where it would be appropriate to be like,

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I'm busy right now and pull out my switch, it would be this one.

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We'll call it a bit.

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Show me the cloud.

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Wait, do you actually have your switch here?

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I mean, in the green room.

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I always have it on me.

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We can play right now.

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Bubbly Basin has just come out, the first of the DLCs for Pokemon Pokopia.

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I actually saved it until just this past week in preparation for Pokemon XP, started playing it.

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Really exciting things you can do in water, like being able to build not resting on the ground,

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being able to build floating. What are some other things that you've enjoyed about Pokopia?

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For me, I tend to kind of grind through the quest, but then I get sucked into the building side of things.

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So like you're mentioning where you have this opportunity to kind of like float I'm envisioning

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Like an entire water temple vibe like underwater

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Water temple where I can then move all of my water Pokemon who I have like kind of stationed in like

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Random beach areas to get them as close to the water as possible and feel like it's fitting their vibe

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We're putting them near hot springs

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Now I put them in the water. Mm-hmm. They're gonna be

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comfy. You're swimming. It's worth supposed to be. If you aren't familiar with

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Pokopia, there is a whole mechanic where you find a Pokemon and then you build

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them a home and then you tell them where you think they should live and they're

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really excited about it, hopefully. So that's an interesting strategy that you're

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putting them all by the water. I find it really interesting how people home

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their Pokemon, you know? It's so different for everyone. I built my Eevee

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Don't look at how my Pokopi Island is.

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Please never don't tell anybody how they live.

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I personally took all the EV evolution and built them a giant treehouse complex so they could all live together, but they have themed rooms.

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That was my one big build. That was really important to me. What about you, Ray?

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Everybody gets beautifully themed builds. No roofs. No roofs. No roofs.

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No! I want to move inside!

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And I want to move the things out.

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So if it rains like everyone's very unhappy and all my pocopia islands except for the water types

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Which I will soon move under the ocean so no one will be happy exactly. How are you housing yourselves? What is your own area?

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My house is chaos it is the most it's like anything that I was like, oh, I kind of like that

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I just threw it in my house. Yeah, so there's all sorts of noise making things and bright blinking things

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It's disgusting looking and so chaotic and every time I wake up. It's like a jump scare

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I'm like, oh, let me go outside and go to one of the beautiful builds I made for the other Pokemon

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It's just it's a it's something in self-care about there

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Well for poke over here for me I every single time I've unlocked a new zone

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I've had this experience of like there is so much to do there's so much world

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But if you've played Pocopia, especially if you got to the end,

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I think you know why I love it so much.

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I feel extremely validated as a Team Rocket Apologist for 30 years.

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But I love living in the Pokémon world.

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I love seeing the things that people who get to create Pokémon create.

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And they have hidden so many beautiful gems of lore and love letters in this game.

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The little bits of things left over that you get to pick up and read about.

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I spend so much time just just treasuring every little I have so many screenshots

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Really all the little like letters and magazine things I found in the game

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Rememberizing the lore as you're going you're like double checking back. How does it tie in? Where are we at in the storyline?

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You know I am how did Professor Tengroz get there? What is happening?

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There's a lot of talk about the Kanto gym leaders for how long after there's a lot

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I when we get to the Pocopia people I have many questions for them

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I know I'm really I'm hoping that we get some glimpses of that in the Pocopia panel that's coming up

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in just a few minutes. However, you're not getting out of answering the question, how

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do you house yourself? I actually have a system. I don't know that it's the best system because

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I too care more about my Pokemon's living situation than my own. Yes. However, the formula

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that I have employed for myself is when I get to the new area, I pick one of the

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box build small houses. I eventually try to get the box build mansion in every single

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area. So I don't have to worry about building anything fancy for myself. Just give

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me copy paste this is what it is and it gives me enough rooms to have space for

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myself and then I move my favorite Pokemon from that area into my house

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with me that's what you have a choice they're living with me whether they

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like it or not yes favorite Pokemon roommate oh that's a good question okay

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we're gonna have to think about that and answer it after the panel I don't

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think I can do the house fair if oh you're so ready because I always try to

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get at least one dog in my house. I'm living my real life. I want a pet in there. I do secretly

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kind of lug Machamp as one of my roommates. Do tell. Tell us more. I feel like he's just

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a good vibe while also being pretty useful for what I need to get done. High shelves,

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high shelves in her house. That's another example of those Pokemon that I was positive

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all the time. But in Pokopia, it's just a solid dude. It's just solid in Pokopia.

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Thank you. I need to keep those. We have been chatting about the Pokémon Pokopia panel

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that is going to be spotlight on the Pokémon Pokopia game that's coming up right now. We've

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mentioned we would like to see some, maybe some lore drops, that's what we're hoping

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for. Anything else that we want to see in this panel before we throw it to them?

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No, I'm going to get into it. Bubbly Basin was such a surprise because I was enjoying

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so many of the online adventures I didn't even think they'd open that chapter for us

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so I'm just ready for them to surprise us again with something new.

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I bet they will I know and I can't even think of what it will be so I hope we get

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some hints as we go into the spotlight on Pokemon Kokopia panel let's watch it now!

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All right, we are back.

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Quick question, are there any fans of Pokemon Pokopia the game?

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That's what I like to hear.

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So coming to the stage are a few members behind Pokemon's Pokopia the game.

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Let's make sure to clean up our habitats.

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Let's make Bulbasaur proud, and let's make some noise for the team!

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Hello, and welcome to the Pokemon Pokopia video game panel at the Pokemon Pokopia

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Pokemon XP event.

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Thank you to those who are in attendance and everyone watching from the live stream.

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We're all excited to have you here.

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I'm Rumi Yamashita from the Pokemon Company International, and will be the moderator for our panel today.

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I will be assisted by Anne, Lisa, and Ryuka,

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also from the Pokemon Company International,

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who will be providing translations

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for the today's panelists.

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I am the moderator of today's

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Pokemon Company International, Yamashita Rumi.

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As a panelist, I will be supporting

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Nami-e-An-san, Abe-Lisa-san, and Hashimoto-Yuka-san.

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Before we get started, just a small reminder to please mute all electronic devices and no photos or recording of the panel are allowed.

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始める前にお知らせとなりますが他のお客様のさまたりになりませんよう

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電子機器などの通信音がミュートになっていることをご確認ください

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またパネルディスカッションのお写真や映像のご撮影はお控えいただくようお願いいたします

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So today we're joined by three very special guests who were directly involved in developing Pokemon Pocopia

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I'm hoping we can dive into stories from the development process and hear about their experiences along the way.

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So with that, let's get into introductions.

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Hi, I'm Omori from Game Freak Inc. For Pokemon Pocopia, I served as the concept and senior director.

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Hello, I'm Takatama Ida Gawa from Pro-E-Tecco Games. I was Chief Director for this game overseeing the game development as a whole.

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And today I have flown in with Professor Tangro from all the way from Kanto to speak to y'all.

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Applause

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Hi!

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I'm Murata from Kabushiki Gaisa Pokemon.

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I'm a producer of the project,

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and I'm also a global promotion.

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I'm doing a lot of localize for the language.

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Hi!

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Thank you very much.

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I'm Kanako Murata from the Pokemon Company.

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for this title, the Pokemon Company has responsible for producing the project as well as had a link global marketing and localization into various languages.

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Thank you for the introductions with that. Let's start off with Mr. Omori.

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So for those who may be unfamiliar, could you please explain the premise of Pokemon Pokopia?

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Mr.Omori, I'd like to tell you more about Pokemon that are not familiar to Pokemon.

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What kind of Pokemon is Pokemon?

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Yes, it's Pokemon.

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This game is a slow life sandbox game that allows you to create a Pokemon town while cooperating with Pokemon.

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The player is a metamon who has transformed into a human form

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and has now become a human.

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He lives in a place where he lives alone.

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This is Dr. Mojambu.

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He is Dr. Mojambu.

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He meets the player and decides to make a new town like the one he used to live in.

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In the middle of making a town, we make a tool,

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we make a technique of the Pokemon we met,

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we cut the skin, we roll the water,

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and we make a town where everyone lives.

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That's how the game works.

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Yes, so Pokemon Pokopia is a live simulation

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or sandbox game where players work together with Pokemon

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to create a Pokemon town.

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Players play as a ditto,

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Ditto transformed to look like a human in a withered wasteland where there's no sight of any humans.

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Ditto meets the mysterious Professor Chan growth who has been living here all alone

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and decides to build the area as it once was by crafting items, cutting trees and watering the area,

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and then learning moves from other Pokemon to create a world for everyone to live in one step at a time.

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Thank you for the explanation.

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So, Mr. Omori, do you mind sharing what inspired you to create Pokemon Pokopia?

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Thank you, Mr. Omori.

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What was the reason for the development of Pokemon?

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Yes, there are various features to Pokemon.

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I first started thinking that even if you don't focus on RPG genre, you can make a game using the new characteristics of Pokemon.

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As a result of the first development, I was the first to make a game that was made as a new player in Game Freak.

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It was a Pokemon Ruby Sapphire.

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When I was making a map of Ruby Sapphire, I put the grass in the grass on the map.

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From there, I developed an experience of Pokemon appearing from the grass.

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I've always thought that this experience would be very interesting,

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so I decided to use it.

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I thought that this experience could be used in a new game,

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and that it would be possible to create various maps,

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and that Pokemon will fly out of the sand.

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That's how we started to create something like a simulation simulator.

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As a result, the game style called Slow Life was the most popular game.

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It was a game that became a flow of emotions and was completed like this.

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to the RPG genre and that was the beginning. We actually didn't start developing this game with

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the concept of creating a life simulation game but personally I have a memory that triggered the

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inspiration and this was when I was newly hired at Game Freak. The first game I created was Pokemon

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Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire and I was also creating the map for this game and I quite enjoyed placing

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the bush on the map and then see all the Pokemon start spawning from there. I thought this

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experience would be pretty fun if used in a different game and thus began the creation of

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a simulator which enables players to meet many Pokemon by creating a lot of different maps.

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As a result, this concept fit the best with the life simulation style game.

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Evolving is something Pokemon definitely does consistently so it's great to see something new.

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Also, I know there's probably a lot of people here and watching who can appreciate

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Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire as well.

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So, when you came up with this idea, what led you to partner with Koei Tecmo Games for the development?

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I think it's fun to see the new Pokemon that's evolving all the time.

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I'm sure there are many people watching the show and watching the stream.

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We wanted to make this game more high quality, so that it can be played as a real game.

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At Game Freak, we first made a game for the production.

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At the time of the production, we presented the game to the company of the company.

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This is something I want to shape.

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As a result, the development experience of the sandbox game

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is connected to the development partner of the game.

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art. To make this an even higher quality game when Game Freak presented an early prototype

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that we've been creating here to the Pokemon company, we decided to approach Koei Tecmo to see

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if they would be interested in co-developing this with us since they have a lot of experience

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developing sandbox games. While working with Koei Tecmo Games was a great choice,

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we'd love to hear how the partnership between Game Freak and Koei Tecmo Games worked

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from the Koei Tecumogame style as well.

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Koei Tecumogame sama to kyoudou de kaihatsu ni atatte ikareru to yu na masani

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subarashii gohan dan datto to kanjimasu.

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Partnership o kumare de kaihatsu o shitsumerarutakoto ni tsuite

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Koei Tecumogame sama no boshi ken kara mo o hanashi o kagai shite mitai no desu ga

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Eda Nara-san, ikagai deshou ka?

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When this project started, I wanted you to take the specific development part of the project in a mode that you think it's okay to use.

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That's how I got it done as an item.

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However, the game-freeq-san and the Pokémon-san created them

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are not at all related to the actual concept of Pokémon.

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They are all based on the concept of the game-freeq-san and the Pokémon-san

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We were able to communicate with each other and create creative ideas.

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We were able to communicate with each other in detail,

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so I think this game has become a game where all three of us have disappeared.

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we realized that it really shouldn't be a one-way street where Koei Tecmo was creating the game and then have Game Freak

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Supervised and review. So really the everything from the basic features, the concept,

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design, CG assets and texts and everything. All of these were very collaborative efforts between

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Game Freak, Koei Tecmo and also the Pokemon Company.

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So, we were able to really have very close and frequent discussions about these things

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throughout the development process and decide on everything from gameplay direction to all

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of the smallest details.

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And in the end, I think we were very able to effectively collaborate and collaborate

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and incorporate all the strengths of all three companies into the game.

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A game like this is vastly different from what's been done in the past.

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So it must have come with some new learnings.

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So for the group, we'd like to hear what challenges did you face while working on Pokemon Pokopia?

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It's a completely new game that we've created while experiencing the past, and we've gained a lot of experience.

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I'd like to ask everyone, is there an episode where you were in the development process of Pocoa Pokémon?

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Yes, I'm from here, but there are some things that are quite painful to develop, but this project was not so painful.

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The Go-E-Pek-Mo game that we developed together

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has really cherished the Pokemon,

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and we understand the point of cherishing them very well.

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We want to experience them in this game.

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We want to do things like this, and we want to achieve that.

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We can create them all at once without being able to reach the end.

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It was a very fun development.

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If I were to give you one example, there were a lot of Pokemon characters this time.

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It was really hard to describe.

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Each Pokemon is very unique and you can talk to them properly.

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and the number of people who are working on the game,

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and also the number of people who are working on the game,

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including the people who are working on the game,

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are very difficult to do.

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Yes, so usually when it comes to developing games,

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there's a lot of challenges,

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but in this case, I didn't really face too many challenges

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or hardships for this title.

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Koei Tecmo Games has been very understanding

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about what we value about Pokemon and they really value Pokemon as well and our

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thoughts on what we want to achieve through this game was quite synced up

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until the very end of development. We were able to proceed with the development

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very smoothly and it was quite a fun process together. If I should name one

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challenge it would be the amount of Pokemon dialogue that exists in this

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game which is very hard to work with. Each Pokemon says very unique

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dialogues and its quantitative amount made this project tough with so much text creation,

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debugs, and localizations all put together.

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I was also personally very much able to enjoy the development of LEGO.

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Thank you for your cooperation.

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I was able to enjoy the development of LEGO.

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I also personally was very much able to enjoy the development process, and everyone on the

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Koei Tecmo Games team who worked on this project was also having a lot of fun.

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But if I had to talk about one sort of painful memory I had is that during the testing

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phase we were trying to test out building a very large scale building.

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And so I brought up the idea of how about we try making the Koei Tecmo office building

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together.

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And we were all getting together, and everyone was working together to build it on a cloud

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island, and things were going just fine and smoothly at first.

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And then one of the team members actually decided that they wanted to kind of make their

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own version of the same office building on their own cloud island.

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And as time went on, they were starting to have some rumors that this other building

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on the cloud island was turning out to be a little bit better.

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So, I noticed that I was starting to get left behind on my own Cloud Island, and in the end I was just kind of left behind on my own Cloud Island with my own office building.

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I'm not saying it was painful, but this time, the Pokémon have really talked a lot and expressed their individuality in a really unique way.

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I think it was really hard to find the same kind of character in any language.

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Not exactly a challenge for myself as well, but in this game, the Pokémon converse, a lot with each other.

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I think it's really fun to see how the Pokémon converse with each other.

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not exactly a challenge for myself as well but in this game the Pokemon

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converse a lot of a lot with each other and every Pokemon has various

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personalities it was up to each of the localization team to show their skills

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to localize the game and the way those person has actually really shined through

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I personally am playing in Japanese for this game but it makes me very happy

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happy to see that those playing in other languages are also enjoying the dialogue as much as

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I am with the Pokemon and all the different personalities.

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Those actually sound like fun challenges to have.

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So Mr. Omori, you mentioned about the dialogue.

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Each Pokemon has its own personality in the game and we have some really fun conversations

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with the Pokemon.

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How did you decide on this?

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Yes, thank you very much.

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At that time, I think it was a very difficult time for everyone,

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but when I see your smiles now,

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I feel like you were busy with your daily life while enjoying the dark.

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Mr. Omori, I was talking about the words of the Pokemon,

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but the charm of Pokemon is that each Pokemon has its own charm,

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I think that the conversation between Pokemon Doshia and the main character MetaHunt will be enjoyable,

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but how did you decide on this kind of strategy?

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Yes, Pokemon is a very unique and unique existence,

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and each of them has its own personality.

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In this Pokemon world,

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Each of the Pokemon is thinking about what they are thinking about.

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I also think about it in Game Freak,

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and I also think about the lines from that image.

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For example,

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For example, a character like a mountain of blood, a pudding,

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may have more complicated thoughts or worries.

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Also, a little young Pokemon that hasn't evolved

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It's a little bit of a cute thing, so I thought about it one by one, and I made it.

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This is a Pokemon. The main character is a metamon, so you can understand the other Pokemon's words.

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If you don't know the human eyes as a trainer, you can feel the characteristics of the Pokemon more clearly.

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This is one of the big charms of the game, so if you haven't played it yet, please play it.

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I hope you can feel the unique characteristics of the various Pokémon.

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So, for example, the highly intelligent Alec-Zan is likely thinking about more complex things

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and worrying about that kind of stuff, and a young Pokemon that hasn't evolved yet might

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be worried about something more childish and cute and childish.

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And Ditto is the first protagonist of the Pokemon Pokia, and they can understand the

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words of other Pokemon.

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So the personality is a Pokemon that wouldn't be understood from a normal trainer or

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or a human perspective can be felt more clearly.

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This is one of the great appeals of this game,

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so please play the game if you haven't already

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and get a feel of the various personalities

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of the different Pokemon.

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Speaking of Ditto, could you share a bit more on

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why Ditto was chosen as the protagonist?

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Metamon, why did you decide on Metamon as the main character?

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I decided to make Metamon the main character from the beginning.

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I wanted to make it a character like this.

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I wanted to draw a rough on my character and make it a designer.

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And then, using a new technique,

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you can make a cycle of the waves,

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you can make water,

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and then, with that,

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you can meet a new Pokémon

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and learn a new technique.

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You can make a cycle of the game.

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So, depending on the Pokémon you meet,

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you can fly through the sky,

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you can swim through the waves,

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and you can hear a lot of changes.

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It's very convenient.

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So we decided to make a big spread of Pokemon here in the early stages of concepting.

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So we decided in the early stage of concepting to have Ditto as the main character.

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So I also came up with the rough idea on my own and then worked with the designer to see what kind of character it should look like.

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And this was very important for this game to have a Pokemon as the main character

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so that it could enjoy conversations with the various Pokemon that it met.

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In addition, it would be difficult for Pokemon to use complicated tools directly.

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So we thought that Ditto's ability to transform could create a new game cycle

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by copying new moves from Pokemon and then using those moves

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to then meet more Pokemon and copying their moves.

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So, Transform is definitely something that enables so many things like letting Ditto fly or surf.

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And so, by choosing Ditto as the main character, we were able to open up a wide range of possibilities.

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Ditto does offer a lot of flexibility.

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So, Related, what are your favorite moves that Ditto can learn in Pokemon Pokopia?

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Yes, the changes in the metamon are very important to the game's flexibility.

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By the way, what is the most popular technique that you all like to learn in the Pokemon game?

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I think that the basic skills of this game are very good.

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I think that the basic skills of this game are very good.

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So for me, I would say that definitely a move that goes back to the mechanics of Pokemon

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that spawned from Bushes.

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So I think the Leafage is something that embodies the core fun of this game about

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like meeting Pokemon and it also highlights the different like Pokemon-ness of this

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game.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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I'm a member of the group, and I gather every day for an hour and play while remembering.

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I check the problems with the game.

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So I really like the move rollout. When we were testing this game, we were in a room with a team and we would have these one-hour sessions where we would test-play the game.

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And I realized that the whole hour would actually go by with me just going around leveling the terrain with just rollout.

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So I definitely, for myself, I think rollout is my favorite move.

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It's very difficult to just choose one, but I feel like the move jump that Margecraft teaches you is very useful.

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I think it's the first time I've used so many of the other Pokemon in the game, so I really liked the unique move.

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It's very difficult to just choose one but I feel like the move jump that

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Marger Carp teaches you is a must in this game so it's very useful when hopping

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over like spas and fences and I think it's the first time that a Pokemon other

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than Marger Carp has used jumps this many times in the game so it's really

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unique and I really like this move. So speaking of moves dive is a new move

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that was introduced in the latest update a few weeks ago and it's a big part of the

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part 1 DLC, Pupply Basin. So what was the inspiration behind choosing an

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underwater setting for this part of the DLC?

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Please tell us why you decided to expand the stage during this additional content and what inspired you to do it.

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I think that this game, the Poker Pokémon, is fun to live with the Pokémon.

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So I think that there are many things in this environment that are more characteristic of this environment.

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As one of the characteristics of this environment, I thought that the environment was surrounded by growth,

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so I thought that we had to create it somewhere.

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I'm really happy that we were able to perform such a thing with this map.

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We're happy that the Pokémon are able to enjoy the game and enjoy the game.

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Yes, so the core theme of that gives a lot of the main enjoyment from this game in Pokémon Procropia

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is that you're living together with the Pokémon.

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And since every Pokemon has different preferences

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on what kind of habitat they like to live in,

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I really had a strong desire since the beginning

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to make it possible to be able to live underwater

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because that is really one of the defining features

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of a lot of these habitats.

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And so with this update and this new move,

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I'm really happy and it's very rewarding to see

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that these Pokemon are able to happily swim around

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and be their happy selves underwater.

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So that's been great.

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Excited to see more people dive into Bupli Basin

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and continue to build the unique creations

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in Pokemon Pokopia.

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So what has been your favorite things

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to see people create in the game?

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I'm looking forward to it.

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Many players have been published on social media, but please tell us what you are impressed with and are interested in.

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Yes.

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So, I have been watching the matches that are broadcasted on social media.

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The matches that you have made are very high quality.

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Even if you are a developer, you can make something like this.

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You can make it very surprising.

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In that sense, what I am quite happy about is that I want to show the city and the road in the world that is in the pocket monster world.

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I would like to share my experience of making a city and a road with Ruby's Fire.

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I'm very happy that you are doing what you wanted to do.

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It's interesting to create a map like that.

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I would like to say that to that person.

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Yeah, so all the towns that people have been sharing on social media have been such high quality and they often make me think, wow, you can really create something like that.

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I'm especially very happy to see towns that faithfully recreate the cities from the Pokemon video game world, such as something from like Ruby and Sapphire as mentioned before.

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And when I come across those, it makes me feel like players are doing exactly what I had hoped,

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and that makes me a lot of joy.

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It makes me want to say, see, like, map creation is really fun, isn't it?

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Yes, I check SNS every day.

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Well, I was expecting to see if we can make something that we had imagined.

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I think it's a great way to create something that can surpass me in the spring.

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But it's not just a way to do that.

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I think it's a good way to look at the game every day.

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For example, if you told me something like this today,

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I was surprised to see how much fun it was for me to be able to play this game.

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When I was making this game, I wanted players who had never played a game like this before,

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and players who had never played a game like this before,

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so I was very happy to receive such reactions.

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Yeah, so I really do check social media every day and see different fan posts, but when we

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were developing this game, I was expecting that there would be a level of creations that

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would exceed our expectations, but it really has been beyond really our expectations, seeing

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that so many immaculate creations that we've seen from fans and it's really

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great to also see fans react to the Pokemon reacting to what they have

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placed or made for their towns and seeing their fans being surprised

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and delighted by that and so it's also great to see people who haven't really

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played building games very much or even play video games at all even have been

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able to really enjoy this game and that's been a really nice and rewarding feel.

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I also saw a lot of your amazing rolling dice and I was really surprised that you didn't have this kind of idea or that you could use it like this.

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I'm really surprised to see so many trees that I didn't even think of.

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For example, there are many small trees, but there are many trees that are made of one very large tree.

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There are also some of them that are made of very large natural trees.

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On the other hand, in a tower mansion with a very tall building,

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all the Pokemon live in one building.

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I think that the environment where the Pokemon live is different from the other.

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When I see everyone's amazing towns, I think to myself, well, I never thought of that, or

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oh, you could use that piece of furniture like that, and I'm always blown away by the

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creativity that everyone has.

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There are those that put many trees, not small trees, but regular trees, to create one giant

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tree, and those create like a large, very, very tall apartment complexes for many,

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many Pokemon to live in together.

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And it shows that there's truly so many different ways

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to shape each and every town to live together

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with your Pokemon.

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We're coming close to time,

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but could you please share what players can look forward

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to in part one of the Pokemon Pokeropia Expansion?

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For this one, let's ask Ms. Marata first.

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The time of farewell has come to an end, but I hope you enjoy this game, especially with the help of Pokemon Kongo and Expansion Pass.

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Let's start with Mr. Murata.

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Yes, I've seen a lot of Pokemon, but I've never seen a new one before, so I've been able to see them all the time.

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By diving further, I can see a new one that I've never seen before.

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For example, the poikin who taught me how to fly jumped over the ground and moved.

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I like it, but if it's in the sea, I'd like to swim in the water.

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So I would like you to make a home in the sea,

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and I hope you can show me the shape of the water in the sea.

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In Pokemon Pocopia, players could experience a new side to each Pokemon,

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but the move dive makes the underwater setting

03:25:30.320 --> 03:25:34.320
and see Pokemon in many ways that weren't possible before.

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Pokemon like Marja Karp that would truly thrive underwater, swim, swim, swim instead of just hopping

03:25:41.440 --> 03:25:47.840
on land. I hope that you can build a Marja Karp a new home underwater so you can thrive like itself.

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I think we can still improve the bass part of the game.

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So I want to improve it as an update in the future.

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I have a lot of things to improve in the future, but I hope you look forward to it.

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I hope you enjoy the Senagaku Tokoha Pokemon.

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So the DLC also includes parts two and three which also have their own updates

03:26:33.200 --> 03:26:40.960
incoming but we've also are so making improvements to the base game as well and

03:26:40.960 --> 03:26:47.440
quality of life updates and we will continue to work hard on making the game

03:26:47.440 --> 03:26:53.120
more enjoyable and comfortable to play so we hope you keep enjoying the game

03:26:53.120 --> 03:26:55.120
for a long time to come.

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Pokemon in the world, and I hope you can enjoy a lot of Pokemon and slow life, so thank you very much.

03:27:53.120 --> 03:27:55.520
Also, peace life with Pokemon.

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And thank you very much.

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So, thank you very much.

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That wraps our panel.

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Thank you to our very special guests,

03:28:04.880 --> 03:28:07.880
people here and everyone watching.

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The game is currently available only

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on Nintendo Switch 2 System.

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And for those of you who are here,

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please make sure to stop by the Nintendo booth

03:28:17.600 --> 03:28:19.840
and play a demo of the game

03:28:19.840 --> 03:28:23.760
as well as the recently released DLC part one.

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Also, be sure to visit the Pokemon XP

03:28:26.560 --> 03:28:29.360
and World's Cloud Island inside the game.

03:28:59.360 --> 03:29:07.360
Pokemon XP and Pokemon World Championship's Cloud Island, please go and try it out.

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Thank you very much. Thank you!

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I

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I

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I

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Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP.

03:40:56.600 --> 03:40:59.760
I am Anna and with me are Rachel and Glitter.

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You just saw the Pokemon Pokopia panel,

03:41:02.680 --> 03:41:05.680
which we watched also with great interest.

03:41:05.680 --> 03:41:06.520
Yes.

03:41:06.520 --> 03:41:09.160
I, a highlight for me was when they were talking

03:41:09.160 --> 03:41:10.560
about the different personalities

03:41:10.560 --> 03:41:12.720
that they've given Pokemon in Pokopia.

03:41:12.720 --> 03:41:14.160
And the question was, you know,

03:41:14.160 --> 03:41:16.120
how did you decide which personalities to give the

03:41:16.120 --> 03:41:16.960
Pokemon?

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And the answer was kind of like,

03:41:18.200 --> 03:41:19.640
this is just how we think they are.

03:41:19.640 --> 03:41:22.440
And I was like, canonically that's actually

03:41:22.440 --> 03:41:26.200
such a great answer that the Game Freak specifically

03:41:26.200 --> 03:41:29.560
thinks that this is how the personality of these Pokemon are. I found that very

03:41:29.560 --> 03:41:32.920
satisfying even though it's kind of like oh yeah I guess I didn't saw that.

03:41:32.920 --> 03:41:37.320
But also how much leeway they gave the localizers to take these personalities and

03:41:37.320 --> 03:41:40.960
say well what does that sound like in your region? What does that sound like you

03:41:40.960 --> 03:41:44.360
know to your fans? And so that's how I think we got so many of those great

03:41:44.360 --> 03:41:49.280
moments that you saw shared all over social media. Loved, get it human. Yes.

03:41:49.280 --> 03:41:54.600
Loved, I threw up. Iconic language in the Pokopia universe.

03:41:54.600 --> 03:42:00.880
I want to know which localizer was like, it's good, yo, I want to know yo who who made yo because I love you

03:42:00.880 --> 03:42:05.660
It's a some some goosener writer out there. Yeah is on the loose again, but it still works

03:42:05.660 --> 03:42:09.880
It's a I mean I'm calling back to Machamp as we were talking about before heading into the panel

03:42:09.880 --> 03:42:11.880
but tell me that his

03:42:11.960 --> 03:42:16.080
Personality is not the most perfect Jim bro part like gotta be lifting heavy things

03:42:16.080 --> 03:42:19.880
You know that they're trying to move rocks around. He's got to make sure he's keeping himself in shape

03:42:19.880 --> 03:42:23.580
He's trying to pick things up and put them down. Exactly. That's all he's trying to do, you know, I

03:42:23.580 --> 03:42:30.060
I love it. I love it also really loved that every single person on that panel also was holding a plush

03:42:30.060 --> 03:42:36.980
Yes, thank you for saying that I feel very affirmed by the fact that we all just kind of brought these up here with us

03:42:36.980 --> 03:42:41.380
I feel like is this okay? Are we low-key bullying you because you didn't bring a plush today?

03:42:41.380 --> 03:42:44.940
I have this he's in my plush is attached. He's practical

03:42:44.940 --> 03:42:48.700
He's a case for caring things and my emotional support plush

03:42:50.100 --> 03:42:52.100
And if you look

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Munchlax has his own Snorlax on plush.

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Plush on plush. So everyone's getting in on it.

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We're really killing it, honestly.

03:43:04.140 --> 03:43:06.260
Really killing it here at Pokemon XP.

03:43:06.260 --> 03:43:08.620
Come on. That's how you get the Munchlax in

03:43:08.620 --> 03:43:10.460
Pokopia, you got to put the Snorlax bed out.

03:43:10.460 --> 03:43:12.380
So check that.

03:43:12.380 --> 03:43:16.380
Honestly, yes. We have more Pokopia to talk about actually,

03:43:16.380 --> 03:43:18.780
because we have an interview coming up with List of the Last.

03:43:18.780 --> 03:43:20.420
We just saw the Pokopia panel.

03:43:20.420 --> 03:43:25.220
But really quick, we want to give you a look at the Pokémon Pokopia booth here at Pokémon XP.

03:43:25.220 --> 03:43:27.220
So let's take a look at that right now.

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I love that they took us to that booth and they were like, do we need our switches?

03:44:15.340 --> 03:44:16.980
Because we can bring our switches out.

03:44:16.980 --> 03:44:17.980
We can bring our switches out.

03:44:17.980 --> 03:44:18.980
Absolutely prepared.

03:44:18.980 --> 03:44:19.980
You're absolutely prepared.

03:44:19.980 --> 03:44:23.120
But don't worry, if you didn't bring your Switch 2, you can head over to the Pokemon

03:44:23.120 --> 03:44:24.120
Pocopia Booth.

03:44:24.120 --> 03:44:25.120
You can play a demo there.

03:44:25.120 --> 03:44:27.000
You can use the switches that they have on hand.

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We confirm for you.

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Yeah.

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They work good.

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And it's so much fun just moving around and living in the spaces that they create

03:44:33.920 --> 03:44:34.920
down in the hall.

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I know we'll get to check out a lot more with a lot more of our featured content, but

03:44:38.080 --> 03:44:42.400
the Pocopia Booth is a special little cozy spot for a cozy game.

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I was so activated by hearing just the audio.

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I walked by and you hear the audio and I'm like, I'm ready to be cozy.

03:44:47.440 --> 03:44:48.440
Oh, where is it?

03:44:48.440 --> 03:44:51.320
Carrying me away at Drizlin.

03:44:51.320 --> 03:44:55.760
All right, in case you are ready to go to the Pokemon XP

03:44:55.760 --> 03:44:58.880
or Pokemon World-themed Pokopia Island,

03:44:58.880 --> 03:45:01.120
we have that code ready for you as well.

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Remember that you can visit this island

03:45:02.840 --> 03:45:04.920
and we think that there may be some special things

03:45:04.920 --> 03:45:07.560
you might want to take some pictures of,

03:45:07.560 --> 03:45:09.160
bring some Pokemon home with you,

03:45:09.160 --> 03:45:10.880
so be sure that you check out that island.

03:45:10.880 --> 03:45:12.200
It looks like here's a little preview

03:45:12.200 --> 03:45:14.760
with the painted ladies from San Francisco.

03:45:14.760 --> 03:45:16.840
You can check that out yourself by visiting,

03:45:16.840 --> 03:45:18.760
using the code we're gonna show right here

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that is the password.

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I personally have not visited it yet

03:45:22.160 --> 03:45:24.880
and I feel very much FOMO about it.

03:45:24.880 --> 03:45:28.080
Yeah, it's just, it's so cute.

03:45:28.080 --> 03:45:29.600
There's gonna be so many amazing details

03:45:29.600 --> 03:45:32.640
as there always is when you get a special

03:45:32.640 --> 03:45:34.320
like island situation like this.

03:45:34.320 --> 03:45:37.400
So I suffice to say I've been taking a lot of pictures.

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Yes.

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I like to take pictures and then try to build brick by brick

03:45:40.840 --> 03:45:41.680
what I saw.

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Yes.

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That's what I will be doing with that.

03:45:44.920 --> 03:45:47.960
Any other Pocopia things we want to chat about?

03:45:47.960 --> 03:45:49.960
Just that, because we haven't been able to visit

03:45:49.960 --> 03:45:52.280
the Cloud Island yet, but we've also been accepting

03:45:52.280 --> 03:45:54.560
photos and tweets on social media

03:45:54.560 --> 03:45:56.080
with the hashtag Pokemon XP.

03:45:56.080 --> 03:45:57.440
If you're on the Cloud Island,

03:45:57.440 --> 03:45:59.480
do you want to show us some fun stuff going on out there?

03:45:59.480 --> 03:46:00.800
True!

03:46:00.800 --> 03:46:04.440
I'm not asking, I'm telling you to send me photos.

03:46:04.440 --> 03:46:06.080
I would like to see the photos, show me the photos.

03:46:06.080 --> 03:46:07.600
That is specifically a request,

03:46:07.600 --> 03:46:09.240
not from the production staff,

03:46:09.240 --> 03:46:10.640
but from us here at the desk.

03:46:10.640 --> 03:46:12.600
Please show us your Pocopia islands,

03:46:12.600 --> 03:46:14.880
use the hashtag Pokemon XP.

03:46:14.880 --> 03:46:16.740
we want to see them.

03:46:16.740 --> 03:46:18.140
Now, if you're tuned in from home,

03:46:18.140 --> 03:46:20.000
we also have some other things for you

03:46:20.000 --> 03:46:21.500
that we hope you will enjoy.

03:46:21.500 --> 03:46:24.020
One of them is a Twitch chat badge.

03:46:24.020 --> 03:46:25.540
Let's take a look at how you can get that,

03:46:25.540 --> 03:46:27.660
what it looks like, what you've got to do.

03:46:27.660 --> 03:46:29.500
We were backstage trying to get our accounts

03:46:29.500 --> 03:46:32.100
all linked up to get ready to do this as well.

03:46:32.100 --> 03:46:35.140
All you've got to do is watch Pokemon XP

03:46:35.140 --> 03:46:35.980
for 60 minutes.

03:46:35.980 --> 03:46:36.980
You're already doing that.

03:46:36.980 --> 03:46:37.820
You're already here.

03:46:37.820 --> 03:46:39.900
Just make sure that you keep on doing it

03:46:39.900 --> 03:46:42.260
and you can get the Pokemon XP costume

03:46:42.260 --> 03:46:43.780
Pikachu as a chat badge.

03:46:43.780 --> 03:46:45.060
Look at her, she's so cute.

03:46:45.060 --> 03:46:46.160
I can't handle it.

03:46:46.160 --> 03:46:47.160
I know.

03:46:47.160 --> 03:46:48.160
I can't handle it.

03:46:48.160 --> 03:46:50.860
That's a need, not a want.

03:46:50.860 --> 03:46:52.820
So much personality.

03:46:52.820 --> 03:46:54.260
I just want that chat badge forever.

03:46:54.260 --> 03:46:55.940
I'm going to flex that in every stream.

03:46:55.940 --> 03:46:56.500
Absolutely.

03:46:56.500 --> 03:46:57.580
Yeah, Pokemon for life.

03:46:57.580 --> 03:47:02.300
She also is an exclusive Twitch chat badge.

03:47:02.300 --> 03:47:05.140
That word gives me a lot of urgency.

03:47:05.140 --> 03:47:08.220
I need this now or forever not.

03:47:08.220 --> 03:47:09.300
You know what I mean?

03:47:09.300 --> 03:47:10.980
60 minutes.

03:47:10.980 --> 03:47:13.340
Gotta put our 60 minutes in.

03:47:13.340 --> 03:47:15.740
easy peasy. That's gonna fly by.

03:47:15.740 --> 03:47:18.680
We will endeavor to entertain you while you do that.

03:47:18.680 --> 03:47:22.680
And here to help us do that is list the last surprise.

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Here you are on the desk.

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Hi, it is so wonderful to be here

03:47:27.500 --> 03:47:29.980
with all of you lovely ladies today.

03:47:29.980 --> 03:47:32.100
Welcome to Pokemon XP. How is it so far?

03:47:32.100 --> 03:47:34.580
Oh my gosh, it has been so incredible.

03:47:34.580 --> 03:47:38.460
I just got here maybe an hour and a half ago

03:47:38.460 --> 03:47:39.660
and there's so much to see.

03:47:39.660 --> 03:47:43.100
I haven't even scratched the surface, so I'm excited.

03:47:43.100 --> 03:47:44.540
Wow, amazing.

03:47:44.540 --> 03:47:47.140
Okay, well then, obviously we're here to talk about Pokopia.

03:47:47.140 --> 03:47:49.580
So, what's your personal experience with Pokopia?

03:47:49.580 --> 03:47:51.020
What's your favorite part about the game?

03:47:51.020 --> 03:47:55.920
I am obsessed with Pokopia, wholeheartedly so obsessed.

03:47:55.920 --> 03:47:59.460
I have been super enjoying Pokémon's venture

03:47:59.460 --> 03:48:02.020
into the life sim genre.

03:48:02.020 --> 03:48:07.020
Honestly, starting off XP with a big Pokopia panel

03:48:07.300 --> 03:48:09.580
has been just incredible.

03:48:09.580 --> 03:48:11.060
I'm just so excited about it.

03:48:11.060 --> 03:48:13.500
It's like we're starting off with a bang, you know?

03:48:13.500 --> 03:48:15.340
So I'm a huge fan of the game

03:48:15.340 --> 03:48:17.980
and of course loved hearing from all of the people

03:48:17.980 --> 03:48:21.540
that worked on it, all of their fun little development

03:48:21.540 --> 03:48:23.460
processes and secrets and stuff.

03:48:23.460 --> 03:48:24.500
Oh, it's been so fun.

03:48:24.500 --> 03:48:26.100
Are you kind of ditto-coded today?

03:48:26.100 --> 03:48:26.940
Is that what I'm facing?

03:48:26.940 --> 03:48:30.100
Oh, I am so bad, so dumb.

03:48:30.100 --> 03:48:33.340
Okay, we're getting worldwide

03:48:33.340 --> 03:48:35.500
with our Pokemon Center stuff, okay?

03:48:35.500 --> 03:48:37.900
Because I am so excited about this bag.

03:48:37.900 --> 03:48:40.780
Anyways, yes, I am ditto-coded today.

03:48:40.780 --> 03:48:42.220
A little closet cosplay.

03:48:42.220 --> 03:48:43.500
Yes, we love to see it.

03:48:43.500 --> 03:48:44.620
Yes.

03:48:44.620 --> 03:48:46.900
So you watched the panel, and one of the things

03:48:46.900 --> 03:48:48.620
I was really excited to hear them talk about

03:48:48.620 --> 03:48:51.700
was how impressed they were with players like you,

03:48:51.700 --> 03:48:53.940
who build incredible, beautiful structures,

03:48:53.940 --> 03:48:55.100
who have really taken the game

03:48:55.100 --> 03:48:57.100
and shown them things to do in it

03:48:57.100 --> 03:48:58.780
that even they never anticipated.

03:48:58.780 --> 03:49:01.180
So you've made some incredible builds in the game.

03:49:01.180 --> 03:49:02.660
You've had a lot of excitement about it.

03:49:02.660 --> 03:49:04.180
What has been your favorite to approach

03:49:04.180 --> 03:49:05.380
and kind of what's your philosophy

03:49:05.380 --> 03:49:06.540
when you're picking these builds?

03:49:06.540 --> 03:49:08.820
That is so funny that you say players like me

03:49:08.820 --> 03:49:15.220
building really great and amazing because honestly if you go into my game I have over a hundred hours

03:49:15.220 --> 03:49:22.820
in it and I can't even show you maybe one area that's finished. It is so expansive and extensive.

03:49:23.620 --> 03:49:28.820
The amount of just gameplay in there and just how sandboxy it is, it is so easy to just like

03:49:28.820 --> 03:49:32.980
constantly be pulled in so many different directions because there's so many different things

03:49:32.980 --> 03:49:37.460
that you're wanting to work on at one time and especially with the new DLC out.

03:49:37.460 --> 03:49:41.700
I'm like, oh my goodness, there's just, you're really giving me another world?

03:49:41.700 --> 03:49:49.860
I can't, I can't, but I am so up for the challenge and for me, I love going in and trying to figure

03:49:49.860 --> 03:49:55.940
out based off of my knowledge of the Pokemon games that are in Kanto, I love going in and

03:49:55.940 --> 03:50:02.660
trying to figure out how to recreate and rebuild the structures that have kind of deteriorated

03:50:02.660 --> 03:50:09.700
obviously in the game and see what I can do to kind of recreate them as accurately as possible.

03:50:09.700 --> 03:50:15.060
So that's typically how I like to play. I know a lot of people just really go out there and get

03:50:15.060 --> 03:50:21.140
so incredibly creative, you know, and I love seeing that. But for me, I love trying to

03:50:21.140 --> 03:50:27.620
recreate the towns. I feel like I'm also a preservationist. Yes. I love that. I'm a

03:50:27.620 --> 03:50:35.420
I feel like there's there's different types of players like my husband was like look what I did bulldoze the entire area

03:50:35.420 --> 03:50:37.420
Just made it flat

03:50:37.580 --> 03:50:43.700
And I was like, how do you know which buildings were there and what if the Pokemon miss that building and I need to make

03:50:43.700 --> 03:50:46.260
So I I'm much more like that, but I have so much

03:50:47.300 --> 03:50:52.700
Respect for people who build from scratch also, but I just can't I can't bring myself to do it

03:50:52.700 --> 03:50:55.220
It's like I I it's the history of the place

03:50:55.220 --> 03:50:58.060
a flattening an entire place.

03:50:58.060 --> 03:50:59.300
Like I just, I can't,

03:50:59.300 --> 03:51:01.780
how do you even start from something that's just so empty?

03:51:01.780 --> 03:51:05.500
Like I love that there's something to work off of already

03:51:05.500 --> 03:51:08.780
and I'm going to take that path and stick with it.

03:51:09.780 --> 03:51:11.700
I mean, it doesn't mean that you can't still

03:51:11.700 --> 03:51:13.220
make it your own along the way.

03:51:13.220 --> 03:51:15.420
You're just kind of utilizing the natural terrain

03:51:15.420 --> 03:51:16.580
and the existing structures

03:51:16.580 --> 03:51:18.500
and just gizzing them up a little bit,

03:51:18.500 --> 03:51:19.980
giving them a little bit of your own flair.

03:51:19.980 --> 03:51:21.580
And I know that you guys said that

03:51:21.580 --> 03:51:22.780
you're very did okay today,

03:51:22.780 --> 03:51:27.660
But does that also then correlate to your favorite Pokemon?

03:51:27.660 --> 03:51:31.700
I, listen, I who love me some ditto, okay?

03:51:31.700 --> 03:51:34.220
But I do have a favorite Pokemon,

03:51:34.220 --> 03:51:38.020
and I don't think that ditto would even,

03:51:38.020 --> 03:51:40.100
you know, be able to touch this one for me.

03:51:40.100 --> 03:51:40.940
Okay, okay, okay.

03:51:40.940 --> 03:51:44.340
For me personally, my favorite Pokemon is Mime Junior.

03:51:44.340 --> 03:51:45.660
Oh, okay.

03:51:45.660 --> 03:51:46.740
Really?

03:51:46.740 --> 03:51:47.780
Kind of a random poll.

03:51:47.780 --> 03:51:50.220
Speak, speak, tell us about what it was.

03:51:50.220 --> 03:51:54.860
There is a movie called Lucario and the Mystery of Meal.

03:51:54.860 --> 03:51:59.620
Okay, I watch this movie and Mind Junior was the cutest thing

03:51:59.620 --> 03:52:02.820
I have ever seen in my entire life.

03:52:02.820 --> 03:52:04.620
Watch that movie and you'll totally understand

03:52:04.620 --> 03:52:07.340
what I mean, everybody, like come on.

03:52:07.340 --> 03:52:10.980
He was miming everybody, miming Pikachu, miming, oh.

03:52:10.980 --> 03:52:12.220
I'm with you, you're, yeah.

03:52:12.220 --> 03:52:14.740
And I was so sold from that moment on.

03:52:15.820 --> 03:52:16.780
Mind Junior's my favorite.

03:52:16.780 --> 03:52:17.620
What about you guys?

03:52:17.620 --> 03:52:18.620
I love that.

03:52:18.620 --> 03:52:20.860
No one has asked us what our favorite Pokemon are.

03:52:20.860 --> 03:52:21.700
I was so nervous.

03:52:21.700 --> 03:52:22.200
Really?

03:52:22.200 --> 03:52:22.700
No.

03:52:22.700 --> 03:52:23.700
It was there before.

03:52:23.700 --> 03:52:25.700
I was just on the desk.

03:52:25.700 --> 03:52:27.140
I really, I love this for us.

03:52:27.140 --> 03:52:29.300
I mean, Eevee.

03:52:29.300 --> 03:52:32.180
And I know that's a very basic answer, but here's the thing.

03:52:32.180 --> 03:52:34.260
It's like you've got to get to choose a bunch of favorite

03:52:34.260 --> 03:52:37.700
Pokemon in one because the opportunities to be whatever

03:52:37.700 --> 03:52:38.740
you want to be are endless.

03:52:38.740 --> 03:52:40.620
So I'm an Eevee girly.

03:52:40.620 --> 03:52:44.220
However, I've a lot of shout outs to some other weirdos

03:52:44.220 --> 03:52:45.460
down on the way.

03:52:45.460 --> 03:52:47.380
What about you, Rachel?

03:52:47.380 --> 03:52:53.180
Articuno and Mew, but also Mew like ditto is all the Pokemon. So I feel like it's a little bit of a cheat

03:52:54.460 --> 03:52:55.700
That's fair

03:52:55.700 --> 03:53:01.820
This is also a little bit basic, but I have such a soft spot in my heart for Gengar specifically because of the lore

03:53:02.460 --> 03:53:03.500
behind

03:53:03.500 --> 03:53:05.500
Gengar store. I mean being left alone

03:53:06.180 --> 03:53:08.180
waiting for their trainer

03:53:08.180 --> 03:53:12.580
Abandoned and just helping they're coming back. Oh, just loyal. Yeah, loyal

03:53:14.540 --> 03:53:16.540
So cute and

03:53:16.540 --> 03:53:18.540
I mean I love Sylveon.

03:53:18.540 --> 03:53:19.540
I mean I love Sylvan.

03:53:19.540 --> 03:53:20.540
Who doesn't?

03:53:20.540 --> 03:53:21.540
Honestly, yeah.

03:53:21.540 --> 03:53:27.980
But getting to recruit all the Pokémon, getting to live with them in the Pokopia Universe is

03:53:27.980 --> 03:53:29.540
one of my favorite things about it.

03:53:29.540 --> 03:53:35.300
Do you have a favorite area that you played in the game and Pokémon that you spawned there?

03:53:35.300 --> 03:53:40.220
I have been really loving Bubbly Basin, but I cannot abandon what I'm trying to do

03:53:40.220 --> 03:53:42.300
in Withered Wasteland right now.

03:53:42.300 --> 03:53:44.980
It has been my main and number one area

03:53:44.980 --> 03:53:48.820
and I find myself becoming a little bit more brave

03:53:48.820 --> 03:53:50.140
and putting myself out there

03:53:50.140 --> 03:53:52.100
a little bit more in the sparkling skylands.

03:53:52.100 --> 03:53:52.940
Okay, oh!

03:53:52.940 --> 03:53:54.980
That area is incredibly intimidating.

03:53:54.980 --> 03:53:57.580
Yeah, everything is so upheaved and on different levels

03:53:57.580 --> 03:54:00.020
and I'm trying to do this restoration thing

03:54:00.020 --> 03:54:03.100
but I'm finding it like a little bit difficult

03:54:03.100 --> 03:54:06.940
to understand how it was before, right?

03:54:06.940 --> 03:54:10.940
And so, trying to make a little headway there

03:54:10.940 --> 03:54:11.780
here and there.

03:54:11.780 --> 03:54:13.260
to jump around though.

03:54:13.260 --> 03:54:15.840
I feel like in Sparkling Skylands,

03:54:15.840 --> 03:54:17.660
there's one of the floating islands

03:54:17.660 --> 03:54:19.540
that that's just my resource area.

03:54:19.540 --> 03:54:21.940
I just pull apart those buildings and put them

03:54:21.940 --> 03:54:24.140
other places and I feel bad for that area

03:54:24.140 --> 03:54:25.780
but no one lives there anymore, you know?

03:54:25.780 --> 03:54:26.620
Yes, yes, yes.

03:54:26.620 --> 03:54:27.740
I do the exact same thing.

03:54:27.740 --> 03:54:30.020
Whenever I'm gonna start like one building,

03:54:30.020 --> 03:54:32.420
I'm like, let me just go tear this other one down.

03:54:32.420 --> 03:54:33.820
It's only halfway there.

03:54:33.820 --> 03:54:34.660
Yeah.

03:54:34.660 --> 03:54:35.500
You know, why not?

03:54:35.500 --> 03:54:37.300
I'll just use the same resources.

03:54:37.300 --> 03:54:39.780
It's really putting things into work over there, huh?

03:54:39.780 --> 03:54:40.860
Yeah, it's gonna take a lot of work.

03:54:40.860 --> 03:54:45.860
I find that I'm looking at Pocopia as a lifelong project.

03:54:45.860 --> 03:54:52.620
I think it is going to take me my whole life to finally completely restore everything.

03:54:52.620 --> 03:54:58.940
And that's such a fun prospect for me because I do like a game where I can just hop in a

03:54:58.940 --> 03:55:03.260
couple of hours at a time and make a little bit of progress, you know, over the course

03:55:03.260 --> 03:55:09.060
of years I'm going to find myself slowly maybe completing one area at a time.

03:55:09.060 --> 03:55:10.560
We need to follow with this journey, though.

03:55:10.560 --> 03:55:11.560
Yeah, yeah.

03:55:11.560 --> 03:55:14.560
Where can we follow this journey, by the way?

03:55:14.560 --> 03:55:15.560
I'm on YouTube!

03:55:15.560 --> 03:55:17.560
I'm a YouTuber!

03:55:17.560 --> 03:55:21.560
YouTube.com slash C slash list the last.

03:55:21.560 --> 03:55:25.560
Or wait, no, actually now it's YouTube.com slash at list the last.

03:55:25.560 --> 03:55:26.560
Nice.

03:55:26.560 --> 03:55:27.560
Nowadays.

03:55:27.560 --> 03:55:28.560
That's a three line simple.

03:55:28.560 --> 03:55:30.560
What will people find on your YouTube channel?

03:55:30.560 --> 03:55:33.560
I love to talk a lot about games in general.

03:55:33.560 --> 03:55:37.640
And Pocopia is a really good topic for me,

03:55:37.640 --> 03:55:42.640
because I find myself having just so much to say, you know?

03:55:43.000 --> 03:55:48.000
I love to gush about the game and how much,

03:55:48.280 --> 03:55:52.080
just how interesting the development process was.

03:55:52.080 --> 03:55:55.840
And I, in general, I'm just always trying to talk

03:55:55.840 --> 03:56:00.160
about games that I love and spread the good word, right?

03:56:00.160 --> 03:56:02.640
Get it out there, you know?

03:56:02.640 --> 03:56:07.640
I have two questions that we were chatting about before the Pocopia panel that I think

03:56:07.640 --> 03:56:10.440
are particularly interesting in getting to know someone.

03:56:10.440 --> 03:56:13.960
The first is, who are the Pokemon that live with you?

03:56:13.960 --> 03:56:17.200
Who are your favorite romance in your home in Pocopia?

03:56:17.200 --> 03:56:23.560
I always keep gulping around because I love that he holds things.

03:56:23.560 --> 03:56:27.800
And Mime Junior, of course, lives in my house with me.

03:56:27.800 --> 03:56:28.800
Love him.

03:56:28.800 --> 03:56:34.040
Um, as far as anybody else, I kind of, like, if you go to my house in the sparkling skylands,

03:56:34.040 --> 03:56:39.680
I got a bunch of random Pokemon that have nothing to do with each other in there.

03:56:39.680 --> 03:56:43.300
Don't even want to be in the same habitats, because I'm like, I just got to get people

03:56:43.300 --> 03:56:44.800
in habitats right now.

03:56:44.800 --> 03:56:49.620
So yeah, there's some areas that are a little bit more messy than others, but in Bubbly

03:56:49.620 --> 03:56:53.720
Basin, I have my house with trapping.

03:56:53.720 --> 03:56:55.800
I moved him over there.

03:56:55.800 --> 03:56:58.200
So yeah, no, we're having fun.

03:56:58.200 --> 03:56:59.200
Yeah.

03:56:59.200 --> 03:57:00.200
So I just have it on there.

03:57:00.200 --> 03:57:01.200
I don't know.

03:57:01.200 --> 03:57:05.000
I just, I figured I was like, yeah, I just feel like you want to be over here.

03:57:05.000 --> 03:57:09.720
So over kind of by the Pokemon Center, I have me and Trapinch just over by that spa.

03:57:09.720 --> 03:57:11.880
Am I the only one who made the spa my home?

03:57:11.880 --> 03:57:12.880
Oh, I do not.

03:57:12.880 --> 03:57:14.880
No, mine is right next to it.

03:57:14.880 --> 03:57:17.400
Mine is right next to it and I love it over there.

03:57:17.400 --> 03:57:21.280
I just feel like, yeah, I mean I was spit out right by this spa where I can relax.

03:57:21.280 --> 03:57:23.680
I feel it's a great place to put my little flag.

03:57:23.680 --> 03:57:24.680
Yeah.

03:57:24.680 --> 03:57:27.440
One of the other questions that we had that I thought was interesting is,

03:57:27.440 --> 03:57:30.360
are there any Pokémon that before Pokopia you were kind of like,

03:57:30.920 --> 03:57:33.280
but then after spending time with them in Pokopia,

03:57:33.280 --> 03:57:36.760
maybe their personality or like them just being around enough,

03:57:36.760 --> 03:57:38.600
made you be like, no, they're one of my favorites?

03:57:38.600 --> 03:57:40.280
I honestly, it's Trappin.

03:57:40.280 --> 03:57:42.080
Really? He's so funny to me.

03:57:42.080 --> 03:57:45.040
I really, there was one,

03:57:45.680 --> 03:57:47.800
one of the events where we had to go around

03:57:47.800 --> 03:57:50.600
and do a lot of different quests for a different Pokémon

03:57:50.880 --> 03:57:52.400
that it would just kind of pop up

03:57:52.400 --> 03:57:54.280
and then we would get some sort of reward out of it.

03:57:54.280 --> 03:58:02.760
I can't recall exactly, but I saw that Trapinch had a little bubble over their head, and seemed

03:58:02.760 --> 03:58:05.120
so troubled, right?

03:58:05.120 --> 03:58:09.880
And I go up to Trapinch and ask what's wrong, and they're like, I simply just don't know

03:58:09.880 --> 03:58:10.880
what to do.

03:58:10.880 --> 03:58:14.080
Oh, Liz, do you think you could help me out?

03:58:14.080 --> 03:58:15.800
I just need one leaf.

03:58:15.800 --> 03:58:16.800
Bloody.

03:58:16.800 --> 03:58:20.560
And I'm like, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

03:58:20.560 --> 03:58:23.800
You were so stressed about one leaf.

03:58:23.800 --> 03:58:30.680
So, honestly, just opening my heart to so many different Pokemon in there in Pokopia, it's

03:58:30.680 --> 03:58:35.320
good so fun, but I love those little moments where it's like, you're funny.

03:58:35.320 --> 03:58:39.360
You're, I know, I don't really think about Trappin' very much, but you're funny, and

03:58:39.360 --> 03:58:41.440
I like you, and I want you to live in my house.

03:58:41.440 --> 03:58:42.440
Yes, exactly.

03:58:42.440 --> 03:58:45.320
I feel like that's what Pokopia did for me with a lot of Pokemon.

03:58:45.320 --> 03:58:46.320
I was like, you're funny.

03:58:46.320 --> 03:58:47.320
You live with me.

03:58:47.320 --> 03:58:48.320
Yes.

03:58:48.320 --> 03:58:49.320
Thank you.

03:58:49.320 --> 03:58:50.320
Definitely.

03:58:50.320 --> 03:58:57.460
We have plenty of time, actually, before our next panel, so I am really chilling talking

03:58:57.460 --> 03:59:01.900
about Pokopia, but I also, Liz, want to give you a second also to talk about any other

03:59:01.900 --> 03:59:05.900
properties of Pokémon that you're interested in, because we are here at Pokémon XP.

03:59:05.900 --> 03:59:08.180
We're celebrating 30 years of Pokémon.

03:59:08.180 --> 03:59:10.460
We've seen some really cool shows.

03:59:10.460 --> 03:59:12.900
We've seen some cool card stuff come out.

03:59:12.900 --> 03:59:15.780
Anything else that has your interest here at Pokémon XP?

03:59:15.780 --> 03:59:21.940
general I am super excited to watch the tournaments and watch the competition. My

03:59:21.940 --> 03:59:27.260
boyfriend plays a little bit and some of the regionals and so I've been slowly

03:59:27.260 --> 03:59:33.180
getting into watching competitive Pokemon in general over the years and it's

03:59:33.180 --> 03:59:36.900
really fun you know going through the competitor halls and you know there's

03:59:36.900 --> 03:59:40.380
so many friends in there so many people competing and so I'm really

03:59:40.380 --> 03:59:44.980
excited for everybody good luck out there everyone super excited to watch

03:59:44.980 --> 03:59:52.080
all of the finals as well. In general just have been a Pokemon fan my whole

03:59:52.080 --> 03:59:58.160
life you know starting with the anime and for me personally I feel like your first

03:59:58.160 --> 04:00:01.960
Pokemon game is always one of your favorites and my first game was Pokemon

04:00:01.960 --> 04:00:07.300
Diamond and so I always look back on those games very fondly especially in

04:00:07.300 --> 04:00:12.920
the DS era I love you know all of the new games as well and so it's just

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kind of been a constant throughout my life and I'm excited to celebrate it here in

04:00:17.960 --> 04:00:25.480
beautiful San Francisco with so many other fans. There is a fashion side of it.

04:00:25.480 --> 04:00:30.920
Yes, yes. I mean, I always got to show up and show out.

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Well, with such a long and interesting career in

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Pokemon you've been fans since Diamond and Pearl. Now you've watched we're all

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the way up to winds and waves almost coming out. We've talked about all the

04:00:43.040 --> 04:00:46.320
Pokemon that are in Pokopia. We've talked about Ditto. We've talked about

04:00:46.320 --> 04:00:51.880
Trapinch, but I'm gonna talk about the Pokemon that made you love Pokemon. So

04:00:51.880 --> 04:00:55.320
when you were first playing Diamond Pearl, when you were first playing any

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Pokemon property, was there one that sort of opened the door for you? I think

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Pip-Lup changed my life. It's the second Pip-Lup shoutout we've gotten too!

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It's a Pip-Lup Day.

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How did Pip-Lup change your life?

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So cute. So cute. I've never seen anything so cute in my life.

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I don't know anyone who doesn't love and think Pip-Lup is cute.

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There's no Pip-Lup Antis, are there?

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No.

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Because I just wouldn't be right.

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Because they would be wrong.

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Obviously.

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Pip-Lup is even one of the Pokémon Company has done a little special stamp on the TCG cards for.

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There's Project Pip Lup, a lot of stuff out there.

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So a wonderful ambassador, I think,

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that they've identified there,

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just in the same way Pikachu was for some of us.

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You mentioned being here with so, so many people,

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and we've been talking about how it's so cool

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to just be gathered with such a throng of humans

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who are all just excited about the same thing.

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I'm thinking about the fact that, you know,

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maybe I don't have a lot in common

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with some of these people, except for

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that we just love Pokemon,

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and in some way or another, it touched or changed our life.

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What has that feeling been like being part of this huge group of fans?

04:02:05.580 --> 04:02:07.880
So connecting.

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You know, we're also connected by this hobby and you know, there's so many people here

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from different age groups, different generations that have been Pokemon fans their whole lives.

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And seeing all of the kids obviously running around and meeting all of the mascots

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and the characters and having so much fun.

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It really warms my heart and it makes me so excited when I run into a kid who says,

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oh my gosh, I love your key chain, and then we get to talk about Pokemon even outside

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of the event.

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And it's really great that we all get to come together and celebrate all of these

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just amazing, wonderful fans and competitors and this intense love for the game.

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Absolutely.

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And kind of following up on that too, as you are obviously someone who's creating content around

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Pokopi and Pokémon in general, and the idea of community and how unique Pokémon's community

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is specifically, how has that allowed you to better connect with your audience?

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Yeah, I, you know, before Pokémon Pokopia, I hadn't really played a ton of Pokémon on my

04:03:19.880 --> 04:03:28.000
channel. For me personally, I like to talk about a lot of life sims and farming sims.

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So obviously, when Pokemon Pokofio was announced, I was like, very interested. I'm very intrigued.

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This is such a cool idea. I am very excited to see what they do with the genre. And they

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knocked it out of the park. This is my game of the year. Sorry, like I am so excited

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about this game, I think that it's very, very special.

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And so before that, I had really talked a little bit

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about my Pokemon history and my general context

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of my gaming history, but I loved Legends EA.

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I loved Legends RCS.

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I am just so excited about the Switch games in general.

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But, you know, it wasn't something that I really

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got to talk about all that much.

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And now I get to talk about my love for Pokemon

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through Pocopia all the time, yeah.

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You made content before this,

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but now that you're talking about Pokemon,

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has your audience changed in any way

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or has your experience creating content been different

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now that you kind of walked into the Pokemon space?

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We have so many Pocopia heads in the chat all the time.

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So many people have been loving this game.

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Something that I find through my audience,

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a lot of joy and is for a lot of people,

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this is their first Pokemon game.

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But for a lot of people that really appreciate

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the life-saving genre,

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maybe a lot of like animal crossing fans, right?

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They really take to Pokopia.

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And a lot of people ask me,

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is this a good first Pokemon game to play?

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And I say, absolutely, all of them are.

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Yeah.

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All of them are, but this,

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if you are into the specific genre,

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Pocopia is really gonna wow you in general because it is just such a good game

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It's also one of the only games where you can kind of get to know

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Pokemon the way that you can like making them your neighbors learning their personalities

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I feel like as someone who really focuses a lot on the collecting aspect of the games and always wants to shiny hunt and always

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Wants to have my favorites in my team that was it really fed a need for me of feeling like I got to know all these

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Pokemon and to me as we're talking about fandom and connecting with people it's like

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When you have a shared love of or an experience with a Pokémon,

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it connects you even more with the Pokémon community.

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So I find that really special about Pokopia as well, that feeling.

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Yeah, it's perfect for that hardcore fan, played every game,

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every single one, multiple times, speedrunner, take a second, show.

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Let's play some Pokopia, let's hang out with the Pokémon.

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And it's also perfect for the brand new player

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who has never touched any of the games before.

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or it allows you to, like you're saying, get to know them.

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And all of their personalities are so unique.

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Something that I really appreciated about the panel

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was how they were talking about specifically injecting

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all of these personalities in and figuring out,

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okay, you know, Alakazam would be a little bit more

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of a wiser Pokemon.

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And maybe other Pokemon would have a little bit more

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of like a younger, childlike feel.

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That was so cool to hear about that philosophy

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because you kind of can tell when you're playing the game

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that each Pokemon has their own different thing going on.

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And then of course I love the little accents

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and stuff that they throw in.

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Magic harp is so fun.

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I love slow-po.

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You know, how cool.

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You know, all of the thought that they put into it

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adds more life, I think, into the series in general.

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You know?

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Oh, go ahead.

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a lot about and I do love the Pokemon in Pokopia. Very nice. But there is also an underlying

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story in Pokopia that I found. Oh my gosh, here we go again. Yeah, to dig into. We're

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finding all these pieces of, I'm putting together kind of what happened and we're really uncovering

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who is going to save the day at the end, whoever that might be. But I want to know

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your reaction to the story of Pokopia and kind of as you uncover things, how are you

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reacting to finding out how things got the way they were? What Rachel wants to

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know is is Team Rocket really the good guys? I know the answer that's yes I have

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no questions about that. Even if they're not the good guys they're funny I really

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should at least find you funny. Yeah I you know what I love the grunt storyline

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right like it's just had so much just life in general to the series it's so

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great but my reaction to the Pocopia story is I was surprised I was like wow

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this is a little bit darker than I was expecting right it was so interesting

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hearing all of the different like connections obviously to things that

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are going on in the real world and piecing the whole story together there

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was some certain devastating moments when you're looking and finding all of

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of these human records all throughout.

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I'm trying to figure out what happened to the humans,

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and it's just no spoilers guys.

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I won't spoil anything because the Pocopia story is so good.

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You guys all need to tap in.

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But wow, there was a lot going on.

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It felt so crazy,

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it felt so big and the very last scene,

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it just was a giant moment to me, obviously.

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So one of the weirdest builds that I did in Pocopia,

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and I'm going to ask you guys what some of your weirdest builds were.

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So think about it while I talk here because,

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but was inspired by the storyline of Where Are the Humans?

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Because we got the item that was the gravestone.

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Then on one of the dream islands,

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you find this temple build thing that has

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the railing around it and the pedestal in the middle.

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So I reconstructed that with a grave in the middle and

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the spooky candle in the middle as like the grave to the unknown human and it

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was like the altar to all of the lost humans and only ghost types live there.

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That's not weird that's honor. Thank you. You get your honoring the storyline.

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Litwick lives there and like you know all the ghosts float around it and

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there's windows on either side so you can always see the lit candle inside to

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remember the humans. Super dramatic. So any other dramatic or weird build that

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you love to show people you're like oh come look and I'm like please come see the

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grave to the unknown what would you guys like to show up I I did build a prison

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yeah somebody on Twitter do that I was like that's really funny as a mind

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junior lover but that doesn't mean I love mr. is he always in there what do

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you do when you look and he's not in the jail cell there that's sometimes I'll

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bottom and just to see him behind my little jail window you know I just throw a

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little honey in there and he's like just happy and joyous you know just for that

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one moment he's like bars bars bars bars bars bars it is so funny I need him

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mime it out right when he's in there but I loved seeing that online and so of

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course I had to recreate it I don't even know if I have any weird ones

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although I did rebuild the cruise ship only to leave one Pokemon alone that no one ever

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sees.

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Oh, which one?

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Glitter?

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I'd rather not say.

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Which one?

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Glitter!

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Because I feel like it might be someone that people like, however, they were just so

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dead set on running their shop and I did not need a shimmy.

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It's happening.

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I know, it is, it's happy.

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Yeah, you left him back there.

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I see, I see.

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He's only rebuilt it so they at least have a cozy,

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slightly cobwebbed bedroom.

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He's like, can they leave, Lauren?

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Can they leave?

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If they want to, can they leave?

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I mean, can Mr. Mine leave if he wants to?

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I'm concerned, friends.

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Yeah, sure.

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True, that's fine.

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Go ahead, figure it out.

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Maybe it's not so easy, maybe it's not so intuitive,

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right?

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But yeah, if you want to go, you can go.

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We all have challenges in life, you know?

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Rachel, what about you?

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Any weird build you want to share?

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You guys are building stuff?

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All my Pokemon live in a bush by a rock.

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Yes, down by the river.

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It's a fishy thing.

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And nature as Arceus intended.

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That's where they live.

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All right, well, Liz, thank you so much

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for coming and chatting with us and hanging out,

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talking about Pocopia.

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Again, where can people find you on the internet,

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on your channel, everywhere else?

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Yes, I am on YouTube as well as Twitch sometimes.

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I'm kind of everywhere.

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I'm playing my silly little games,

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and I love talking about my silly little games.

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So thank you, everybody, for having me.

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I'm so excited that I got to come on and talk

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about one of my favorite games, not only just of this year,

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but I would say of all time.

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Pokopia, all time banger.

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Make sure you guys go back and rewatch the panel.

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They had a lot of really interesting information in there.

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if you are a Pocopia fan.

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And thank you for having me.

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Make sure you guys tune in to the Pokemon XP broadcast

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and watch these lovely ladies

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commentate us through the whole weekend.

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Doing my job over here.

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He's really killing it.

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Yeah, and don't forget at home or here at Pokemon XP,

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please use the hashtag Pokemon XP,

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show us your posts, your photos, anything.

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We would love to see what you're up to.

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And we would also love to see your Pocopia builds.

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So use that hashtag Pokemon XP

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show us what you've got. Now, we're coming up on another panel. We're going to be showing you live

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from Pokemon XP. I'm very, very excited about this one. This is going to be the Pokemon TCG

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Making of Full Art Card Illustrations panel. And after that, we're also going to show you,

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I took a tour of the 30th Celebration booth down there while yesterday.

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I've been waiting to see this tour of yours. I'm really curious what will be shown in

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that because I may have kind of flipped out a little. So without any further ado,

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Let's watch the Pokemon TCG panel coming up right now.

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Alright, how are we enjoying day one of Pokemon XP so far?

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All right, that's great to hear we've started off our day really strong

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We're gonna keep it going right now so far

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We've heard about the Pokemon tales the misadventures of serpents and peachu

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We've talked about Pokemon pokopia the game, but now are you ready to talk about the making of Pokemon TCG full-art?

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card illustrations

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That's what I want to hear. All right, let's give a big cheer for Noriko saying

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Wow, this is a big crowd, a little bit nervous, but hello everyone, and welcome to our panel,

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the making of full art card illustration.

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So my name is Nariko and I will be your moderator today.

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In this session, we will explore how full art cards were created, how they have evolved

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over time, and what goes on behind the scenes.

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Joining us today are members of the Creatures Development Team, who have helped shake

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this part of the Pokemon trading card. So before we begin I have a few quick

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announcements if you haven't been to the previous funds but this panel will be

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conducted in a bilingual format. I will first ask the questions in English and

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then repeat the same questions in Japanese for our panelists and we have

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our amazing interpreter Stuart who will interpret their responses back into

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English.

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Thank you very much.

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Everyone, please.

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Thank you very much.

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Hello everyone, my name is Haru Saito. I am an art director for Pokemon Car,

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as creatures. And my favorite Pokemon is Play Coco.

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Hello everyone, my name is Haru Saito, I joined Creatures in 2018.

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I'm a photographer and I'm a photographer and I'm a photographer.

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I like Pokemon, I don't know what to say.

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Hello everyone, my name is Koei Kobayashi.

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I am a creative director for Pokemon Cards at Preachers.

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My favorite Pokemon is Loret.

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Hello everyone, my name is Kohei Kobayashi.

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I joined Creatures in 2013 and currently serve as a Creative Director.

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I ever see all aspects of Pokemon Trading Cards production, including product planning,

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game direction, and overall creative supervision.

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And my favorite Pokemon is Rallet.

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And once again, I am Noriko Sang, today's moderator.

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I manage the Bilingual Project Management Team at the Pokemon Company International.

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My favorite Pokemon is Delivered.

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Not this guy, but Delivered.

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Stuart, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself?

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Sure. Hi everyone. My name is Stuart Pagan.

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I'm a Senior Product Marketing Manager at the Pokemon Company International in Seattle.

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And I usually work on Pokemon apps such as Pokemon Trading Car and Game Pocket.

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But today I'm excited to join you all as an interpreter for this panel.

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My favorite Pokemon is Scizor.

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I'll hand it back to Nori-Cat.

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Thank you.

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So let's start by looking at the history and evolution of Bullart cards in the Pokemon

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trading card game.

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How did Bullart cards come into existence and how have they evolved over time?

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We'll also explore the role they play in today's Pokemon TCG and why they become

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such a beloved part of the game.

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Kobayashi-san, can you tell us how all our cards first made their way into the Pokemon TCG?

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Thank you very much.

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Mr. Kobayashi, how did you get this full-art card?

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Thank you very much.

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The history of the full-art card is still in the black fight series of 2011.

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We have made two big changes to make the experience of opening the card pack more exciting and more realistic.

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Thank you. The history of Full Art Cards dates back to the Black and White era in 2011.

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At that time, we made two major changes to make opening booster packs more exciting and rewarding.

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The first was the introduction of what we now call overnumbered cards.

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Cards with set numbers that exceed the standard numbering of the expansion.

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These overnumbered cards created the possibility of finding something extra special

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beyond the standard contents of a set, making the Pac-Man experience even more exciting.

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At the same time, the goal was to increase the artistic quality of the cards

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and to create a full-art card.

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In comparison to the usual cards, the illustration space is large and expanded,

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so it is more likely to be more expressive.

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On the other hand, it is also very important to take the balance.

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Pokemon cards are the most important thing in the game.

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For that reason, even with the presence of the art,

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the characters and characters are easy to recognize,

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and the characters on the cards were easy to read.

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At the same time, maintaining balance was extremely important.

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Pokemon cards are first and foremost a game.

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As artwork became more prominent,

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we continued to prioritize making Pokemon characters

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easily recognizable while ensuring card text remained easy to read.

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read.

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私たちのゴールはコレクション制だけによらずウルアートカードを通じてカードを引き当てる

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喜びだったりバトル中にカードを使う楽しさも含めて

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ポケモンカードゲームの体験そのものをより豊かにすることでした.

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Our goal was never to simply increase collectability.

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Through full art cards, we wanted to enhance the entire Pokémon TCG experience

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from the thrill of pulling a card to the enjoyment of using it in battle.

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So full art cards were created both to enhance the excitement of pack opening, but also to

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elevate the artistic potential of Pokemon cards.

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How did they continue to evolve from there and become some of the most beloved cards

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among fans?

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The fun of opening a pack and the art of being a card were born to increase the quality of the flow art card.

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I would like to ask you further about how the flow art card has evolved, and how many fans have been supported by this card.

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Please tell us about the process.

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As a Pokemon trading card game evolved, full art cards gained greater recognition and their role expanded significantly.

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A major turning point came in 2017 with the introduction of Pokemon GX cards during the Sun and Moon Era, which were produced in full art form.

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GX cards introduced new gameplay elements such as GX attacks and unique abilities which increased the amount of information displayed on the card.

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This also created new design challenges.

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By using the full art format, we were able to address those challenges while also making the cards more visually appealing.

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As a result, GX cards established themselves as cards that players were generally excited to pull and collect.

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Thank you very much, Kobayashi-san. Thank you very much.

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Saito-san, what would you say was the next major turning point for full art cards?

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Well then, Kobayashi-san, thank you very much.

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What is the next big weather for your full art cards?

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The next major milestone was the introduction of Tag Team Pokemon GX cards in 2018.

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The tag team GX cards featured Pokemon teaming up together in ways unique to the cards themselves.

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depicting multiple Pokémon on a single card presented new artistic challenges,

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but it also allowed us to embrace the creative freedom of 2D illustrations

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and establish a new cohesive art style for this gameplay experience.

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To better communicate the story's relationships and circumstances that brought these Pokémon together,

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on together, we introduced a new concept for full art cards called special art.

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As a result, this era not only enhanced the appeal of tagging cards themselves but also greatly expanded the creative possibilities and overall appeal of Pokemon card illustrations.

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So I think it's clear that the introduction of full art cards along with several key milestones along the way has greatly impacted the creative possibilities of Pokemon TCG artwork.

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How has that evolution continued into the Pokemon TCG today?

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The full art card has begun to appear, and the development of the art of the Pokemon card has increased significantly.

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So, how is the current Pokemon card connected?

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The special art that started with the Sword and Shield series

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was popular, and in the Scarlet Violet series,

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it evolved into a special art layer that was easier to get by hand.

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The special art concept that began during the Sword and Shield era became popular.

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And then, during the Scarlet and Violet era,

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the introduction of the Illustration Rare and Special Illustration Rare cards

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the experiences, these experiences more accessible than ever.

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Both illustration rare and special illustration rare cards aim to portray aspects of the

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world of Pokemon that cannot be fully expressed through standard card illustrations. Our goal is

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to showcase Pokémon in a wide variety of situations and perspectives.

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Because illustration rare cards are relatively easier to get,

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they provide an approachable entry point for casual collectors.

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Special illustration records, on the other hand, remain difficult to find and offer a truly special experience when players finally encounter them.

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Together they create multiple layers of enjoyment and have made opening booster packs more exciting than ever.

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So now let's take a deeper look behind the scenes of full-art card creation by taking

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a closer look into specific examples of recent cards.

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They're so cute.

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Okay, we'll start with three cards featuring the beloved Burst Partner Pokémon.

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Kobayashi-san, can you tell us about the background and the development process behind creating these original first-partner Pokemon Polar Cards?

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Now, let's take a look at the current cards.

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First, let's take a look at the first three Pokemon from the adventures of many people.

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Mr. Kobayashi, would you like to talk about the story of these Pokemon being created as a full art card?

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When we began planning the first year of the Scarlet Violet series, there was a tremendous

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sense of excitement surrounding the start of a new era.

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As part of that momentum, we released the special expansion set Scarlet and Violet 151, which brought the spotlight back to many nostalgic Pokémon.

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The set not only resonated with new players, but also with returning players who had deep emotional connections with these Pokémon.

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Building on that enthusiasm, we decided to reintroduce cards featuring the first partner Pokémon.

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We wanted to appeal not only to casual fans who were drawn to 151, but also to children who would be playing their Pokemon TCG for the first time.

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At the center of that effort was the creation of floor cards featuring Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle in their classic and recognizable forms.

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Each card depicts a scene from that Pokémon's everyday life encouraging players to imagine how that Pokémon lives and spends its time.

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We wanted players to experience not only the fun of the game itself, but also to develop a stronger sense of attachment and familiarity with each individual Pokémon.

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That sentiment was at the heart of these cards.

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Each first starter Pokemon is depicted in such a vibrant and wild expression and personality.

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Do you guys all love these cards? Have you guys seen them?

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Yes?

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Yes?

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Okay, good, good, good.

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Okay, so next, Taito-san, when developing these cards, what perspective did you have

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to explore each Pokemon's unique traits and appeal.

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And when expressing these ideas through artwork,

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what aspects did you consider most important?

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In the first part,

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I think each Pokemon is drawn

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with their own breath and expression.

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As for the production,

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What are the characteristics and charms of the Pokémon?

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Also, when you express it as an art,

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please tell us what you are doing when you are doing it.

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In this Art Rare project,

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each Pokémon has an image of a trainer's room

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and they draw a different landscape of the world.

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We imagine the rooms of trainers living alongside each Pokémon and portray different scenes

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from their daily lives to bring out their individual personalities.

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or the atmosphere of the room or the situation.

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We are drawing with the relationship between the two of us.

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For example, we imagine that Bulbasaur would be relaxing

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and sunbathing by a window.

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Charmander on the other hand might be carefully watching

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the view outside, proudly keeping guard

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and intimidating anything that comes close to its home.

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Squirtle would probably be playfully spushing around

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in a pool and creating a lively and energetic atmosphere.

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We express these differences through the mood

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each room the specific situation shown and the relationships each Pokemon have with the

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Pidgey that have come to visit their homes.

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At the same time, when depicting the first partner Pokemon, which holds a special place in people's hearts,

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it's extremely important to us to stay true and consistent to the look and feel of the first partner Pokemon

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to avoid altering the image that fans already have of them.

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With that foundation in mind, we ask artists to expand upon familiar expressions in their own way.

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We selected an artist capable of creating a soft, lineless style with a moist plant-like

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texture.

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We selected a character with a soft, lineless style with a moist plant-like texture.

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For Bulbasaur, we selected an artist capable of creating a soft, line-less style with a moist,

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plant-like sheen and texture. For Charmander, we chose an artist with an art style that can capture

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the warmth of sunlight filtering through leaves. For Squirtle, we selected an artist who can

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bring out its playful and mischievous spirit with a more defined linework and pop-inspired

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art style. In each case, we carefully choose artists who could render every detail from

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background objects to subtle expressions of the Pokémon with great attention and care.

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Thank you so much. I think first partner Pokémon are incredibly special, especially to the fans.

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Do you guys agree?

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So that's why these cards I think are just special and appealing. They carefully preserve

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what makes Pokemon feel authentically unique, and while expressing our imaginations, and

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allowing us to picture what it might actually be to be alongside them.

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Thank you very much.

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The Pokemon that became the first partner of the adventure is a very special existence for the fans.

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That's why I think it's a card with such a charm that you can spread your imagination as if you were actually living with a Pokemon.

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Okay next, let's talk about a card that focuses on building and expressing the world of Pokemon.

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So we prepared two beloved cards today, Fido and Umbrian V-Max.

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Next, let's take a look at the cards that were given to us by the fans.

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The fans also know this card, Papi Mochi and Blacky V-Max.

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Saito-san, let's start with Aido.

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Could you tell us about the creative intent behind the card?

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Let's look at Papi Mochi first.

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Saito-san, please tell us about the project of this card.

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Yes. In the first episode of the Scarlet Violet series,

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the Art Rear Card was included in the first episode of the Scarlet Violet series.

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The new world view and the new charm of Pokemon Tatsuna that appears in the game's main screen,

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and the Art Rear Card that was included as a new reality,

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In the first expansion of the Scarlet and Violet series, illustration rare cards play a key role, not only to showcase the new world of Pokémon, Scarlet and Violet, and expand the appeal of newly discovered Pokémon.

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But also to deepen the stories and personalities that Pokémon cards can express through this new rarity.

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I can't see it.

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What did you go about selecting the illustrator for this card?

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The character who is looking back at the Paya, is so cute.

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What kind of Pokemon is this?

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This is an illustrator of this card. What kind of character did you choose?

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When drawing new Pokemon, you need to be able to maximize the Pokemon-like charm and to be able to convey it in a straightforward manner.

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When illustrating a newly introduced Pokémon, artists need the ability and art style to

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showcase each Pokémon's unique appeal to its fullest and convey it clearly to our fans.

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今回の企画ではそこに合わせて新シリーズの舞台となるカルデアの世界の暖かな空気感や

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旅餅の持っているモチモチとした体、旅餅の何気ない日常をかわいらしく表現できる作家さんを選定しました

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For this guard, we chose an illustrator who could capture the warmth of the Paldea region,

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Fido's soft and squishy appearance, and a charming glimpse into its everyday life.

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The artist helped shape the piece from the composition stage onwards,

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carefully crafting the overall visual narrative.

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The artist fully embraces the strengths of this unusual composition.

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Although Fido is facing its back to us, it creates an image that highlights Fido's charm in a very distinct and memorable way.

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Thank you very much, Saito-san.

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It's fascinating how to see full art cards can not only introduce new Pokémon,

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but also the atmosphere and the world they live in.

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Thank you very much.

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The new Pokemon and their encounter

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are the charm of the Full Art Card

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that can convey the atmosphere of the world.

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Next, let's look at Umbreon V-Max.

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So, Kobayashi-san, how did the product concept

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for this card influence its art direction?

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Next, let's take a look at Blacky V-Max.

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Mr. Obayashi, what kind of influence did this card's product design give to Art Direction?

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This illustration was recorded in the Japanese Sword and Shield series, the concept of EV Heroes.

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In Asia, it is recorded in Sword and Shield Evolving Skies.

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The illustration was included in EV Heroes and a concept expansion from the Sword and Shield series in Japan.

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Outside of Asia, this card was included in the Sword and Shield's evolving skies expansion.

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The card was released during a special moment intended to generate excitement for the second year of the Sword and Shield series.

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When the EV Evolution's Pokemon V and Pokemon V Max cards were introduced all at once.

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World Series. When the EV Evolution's Pokemon V and Pokemon V Max cards were introduced all at once.

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We wanted encounters with the EV evolution and the experience of playing with them to be communicated not only through the Pokémon themselves, but also through the settings and worlds in which players encounter them.

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and the atmosphere of the city where the Pokemon are.

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Our goal is to create a more exciting and immersive experience by portraying not just

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the Pokemon, but the worlds they inhabit.

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Across the illustrations in the set, we work to depict glimpses of the time where these

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Pokemon live, allowing players to feel a sense of the community and lifestyle surrounding

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them.

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So the card that's going through the center right now,

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like the large full moon and the castle backdrop,

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makes this Umbrian card especially beautiful.

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So Saito-san, can you tell us how the world depicted in this artwork was designed?

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This black key card has a large full moon and a beautiful background of the castle.

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Saito-san, how did you design the world view of this black key?

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To create a special shared world of all the EV evolution appearing together, we established an original setting, a town somewhere in the world where humans and Pokémon coexist.

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It's a dream-like town designed to showcase the richness of life shared between people and Pokémon.

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The town contains forests, harbours, and is filled with Pokémon of many different types,

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living alongside humans and helping each other while surrounded by nature.

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contains forests, harbors, and is filled with Pokémon of many different types living alongside humans and helping each other while surrounded by nature.

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When creating a special card for a Pokémon B-Max, were there any challenges you faced or what made the Umbreon stand out to you?

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Thank you.

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What kind of challenges did you have when you were working on the B-Max Pokemon special art?

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Also, when you looked at the completed art, did you feel the power of the B-Max?

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Please tell us.

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In Pokemon's daily life and the special art of deepening the story,

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it was very difficult to get the Pokemon's plot to become VMAX,

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and it was very difficult to expand the space.

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Within special arts that explore Pokemon's daily lives and stories,

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depicting Pokemon VMAX was particularly challenging.

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We struggled to find a way to broaden the range of expressions possible with these giant Pokemon.

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With Umbreon, however, we felt we had successfully captured its free spirit of personality even after it evolved into its VMAX form.

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It was a card that gave us a strong sense of accomplishment.

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From a gameplay perspective, it was an extremely powerful card that performed in the first place.

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It was a very powerful card.

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It was a very powerful card.

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It was a very powerful card.

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It was a very powerful card.

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From a gameplay perspective, it was an extremely powerful car that performed exceptionally well in competitive environments.

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Yet in contrast to the intimidating strength of its game mechanics, the image of Umbreon VMAX play-free reaching towards a giant moon creates a charming sense of contrast.

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Combined with the fairytale-like atmosphere that can only truly be conveyed through illustration,

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I believe the result became something very endearing.

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It's clear that the combination of powerful game mechanics and a fairytale-like artistic

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world helped make this car truly a special car that I think many fans like.

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So next I'd like to discuss a Tatsu-Giri card,

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where the artwork is closely connected,

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not only to the world being depicted,

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but also to the card's gameplay role and game mechanics.

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This artwork feels completely different

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from the cards that we discussed so far.

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The eye-catching, vibrant design

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leaves a really strong impression.

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So what was the intention behind creating this artwork and this style?

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special art cards are traditionally focused on exploring the everyday moments of Pokémon

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that we cannot usually see, as well as their individual personalities and stories.

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However, special art cards have evolved beyond cards for collectors and to appreciate.

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Today, now there are cards that players can also put into their decks and use in battles.

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ゲームの遊びをより豊かにすることをとても重要な観点になっています。

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シャリタツのような環境で活躍し、みんながデッキに入れたくなるようなカードにおいては、

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手にとって遊びたくなる、場に出して気持ちいい、持っているとかっこいい、

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It's made with the iconic design art that has been visualized.

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For cards like Totsugiri, cards that see competitive play and that many players want to include in their decks,

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we focused on creating iconic artwork that makes players want to include it in their deck,

04:53:34.920 --> 04:53:38.920
feel good when they unleash it in battle, and also feel cool to own it.

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So it's not only artistic, it also has been functionally designed to enhance the real play experience.

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So, can you tell us how these cards, game play abilities and roles are reflected in the illustration?

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It's not only for the art, but it's also designed to be fun to play in the actual play environment.

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How do you reflect the performance and role of the game in these cards?

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Next, please tell us, Mr. Guayashi.

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Yes, it's not a EX Pokemon, but it's a special feature that can be used in the development of battles,

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and it's a card designed to design a stable development in the battle environment.

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Tazagiri is not a Pokémon EX, but it possesses an ability that allows it to contribute during the opening stages of battle and support various strategic developments depending on the situation.

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It also synergizes well with trainer cards that have remained impactful throughout the SD series, making it a key card for establishing consistent game plans within the competitive environment.

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Since it is a card that players commonly use on the battlefield, we chose not to depict it through a story-led illustration.

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Instead, we focused on making Tatsugiri's presence as memorable and impactful as possible through designed, oriented artwork.

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We chose not to depict it through a story-led illustration.

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Instead, we focused on making Tatsugiri's presence as memorable and impactful as possible through design-oriented artwork.

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As a result, it became a functional piece of art designed specifically to support the experience of gameplay.

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Thank you, Kobayashi-san.

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Thank you, Kobayashi-san.

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Finally, I would like to take a look at the cards that were released on September 16th,

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and the 30th anniversary of the expansion pack.

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Thank you.

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So, next.

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Anyone recognize this logo?

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Yeah.

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So who wants to see some cards from the upcoming 30th celebration expansion releasing on September 16th?

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Okay, I love the excitement.

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So, let's take a look together.

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Kobayashi-san, could you share some cards from the upcoming 30th Celebration Expansion Pack?

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Thank you very much.

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Let's take a look.

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Kobayashi-san, would you like to introduce the cards that will be recorded in the 30th anniversary pack?

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Of course.

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Of course, the 30th Celebration Expansion includes many exciting cards, but today I looked to focus on a Meowth card set.

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What do you guys think?

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Yeah, so it's such a charming set that allows us to enjoy the daily lives of these mouths

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as time passes through, throughout the day.

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So how did the idea of creating a triptych across three cards came about?

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And when creating connected cards or cards with shared themes, what do you consider most

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important?

04:57:44.640 --> 04:57:53.640
It's a wonderful card to enjoy the daily life of Niaz.

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How did you come up with the idea of a triptych?

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What are the points that are important to you in terms of creating cards that connect to each other and have common themes?

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We are considering the set of each project based on the purpose of collecting the products.

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From a product planning perspective, we continually evaluate what type of set concept best supports our collection goals.

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This time, there was a concept of drawing a day of Pokemon,

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so we thought we could create a more matched pose in the form of a Nyan's.

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In this case, we began with the concept of depicting a day of Pokemon.

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By incorporating the regional forms of Meowth,

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of Meowth, we thought we could express each one's personality in a particularly fitting way.

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For connected cards like these, we generally focus on each card's role, significance,

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and play experience. Whether it's a connection to game text, the joy of seeing evolutionary

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progressions, or a shared theme, we intentionally create these cards when they're a specific purpose

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that we want players to experience through collecting or displaying them together.

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We don't want players to collect them solely because of the artwork. Rather, they're designed

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around the significance that every card carries, whether that's a gameplay experience, the Pokemon

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Collection experience, or the product concept as a whole. Each card can be enjoyed on its own,

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but collecting all three cards creates additional discoveries. So that sense of collection and

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discovery is such a unique experience for the Pokemon TCG. So Saito-san, could you tell us about

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How creatures collaborated with the illustrator, Okubo, to bring this card to life.

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Please tell us how you collaborated with the illustrator of this card, Mr. Saito.

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We had vision scenes depicting these Meowth's lives during different times of day, morning, evening, and night, captured from a fixed viewpoint somewhere within a cityscape or a back alley.

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When we approached Okubo, we provided only the theme and the situation.

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As it turned out, they took the concept in a wonderful free direction,

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and instead of depicting exactly what we had initially imagined,

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They expanded upon the idea through their own artistic vision creating something that resembled an apartment building where all these meows live

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maximizing the concepts overall appeal

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So these mouth cards are another wonderful example of how placing three cards together

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Reveals an entire story and a way of life

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So I feel this is truly a wonderful card

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set that contains both the play of collecting and

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and the creativity of the illustrator who bring these cards to life.

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Thank you once again for sharing those special insights into the world.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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insights into the 30th celebration expansion.

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So, unfortunately, I think our time together is coming to an end.

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Ooh.

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So, Saito-san, Kobayashi-san, before we conclude,

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could you each tell us what you consider most important when creating full art cards?

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Thank you again for your special talk about the 30th anniversary of the revolution.

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And unfortunately, the time has come to say goodbye.

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Mr. Kobayashi, Mr. Saito,

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Can you tell us about the importance of creating full-card art at the end?

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First, from Mr. Kobayashi.

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Yes.

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Our focus is not simply on creating attractive artwork, we're committed to leveraging art to make Pokémon cards even more attractive.

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We're also committed to making the game more attractive.

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Our focus is not simply on creating attractive artwork.

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We're committed to leveraging art to make Pokemon cards even better,

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taking into account the goal of delivering an engaging experience as a TCG,

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the perspective as a Pokemon producer, and the design of products we want to bring to fans.

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Thank you so much for having me today.

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Thank you very much for today.

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Thank you so much, Saito-san, Kobayashi-san.

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So throughout today's panel, I hope you've come to see that full-art cars are much, much more than simply beautiful illustrations.

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They are an important element that connects game-pillay experiences, world-building, and the joy of collecting.

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So since their debut in 2011, the Polar cards have continuously evolved

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while embracing new forms of artistic expression.

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And as we've heard today from these wonderful two people,

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each of those developments have been driven by tremendous passion,

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creativity, and careful craftsmanship.

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Through today's panel, you can see that Full Art Cards are not just beautiful illustrations,

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but also game experience, world view, and the fun of the collection.

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Since the birth of 2011, Full Art Cards have always been a new expression,

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and they have been evolving.

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So please join me in the big round of applause for Kobayashi-san and Saito-san.

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And thank you all for joining us today.

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We really hope you guys are having a lot of fun and please continue to enjoy Pokemon XP. So thank you all

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I

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I

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Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP. I'm Anna. This is Glitter, and we just watched

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the TCG Full Art illustration panel. We were glued to my iPad watching and just enjoying

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all of that Full Art. What are your reactions to that Glitter?

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One, we clearly have different Meowth preferences.

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Two, I honestly feel like that panel could have been two hours long, and I would

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been locked in because learning a little bit more about how the entire illustration process

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goes is just so cool to me because you don't really necessarily always get a peek behind

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the curtain like that.

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Yeah, I was really interested because I think a lot about the settings that Pokemon are

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put in and everything, but they were talking about the expressions of the Pokemon and

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how they feel like those expressions are important to the people who love those

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Pokemon and that they need to think carefully about how they make variations of those

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expressions and I just I hadn't thought about that but the expressions of

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Pokemon are so important to me on the card like I really collect Pokemon that

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look a specific kind of like happy or funny or silly you know I thought that

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and and I guess specifically talking about that Umbreon V max that's

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reaching up for the moon and how they wanted to make that kind of a sweet

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fantastical fantasy illustration I had never really thought about it that

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deeply before and I feel like it just it it's just another way that we

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as the viewers are kind of getting to see just how much thought and care goes into every

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aspect of any piece of Pokemon related content and or physical media that exists because

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in the same way that we were shocked at how much thought was put into the personalities

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of the Pokemon and Pokopia, now we're seeing the same thing with the thought being put

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into the illustrations on the card art and it was almost like you planned it perfectly

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because you've got your Tatsukiri plush and we even got to see the floor card

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for it.

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I was so happy to see that card featured.

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I have a special place in my heart for Tatsu-Giri.

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You know, I like to kind of give shoutouts

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to different trainers or Pokemon with my outfits.

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That Pokemon world are now at Pokemon XP.

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And one year, I like to theme them as well.

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And one year I did Pokemon that are dragon type,

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but don't look dragon type.

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So cool.

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And stretchy Tatsu-Giri was one of my bounds.

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And I wore an all yellow jumpsuit

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that was very stretchy looking.

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So it became one of my favorites.

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and I do, I have that full art Tatsugiri card.

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What other ones were in there, was that one in there?

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Alolan Executor.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Which is now one of my absolute favorites.

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I'm Master Setting Alolan Executor currently.

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Right now, I think as far as I know,

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I'm the only Alolan Executor Master Setter out there.

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This also ties into the unconventional Pokemon

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that you like as well that we were talking about earlier.

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Yeah, and Altaria was the other one.

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Oh, great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, with that, we're talking about Full Art,

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we're talking about TCG.

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Yesterday I got the chance to go

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to the 30th Celebrations booth.

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I'm ready.

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And it was set up to show off a lot of the art

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that's happening for that set.

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I got to see it, I had reactions.

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And I think we're gonna get to see them now,

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so let's see that video.

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We're gonna come into the day and night gallery first.

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This depicts moments in the days and nights of Pokemon.

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So come around the corner, take a look.

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It's like a real art gallery.

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I'm like emotional.

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I think it's so cool.

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Take a look, we have the actual cards here.

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This will be a first in person look at the cards.

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Wow.

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So we've got to play Coco,

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who was just revealed on Monday as an EX Pokemon.

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Tell us about what's in the center of the room.

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We should address that right away.

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We should address the me and you two in the room.

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Yeah, exactly.

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These are Pokedex sized versions of the figures

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that will be in the figure collection,

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releasing later this year.

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So we took those figures and we blew them up

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to the sizes these Pokemon would actually be.

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Oh my gosh.

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So we got you with some flowers and you too.

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Look, it's pretty cool with some pistols.

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It's so soft.

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I'm really cool about Pokemon.

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Yes.

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Also look like, can I stand under this arm?

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Yeah.

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Like I'm being blessed.

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Just me and you two, just thinking about the future together.

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That's such an excellent segue into the next room

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that we're not going into for a second,

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but remember that for later.

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OK, I'll remember that feeling.

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Don't worry.

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OK, do we want to look at all of these as we go?

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We can.

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Yeah, we're transitioning into night now,

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so you'll notice the colors have changed

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and the cards have changed on the screen.

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Look at the fur texture! It's so beautiful!

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You can see the card art enlarged here for display and then we have the actual cards down here.

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My finger's itch. I want it so bad.

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We have the Suusui and Zoro right here.

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It's one of my favorites. So this is one of the nighttime illustration rare cards.

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And then depicted next to it, this screen will switch.

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But we have the ETB promo, which is one of my favorite Easter eggs from this set.

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That is Nidorina, who is Pokemon number 30, and there are 30 Nidorina within that card.

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I am master setting a lowland executor.

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There aren't a whole lot of a lowland executor cards or cameos.

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But look, look who it is.

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Showing up specifically for me to celebrate 30th.

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That lovely little guy.

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Oh, you and Articuno are in the background.

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Rachel is going to go nuts.

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And this one is not a promo, right?

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No, this is not a promo.

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So you could theoretically pull either of these cards from a 30 in celebration, Mr.

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Pack.

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So I will be pulling and pulling and pulling until I get a few of this.

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Okay, good.

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And all of the 30 in celebration cards are foil, so you'll have a very shiny, exciting

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towel.

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This is the first in person look at futuristic depictions of Miu, Miu 2 and Pikachu all by

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famed Japanese artist Yoshiro Fun.

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Whoa!

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This is looking towards the future of the TCG.

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Wow!

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You're right, it is overwhelming.

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It's like I could be on the card with them.

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You could be, yes.

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I'm part of the art.

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These are as big as we could possibly make the cards, so that's what we did.

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fact the ceiling height of the booth is dictated by these cards.

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It's taller than me.

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I feel like I got shrunk.

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Like I'm a...

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Like you're in a binder?

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Yeah!

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I'm in a real binder right now.

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I'll be sleeved next to this one.

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Just slide me in.

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So tell us a little bit about the collaboration here with the artist.

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This is a collaboration between Preachers and Yoshiraten, who is a famous Japanese artist.

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He's done a lot of cool stuff with a lot of cool brands.

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What's really special about Yoshiraten's art with some of these Pokemon are the colors and the gradients that you see.

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So feel free if you want to take some of your favorites.

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Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

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I'm going to grab the ball again.

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Yeah, of course.

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You have any other things?

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Ah!

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Look at that!

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Wow.

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I think that one of my favorite things about these cards is the way the etching really

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brings out the artwork.

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Wow, wow, wow.

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So we have the daytime cards there, and then we have nighttime cards, the two Pikachu

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or promos, and the ultraframian collections, and we were near to, could be pulled from

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the boosters.

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Wow.

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And the 30th logo looks so cool.

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Yes!

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That is so...

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with the Oshidatlin. He also did the energy cards for the 30th celebration set, which

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we're giving away here at PXP to each person who comes through the booth. So they'll get

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one at random, and it will be here at your special treasure.

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Oh!

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I didn't know that.

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I exactly like the energy cards that will come in every booster, releasing on September

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16th.

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So if people are here at PXP, they should come and receive one of those energy

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card yes and if they're not at the XP what should they do to look forward to the release of celebrations

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uh September 16th is the is the big day so whatever Pokemon TCG cards are sold

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thank you so much this has been so much fun

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I had so much fun I said oh my god you know sometimes our job is to perform

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I did not have to perform. That was purely genuine. But now we have a really great interview. We have someone joining us here on stage

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Please introduce yourself tell the people who you are if they're not familiar with you. Hi, my name is slanted gaming

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I've made a lot of Pokemon shorts content just talking about how much I love the art of different Pokemon cards

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I've been playing the game since 2010. I've been collecting the cards all my life

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Wow, oh you're like what's your favorite like original card one of your oldest most like treasured cards?

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This is gonna be a weird one

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You know the ancient new card that you could get from Pokemon 2000 weird at all. That's amazing

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Here's the weird part. I found it at a bowling alley stuff between

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No way what stuff between like see cushion. Yeah

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What a win!

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There was no one else there. It's mine now.

05:24:40.820 --> 05:24:42.820
I can't do anything about it now.

05:24:42.820 --> 05:24:46.820
That's so cool. I love cars that have lore, you know, that you find.

05:24:46.820 --> 05:24:49.820
Alright, so tell us a little bit about what your favorite types of cards are.

05:24:49.820 --> 05:24:51.820
When you're making your shorts, what do you like to talk about?

05:24:51.820 --> 05:24:56.820
I really like talking about cards that show a look into the Pokémon world

05:24:56.820 --> 05:24:58.820
and how Pokémon would interact.

05:24:58.820 --> 05:25:02.820
Their slice of life cards that show them just around the house

05:25:02.820 --> 05:25:09.940
and how they might act as pets or card to show Pokemon that are working, that have jobs like

05:25:10.820 --> 05:25:17.700
metang, raising up these girders for this building or ex-gadrill taking a break with the boys after

05:25:17.700 --> 05:25:23.060
digging out a tunnel. I love that. That's some of my favorite too is like Pokemon at home,

05:25:23.060 --> 05:25:27.460
Pokemon in their environment shared with us. Absolutely. We were just talking about that.

05:25:27.460 --> 05:25:30.820
We were and that's what I was going to ask them. What was it like kind of getting a

05:25:30.820 --> 05:25:34.780
a little bit more insight after listening to this panel about how much time and thought

05:25:34.780 --> 05:25:40.380
goes into everything, even down to the expressions on the Pokemon and how important that is

05:25:40.380 --> 05:25:42.580
to creating the card art.

05:25:42.580 --> 05:25:49.380
It was so interesting to hear about how often times they'll have an idea for a card

05:25:49.380 --> 05:25:52.940
art first or a specific feeling they want to evoke and they'll choose the artist

05:25:52.940 --> 05:25:53.940
based on that.

05:25:53.940 --> 05:25:54.940
Yeah.

05:25:54.940 --> 05:25:55.940
Yeah.

05:25:55.940 --> 05:25:56.940
I like that too.

05:25:56.940 --> 05:26:00.820
very interested to hear about that process and how the artist can come second after they

05:26:00.820 --> 05:26:03.820
already have something in mind that they really want to evoke.

05:26:03.820 --> 05:26:10.560
And I think that makes sense too because how many times are you able to almost recognize

05:26:10.560 --> 05:26:13.660
which artists did the art just because of their style alone?

05:26:13.660 --> 05:26:17.380
You're able to look at the car, be like, I know exactly who illustrated this.

05:26:17.380 --> 05:26:22.460
And I feel like that makes it even more special and unique because then like you're

05:26:22.460 --> 05:26:25.700
master setting a lowland executor, you can be like, okay, I want to master set

05:26:25.700 --> 05:26:29.180
all of the card art by this one artist you have like a specific card

05:26:29.180 --> 05:26:32.180
collection where you're kind of doing something like that for me that artist is

05:26:32.180 --> 05:26:33.260
rend right now

05:26:33.260 --> 05:26:37.020
we're gonna see how it goes with trying to get the 30th anniversary

05:26:37.020 --> 05:26:41.780
they look amazing and I'm sure that a lot of people want that Umbreon and Espeon

05:26:41.780 --> 05:26:48.020
however I you know I've done pretty well for myself already with

05:26:48.020 --> 05:26:53.380
the initial of course art contest card from 2022 that was their first brand

05:26:53.380 --> 05:26:59.340
to the Pokemon TCG and I start collecting from there trying to get all of them. I think

05:26:59.340 --> 05:27:03.740
their QT fly is my favorite. That's the one with that depth of field effect. There's a

05:27:03.740 --> 05:27:06.820
picky pack and a bunch of QT flies all drinking from the same fountain.

05:27:06.820 --> 05:27:11.700
I love that one. It's so cute. Tell us a little bit about what you collect in general. What

05:27:11.700 --> 05:27:16.340
are your kind of favorite things that you like to pull or sets that you've completed?

05:27:16.340 --> 05:27:22.060
My favorite cards to pull are always those slice of life illustration rares. Just the

05:27:22.060 --> 05:27:26.700
ones that make you feel cozy, make you feel like Pokemon could live in our world, you know?

05:27:27.660 --> 05:27:33.980
Absolutely. I think that's super cute. Now, obviously, we're talking about, you know,

05:27:34.540 --> 05:27:38.380
full-art illustrations, but they were even mentioning in the panel that's something that

05:27:38.380 --> 05:27:41.740
didn't always exist if you're going all the way back to the beginning of the card day. So

05:27:41.740 --> 05:27:47.260
what do you think that has kind of changed when it comes to how people are collecting or just

05:27:47.260 --> 05:27:52.660
how you know you're interacting with these cards compared to the older sets that we saw from the very beginning.

05:27:52.660 --> 05:27:58.160
I think what's changed the most is that they've added a lot more context to the scenes

05:27:58.160 --> 05:28:02.860
because you look at those initial illustration rares and they're very cool looking, don't get me wrong.

05:28:02.860 --> 05:28:12.060
I specifically love uh, Zekrom EX from Best Destiny's, that is one of my favorite classic ones

05:28:12.060 --> 05:28:16.740
but nowadays you can set an entire scene in this huge space

05:28:16.740 --> 05:28:18.380
that you don't usually have access to

05:28:18.380 --> 05:28:20.860
with a standard format card art.

05:28:22.620 --> 05:28:24.500
How do you display your cards?

05:28:24.500 --> 05:28:26.220
Are you like a binder person?

05:28:26.220 --> 05:28:27.260
Do you have some frames up?

05:28:27.260 --> 05:28:28.960
How do you like to show them off?

05:28:28.960 --> 05:28:29.800
A little bit of everything.

05:28:29.800 --> 05:28:32.300
I've got a four pocket binder

05:28:32.300 --> 05:28:34.420
that I like to set themed pages on.

05:28:34.420 --> 05:28:36.980
I have like my night sky page

05:28:36.980 --> 05:28:41.540
and a like green grass daytime page.

05:28:41.540 --> 05:28:48.020
you know and and a Pokemon just chilling around the house page I love that I

05:28:48.020 --> 05:28:50.980
love to have themed pager pages and we were just talking about some of the

05:28:50.980 --> 05:28:56.100
weirdest themes that we have my pride and joy right now is my screaming into

05:28:56.100 --> 05:29:01.300
the void page do you have any specific pages other I mean you just mentioned a

05:29:01.300 --> 05:29:05.100
bunch but any that you would give an interesting shout out to I don't know

05:29:05.100 --> 05:29:09.020
if I can think of any weird ones right now I'm so sorry that's okay I mean

05:29:09.020 --> 05:29:10.220
I'm putting you on the spot.

05:29:10.220 --> 05:29:12.500
I mean, I don't know if it's necessarily weird,

05:29:12.500 --> 05:29:16.980
but I do have an entire page of all of the tops.

05:29:16.980 --> 05:29:17.820
Oh!

05:29:19.060 --> 05:29:21.700
Yeah, they were a very old collaboration,

05:29:21.700 --> 05:29:25.380
but I got into trying to collect the cards

05:29:25.380 --> 05:29:30.380
that recreated the main art, the main photo art,

05:29:30.820 --> 05:29:33.460
because there were some cards where they had a square.

05:29:33.460 --> 05:29:35.660
And you needed all nine in order to create

05:29:35.660 --> 05:29:37.940
the matching art from the main card.

05:29:37.940 --> 05:29:40.260
And so that's my probably weird page.

05:29:40.260 --> 05:29:41.700
I got a set of those.

05:29:41.700 --> 05:29:42.700
See?

05:29:42.700 --> 05:29:44.700
I love that.

05:29:44.700 --> 05:29:48.420
And I love finding, the name of this that is escaping me,

05:29:48.420 --> 05:29:51.540
but the ones that are stamped with the little Pokemon,

05:29:51.540 --> 05:29:54.220
or the little Pikachu jack-o'-lantern.

05:29:54.220 --> 05:29:55.060
Oh!

05:29:55.060 --> 05:29:55.900
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

05:29:55.900 --> 05:29:56.740
The trick or trade?

05:29:56.740 --> 05:29:57.740
Yes, yes.

05:29:57.740 --> 05:29:59.860
I think those are so slept on.

05:29:59.860 --> 05:30:01.460
I love those, they're so cute.

05:30:01.460 --> 05:30:02.820
So I have a page of those as well.

05:30:02.820 --> 05:30:04.060
Yeah, those are so fun to collect.

05:30:04.060 --> 05:30:05.740
Just a little itty-bitty set that you

05:30:05.740 --> 05:30:07.460
can fill in pretty easily, you know?

05:30:07.460 --> 05:30:12.340
Or even if you don't like they're not the hardest thing in the world to trade for there's something that you can very easily

05:30:12.340 --> 05:30:16.820
Just go up with a binder you'll find them in people's collections and fill out your own

05:30:16.820 --> 05:30:21.100
So does that mean you have like a little bit of that completionist in you like once you start a set?

05:30:21.100 --> 05:30:23.500
Are you determined to get all of them?

05:30:24.300 --> 05:30:26.300
usually yeah unless

05:30:26.820 --> 05:30:30.100
You know sometimes you'll look at an artist

05:30:30.740 --> 05:30:36.980
An artist portfolio and you'll find that one Japanese card that was only given away at one specific event

05:30:37.460 --> 05:30:42.460
You're like, I can't set aside the money for that.

05:30:42.460 --> 05:30:43.460
Yep, sometimes.

05:30:43.460 --> 05:30:45.460
But with any reason.

05:30:45.460 --> 05:30:46.460
Yes, absolutely.

05:30:46.460 --> 05:30:48.460
Now, we are here at Pokemon XP.

05:30:48.460 --> 05:30:51.460
We can talk about cards all day, and we can.

05:30:51.460 --> 05:30:53.460
But I'm wondering if there's anything else at Pokemon XP

05:30:53.460 --> 05:30:56.460
that's catching your attention or that you're looking forward to seeing

05:30:56.460 --> 05:30:58.460
or anything that's kind of struck you so far.

05:30:58.460 --> 05:31:02.460
Honestly, that little skate demo area right back there,

05:31:02.460 --> 05:31:04.460
I love skateboarding.

05:31:04.460 --> 05:31:05.460
Really?

05:31:05.460 --> 05:31:09.980
I grew up during that era like I was born in that era where

05:31:11.020 --> 05:31:13.020
X games were popping off

05:31:14.020 --> 05:31:17.020
It was still a cool thing to skateboard. I

05:31:17.700 --> 05:31:22.300
Mean to me still a very cool thing. I I think I was born in that era as well

05:31:22.940 --> 05:31:26.700
I'm really enjoying that. I mean and if you look at the skateboards behind us

05:31:26.700 --> 05:31:31.860
I mean, how do you know? They're beautiful with the cards on them and everything. I love that. I own a one

05:31:31.860 --> 05:31:37.320
Right that's probably my favorite of the sets. They're gorgeous. I I really am partial to the dark espion

05:31:37.320 --> 05:31:44.140
Yeah, we were looking at that play on in dark espion and talking about some some first-edition love that we have for some of these over there

05:31:44.800 --> 05:31:50.420
Tell us a little bit about your experience at Pokemon events. Have you been to worlds before? Is this your first big event?

05:31:50.420 --> 05:31:55.620
What what do you like to do with Pokemon? I've been to a lot of Pokemon event a surprising amount

05:31:55.620 --> 05:31:58.380
I think my first regionals I went to was back in 2012

05:31:58.380 --> 05:32:05.700
It was Philadelphia regionals because I you know I lived so close like that was generally my area

05:32:05.700 --> 05:32:08.580
And so I you took a day trip went on the train

05:32:08.580 --> 05:32:12.940
I you know, I was pretty young so it was with my dad and we got to have a good day out there

05:32:12.940 --> 05:32:15.140
You know and then as I grew older

05:32:15.140 --> 05:32:20.900
I started hopping in the car for like a road trip across more states with my friends and

05:32:21.540 --> 05:32:28.340
I I really loved those car rides just sitting around and chatting as we get closer and closer and then you know

05:32:28.380 --> 05:32:34.380
you to get into the term and you know sometimes you scrub out your own three well now you have

05:32:34.380 --> 05:32:39.260
side events to play. Absolutely I mean it's not it's not only that though like you kind

05:32:39.260 --> 05:32:43.020
of mentioned it too this became you're going to meet up with your friends it's a community

05:32:43.020 --> 05:32:47.300
thing we've been talking about that a lot on the desk just how much I feel like Pokemon

05:32:47.300 --> 05:32:50.780
is community means to everyone that's been attending here so is that something that

05:32:50.780 --> 05:32:55.780
for you you've kind of gained from being a part of the Pokemon community and learning

05:32:55.780 --> 05:32:58.220
or meeting all of those new friends and making those friendships?

05:32:58.220 --> 05:33:05.140
Yes, I would say the majority of the connections I have now all sprouted from those road trips.

05:33:05.140 --> 05:33:06.820
Love that.

05:33:06.820 --> 05:33:11.900
I mean, I assume we're talking about competing in TCG, is that right?

05:33:11.900 --> 05:33:13.380
Usually TCG.

05:33:13.380 --> 05:33:15.580
I gabbled a little bit in VGC.

05:33:15.580 --> 05:33:19.020
I played a little bit of VGC for a while, but mostly TCG.

05:33:19.020 --> 05:33:21.140
That's where my knowledge comes in.

05:33:21.140 --> 05:33:24.540
I think sometimes it's fun to talk to people who have an emphasis in either,

05:33:24.540 --> 05:33:30.340
I collect because I like to think about how playable these cards are or I collect just because I like the artwork on them

05:33:30.580 --> 05:33:36.100
Someone who kind of blends both of those what what is your your favorite way to look at cards?

05:33:36.100 --> 05:33:40.640
Do you still see some and you're like oh, I like what this card can do or are you really more like it's more about the

05:33:40.640 --> 05:33:46.400
Art for me now. I like when they print new cards that reference back to old mechanics

05:33:46.900 --> 05:33:48.900
Stuff that I used to play

05:33:49.560 --> 05:33:54.260
Stuff that grabs energy from the disc card for example because I used to play Dinomotor eels and

05:33:54.540 --> 05:33:57.840
rails back in like 2011-2012.

05:33:57.840 --> 05:34:05.280
Nice. Nice. I mean, outside of obviously the card stuff, we're talking about, you know,

05:34:05.280 --> 05:34:08.520
the competitive side of things. What are you looking forward to kind of watching here from

05:34:08.520 --> 05:34:09.920
a spectator perspective?

05:34:09.920 --> 05:34:15.480
I'm not quite sure. I mean, I'm going to be there in the stadium. I loved the energy.

05:34:15.480 --> 05:34:19.200
I was actually there in the stadium last year as well, and I loved the energy there

05:34:19.200 --> 05:34:25.760
so much it the way everyone cheered when those finals ended it was just a it was

05:34:25.760 --> 05:34:30.440
the place to be it was so cool that arena oh my gosh and all the all the

05:34:30.440 --> 05:34:36.720
fireworks pop and the music swelled oh yeah did you see the opening ceremony of

05:34:36.720 --> 05:34:40.880
this one yes oh my god opening ceremony is usually my favorite parts of these

05:34:40.880 --> 05:34:44.400
events because you got the whole event out in front of you and that that music

05:34:44.400 --> 05:34:46.200
also gets you hyped up.

05:34:46.200 --> 05:34:50.760
I had the remixes of the songs from throughout the generations.

05:34:50.760 --> 05:34:52.560
Oh, it was incredible.

05:34:52.560 --> 05:34:53.520
It got you hyped up.

05:34:53.520 --> 05:34:54.160
Yeah.

05:34:54.160 --> 05:34:55.320
Oh my god.

05:34:55.320 --> 05:34:57.320
And we were talking about that earlier,

05:34:57.320 --> 05:34:59.480
just like how impactful the music really

05:34:59.480 --> 05:35:00.960
is when you come to these type of events.

05:35:00.960 --> 05:35:04.080
It kind of sets the stage for an entire weekend

05:35:04.080 --> 05:35:06.120
filled with Pokemon fun.

05:35:06.120 --> 05:35:09.000
Like if you had to choose, is there

05:35:09.000 --> 05:35:11.560
a specific tune that you kind of associate the most

05:35:11.560 --> 05:35:13.080
with your Pokemon experience?

05:35:14.400 --> 05:35:29.400
I I don't know if I could tell you I've played through so many different generations. I don't know that I could name like I could sing you some of the songs but it's really hard to tell you oh that this theme is called this you know I think that's fair I think

05:35:29.400 --> 05:35:35.400
I think what stands out to me most right now is the Generation 8 gym leader theme.

05:35:35.400 --> 05:35:38.400
When you just get that crowd yelling in the background of it.

05:35:38.400 --> 05:35:39.400
I love that one.

05:35:39.400 --> 05:35:46.400
And I think that one says like, get ready for a competition, the most of anything right now.

05:35:46.400 --> 05:35:48.400
What are you ready for here?

05:35:48.400 --> 05:35:52.400
Are there any other plans that you have for the rest of the weekend that you're looking forward to?

05:35:52.400 --> 05:35:53.400
I'm not quite sure.

05:35:53.400 --> 05:35:58.400
I, you know, I took a little look at that 30th anniversary museum downstairs earlier.

05:35:58.400 --> 05:36:02.720
earlier. I took a look at the Pocopia panel. I enjoyed both of those a lot here and about

05:36:02.720 --> 05:36:08.080
the development of Pocopia of course. Can we talk about the 30th celebration stuff?

05:36:09.520 --> 05:36:12.160
Are you excited about anything in particular that you saw in the museum?

05:36:14.480 --> 05:36:18.720
Oh, apologies. I might have, I went to the museum showing off like the timeline stuff.

05:36:20.000 --> 05:36:24.640
Oh yes, yes, yes. The retrospective museum. There are two, there's the 30 years of Pokemon

05:36:24.640 --> 05:36:30.480
one and I'm just so I'm so focused to be fair but what about I mean celebrations

05:36:30.480 --> 05:36:33.200
in general are you looking forward to any cards have you seen anything yet or

05:36:33.200 --> 05:36:37.360
are you keeping keeping it for later what have I seen I've of course seen the

05:36:37.360 --> 05:36:41.600
new futuristic rares and the hollow pattern on that video that was playing

05:36:41.600 --> 05:36:49.080
those look incredible in person yeah I I know if I pulled one of those I might

05:36:49.080 --> 05:36:52.080
screen loud enough to break the sound.

05:36:52.080 --> 05:36:59.080
I love that. Yeah, honestly, I feel like just kind of being here all weekend long is going to really fill up

05:36:59.080 --> 05:37:04.080
everybody's cup when it comes to the joy of experiencing all of this together as a community.

05:37:04.080 --> 05:37:07.080
You were mentioning that you enjoyed the the Pocopia panel as well.

05:37:07.080 --> 05:37:09.080
Is that something that you've been playing a lot?

05:37:09.080 --> 05:37:15.080
Oh, yeah, I played a lot of Pocopia. I was so interested in the story of that game that I just

05:37:15.080 --> 05:37:20.040
had to rush through it when it came out and get every single little document or piece of lore

05:37:20.040 --> 05:37:26.040
and theorize about how it connects to everything else. You're in very good company. We've been

05:37:26.040 --> 05:37:31.160
talking about the more kind of it. Rachel, she's not here because she loves to talk about her

05:37:31.160 --> 05:37:37.240
theories about who the real good guys are in Procopia. Do you have any observations,

05:37:37.240 --> 05:37:41.240
maybe not to spoil anything, but your favorite observations about the story of Procopia?

05:37:41.240 --> 05:37:48.500
I do really like how you get those exclusive Pokemon like of course

05:37:48.500 --> 05:37:53.120
Professor Tangrowth among others and Pikachu and how they can give so much

05:37:53.120 --> 05:37:57.160
personality by creating a slightly different design something slightly new

05:37:57.160 --> 05:38:01.400
from something old you know. Oh absolutely. How do you feel about your

05:38:01.400 --> 05:38:05.180
builds in Pocopia? What kind of a builder are you when it comes to like

05:38:05.180 --> 05:38:08.180
setting up the habitats for your Pokemon.

05:38:08.180 --> 05:38:14.540
So before the DLC that added the dive mechanic came out,

05:38:14.540 --> 05:38:16.940
I was trying to build an underwater bitch.

05:38:16.940 --> 05:38:18.420
Amazing.

05:38:18.420 --> 05:38:21.380
And so I figured out, OK, I can go this far down

05:38:21.380 --> 05:38:24.500
before I void out and I have to respawn and get back.

05:38:24.500 --> 05:38:27.700
And I built a couple houses underwater.

05:38:27.700 --> 05:38:28.620
I made it happen.

05:38:28.620 --> 05:38:29.500
That's impressive.

05:38:29.500 --> 05:38:33.020
Lapras lives in one of those now.

05:38:33.020 --> 05:38:34.100
I love that motivation.

05:38:34.100 --> 05:38:36.700
That's like, I envy that.

05:38:36.700 --> 05:38:40.060
I tried to build just like a kind of a pool area

05:38:40.060 --> 05:38:41.580
and I drowned so many times.

05:38:41.580 --> 05:38:45.420
It was shallow waiting for a little moron.

05:38:45.420 --> 05:38:46.580
It's fine.

05:38:46.580 --> 05:38:47.820
We don't have too much more time.

05:38:47.820 --> 05:38:49.780
So I just want to ask, where can people follow along

05:38:49.780 --> 05:38:52.460
with you, find your content, say hi to you on the internet.

05:38:52.460 --> 05:38:53.860
I am slanted gaming on YouTube.

05:38:53.860 --> 05:38:56.020
I'm slanted gaming YT on Twitter.

05:38:56.020 --> 05:39:00.060
I'm slanted game in without the G at the end on Twitch.

05:39:00.060 --> 05:39:01.780
Yeah, those are the main places to find me.

05:39:01.780 --> 05:39:02.140
Awesome.

05:39:02.140 --> 05:39:05.340
and any any shout outs you want to give any advice you want to give people who

05:39:05.340 --> 05:39:08.100
are maybe attending their first Pokemon event anything you want to say

05:39:09.420 --> 05:39:14.100
I'd say that everyone at these events is so nice and understanding like anyone

05:39:14.100 --> 05:39:19.060
you talk to you already have that commonality of your both Pokemon fans

05:39:19.820 --> 05:39:23.020
they will get you they will understand you. That's so so true.

05:39:23.020 --> 05:39:25.260
Thank you so much for spending so much time with us.

05:39:25.260 --> 05:39:28.820
It's been so pleasant and y'all don't go anywhere because we have more

05:39:28.820 --> 05:39:30.700
interviews coming your way after a quick break.

05:41:32.140 --> 05:41:50.740
Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP.

05:41:50.740 --> 05:41:51.740
I'm Anna.

05:41:51.740 --> 05:41:54.020
This is Glitter, and we are joined by another illustrious guest.

05:41:54.020 --> 05:41:55.820
Would you please introduce yourself to the people at home?

05:41:55.820 --> 05:41:56.820
How's it going?

05:41:56.820 --> 05:41:57.820
Yeah.

05:41:57.820 --> 05:41:58.820
I am Charlie Rosen.

05:41:58.820 --> 05:42:01.660
I'm the conductor and band leader of the 8-Bit Big Band who just performed this

05:42:01.660 --> 05:42:05.340
morning at the opening ceremonies, two medleys that I put together of amazing

05:42:05.340 --> 05:42:08.660
Pokemon music, along with my friend Carlos and Saint of the Rain music, who's

05:42:08.660 --> 05:42:12.100
another video game music artist that I love. How did that feel performing at the

05:42:12.100 --> 05:42:17.260
opening ceremony? I mean it's thrilling. It's very very crazy. You know, I've

05:42:17.260 --> 05:42:20.020
been a gamer my whole life and I've also been a musician my whole life and

05:42:20.020 --> 05:42:23.640
never in my life would I thought those two worlds would like collide in

05:42:23.640 --> 05:42:28.140
such a like monumental way to basically be it like the super bowl of

05:42:28.140 --> 05:42:30.820
Pokemon performing the opening ceremony. It's like the Olympics, you know?

05:42:30.820 --> 05:42:35.540
I feel like I had the pleasure of performing last year at the opening

05:42:35.540 --> 05:42:39.520
ceremony as a vocalist nice and I was telling people is like I think this

05:42:39.520 --> 05:42:43.220
genuinely might be one of the best moments of my entire life and I don't

05:42:43.220 --> 05:42:46.360
say that lightly I don't say it about much but I was singing and dancing and

05:42:46.360 --> 05:42:50.920
hosting at the same time it was such an amazing feeling so I feel like I can

05:42:50.920 --> 05:42:56.620
relate a little bit tell us about like what that means to you as a Pokemon

05:42:56.620 --> 05:43:00.380
fan yeah totally as a Pokemon fan and video game music fan in general what I

05:43:00.380 --> 05:43:02.500
I like to talk about with our band, the 8-Bit Big Band,

05:43:02.500 --> 05:43:04.500
kind of like our mission statement is,

05:43:04.500 --> 05:43:07.380
we are now living, we're 30 years into Pokemon, right?

05:43:07.380 --> 05:43:08.220
Pokemon.

05:43:08.220 --> 05:43:09.420
We're 30 years into Pokemon.

05:43:09.420 --> 05:43:11.700
And that means that a whole generation

05:43:11.700 --> 05:43:13.900
has grown up with a set of music

05:43:13.900 --> 05:43:16.460
that has become like a canon body of music

05:43:16.460 --> 05:43:17.620
that a whole generation knows.

05:43:17.620 --> 05:43:20.620
And this is like a classic thing that jazz musicians do.

05:43:20.620 --> 05:43:21.860
Any time throughout history,

05:43:21.860 --> 05:43:24.460
they take bodies of music that are appreciated by generation,

05:43:24.460 --> 05:43:27.180
could have been Broadway cast albums, Motown,

05:43:27.180 --> 05:43:29.260
The Great American Songbook, film scores.

05:43:29.260 --> 05:43:33.260
we take them and we reimagine them and put them in new lights because we have such a strong

05:43:33.260 --> 05:43:37.420
association with the positive memories of this music that now as a collective body of

05:43:37.420 --> 05:43:41.180
gamers or appreciators we can now play with the music and rearrange it in cool ways to

05:43:41.180 --> 05:43:45.500
make it even more full of vibrancy in life and like that's what jazz musicians have always

05:43:45.500 --> 05:43:48.780
done, that's what we're doing here and the fact that we have a large enough, clearly

05:43:48.780 --> 05:43:52.140
large enough body of fans to do that kind of thing with music through video games

05:43:52.140 --> 05:43:55.100
and through in this case Pokemon is truly amazing.

05:43:55.100 --> 05:44:01.060
How does it feel to kind of be entrusted with that because I mean you're you could see how big of a fandom this is

05:44:01.060 --> 05:44:05.860
I mean this is a big thing to kind of take under your wing knowing. Yeah, just how

05:44:06.540 --> 05:44:13.860
Important and nostalgic it is to so many people. Yeah, totally and what's really cool about this moment particularly is in this band's history

05:44:13.860 --> 05:44:16.980
It's been about eight years. We were already covering Pokemon music

05:44:16.980 --> 05:44:21.460
I was already from the bottom of my musician gamer heart covering Pokemon music

05:44:21.460 --> 05:44:27.320
And so now that on an official stage at Pokemon Worlds, we're being asked to do the thing that we've been doing

05:44:27.760 --> 05:44:34.020
basically out of love anyway in an official canon context is like a real achievement, I think for both the music and for the family

05:44:34.060 --> 05:44:40.680
Yeah, it feels like Pikachu themselves was like please join me on my stage. Yeah. Really? Yes. True very much

05:44:40.680 --> 05:44:45.560
Tell us a little bit more about how you came to 8-bit big band how it became what it is now

05:44:45.560 --> 05:44:50.160
Yeah, the short version of our origin story is I've always been a gamer always been a musician always

05:44:50.160 --> 05:44:54.980
I've always loved my main career as I work in like Broadway musicals and doing arrangements and conducting for that

05:44:55.280 --> 05:45:01.060
But about eight years ago. I took a very quick trip to Japan the short version isn't I took a lesson on the shami-san

05:45:01.060 --> 05:45:06.860
Which is a traditional instrument not shami-san teacher runs a band called Femi Koto that does video game music Japanese ensemble arrangements

05:45:06.860 --> 05:45:11.260
And he gave me his album. I was so inspired by that. I thought man. I love video game music

05:45:11.260 --> 05:45:16.580
I've always loved it. I am this guy who does like classic theater and Broadway and Hollywood sounding

05:45:16.580 --> 05:45:20.380
orchestras, I would like to put those two things together. That was about eight years ago and

05:45:20.380 --> 05:45:23.660
we're five albums in and two Grammys deep now.

05:45:23.660 --> 05:45:24.660
Wow!

05:45:24.660 --> 05:45:25.660
For what?

05:45:25.660 --> 05:45:27.060
Tell us about your awards.

05:45:27.060 --> 05:45:33.580
Our first Grammy was for another video game franchises arrangement that we did and then

05:45:33.580 --> 05:45:36.900
the second one, so we've won two Grammys for two of our arrangements and we've been

05:45:36.900 --> 05:45:40.900
nominated for best large ensemble jazz album that was two years ago now.

05:45:40.900 --> 05:45:41.900
Wow!

05:45:41.900 --> 05:45:42.900
That's incredible.

05:45:42.900 --> 05:45:43.900
That's very cool.

05:45:43.900 --> 05:45:44.900
I mean congrats.

05:45:44.900 --> 05:45:45.900
Very thrilling. Thank you.

05:45:45.900 --> 05:45:48.660
Like the music of video games coming into the forefront in a major way

05:45:49.340 --> 05:45:51.340
Absolutely, and now that you've been doing it for so long

05:45:51.340 --> 05:45:55.820
Does that mean that somewhere along the way you have chosen a favorite arrangement?

05:45:55.820 --> 05:45:58.220
Are you even able to do that? Are there too many options?

05:45:58.220 --> 05:46:03.020
Well, in terms of Pokemon, which is what we're here to talk about today, I'm assuming. Yes. Yes, yes

05:46:04.780 --> 05:46:06.300
I am

05:46:06.300 --> 05:46:11.180
Uh, I'm like a Pokemon old-head. I'm like a red blue yellow guy, you know

05:46:11.260 --> 05:46:15.500
And so that soundtrack specifically is always going to be my favorite and it could be the remakes too

05:46:15.500 --> 05:46:17.220
It could be, you know, Fire Red, Leaf Green.

05:46:17.220 --> 05:46:19.020
It could be Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee,

05:46:19.020 --> 05:46:22.060
but that's like, I'll always play a remake of those games

05:46:22.060 --> 05:46:24.140
that contains that music, because I love it so much.

05:46:24.140 --> 05:46:27.620
So we have, and it was in today's performance,

05:46:27.620 --> 05:46:31.100
but the like, the trainer battle theme specifically to me

05:46:31.100 --> 05:46:34.620
is very thrilling and like music theory-wise,

05:46:34.620 --> 05:46:37.540
incredibly complex and interesting to arrange.

05:46:37.540 --> 05:46:40.740
It's like full of like, really avant-garde,

05:46:40.740 --> 05:46:42.220
like musical lines to pick apart.

05:46:42.220 --> 05:46:43.060
It's really cool.

05:46:43.060 --> 05:46:45.140
All that, that whole original soundtrack

05:46:45.140 --> 05:46:47.140
is an amazing feat of musicianship.

05:46:47.140 --> 05:46:48.140
Tell us a little bit about that.

05:46:48.140 --> 05:46:51.780
I know that many of our viewers may not be huge music theory

05:46:51.780 --> 05:46:54.220
knowledge holders, but in layman's terms,

05:46:54.220 --> 05:46:57.180
maybe, what's kind of really interesting about that arrangement?

05:46:57.180 --> 05:47:00.300
Yeah, so that arrangement and that whole original red-blue-yellow

05:47:00.300 --> 05:47:03.940
soundtrack, there's a lot of the melodies in it

05:47:03.940 --> 05:47:06.020
and the sort of chord changes to use,

05:47:06.020 --> 05:47:08.420
that's probably the deepest term I'll use music theory wise.

05:47:08.420 --> 05:47:11.660
Chords that these melodies use are really unusual.

05:47:11.660 --> 05:47:12.980
There are things that sometimes we

05:47:12.980 --> 05:47:17.140
associate with like very contemporary classical or jazz but they're they're

05:47:17.140 --> 05:47:23.020
like highly unusual like the Mount Moon theme for example is weird. It's creepy

05:47:23.020 --> 05:47:26.420
it's a weird theme you know and the fact these composers were able to like

05:47:26.420 --> 05:47:31.860
convey so much interesting melody and harmony through at the time

05:47:31.860 --> 05:47:35.420
technologically only literally being able to play three notes at the same time

05:47:35.420 --> 05:47:39.440
for this little device they were so inventive it's like it really is again

05:47:39.440 --> 05:47:42.200
It's like a compositional wonder that it exists.

05:47:42.200 --> 05:47:44.880
Do you think that that kind of contributes to the reason

05:47:44.880 --> 05:47:48.280
that it's been able to stand this has a time for 30 years

05:47:48.280 --> 05:47:50.440
and still be just so iconic?

05:47:50.440 --> 05:47:52.720
I 100% do, because I think that, like,

05:47:52.720 --> 05:47:54.720
there's a beautiful thing creativity-wise.

05:47:54.720 --> 05:47:56.820
If you're, like, working within very strict parameters,

05:47:56.820 --> 05:47:59.380
sometimes that forces you to be more creative, right?

05:47:59.380 --> 05:48:01.520
And so we're talking about three notes at the same time.

05:48:01.520 --> 05:48:02.440
That's it.

05:48:02.440 --> 05:48:05.880
So the raw ingredients of things that we like about songs,

05:48:05.880 --> 05:48:08.880
their melody, their groove, and their harmony,

05:48:08.880 --> 05:48:10.320
and their chord changes.

05:48:10.320 --> 05:48:11.160
That's all.

05:48:11.160 --> 05:48:13.800
It's like that kind of like early eight-bit composing

05:48:13.800 --> 05:48:16.400
is the raw elements of I think what makes music great.

05:48:16.400 --> 05:48:17.960
And so it's gotta be really strong.

05:48:17.960 --> 05:48:21.480
And I do think that's why these like classic era chip tunes

05:48:21.480 --> 05:48:23.360
and game tunes have really withstood the test of time

05:48:23.360 --> 05:48:27.280
have become main like flagship themes for the series.

05:48:27.280 --> 05:48:29.480
So when you're taking melodies like that

05:48:29.480 --> 05:48:32.480
and arranging them for the big stage,

05:48:32.480 --> 05:48:34.120
what do you think about what do you try to do

05:48:34.120 --> 05:48:35.160
to kind of make it your own?

05:48:35.160 --> 05:48:36.000
First of all, let me say

05:48:36.000 --> 05:48:37.480
these are really, really great questions.

05:48:37.480 --> 05:48:44.480
I'm not used to getting questions this specific about music, and I really, really appreciate it, it's amazing.

05:48:44.480 --> 05:48:54.480
So, you know, the best thing about arranging this early 8-bit chiptune stuff is, like I'm saying, the raw ingredients of the material is so strong, it had to be.

05:48:54.480 --> 05:49:00.480
So if, like, the composers of these games are, like, they're the architects, right? They're designing the structure of the house, right?

05:49:00.480 --> 05:49:06.480
They're building the foundation and the scaffolding. They've built, like, rooms, but the rooms don't have function necessarily.

05:49:06.480 --> 05:49:09.220
I do as an arranger, as an orchestrator, you might say,

05:49:09.220 --> 05:49:10.800
producer, whatever you want to call it.

05:49:10.800 --> 05:49:12.640
As I say, I see what you were going for.

05:49:12.640 --> 05:49:14.200
I see the feeling and the intention

05:49:14.200 --> 05:49:15.440
that you wanted in those melodies,

05:49:15.440 --> 05:49:17.320
but you didn't have the technology.

05:49:17.320 --> 05:49:20.080
This sounds so now I have, as an orchestra member,

05:49:20.080 --> 05:49:22.320
in this orchestra, a full palette

05:49:22.320 --> 05:49:24.560
of every color I could possibly want.

05:49:24.560 --> 05:49:26.440
So I'm like, I'm the interior designer.

05:49:26.440 --> 05:49:27.640
I say, this room's great.

05:49:27.640 --> 05:49:28.720
We're gonna get a new couch in here.

05:49:28.720 --> 05:49:29.560
We're gonna paint the walls.

05:49:29.560 --> 05:49:30.400
We're gonna put a carpet down.

05:49:30.400 --> 05:49:31.240
We're gonna hang some curtains.

05:49:31.240 --> 05:49:33.160
We're gonna get some updated, like, you know,

05:49:33.160 --> 05:49:34.000
a new sink.

05:49:34.000 --> 05:49:35.000
We're gonna blow out this wall

05:49:35.000 --> 05:49:36.560
We're going to make an open floor plan.

05:49:36.560 --> 05:49:37.680
It has the same feeling.

05:49:37.680 --> 05:49:39.920
It's maintaining the structure of the original,

05:49:39.920 --> 05:49:42.480
but it's just making it so much more vibrant.

05:49:42.480 --> 05:49:46.000
Or to use another metaphor, they're doing a line drawing.

05:49:46.000 --> 05:49:47.080
And I'm the illustrator.

05:49:47.080 --> 05:49:49.160
I think all the colors I now have that they didn't have,

05:49:49.160 --> 05:49:50.800
and I can fill in the background.

05:49:50.800 --> 05:49:52.000
It's like, I'm the Bob Ross.

05:49:52.000 --> 05:49:53.120
That's the ground.

05:49:53.120 --> 05:49:54.920
That's how I explore, yeah.

05:49:54.920 --> 05:49:57.280
It's the first visual now going on.

05:49:57.280 --> 05:49:58.320
I'm here for this.

05:49:58.320 --> 05:50:00.080
We've just been talking about our Pocopia build

05:50:00.080 --> 05:50:01.840
so much, so I'm like, oh, so it's like, you know,

05:50:01.840 --> 05:50:02.800
you have the build.

05:50:02.800 --> 05:50:06.240
And then you take in which couches you want to go for.

05:50:06.240 --> 05:50:08.560
Yes, it's like if you combine the right instruments

05:50:08.560 --> 05:50:10.800
in the right way, that will give life to that area

05:50:10.800 --> 05:50:12.920
so Pokemon can move in, use it, at least, to kick in.

05:50:12.920 --> 05:50:14.080
Yes, that's great.

05:50:14.080 --> 05:50:16.560
I want to ask too, we don't talk a whole lot

05:50:16.560 --> 05:50:19.840
about dance in Pokemon, and it's something

05:50:19.840 --> 05:50:22.400
that has been present the last two opening ceremonies

05:50:22.400 --> 05:50:24.640
that maybe we haven't gotten to talk a whole lot about

05:50:24.640 --> 05:50:27.040
because everyone who plays Pokemon

05:50:27.040 --> 05:50:28.400
interacts with music in some way,

05:50:28.400 --> 05:50:29.640
but maybe not as much about dance.

05:50:29.640 --> 05:50:31.240
And I know that you're mostly focused on the music,

05:50:31.240 --> 05:50:33.740
but we did see the dancers dancing to your music.

05:50:33.740 --> 05:50:35.380
Do you have any impressions of what that was like?

05:50:35.380 --> 05:50:35.880
Absolutely.

05:50:35.880 --> 05:50:37.300
And you know, to be frank, I didn't really

05:50:37.300 --> 05:50:39.420
see the choreography until I got here this morning.

05:50:39.420 --> 05:50:41.540
But it was an amazing surprise.

05:50:41.540 --> 05:50:43.660
But I do, since I work so much in musical theater

05:50:43.660 --> 05:50:45.980
and Broadway, like I have me and choreographers

05:50:45.980 --> 05:50:47.940
always have a very tight relationship.

05:50:47.940 --> 05:50:50.260
And what I really appreciated about the choreography this

05:50:50.260 --> 05:50:52.380
time is the visual and dance language

05:50:52.380 --> 05:50:55.820
that they utilized was clearly so inspired

05:50:55.820 --> 05:50:59.460
by what kinds of events take place in the game.

05:50:59.460 --> 05:51:04.220
And so it's like the pantomime of what they were doing during the various themes was like

05:51:04.220 --> 05:51:08.500
very, very, not just random, not just like people moving for hype or for excitement,

05:51:08.500 --> 05:51:12.900
but like informed itself by the movement language in the games in a big way.

05:51:12.900 --> 05:51:17.500
I got to see a smidge of rehearsal yesterday and as I was in there, they were working

05:51:17.500 --> 05:51:22.300
through the timing of the transition between two songs where it was bop, bop, bop, bop.

05:51:22.300 --> 05:51:24.820
And they were trying to get those moves just the right time.

05:51:24.820 --> 05:51:27.780
And I was like, this is the language I want to see.

05:51:27.780 --> 05:51:28.420
Totally.

05:51:28.420 --> 05:51:29.420
Pokemon spoken.

05:51:29.420 --> 05:51:30.940
It was so, so very cool.

05:51:30.940 --> 05:51:32.220
Really great choreography.

05:51:32.220 --> 05:51:32.820
Really cool.

05:51:32.820 --> 05:51:34.140
What about the setting overall?

05:51:34.140 --> 05:51:36.740
Having your whole band there on stage,

05:51:36.740 --> 05:51:39.340
and the dancers dancing, and the audience in front of you,

05:51:39.340 --> 05:51:40.500
what did it feel like?

05:51:40.500 --> 05:51:41.900
I mean, it never gets old.

05:51:41.900 --> 05:51:43.300
I gotta tell you, it's really cool.

05:51:43.300 --> 05:51:45.260
You know, me and the big band,

05:51:45.260 --> 05:51:46.980
we're used to playing in concert halls, which

05:51:46.980 --> 05:51:47.740
is really beautiful.

05:51:47.740 --> 05:51:49.460
They're always very beautiful spaces.

05:51:49.460 --> 05:51:50.340
There's a stage.

05:51:50.340 --> 05:51:52.140
There's some risers, and then there's the musicians.

05:51:52.140 --> 05:51:53.540
And we're playing, and we're an orchestra.

05:51:53.540 --> 05:51:54.620
And that's fantastic.

05:51:54.620 --> 05:51:56.180
However, again, I'm a man of the theater.

05:51:56.180 --> 05:51:57.660
I like set design.

05:51:57.660 --> 05:52:03.060
And this is clearly a all bells and whistles, no holds bar set

05:52:03.060 --> 05:52:04.500
to be performing music on it.

05:52:04.500 --> 05:52:08.100
Just like, again, the visual, the same metaphor.

05:52:08.100 --> 05:52:10.020
It's like the arrangements themselves

05:52:10.020 --> 05:52:12.220
are both highly lustrous and Technicolor.

05:52:12.220 --> 05:52:14.140
And that impact is even more supported

05:52:14.140 --> 05:52:19.940
by the incredible, colorful, LED-paneled, various sets

05:52:19.940 --> 05:52:22.380
and structures and flowers and a grand walkway.

05:52:22.380 --> 05:52:24.060
It's like, yeah, this is honestly,

05:52:24.060 --> 05:52:26.460
I wish I could always perform on this stage. It's so beautiful.

05:52:26.460 --> 05:52:29.960
I think that's one of my favorite things about Pokemon in general is that it's immersive.

05:52:29.960 --> 05:52:34.460
You're going to show up and you know that you are getting thrown directly into the world

05:52:34.460 --> 05:52:37.660
and there's no confusion about where you're going or what you're doing.

05:52:37.660 --> 05:52:42.060
So now even outside of the performance now that you've kind of gotten to explore a little bit,

05:52:42.060 --> 05:52:45.260
what have you just been enjoying about the vibe of Pokemon SP?

05:52:45.260 --> 05:52:49.360
Yeah, the thing is, what I love about going to conventions, and this one specifically,

05:52:49.360 --> 05:52:55.920
there always is some kind of like confluence of fellow gamers and musicians where we meet up together,

05:52:55.920 --> 05:52:58.960
you know, and this is no exception, there's plenty of other. I've already run into tons of friends

05:52:58.960 --> 05:53:02.800
of mine who are other musicians that play video game music and play games like myself. That's

05:53:02.800 --> 05:53:08.320
when you saw the community element of it all. To me is always like the coolest thing. But again,

05:53:08.320 --> 05:53:13.200
it is the thing I really like, again as a Pokemon old-head, is like seeing all of the like,

05:53:13.760 --> 05:53:17.760
the art direction, like the original artwork, crediting the artists, crediting the graphic

05:53:17.760 --> 05:53:21.360
design, seen the museum, I had to go to the museum, the line is still very long.

05:53:21.360 --> 05:53:25.960
It's cool for me to see the development of the entire world building of It Come to Life

05:53:25.960 --> 05:53:30.960
over the last 30 years, which makes me feel old.

05:53:30.960 --> 05:53:31.960
Feel experienced.

05:53:31.960 --> 05:53:32.960
Thank you so high level.

05:53:32.960 --> 05:53:35.760
I'm a high level 30, I'm a level 36 lady.

05:53:35.760 --> 05:53:37.760
You're a historian of Pokemon.

05:53:37.760 --> 05:53:40.080
The keeper of the flame.

05:53:40.080 --> 05:53:43.840
Are there any things here at Pokemon XP now that you've done the opening ceremony?

05:53:43.840 --> 05:53:45.600
Are there any other things on your plans?

05:53:45.600 --> 05:53:46.600
You know what?

05:53:46.600 --> 05:53:51.960
ever being at Pokemon Worlds ever so I if you ask me again in a couple hours I

05:53:51.960 --> 05:53:54.340
think I'll have a better answer. I think I just now that I'm like free of

05:53:54.340 --> 05:53:59.460
responsibility I will go find out. Yeah exactly it's a huge ceremony everyone

05:53:59.460 --> 05:54:03.880
if you haven't been you gotta come that's that's the bottom line. Also so

05:54:03.880 --> 05:54:06.840
much goes into preparing for an opening ceremony like that I mean we're

05:54:06.840 --> 05:54:08.840
talking about like now that your job's over but I think people maybe

05:54:08.840 --> 05:54:12.480
don't realize how far in advance we've probably been preparing and can

05:54:12.480 --> 05:54:14.680
you talk a little bit about the preparation for it? Yeah I do think that

05:54:14.680 --> 05:54:16.440
out of maybe any show I've ever worked on.

05:54:16.440 --> 05:54:18.960
This is the most emails I've ever sent about a singular event.

05:54:18.960 --> 05:54:22.000
This is like, yeah, this, we've been planning this for like,

05:54:22.000 --> 05:54:24.800
I've just the music opening ceremony portion.

05:54:24.800 --> 05:54:26.920
We're talking about, you know, 15 minutes of music,

05:54:26.920 --> 05:54:28.400
which is not that much.

05:54:28.400 --> 05:54:30.160
It was incredibly, a huge amount of work

05:54:30.160 --> 05:54:31.520
that required a ton of people.

05:54:31.520 --> 05:54:33.480
We were talking about this for eight months,

05:54:33.480 --> 05:54:34.880
the conception of the arrangements,

05:54:34.880 --> 05:54:37.100
the arrangement of the making of the demos,

05:54:37.100 --> 05:54:38.840
running them by all the important people

05:54:38.840 --> 05:54:41.000
that need to make sure that they were up to par.

05:54:41.000 --> 05:54:42.160
Then there was the choreography.

05:54:42.160 --> 05:54:43.160
It had to go to the various people

05:54:43.160 --> 05:54:44.760
for all of the design elements,

05:54:44.760 --> 05:54:49.760
putting together a multi-genre, multi-disciplinary show,

05:54:50.800 --> 05:54:52.960
even if it's literally 15 minutes,

05:54:52.960 --> 05:54:54.480
takes the better part of a whole year.

05:54:54.480 --> 05:54:55.480
Yeah, wow.

05:54:55.480 --> 05:54:56.600
And it happens every year,

05:54:56.600 --> 05:54:58.680
so they probably will get started on the next one

05:54:58.680 --> 05:54:59.840
the day after this finishes.

05:54:59.840 --> 05:55:00.680
Are you ready?

05:55:00.680 --> 05:55:02.040
I'm so ready, yeah.

05:55:02.040 --> 05:55:04.520
I've never been more ready, honestly.

05:55:04.520 --> 05:55:06.920
What other Pokemon things do you like to engage with?

05:55:06.920 --> 05:55:10.040
You said about original Pokemon video games.

05:55:10.040 --> 05:55:11.000
Are video games your favorite?

05:55:11.000 --> 05:55:12.160
Do you dabble in cards?

05:55:12.160 --> 05:55:13.220
Do you like plushies?

05:55:13.220 --> 05:55:13.740
What are you into?

05:55:13.740 --> 05:55:15.260
I'm definitely Games Forward.

05:55:15.260 --> 05:55:18.020
I'm a Games Forward guy.

05:55:18.020 --> 05:55:22.900
I have, from my youth, still a great deal of cards and binders.

05:55:22.900 --> 05:55:24.100
I love when people say that.

05:55:24.100 --> 05:55:26.540
I know that at some point, I feel like if I get them

05:55:26.540 --> 05:55:29.700
professionally graded by one of those card companies,

05:55:29.700 --> 05:55:32.420
they'd probably be highly sought after cards.

05:55:32.420 --> 05:55:34.540
One of these days, I'm like the person that the card

05:55:34.540 --> 05:55:36.260
collectors want to meet where they're like,

05:55:36.260 --> 05:55:37.860
oh, I've got a box of old cards in my face.

05:55:37.860 --> 05:55:38.900
Well, they're worth anything.

05:55:38.900 --> 05:55:39.900
You could just have them.

05:55:39.900 --> 05:55:40.900
But I do know that there was.

05:55:40.900 --> 05:55:42.980
Were you a careful child, like when you pulled them,

05:55:42.980 --> 05:55:45.420
did you carefully take them and put them in binders?

05:55:45.420 --> 05:55:46.540
Oh yeah, oh they're in sleeves and binders.

05:55:46.540 --> 05:55:48.740
I'm the ideal card hunter.

05:55:48.740 --> 05:55:50.340
I'm a target, I've got a target on my back.

05:55:50.340 --> 05:55:53.740
Yeah, now you've told everyone, now they're gonna come to you.

05:55:53.740 --> 05:55:54.580
Exactly.

05:55:54.580 --> 05:55:55.620
I'm ready to find your card.

05:55:55.620 --> 05:55:56.460
Mom, I'm sorry.

05:55:56.460 --> 05:55:59.340
That means the 30th is like right up your alley though.

05:55:59.340 --> 05:56:01.420
Yeah, I know, it is, it totally is.

05:56:01.420 --> 05:56:03.180
It's really cool, it's really cool.

05:56:03.180 --> 05:56:04.740
Celebrating 30 years of Pokemon,

05:56:04.740 --> 05:56:07.420
you said, you know, it makes you feel like a historian.

05:56:07.420 --> 05:56:08.420
Thank you.

05:56:08.420 --> 05:56:09.260
Nice word.

05:56:09.260 --> 05:56:16.360
What do you look back on as one of your key Pokémon memories or moments that kind of let

05:56:16.360 --> 05:56:20.340
you know it was going to be a big part of your life?

05:56:20.340 --> 05:56:27.380
I remember, I actually fairly well remember going to um, it's called KB Toys.

05:56:27.380 --> 05:56:28.380
Yes!

05:56:28.380 --> 05:56:29.380
I went to KB Toys, yeah.

05:56:29.380 --> 05:56:33.220
I remember getting Pokémon Blue and I remember buying the Prima Strategy Guide along with

05:56:33.220 --> 05:56:34.220
it.

05:56:34.220 --> 05:56:35.220
Oh my god, that's amazing.

05:56:35.220 --> 05:56:39.660
I remember the car ride home and like studying that strategy guide like it was like my life to head it

05:56:39.660 --> 05:56:43.800
Like it was the Bible, you know, yeah, I gotta know everything because all my friends were doing it

05:56:43.800 --> 05:56:45.800
And I also remember

05:56:45.800 --> 05:56:49.340
Buying these little like plastic figurines that I took to school in the next day

05:56:52.100 --> 05:56:54.720
And I lost my shit my sand shoes somewhere

05:56:55.780 --> 05:56:58.560
And I was very distraught I was incredibly distraught that day

05:56:58.560 --> 05:56:59.560
Understandable.

05:56:59.560 --> 05:57:00.800
Someone find a sand trough.

05:57:00.800 --> 05:57:01.800
Please.

05:57:01.800 --> 05:57:02.800
And bring it.

05:57:02.800 --> 05:57:03.800
Archaeological dig.

05:57:03.800 --> 05:57:04.800
Yeah.

05:57:04.800 --> 05:57:05.800
Find that Pokemon.

05:57:05.800 --> 05:57:06.800
I'm figuring.

05:57:06.800 --> 05:57:08.560
Well, you've mentioned you've gone to a lot of conventions.

05:57:08.560 --> 05:57:11.520
We only have a little bit more time with you, but I wanted to see if you had any advice

05:57:11.520 --> 05:57:14.960
or observations for people who maybe this is their first convention.

05:57:14.960 --> 05:57:15.960
Yeah, absolutely.

05:57:15.960 --> 05:57:18.760
I think the thing that I, again, I love the most about these conventions is everybody

05:57:18.760 --> 05:57:20.960
is here and everybody has like a common interest.

05:57:20.960 --> 05:57:25.080
And that is like such a great jumping off point for you to a little bit, like

05:57:25.080 --> 05:57:28.320
just engage in a friendly conversation or a game with somebody I would say, like,

05:57:28.320 --> 05:57:31.600
Don't be worried about, you know, being shy, being judged, being, you know, this is a real

05:57:31.600 --> 05:57:36.200
come as you are environment, all these conventions, and I think that is a really beautiful thing.

05:57:36.200 --> 05:57:37.200
All are welcome.

05:57:37.200 --> 05:57:38.200
Mm-hmm.

05:57:38.200 --> 05:57:39.200
Great.

05:57:39.200 --> 05:57:40.700
Where can people follow along with you and find you on the internet?

05:57:40.700 --> 05:57:41.700
Absolutely.

05:57:41.700 --> 05:57:46.000
So, my band name, one more time, is the 8-Bit Big Band as in 8-Bit Games, you know.

05:57:46.000 --> 05:57:49.560
We do video game music covers from all generations, we've got five albums out

05:57:49.560 --> 05:57:51.200
on spot, anything you stream.

05:57:51.200 --> 05:57:54.920
Our main page, YouTube at the 8-Bit Big Band, Instagram at the 8-Bit Big Band,

05:57:54.920 --> 05:58:00.460
We got a discord anywhere where you consume music or videos the 8th event is going to be awesome

05:58:00.460 --> 05:58:04.560
Yeah, thank you so much for spending time with us. We really appreciate it amazing questions

05:58:06.640 --> 05:58:09.680
Thank you so much really great. All right now don't go anywhere

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We are bringing you everything from Pokemon XP live right here. We'll be back right after this

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Welcome back to Pokemon XP. I'm Anna, this is Glitter, and we have another very exciting guest with us to continue the talk about music.

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Please introduce yourself to the people at home.

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I am that DJ Vega. I'm Vega, that DJ Vega, or just DJ Vega.

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I have a lot of names.

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It's important, you know, not this DJ Vega, that DJ Vega.

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Very specific, yes.

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And what is it that you do, DJ Vega?

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I'm the DJ for the XP stage, like right down the way.

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the way so yes we heard some of your your stuff it sounds awesome tell tell

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people at home what kind of stuff that you would hear if you were here at

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Pokemon XP you're gonna hear everything Pokemon related so it's gonna be you

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know anything from Sun and Moon to Diamond and Pearl to black and white and

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then whatever extra seasoning I add into it yeah we were just talking a

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little bit about seasoning that Pokemon music with a big big band talking

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about how you know we have these amazing constructions of music that

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then you as an artist get to say,

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how would I kind of decorate this?

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How would I change it for myself?

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What do you usually do when you're thinking about that?

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A lot, actually.

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I'm thinking of where I can drop a certain beat,

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where I can drop a song at, and all that kind of stuff.

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I'm doing a lot in my head.

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It's actually kind of scary sometimes.

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OK, well, then this might be a little bit random.

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But do you have a favorite transition

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that you've made from song to song,

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where people did not see it coming?

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And you were like, yeah, that one really hit.

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OK, so kind of sort of.

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I just recently, so I'm from Seattle.

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And on the plane down here, I was just on my laptop

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just making edits and doing a bunch of stuff like that.

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And I did this jiggly puff, like down south.

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I'm Memphis.

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It was something that I made.

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And I finished it and literally got off the plane.

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And I put it on my phone.

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I'm listening to it.

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I was like, I like this.

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I've been playing that for the past was only day two,

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but like I've been playing that all weekend so far

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and people are coming out of the woodworks.

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Like I've had so many Jigglypuff, like cosplay,

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everybody's like, oh my God, I love this.

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And I'm like, I made this, you know?

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So yeah, that's probably it.

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That's such a cool feeling as a creative

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when you're like, I made this and I like it.

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You know?

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Yeah, and then other people like it.

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I get to see like movement from it.

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And I'm like, oh, this is really cool.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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No, I'm sorry.

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I keep staring at your fit because we've got a Kanto hat,

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we've got a Blastlery Spaceball jersey.

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If we're talking about favorite era of music,

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are we going all the way back to like OG 151?

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Is that because that's what the fit's giving

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or is it actually something else?

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I mean, yeah, like I'm going to do the original 151 music

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majority of the time, but at the same time,

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I dabbled everywhere.

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I've been playing Pokemon my whole life.

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So it's like, I know all the songs.

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I can definitely jump into every era

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and kind of do some stuff.

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Like I'm playing champions music over there.

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I'm doing a bunch of stuff.

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Tell us about your Pokemon origins.

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What are some of your favorite Pokemon memories?

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Ooh, aw man, I'm about to age myself,

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but like playing the Game Boy in the car

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and the street light has to come over.

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Yes!

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You know what I mean?

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Yes!

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That's literally my whole entire start

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is like being in the car, playing Pokemon,

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having to plug in the little light yeah all that kind of stuff I thought I was

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from the beginning and what about your music origins when did that start I

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actually that started kind of close to the Pokemon stuff to be honest yeah like

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I got some turntables I took some of my like uncle's vinyls and stuff like that

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a long time ago and I sat in like my room for like three summers and was

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just trash as a DJ for so long and then got good and I was like okay built

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on it. So yeah, that's such an important piece that I feel like I always need to hear as a

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creative is that people I look up to that are like at the top of their game. They're like,

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I was once really bad at this for a while. I tell people all the time. I'm like, yeah,

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don't don't worry about like just jumping up and being good. Like you're going to

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be trash for a long time. Yeah, you know, work on it. I mean, now that like obviously

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all that hard work has paid off, you're here at Pokemon XP, you're playing in front

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of this massive crowd. What is one of the most rewarding things about being here and

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playing sets for everybody? I was just talking to a friend about this earlier.

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This is literally my Disneyland if anything. Yes. Like we were talking about if

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we were kids and this was around at you know in 1999 ageing myself again but if

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this was around for us back then amazing you know. So honestly just

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being here being able to see like different kinds of artworks I went

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through the museum, and I aged myself again.

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I was like, oh man, I had those cards,

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and then I'm looking around, and I'm like,

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1999 was a long time ago, so.

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I feel like a lot of people have been saying that up here.

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They're like, oh, I mean, I'm outing myself as old.

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And I'm like, every time someone talks to them,

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I'm like, no, you hold the history of our community.

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Like, this is important stuff.

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I feel like I wish I had had more access at that time

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to Pokemon, so I think that's really, really cool.

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And I think it's cool that they're showing it off

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here for us to go and be nostalgic about.

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Is there anything else you saw there on the floor

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that you're really excited or that you are excited to see?

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Well, yeah, I got lost.

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This is massive down here.

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I didn't realize how massive I went.

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What was the thing in Pokemon?

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Was it the Team Rocket Tower or hideout

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where it's like you hit a switch

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and then you end up over here and open doors?

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That's what I felt like downstairs.

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I literally went down one escalator

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and I was like, oh, this is nice.

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This is cool.

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And then went up another escalator,

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figured out that I was in the same spot and I was like okay so I'm trying to find

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everything to be honest I haven't got there yet are you you know you said you

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played the video games on the Gameboy do you like cards plushies are you into

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any of the other things you can find around here every time I get a plushie

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for myself my daughter takes it so I'm kind of cutting off for the plushies

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cards as always everybody does the cards games I'm not as good as I thought

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was competitively I'm like mid-heights here so it's like you know I do I do

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everything I do all of it yeah yeah tell us about your book up your bills um

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let's see so so far the one that I'm proud of is I'm at a treehouse but I

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have to go I have to do touch-ups on it like I would never really see it I did

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like the platforms of the treehouse and made it out of the wood blocks I

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a bunch of cool stuff. But at the same time, I'm not ready for anybody to see that at all.

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I took, I saw someone, you know, on Instagram with this amazing build of a treehouse. And I was like,

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I'm going to build that for my EVs. And I built it. And it just did not look like the inspo.

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I tried so hard. But I feel like I used the wrong wood blocks. Did you use the round ones?

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Yeah, yeah, though, the it's like rare little tree stumps. Yeah, I think I used the wrong

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ones I use the like what's called puffy wood or something I I thought yours is

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better than mine and it's we know what and even if you don't love it you can

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always abandon it and start a new project about the basin exactly yeah yep

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and I'll just be everywhere else leave that there whoever wants to live

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there live there we've been asking everyone who plays pokopia which

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Pokemon are the ones you like to have live with you in your house okay so

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I'm a big ditto fan so I'm already happy that I get to be a ditto in

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I'm definitely my roommates, let's see. Squirtle is coming with me everywhere.

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Everywhere I can take a Squirtle. I can't remember his name. I always blank on his name.

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The little chubby fighter. Blue gloves. He has a thing on his head.

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He's yellow. No. Red cheeks. I can't remember his name.

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Anyway, the chat is probably saying it right now.

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All of us are just giving blanks.

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Thank you, chat.

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You're absolutely correct.

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Good job.

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You're right.

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Those two are my go-to.

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Those two are my roommates every time.

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Any crazy builds other than your treehouse that you've

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done, or any that you tried and you were like, never mind.

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Left it alone halfway through.

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Yeah, no.

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I definitely saw one on somewhere on social media

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where they did an underground tunnel

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under the water all the way to this land.

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I know it's just like that looks really cool. I took two hours. I gave up. I said this is this is too intense. Yeah

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Yeah, exactly just the graveler just roll in like that. I was like no

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I'm done

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The rollout honestly has saved lives and when it comes to mass clearing out space for any sort of a big field like that

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But outside of pocopia obviously we're talking about what's going on on the rest of the floor

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Have you gotten a chance to walk it at all? Yeah, I've I've probably hit like a third of everything

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That's the one I'm happy to go by the Lego booth. Yeah, see another thing too intense. I don't know if I'm gonna do that

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Yeah, yeah, I like I like Legos, but those builds are the crazy so

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You're very excited about it. I can't wait to talk about it. I just wondering if you saw, you know the life size

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They got a requaser. Yeah, they got a whole bunch of different. I'm I'm scared

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There's a build of Ray Quasar happening behind us. Mm-hmm. That's going from start to finish by the end of the weekend

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Mm-hmm. It's it's gonna be epic to intense. I'm scared of that. I love I love a challenge. That's that's crazy

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Well, what about music what other things are coming up for you with music um, let's see

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I'm all over the place. Um, so like my DJing career, I guess like I've done done radio

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I do weddings. I do bar misfas bar misfas

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I've done everything and right now the last two years

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I've been really diving into like the convention, so I almost said con convention. Anyway, I've been dealing with the conventions and stuff like that

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So like all over the country. I've been to DC. I've been to Texas. I've been to Virginia

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I've been all over the place. They had Detroit all kinds of stuff like that

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When did you realize that you were like, I think that my love for Pokemon and my love for music are going to

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Meld into this thing I'm doing. So I didn't know if it was ever gonna work

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But I've been this way forever, so it's like I have my my other like moniker and all that kind of stuff is the nerd at the

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Cool table, so it's like I've forever like high school all that kind of stuff. I've been the same person

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I've been just a nerd so it's like I've always tried to figure out how to

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Take whatever is considered nerdy to everybody else the you know the Pokemon the video games the anime

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Whatever I would take it over here and like well, this is cool. This is what I like to do, too

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So I've been doing it forever and honestly it probably just hit me within the last like

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Two years where it's like it actually worked, and I was like, oh, so I'm still kind of soaking it all in

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Because you were involved with the world championships last year as well. Yeah

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That was a that was crazy. That was um, I was in front of the Pokemon Center and it was just a bunch of

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Everything I've met a lot of people

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I'm honest really probably still soaking that into the beyond

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It kind of took me for a loop where I ended up being here and I was like I got the call to be here

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And I was like way you guys like me

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It doesn't feel like that long ago world yeah, not a lot I was gonna say I think I've seen you on stage

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Like orbiting each other on the on the soundtrack last year

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Yeah, I feel like we never quite got to be in the same place at the same time

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But yeah, I was singing on stage and I would see you from afar and be like, that sounds sick.

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Yeah.

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And now you're brought together on the same desk talking about music, all things Pokemon related.

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I'm hearing music right now too.

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I don't know what's going on, but something very...

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We're missing, I feel like, something, there's a performance about to happen.

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Oh, it's a parade.

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Oh, it's a parade.

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Is that what's happening?

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Yeah, you can probably hear that through our microphones.

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But there is so much happening here at Pokemon XP and I think that we've been talking about

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celebrating with music so much and now we can't even ignore the music that is

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happening behind us but we will do our very best to continue chatting for you.

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So is there anything that you would like to tell other people who are coming to

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this convention that you want them to particularly look out for? I mean I know

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you said like the things we all have in common really bring us together but

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like tell us a little bit about Pokemon XP and if somebody is like oh I'm

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coming tomorrow or oh I'm watching from home and I want to make sure I

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I don't miss anything. What would you tell them?

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Get a map. That's that's the first thing. I was like get a map stretch

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Yeah, be prepared, you know have the right mindset to just have fun

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Like kind of keep an open mind to be like I'm a kid again. Yes. Yes, you know

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I also don't think we've got a chance to ask me've been asking everybody as they come up on the desk

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But I don't think we've asked you your favorite. Oh

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You know what that's easy. I usually have a top five

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There's so many right now. I really love Tinkerton

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Tell us why Tinkerton cuz she's gangsta she's so like I

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Was yeah, I was just having this conversation like I mean Blastoise is always gonna be in the top three at least right?

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But Tinkerton is just so dope. It's a little you know little cute pink thing and she beats up Corvina

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Like she just takes and makes hammers out of it. That is the crazy like I love her

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Yeah, tell us a little bit about the lore of Tinket time

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We were just talking about how a lot of people maybe don't realize just from looking at like you pink thing with hammer

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What the lore of um so I mean if I'm if I'm correct. I remember that it's like from birth

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From a child. She is like chasing down corporate which is the steel bird and all that kind of stuff. She's actually

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actually killing. I don't know if I should say that, but like she's taking them down.

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Yeah. And she's making her weapons out of their bodies.

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Helping to build your cities in Hocopia.

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Exactly. Yes.

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Construction made in. Doing a really good job at that. That's a good shot. We haven't had anyone else bring up Tinkerton.

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What about the rest? You said Blastoise also. So roll out the top five.

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Um, so if it fluctuates it moves a little bit, but let's see um

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Tinkentine last voice

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Um, Scyther is up there. What's that? There's three

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um

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Blaziken is up there

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and then um, it's a tie between Celebi and uh, Jarachi

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And really similar energy Celebi and Jarachi. Yeah. Okay. Tell us about Blaziken

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Um, I like Blaziken just because like

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it's a karate chicken. That's just the dopest thing. Every time I've ever played I've

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got to get the torturic and all that kind of stuff and it's like I always go,

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that's my spicy nugget. I just name them that and we're running the town.

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Wow that's really good. One thing I love about Pokemon is that there

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really is someone who's like every Pokemon it's someone's favorite.

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Which is why I love this question because we've asked so many different people and

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And we've gotten a different answer every single time.

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I know I was the first EV, which is kind of rare.

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Yeah, I know.

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I'm here for it.

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All right, well, we want to let you get to enjoying

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the rest of the convention.

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Thank you so much for spending time with us.

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You're going to be at the wharf stage, right?

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Is that where you're at?

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Okay, tell people where they can find you

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if they're here at Pokemon XP.

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Follow the music.

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I was gonna say, usually that's me.

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80% of the time, that's me.

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But yeah, the XP, the wharf stage, I'll be there.

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I have my own little section and stuff like that,

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and I'm gonna be doing everything in my power

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to make a memory and make sure that people are like,

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hey, we're out Pokemon, you know, worlds

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and the DJ up there was amazing.

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Like, that's what I'm trying to do.

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Yeah.

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If you enter Rayquaza Road right out here,

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just head that way and you'll find DJ Vega.

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And where can people find you on the internet

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follow along with your stuff?

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Everywhere, it is that DJ Vega.

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So yeah, all social media, that DJ Vega.

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Awesome.

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Thank you so much for your time.

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Thank you for having me.

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to spin on the stage and don't go anywhere because we will be back with even more

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Pokemon XB right after this.

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Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP, where the fun

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does not stop. You can see behind us that there are so many Pokemon dancing and singing

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and we are sitting right in the middle of it here on Rayquaza Road. I'm Anna, this is

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Glitter and we have a new guest with us today. Please introduce yourself to the people at

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home. Hi, my name is Steve, Pokemon podcast and I stream and I report on Pokemon news

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and now I'm here doing all of that. What got you into that? What got you started?

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I was super into podcasts when I was in high school and I listened to a bunch of gaming

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podcasts and there wasn't one that was doing just Pokemon and I was like, oh, I think I

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can do this and I've been doing it since.

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And how long is that?

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Since HeartGoldSoulSover came out, so a little over 15 years now.

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15.

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I love that.

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Amazing.

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That means that you're another person we've had on the desk that's going to

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that you know they've been here for a very long time and make them sound like they're

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right to old but you're not living here talking about all this stuff how has it

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been you know taking all that and then coming here to Pokemon xp for the first

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time this is this has been absolutely fantastic like you I saw the world's

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like growing and growing every year and getting bigger and bigger and it just

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made sense to turn into what this is have you been to world many years

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previous. I think this is my eighth one. The first one I went to was during

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Black and White in San Diego and the Pokemon Center there was just like a

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single hotel room. Yeah, yeah. It's so different. Yes, absolutely. So, you know,

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as you've seen that change happen, but tell us a little bit about it for people

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who may be here for the first time or only a couple years. Tell us a little

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bit more about that evolution you've witnessed. Yeah, I think I remember

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Even with the first worlds I went to I went with somebody who wasn't a Pokemon fan

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And they they walked away buying a DS buying the car. It's getting the game and I think that that's kind of what worlds in cap you

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encapsulates like not only the the hardcore fans or the

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Just Pokemon fans in general, but it's easy to bring in new fans

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And they can come and they can see and they can they can relate to the energy and then walk away being like this is awesome

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Yeah, what do you find here? What are you looking forward to most?

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Well, I was having fun with the pin rally and I'm very into that.

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I brought pins to trade for later.

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Nice.

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This is the first year I brought a card binder.

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I spent a week organizing my cards thinking like, which ones am I going to bring?

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Which ones do I want to trade?

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Which ones do I want to look for?

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So I'm excited to do that this weekend as well.

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I think you're the first person we've talked to you about pin trading specifically.

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Tell us a little bit more about how that is here at Worlds and XP.

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last year they did it at Anaheim and that kind of just got me hooked and so I

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got a bunch of pins from last year and then I acquired more pins this year and

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I loaded up a lanyard for specifically that okay these are duplicates or these

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are extras or you know I'm looking for Pokemon I like a little bit more than

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the ones I have yeah I need that you're searching for yeah I don't think

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I think they make a lot of Kram-Rant pins.

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No! Kram-Rant spotted!

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We've been talking a lot about Pokémon Pokopia.

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Yes.

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And specifically Pokémon that change your opinion of them by being around Pokémon Pokopia.

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And Kram-Rant was one that I never had any interest in until the cute little dummy just followed me around.

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He was so great!

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And I just came to love him so much.

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Now he has a whole page in my little binder and everything.

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So tell us why you love Kram-Rant.

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Oh man, you know, prior to Kramer and Kippengall,

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when people would say, what's your favorite Pokemon?

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I would always have like a different answer.

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I was like, whatever I was feeling that week.

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And then when I first saw Kramer and I was like,

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oh, this is what it feels like to have a favorite.

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This is the permanent favorite since, yes.

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Like love at first sight, it's so sweet.

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And I remember exactly, I was in a hotel room

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in Yokohama and I saw like they unveiled him.

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And I was like, oh my gosh.

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Oh, that's, I love that story.

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That's so good that you were wait your,

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The place in your heart was open and waiting for Krameran.

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Yes.

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The Dene has moved pretty high on my list as well.

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Oh, nice.

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Ooh, the Dene is a good one.

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Do you have a top five rounded out for yourself, Lynn?

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The top five, I think, does change.

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But it's probably like Krameran to Dene.

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I like Dragapult.

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I do.

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I like Incineroar.

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I've always been an Incineroar fan.

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I really like Golden Go.

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Oh.

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Number 1,000.

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Interesting.

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All right.

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What do you like about Golden Go?

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I think he's just silly.

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You silly.

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I think he captures the same vibes as Krameran.

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I think they're just silly Pokemon.

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That's awesome.

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I think that we have similar love for silliness in Pokemon.

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Because Dragon Pulse is another favorite of mine too,

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because it's really silly to throw your babies at people.

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Yeah, he's great.

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Take this one.

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Yeah, pew-pew.

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I mean, that also kind of ties into

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what we've been talking about a lot on the desk,

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is the fact that, I mean, this is all about joy.

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This is all about fun.

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This is about the community coming together

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and having such a good time.

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What has been some of your favorite community-based experiences since you've been kind of walking around here for the first time?

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Oh my gosh, just like getting stopped is is always like very heartwarming and very humbling.

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And there's everyone stopping to like see Mimi Q come out or see.

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I saw I saw Lapras like try to scoot away and everyone's stopping.

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It's like you just don't get those moments a lot in life where everyone just like focused on the same thing.

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Like this is awesome, even though it's just so simple.

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Yeah, I saw the Lapras mascot Pokemon has been around and they were coming from pretty

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much kind of backstage and even back there where there's not a whole lot of hubbub, everyone

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quietly just went with their phone, followed Lapras, everyone was just joyfully looking

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at their phone.

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It couldn't be any cuter, that's why.

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So cute.

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And it just moved, it's like the perfect size.

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Everything about every single mascot we've seen is actually wonderful.

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For you, is there anything that you've seen on the floor so far that has just really surprised

06:25:11.020 --> 06:25:13.980
you with how much you've enjoyed it?

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I saw them last year, but seeing them again, seeing the Maraidon and the Karaidon motorcycles,

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just seeing them in person and even the Karaidon blinking.

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It's just so neat.

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Some people may not have seen those.

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Can you describe them or tell what they are?

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Yeah.

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I think it was Honda made the Karaidon and then Toyota made a Maraidon just like

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in Scarlet and Violet, and they're rideable, although we can't ride them, the mechanics

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who built them can ride them, but they're working motorcycles made by Honda and Toyota, and they're

06:25:44.700 --> 06:25:45.700
so cool to see.

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They're really, really neat.

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And even with Corridon, the legs move and everything.

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I know, I have no idea how you go about building something like that.

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Is there anything that you haven't seen yet that you're trying to make sure you

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do go see?

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I have not seen anything in the Yerba Gardens area yet.

06:26:02.940 --> 06:26:08.700
Yeah, yes. Yeah, it's right over there. In fact, I saw it only before it was built. So I haven't seen it yet

06:26:08.700 --> 06:26:11.100
Yeah, no same. Yeah, you might have to make a little

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excursion on over and by the way if you have been to your Bwena Gardens, please show us a photo at Pokemon

06:26:19.500 --> 06:26:24.540
Xp. This is how we're we're getting paid back for bringing you all of this these cool interviews and things

06:26:24.540 --> 06:26:30.060
You have to show us what you find at Pokemon Xp. Yes, you mentioned bringing a trading card binder

06:26:30.060 --> 06:26:32.340
Yeah, so I was just at the

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Pokemon TCG 30th

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Celebration booth and saw some of the new stuff coming out. I've been really into trading this year as well

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Tell us about what you brought to trade when you got into trading cards. What do you what do you like about cards?

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Oh man, I I remember getting like bass set and and fossil and jungle

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And my dad got into it, but I think my dad moved on from like beanie babies to Pokemon cards

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It was like that time.

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So he doesn't keep up anymore.

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But for cards, I tried to collect all of them.

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I want the whole set.

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All of them.

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Of every set?

06:27:06.740 --> 06:27:07.240
Yes.

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The whole set of every set?

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Well, when I was a kid, that's what I did, right?

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And then there was a year or two I was out.

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You got maybe a bully.

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Didn't middle school for liking Pokemon.

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It's cool, though.

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It's cool now.

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And so now I build binders around just Pokemon I like.

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I got a whole Krameran binder.

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I got a whole Demy binder.

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I want to do like Tandemouse and Mousehold.

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I'm really into those two.

06:27:29.760 --> 06:27:30.760
Yeah.

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I just think they're so funny.

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Are you trying to like master set those Pokemon?

06:27:34.080 --> 06:27:34.480
Yes.

06:27:34.480 --> 06:27:34.760
OK.

06:27:34.760 --> 06:27:35.680
Yes.

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And there's like certain sets.

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Like I finished 25th celebration.

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Mm-hmm.

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Nice.

06:27:40.440 --> 06:27:41.000
Nice.

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And they're smaller sets.

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So I think maybe possible with 30th.

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Yeah.

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So now my trade binder is just a lot of illustration rares,

06:27:50.600 --> 06:27:52.680
a lot of like full art trainers.

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You know, duplicates that I have,

06:27:53.840 --> 06:27:56.160
but I think other people would like appreciate.

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And what are you seeking?

06:27:57.480 --> 06:27:58.640
If people are watching and they're like,

06:27:58.640 --> 06:27:59.480
ooh, I'll trade with you.

06:27:59.480 --> 06:28:03.600
Ooh, my Dedenne, my Dedenne stuff is not finished at all.

06:28:03.600 --> 06:28:04.440
Oh, okay.

06:28:04.440 --> 06:28:05.780
So Cramorant's pretty close to being done.

06:28:05.780 --> 06:28:07.280
But people know what you're looking for for your tree

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and it's like, come find you.

06:28:08.320 --> 06:28:11.600
But maybe like any of the terracilized Dedennes, I mean.

06:28:11.600 --> 06:28:12.440
Ooh, okay, right.

06:28:12.440 --> 06:28:13.280
Okay, right.

06:28:13.280 --> 06:28:15.360
The role of him with his little crown.

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Are there any new cards coming out

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in the 30th celebration that you're really excited about

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or have you not seen any of them yet?

06:28:21.200 --> 06:28:22.560
I haven't like looked at them.

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Okay.

06:28:23.400 --> 06:28:28.080
going into sets being like surprised. They have kind of a day and night theme

06:28:28.080 --> 06:28:36.400
that's really cool and I saw some some cool EV adjacent things in there. Did you see his bracelet?

06:28:36.400 --> 06:28:42.480
Oh yeah, I have the EV bracelet. Is that the one that did you get at the Pokemon Center? Yes.

06:28:42.480 --> 06:28:47.920
I should have gotten it. It's so colorful. It's so cute. Alright so we've talked about

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about pins, talk about cards, talk a little bit about the video games, do you play currently

06:28:53.920 --> 06:28:54.920
any of the video games?

06:28:54.920 --> 06:28:55.920
Yeah.

06:28:55.920 --> 06:28:56.920
Or is it more of kind of your origin?

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Yeah, I started off with like really into the games.

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I think Sword and Shield is up there for me, for just like the music, the amount of

06:29:06.240 --> 06:29:10.440
Pokemon I like from Sword and Shield, like I love Grimmsnarl, I love Deregapold, I

06:29:10.440 --> 06:29:13.000
love Kramaran.

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So yeah, Scarlet and Violet, I still do the Seven Star Raids, I still do the

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the mass outbreaks that happen.

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Pocopia is, maybe came out the wrong time for me.

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I was so busy for Worlds and the Bubbly Basin DLC is so neat.

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So I have like, here's eight projects I have to do

06:29:29.320 --> 06:29:30.160
when I get back from Worlds.

06:29:30.160 --> 06:29:31.000
I was gonna say that might, you know,

06:29:31.000 --> 06:29:32.560
you might have to get back into it,

06:29:32.560 --> 06:29:35.240
start building some underwater stuff.

06:29:35.240 --> 06:29:38.000
Now for, I wanna go back to your podcast for a second.

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Are you going back every day

06:29:41.520 --> 06:29:44.880
and then reporting on your Pokemon XP experience

06:29:44.880 --> 06:29:45.720
for your podcast?

06:29:45.720 --> 06:29:47.600
Is this something you're going to do a podcast on at the end,

06:29:47.600 --> 06:29:49.440
kind of round it all up for everybody?

06:29:49.440 --> 06:29:51.080
How does that work?

06:29:51.080 --> 06:29:53.080
We usually, we've done it on Sunday nights,

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like right after closing ceremonies,

06:29:54.720 --> 06:29:58.480
but it always comes, runs like later and later.

06:29:58.480 --> 06:30:01.120
So, and we want to get the show up on Monday.

06:30:01.120 --> 06:30:04.320
So we're actually going to do a podcast Saturday night.

06:30:04.320 --> 06:30:06.080
So that's what that one's ready for Monday.

06:30:06.080 --> 06:30:09.560
And that's just going to be just XP, just worlds.

06:30:09.560 --> 06:30:13.760
And then one after will be any announcements that happen.

06:30:13.760 --> 06:30:14.600
Nice.

06:30:14.600 --> 06:30:19.280
You know new Pokemon for champions or whatever they decide to announce. That's great. That's really cool

06:30:19.280 --> 06:30:23.160
So there's just so much I try to keep the show 90 minutes and it's like

06:30:23.600 --> 06:30:27.920
Asking cuz I'm thinking like yeah all this stuff to talk about how do you squeeze it into one show right?

06:30:27.920 --> 06:30:34.840
So they're gonna get a bonus show. I love that. Yeah, are you are you already thinking some things are gonna make it into the show?

06:30:34.840 --> 06:30:36.840
From that you've seen so far. Yeah

06:30:37.640 --> 06:30:42.920
Do you know what to say? Yeah, I think I would I think I would talk about just like the

06:30:42.920 --> 06:30:48.900
the Stern pinball was like shocking and the TCG pocket booth is really cool.

06:30:48.900 --> 06:30:55.560
I think this is like, I think it's just like telling people what they missed,

06:30:55.560 --> 06:30:58.480
but like I don't want them to feel bad that they missed it,

06:30:58.480 --> 06:31:01.120
but just like trying to like fill in that experience that they're like,

06:31:01.120 --> 06:31:04.320
okay, I'm so glad you did the podcast because I couldn't be there or I couldn't make it.

06:31:04.320 --> 06:31:05.120
So.

06:31:05.120 --> 06:31:07.040
Yeah. A little bit,

06:31:07.040 --> 06:31:11.440
I want to ask you about this because I think that a lot of people here are fans of Pokemon,

06:31:11.440 --> 06:31:15.280
but maybe not as many of them have Pokemon as their job,

06:31:15.280 --> 06:31:17.900
you know, or something that they do as a service

06:31:17.900 --> 06:31:19.940
or something that they do as a career.

06:31:19.940 --> 06:31:21.600
Tell us a little bit about making that

06:31:21.600 --> 06:31:25.280
into something that you do, so to speak.

06:31:25.280 --> 06:31:28.520
Oh yeah, you know, it was never supposed to be a job.

06:31:28.520 --> 06:31:29.360
Yeah.

06:31:29.360 --> 06:31:30.960
Right, when I started podcasting,

06:31:30.960 --> 06:31:34.020
there was, I feel like there's no money in podcasting,

06:31:34.020 --> 06:31:35.840
but definitely 15 years ago,

06:31:35.840 --> 06:31:37.080
there was no money in podcasting.

06:31:37.080 --> 06:31:38.240
So I just put out the podcast.

06:31:38.240 --> 06:31:40.320
I had no clue what my listeners were.

06:31:40.320 --> 06:31:47.180
I just put it out in the ether and then sometimes people would email me saying like love the show. I'm like, Oh, I'll keep I'll keep doing it

06:31:47.180 --> 06:31:48.980
then yeah, that's it

06:31:48.980 --> 06:31:55.180
And then I ended up losing my job before COVID even happened and I was already streaming on Twitch

06:31:55.180 --> 06:31:58.440
I was doing the podcast I had like a small patreon and I was like, hey

06:31:58.440 --> 06:32:04.680
I'm gonna you know, give this a shot and all my audience supported me cool and so now I get to do this full time

06:32:04.680 --> 06:32:08.800
That's amazing and it's it's it's still unreal every day

06:32:08.800 --> 06:32:13.360
Like I don't take it for granted like I understand that I'm very fortunate and very lucky to do this

06:32:13.600 --> 06:32:18.360
Yeah, there's something to be said about being able to do what you love as your job

06:32:18.360 --> 06:32:23.760
Yeah, genuinely show up today. Have a great time and that's your work. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing

06:32:24.000 --> 06:32:28.360
Does it ever make it difficult to you know, does it ever feel like a job or?

06:32:29.400 --> 06:32:31.360
No, I don't think it does that's right

06:32:31.360 --> 06:32:37.280
I think the learning something new like learning how to like edit in YouTube or like learning maybe like oh

06:32:37.280 --> 06:32:40.760
You know tiktok's like the newest social media even though it's not that new anymore

06:32:40.760 --> 06:32:47.720
But like learning a new platform is always like a struggle, but like the core sense of like Pokemon and new stuff coming out

06:32:47.720 --> 06:32:53.720
It's just like that just feels second nature. What is your mission? What are you trying to bring people through the podcast?

06:32:55.400 --> 06:32:58.880
For for the the podcast it is just news

06:32:58.880 --> 06:33:01.480
I think some people just don't want to read a huge article

06:33:01.480 --> 06:33:06.720
They just want it summarized when they're driving to work washing the dishes. They're just like, oh, I didn't even know that happened

06:33:06.720 --> 06:33:13.360
missed it. And then for the Twitch streams I think it's just being able to like play with

06:33:14.240 --> 06:33:18.800
like-minded people and like building that community and having people feel safe and having people be

06:33:20.000 --> 06:33:26.000
I'm surrounded by people that get me and I think building that on Twitch and just live streaming

06:33:26.000 --> 06:33:32.560
is the goal there. So even with something like seven star raids like having people to raid with

06:33:32.560 --> 06:33:34.560
instead of like trying to do it by yourself.

06:33:34.560 --> 06:33:41.560
Yeah, I mean that's what Pokemon XP feels like to me is just all of us getting to do this together instead of by ourselves and that feels great.

06:33:41.560 --> 06:33:47.560
We're unfortunately out of time. I feel like we could chat even more but before we go, can you tell people where they can find the podcast,

06:33:47.560 --> 06:33:49.560
where they can find you, how they can follow along?

06:33:49.560 --> 06:33:56.560
Sure, sure. You can find the podcast. It's called It's Super Effective on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube.

06:33:56.560 --> 06:33:57.920
And the same thing.

06:33:57.920 --> 06:34:01.040
So my handle is just short for Pokemon podcast.

06:34:01.040 --> 06:34:02.720
So if you just Google Pokemon podcast,

06:34:02.720 --> 06:34:04.360
it should be the first one.

06:34:04.360 --> 06:34:04.840
Awesome.

06:34:04.840 --> 06:34:06.440
Thank you so much for spending time with us.

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Have a great time at the rest of Pokemon XP.

06:34:09.240 --> 06:34:10.760
And you at home, don't go anywhere.

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We'll be back with more Pokemon XP right after this.

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Welcome back to Pokemon XP here in Windy San Francisco! We're here on Ray

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Quasarode. I'm Anna, this is Glitter, and we've had such a fun full day of

06:36:35.880 --> 06:36:40.440
interviews and panels and everything so far. Yeah, I've been having the time of my

06:36:40.440 --> 06:36:43.360
life and we're only in day one. We have to do this for two more days after this.

06:36:43.360 --> 06:36:47.680
It feels so full. It feels like every minute is full of fun Pokemon stuff.

06:36:47.680 --> 06:36:51.840
Yeah, and I feel so like pleasantly overwhelmed by that. Like I don't want

06:36:51.840 --> 06:36:55.880
it to stop. Keep bringing in people to chat about Pokemon, like more.

06:36:55.880 --> 06:37:00.520
Pleasantly overwhelmed is exactly the right thing people keeping like how do you feel and I keep going like ah

06:37:01.520 --> 06:37:05.760
Like it's good, but I don't know how to describe that the level of stimulation

06:37:06.640 --> 06:37:10.960
It's so so fun and honestly, I think a lot of you are feeling the same way

06:37:10.960 --> 06:37:15.320
We have some tweets and some posts to look at so let's see what you're telling us on socials

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We've asked for pictures of pokopia and pictures of what was going on. All right wig liar says obsessed with these Pokemon ads

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This is the trucks that are driving around here in San Francisco.

06:37:26.080 --> 06:37:27.080
I haven't even seen this.

06:37:27.080 --> 06:37:28.080
This is so cute.

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Look here, Froslas!

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We saw Garbodor one the other day, too, for garbage take-up.

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There you go!

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That's it!

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That's the one, Garbodor Garbage Collection.

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And these are just like ads that are kind of around just for fun.

06:37:41.080 --> 06:37:43.080
I think it's so cool that they're decorating the city like this.

06:37:43.080 --> 06:37:45.080
But this is the Polish artist.

06:37:45.080 --> 06:37:48.080
These Pokemon City ads on the Muni bus shelters are just too much.

06:37:48.080 --> 06:37:51.080
The Garbodor one is my favorite item.

06:37:51.080 --> 06:37:58.080
And this is what we were talking about. It goes back to the level of immersion that you're going to get in a Pokémon event.

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I mean, it is not just Rayquaza Road. They truly are taking over the city.

06:38:03.080 --> 06:38:09.080
It's surprise and delight everywhere. It really is decorating San Francisco for us.

06:38:09.080 --> 06:38:17.080
Oh, Philly Pizu, what's up? Pokémon XP Pikachu Astronaut Pika is literally my favorite Pikachu ever.

06:38:17.080 --> 06:38:19.080
You know, it might be one of mine too.

06:38:19.080 --> 06:38:24.340
I was just gonna say the same thing. She's just so cute. She's really cute literal perfection

06:38:24.340 --> 06:38:29.620
I mean the the the stars on the top of the suit. It's honestly

06:38:30.340 --> 06:38:37.960
We also don't get specifically the lady Pikachu tail super often. Yeah, and that's a huge detail for me

06:38:37.960 --> 06:38:43.300
I really like that a lot, which is why I was so jealous shout out to Necra for getting a shiny in Pokemon

06:38:43.300 --> 06:38:44.660
Go already!

06:38:44.660 --> 06:38:45.380
Oh, so jealous.

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All right, Pedroazl says ditto panel at Pokemon XP.

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Look at all the dittos in the chairs.

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That's the plushies that they were holding.

06:38:55.980 --> 06:38:57.740
Oh, they look so good.

06:38:57.740 --> 06:38:59.300
Honestly, it counts that they belong there.

06:38:59.300 --> 06:39:01.700
Wasn't the one that doesn't have a plushie on it?

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That was Professor Tango.

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It was.

06:39:03.580 --> 06:39:04.380
It was.

06:39:04.380 --> 06:39:05.020
Yeah.

06:39:05.020 --> 06:39:07.860
And honestly, the stage is gorgeous too.

06:39:07.860 --> 06:39:09.940
It had us going like, we need some more plushies

06:39:09.940 --> 06:39:11.340
for our stage.

06:39:11.340 --> 06:39:14.100
All right, Andres L1997 says,

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got all the Pokemon XP Pokemon home medals.

06:39:17.220 --> 06:39:18.060
Wow.

06:39:18.060 --> 06:39:19.660
Wait, what?

06:39:19.660 --> 06:39:21.100
Look at all of them.

06:39:21.100 --> 06:39:22.420
I haven't even started on those.

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This has more stuff to collect.

06:39:23.940 --> 06:39:24.780
I know.

06:39:24.780 --> 06:39:26.180
And you need to see the pins?

06:39:26.180 --> 06:39:27.100
No.

06:39:27.100 --> 06:39:27.940
Okay, yeah.

06:39:27.940 --> 06:39:28.780
I'm behind.

06:39:28.780 --> 06:39:29.620
Whenever we get a break,

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we need to just immediately go collecting.

06:39:31.540 --> 06:39:32.380
I agree.

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No enjoyment only collected.

06:39:33.220 --> 06:39:34.060
I agree.

06:39:34.060 --> 06:39:34.900
I agree.

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Oh, what?

06:39:35.740 --> 06:39:36.580
That's us!

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That is us!

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Devanon says, who let Team Rocket

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on the Pokemon XP stage?

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Stop Seltzer please from stealing that slow poke.

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I hope you're having fun here as well my friend.

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Joe Brown hosting on the XP stage if I'm not mistaken.

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Yes.

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Love that.

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Aw, thanks Joe.

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I hope we get a chance to actually shake your hand but hello from over here on the

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Pokemon XP stage at Rickraiser Road.

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Aw, look how cute we look.

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Just some ladies at the desk who just look so happy.

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We are so happy.

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talking about Pokemon. This is the best, this is the best.

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We've had so many conversations that I feel like I would just have over dinner.

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Yeah.

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You know, just hanging out.

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I was thinking about the who's your favorite Pokemon question and how it's kind of the

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go-to, but we've talked to so many people about what you would recommend for your

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first convention. You know, this is the first Pokemon XP. There's a lot of newcomers

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to the convention scene, and they've been saying, you know, just chat with people.

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have a lot in common and I think that the who's your favorite Pokemon question is

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such an actual good place to start with getting to know someone because it's like

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what do you like do you like silly things do you like cute things do you have a

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story about something you can share with me yeah like it almost sounds like it's

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like a like too easy of a question but it's genuinely not because it's the

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icebreaker that you need right because the answer then informs 50 follow-up

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questions exactly and especially with what we've gotten so far we've gotten a

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different answer from so many different people that it's fun to ask why. Like how did that

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end up being one of your favorites? Like it's great.

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Yeah. I want to ask you how you're feeling about your experience here at Pokemon XP.

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I mean, it's everyone's first XP, but you know, you've come from a long career of

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eSports events, gaming. So this is a world you're very familiar with, but maybe the

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first time that you've gotten to sit in this seat for Pokemon. So how is it feeling?

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Yeah, I, when I tell you, I screamed like I had won the lottery.

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When, alone, by myself, when I found out that I got to work with you guys on this, I was

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like a kid in a candy store and then I freaked out a little bit.

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I was like, oh my god, am I going to be good enough?

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Am I going to be able to survive this?

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And I was like, no, we get to go talk about something that everyone all genuinely loves

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to talk about.

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This is going to be nothing but fun and trying to just convey what an amazing time we're having

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with an amazing community of people and just all enjoying that together.

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It could not be any more exactly like the best case scenario that I envisioned in my

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head.

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So I am just, I told you when we were rehearsing I was like, I'm just so happy to be here.

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That's my mantra all weekend.

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I am happy to be here.

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And it has been going absolutely stellarly, if that's even a word.

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Stellerly sounds good to me.

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And speaking of Stellar, we get to hear the voice of someone very, very exciting in our

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next panel.

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We have a conversation with Mr. Ishihara next.

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And I have actually no idea what the context of that conversation will be, but whatever

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he has to say, I am very excited to listen.

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So let's go to that panel right now.

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Oh

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Welcome back, Pokemon XP crowd!

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How are we feeling?

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Alright, hope you enjoyed that little break.

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Hope you enjoyed the Pikachu Dance Party as well, but for now, we have a very special

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panel.

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We have Producing Pokemon, a conversation with Mr. Ishihara.

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So we need to get loud.

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We need to get excited as we introduce our moderator, Lucy Jane.

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Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us here today for the panel, Producing

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Pokemon a conversation with Mr. Ishihara. As Joe said, I'm Lucy James and I will

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be your moderator today. Now, today we are here for a very special opportunity and

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that is to have an in-depth conversation with the president and CEO of the

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Pokemon Company, Mr. Ishihara.

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Now, we're going to talk about how Pokemon became such an enormous global phenomenon,

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how it has evolved over time and its influence on pop culture and technology.

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Not only that, we have a rare Q&A with Mr. Ishihara, where he will be answering questions

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submitted directly from you, the community.

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Incredible, very rare opportunity, so excited.

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And now, a little bit of housekeeping before we get going.

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Promise this won't take very long.

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This panel will be conducted in a bilingual format.

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I will be asking questions in English.

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Then our interpreter, David,

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will repeat them in Japanese.

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Then he will translate Mr. Ishihara's responses

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into English.

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Okay, enough from me.

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Please join me in welcoming to the stage Mr. Ishihara.

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Applause

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Applause

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Applause

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Applause

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Applause

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Thank you so much for joining us. We are so excited to be speaking with you today.

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Now let's start by going right back to the beginning and the early development days of Pokemon.

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Now we understand that the development of Pokemon Red and Green took about six years.

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What were the biggest challenges during development and how did you overcome them?

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I heard that the development of Pocket Monster Red and Green has been going on for about 6 years.

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What do you think?

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How did you overcome the biggest challenge and problems?

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It's a story that's been going on for more than 30 years.

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I'm not sure if it's just an interesting story for everyone.

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Yeah, I mean, it's 30 years ago, so he's very old talked,

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but I'm not sure if it's gonna be super interesting to everyone,

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but I hope you'll listen.

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I think a lot of people feel he may not have been born yet, but...

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The question is how many memory sizes we can use to make a game.

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We had a Nintendo version of it.

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Especially the memory size,

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and the problem was that the game had a static ram that could activate the collected Pokémon.

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The goal was to clear the game,

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but if we could only activate 30 Pokémon,

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The red and green Pokemon have 150 different colors, so they don't all have the same color.

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I was wondering if that would be enough.

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Nintendo's hands.

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And the area that really caused the biggest concern

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was the size of the SRAM or the static RAM

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that was used to store the Pokemon that players would catch.

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If the goal of the game had merely

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been just to complete the game, 30 or so Pokemon

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probably would have been sufficient to catch.

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But with Pokemon Red and Green, we

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had 150 Pokemon, over 150 Pokemon in the game.

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And with such a limitation, we wouldn't

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be able to have that catch them all gameplay experience.

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So we had to ask ourselves, are we

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Okay, with this, can we keep this limitation?

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In the end, though, it was thanks to Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto

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of Nintendo who actually approved the use of SRAM size

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That was eight times larger than what we were originally using, so that decision really

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did enable the Gotta Catch them All gameplay experience that we all know.

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I mean, only 30 Pokemon, that would have been a very different game, were there any other

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challenges?

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Yes, I think it was a completely different game experience with only 30 players.

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Is there anything else that you remember?

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Yes, there is one more thing that I can't really remember.

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I can tell you one thing that maybe I know it's kind of an episode that maybe I don't really want to remember so much.

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I don't know what to do with the people who play the game.

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I have to make a game with everything I can.

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So I have to deal with any kind of problem.

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But during the debug phase that we were told that the implementation we came up with couldn't

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be approved.

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It wasn't kind of an acceptable implementation and that we needed to have designed it really

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with the assumption that players are going to try really anything and everything.

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So whatever system we come up with, we needed to be able to handle even the most unexpected

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behavior.

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What happens is that if you take out the cable while the communication is on the way,

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for example, if you take out the cable while the light is on, you can get two types of results.

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One is the light from both games and the light from both games is gone.

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So to go into the specifics, obviously, what's going to happen if someone unplugged the Link Cable

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in the middle of a trade.

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So say two players are trading a Pikachu and an Eevee

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with each other.

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And if the cable gets disconnected

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before the trade is complete, there's really

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only two possible outcomes.

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Either both of the Pokemon disappear from both games

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and are just gone from existence.

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Or both of the Pokemon, they remain in both games

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and the trade completes.

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So you're kind of duplicating Pokemon.

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And it really was just like this for us, at least

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at the time, was an unsolvable problem

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that we just couldn't figure out.

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But we needed to to get the feature approved.

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And at one point, we just were

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feeling that maybe we couldn't do this and we were kind of close to giving up on trading altogether.

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unplugged, we spared on the side of duplicating the Pokemon and allowed that to happen under rare

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circumstances, or at least we thought rare circumstances. We did everything we could to

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minimize that, kind of introduce randomness into the timing of the communication, but

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of course after launch, millions of players are playing the game and discovering ways to

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reliably trigger this duplication. So that kind of was an issue for us, but at the same time,

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we don't regret implementing it all. Because I think implementing trading in the video games

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really allowed us to connect so naturally into the Pokemon Trading Card game which was launched later.

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Well, speaking of Pokemon began as a video game, but obviously the Trading Card game and the anime

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were also developed. How did these contribute to Pokemon's growth?

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Of course, all of this started with the opening of a Pokemon game.

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Of course, the original Pokemon games developed by Game Freak, those are the core of the Pokemon brand.

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So, card games are not just about video games, they are about the same time that we were developing them.

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So, the idea of card games comes from the game, and there are many other things.

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For me, it is like a brother.

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at the same time and I would say they kind of grew up more like siblings in a

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way that's how I like to think of it they as we develop them alongside each

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other as they really influenced each other and a lot of things that we were

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working on in the trading card game like types and weaknesses, resistances,

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like Pokemon rarity, how all that worked with influence how that worked

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in the video game and sort of vice versa so and I'd say you know

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together the Pokemon battles and both the digital and physical formats

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really kind of evolved into this highly strategic gameplay together.

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And with this being the 30th anniversary, I think we've been seeing a lot of the original

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Game Boy gameplay footage.

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And as you see, back in the Game Boy, it was limited to just kind of more rougher black

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in white pixel graphics that couldn't fully portray what we, you know, our minds looked...

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We had in our minds for what Pokemon looked like and what their environments looked like,

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the environments in which they lived.

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But the trading card game really played a strong role in bringing that rich world of Pokemon

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even further to life through these beautiful illustrations.

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And, you know, that whole core of, you know, collecting Pokemon, trading Pokemon, battling

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Pokemon, those became the shared foundation of both experiences.

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Well, thank you for telling us about that, but I want to know how did the anime come to be?

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Thank you very much.

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How did the anime come to be?

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As I said before, the game and the card game have a different story, and the hardware is a bit higher, but it's difficult.

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I was playing as a junior high school student and a junior high school student.

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So yeah, actually, we were just talking about Pokemon.

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We were really just talking about how the video games and the trading card game,

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you know, there's the story elements, you go through the story and complete the game,

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or you know, go into like the battles and whatnot, but I would say that, you know,

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those were the main elements of those games, of course the characters are there, but

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they really required players to, I don't know, have learned kind of battle strategy,

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you know, be able to read, and that made them a bit more, I'd say, demanding for kind

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of an age audience. And we had initially anticipated that Pokemon, the video games,

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trading card game they'd be more appealing to like older elementary school students or middle school

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students at the beginning but for younger you know like preschool preschoolers we're just learning

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how to read we felt that the you know it'd be a little bit difficult for them at the time it was

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actually then that Shogakkan approached us with the kind of a proposal an idea to create an

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animated series based off of the games we were working on and I think it was really that

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animated series that helped lower the age of entry into the world of Pokemon.

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The young Satoshi from the main character comes out on a adventure with Pikachu,

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and grows up as a Pokemon trainer and a Pokemon master.

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The TV anime is the best content for Pokemon.

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I started watching anime and playing games and playing Pokemon cards.

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That's how I started learning about the process.

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to be this kind of gateway to the world of Pokemon,

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introduced what it was all about.

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And I think thanks to the animated series,

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this kind of really easy natural progression

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through Pokemon emerged where children would first watch

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the animated series, they'd go on to play the video games

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and then maybe collect Pokemon cards.

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I mean, the impact across the pop culture landscape

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was significant.

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Did you ever imagine that Pokemon would become

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such an enormous global success?

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And what do you remember most about that journey?

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I don't think it's possible to measure the impact of the pop culture of Pokemon.

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Did you expect that the world's success would be so high?

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If you have any plans for the future, please let us know.

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To be honest, I didn't expect that the world would be so vast.

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Yeah, I would say that at the time we had no imagination or inclination that it would be such a big hit around the world.

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I really wanted to do it.

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I think there was a small business in Yamashi,

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but I wanted to do it later.

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At that time, Iwata Satoru Iwata,

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he was the president of Nintendo later,

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so I asked him if he wanted to do it.

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Once Pokemon Red and Green were launched, and as a development team, as a producer, they had become successful, they were selling very well, we moved on immediately to the sequel, so we were working on, completely focused on developing Pokemon Gold and Silver, and to be quite honest, we had no resources or bandwidth to take on the localization work for international expansion.

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But the president of Nintendo, Mr Hiroshi Yamauchi, he had a very strong desire to see Pokemon

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Reduce released internationally.

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And I'm sure he had his reasons at the time to believe that it would be such a big hit

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and it turned out to be right.

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But from our side as the developers, we kind of felt like our priorities should really

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be on the next one.

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We need to strike the iron why it's hot.

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But it was actually then that Mr Satoru Iwata of at the time, HAL Laboratory,

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He would later go on to become the Nintendo president.

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He came and asked us,

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hey, would you like me to take on the localization project?

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And he actually then kind of worked on it more,

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almost it was like a hobby,

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kind of a weekend hobby project.

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That's why the Pokemon was able to perform overseas.

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And the Nintendo in Japan analyzed the floating patterns,

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and instead of Japanese standards, they first developed the anime,

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then released the game software, and then released the card game.

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And at that time, I became a very active person.

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I thought it was a wonderful marketing analysis.

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and spreads in Japan, and they concluded that the best release order would be to

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start with the animated series, then release the video games and then come

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out with the trading card game, and their strategy worked, you know, exactly as I

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think they anticipated and it really led to Pokemon being a tremendous success,

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so I think that they, yeah, their analysis was spot-on.

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And I think, given that we are talking here today, in San Francisco at Pokemon XP,

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We're all very glad that the effort for localization happened.

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What lessons from your early career as a video game producer have guided you throughout your career?

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What are the things that make you feel like you're in a good mood?

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This is what I mentioned earlier,

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I was talking to the president of Nintendo,

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The game is either interesting or boring,

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that's all there is to it.

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If you buy a game, it's either interesting or boring,

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it's a judgment based.

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So, you can't buy it because it's cheap.

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You can't buy it because it's cheap.

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The game is always interesting and fun to play, but I can't live on it.

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I guess this is something I've always wanted to do.

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and only games that are just kind of overwhelmingly truly fun

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and compelling are the ones that survive.

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And that lesson has been something that's always

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stuck with me.

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But as a producer, you know, you're working on the game, you're in the kind of weeds with the developers, and long development cycles can come up and create pressure to make the game more powerful.

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But of course, as a producer, you know, you're working on the game, you're in the kind of weeds with the developers and long development cycles can come up and create pressure to release a game.

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Maybe before it's quite ready. You know, there's contractual deadlines and development costs that you have to consider, of course, platform considerations and, you know, pressure from other competitors.

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So there's many factors that come into play.

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At that time, the team that was developed was working very hard to finish it.

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There are still some things that I want to fix, but it's not good to erase them.

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There are more and more people who come back to London.

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It's about time to do it.

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We have to protect the contract, manage the schedule, manage the budget,

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It's in those difficult development cycles that it starts as a producer, it becomes easy to tell.

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It's in those difficult, I'd say, development cycles that it starts as a producer, it becomes kind of easy to tell yourself that it may be time to release.

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worked incredibly hard and you know it may not be a perfect game there's still

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issues we want to fix but certainly not bad and you know there's even some of the

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game testers who say they're having a lot of fun with it so you can start to

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tell yourself that maybe it's good enough to ship but you know of course as

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a producer you need to honor contracts you know manage schedules as you've

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committed to them and stay with in budget and of course you know deliver

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results you're not you know creating a burden on the marketing and

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different support teams otherwise you can't really call yourself a

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professional producer. But it's really, you know, whenever you launch something

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after kind of talking to you, talking yourself into accepting kind of

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compromises like that, that the product you launch will inevitably fail. So that's

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really, I'd say, the most important lesson that I've learned over the

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years. Yeah, I think we can all agree it's a very important lesson to learn. Now,

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we've talked a little bit about the early days and the journey to now. Let's

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Let's dive into what it means to oversee such a beloved brand.

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Your corporate philosophy is enriching both the virtual and real worlds through Pokemon.

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Do you have any personal memories or stories where you've seen this in action?

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This is my 30 years of experience.

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When I played the red-green monster,

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I was playing the character of a human being in a game called Steam.

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I was also playing the Pokemon effect.

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I also got the nickname Kamonegi from Osho,

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and I still remember it very well.

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今現実世界にいる友達とPokemon交換すると Game中の人物と現実の人物が同じ役割を持っていることがよかった。

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この仮想世界と現実世界を一体したりしたような不思議な体験が生まれたんですね。

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この体験が出発点となって、それが社税だ。

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This is another kind of core memory of mine from like 30 years ago, but it's something that left a really lasting impression on me

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And it's when I was playing the original Pokemon red and green games and vermilion city

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You encounter an NPC or a non-player character that you can trade with and they I remember receiving a far-fetched

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nickname oh show in Japanese or think ducks in English from one of the in-game NPCs and

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Later when I would go on to trade with my friend in real life an actual person

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I realized that that friend was playing the same role as the NPC in the game.

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So it was really like this kind of moving between the virtual world and the real world

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that created this very unique and memorable experience for me.

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And that experience became the starting point for everything and really is kind of the basis for the company's philosophy.

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And when did you start to see this expand to a global scale?

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What do you think about the world's hope for the future?

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In the beginning, the Pokemon era was the era of the Red and Green,

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and now it's the era of the world of the Earth,

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and it's the era of the local and cultural world.

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From Kanto, Johto, Galavia, and Haldia.

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The players are trying to find a way to get closer to the real world,

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and know the depth of the world.

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Even going back to the beginning, since the days of Pokemon Red and Green,

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Pokemon's always drawn inspiration from real-life locations.

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Of course, the Conto and JoJo regions are inspired by real-life regions,

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but all the way up to Galar and Paldea. We do this in a way

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that helps players experience a sense of familiarity

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while they're enjoying this journey deeper and more

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expensive virtual world.

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I think the concept brought the real world and the virtual world closest together.

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At least in Pokemon products.

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That arrived in 2016 with Pokemon Go.

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And I think the Pokemon world was kind of layered on top,

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directly on top of the map of our real world.

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And you could go out and encounter laparists or magic

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carp near bodies of water.

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You could find kengis con in Australia, for example.

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And I think that really gave people the feeling that the

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world of Pokemon and its habitats had sort of merged

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with our real world.

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We are living in both the real world and the virtual world.

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In other words, virtual world and the virtual world are both in the real world.

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It is not the right choice to access the virtual world in the real world.

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While we are talking about the real world and the virtual world,

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we should send a more powerful life among the communication.

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We want to become a Pokemon that connects it and uses it as a bridge.

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And thanks to advantages and technology today, or maybe due to advantages and technology today,

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we now, I think, a lot of us just in our daily lives live in both the real world and the virtual world, we could say.

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Another way to put it is that the virtual world has kind of begun to seep into the real world more and more,

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and also vice versa, the real world seeping into the virtual world and kind of merging almost.

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And I don't believe the answer is to focus on completely eliminating the virtual world living just in the real world,

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in the real world, or retreating entirely into a virtual world.

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It's really, in my opinion, we should move back and forth between both of these worlds

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and enrich our lives through doing so, and I really want Pokemon to be one of those bridges

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that connects the two worlds.

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Well, speaking of connections, that first generation of Pokemon fans, they're now

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in their 30s, 40s, they're introducing Pokemon to their children.

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How has that influenced your approach to producing Pokemon?

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In the sense of connection, the first generation of children who were playing Pokemon at the time of their childhood were now in their thirties and forties, and they were able to make their own children.

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I think there is a wide range of situations where they are introducing Pokemon to their children.

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What impact does the wide range of generations have on the current Pokemon producers?

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As you all know, the red-green era was the 151st type of Pokemon, but now it's more than 1,000 types, and it's always been a new type of Pokemon.

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Pokemon started from Nintendo games,

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card games, anime, movies, smart apps,

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and many other large-scale games.

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As a game and card game player,

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we, who have been separated from Pokemon,

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have recently started to grow into new Pokemon

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in the field of art and art.

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So, you know, during the era of red and green, we started with 151 Pokémon, and of course now we're all the way up to over a thousand Pokémon species.

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So, you know, we continue to create new Pokémon experiences all the time.

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And Pokémon, it really began as a Nintendo, you know, video game on Nintendo's platform, and has continued since then to expand into all sorts of other media,

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creating card game, obviously, animated series, different films, smartphone apps, all sorts

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of merchandise and different other kinds of entertainment and experiences.

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What I'm seeing now is even parents who maybe played when they were younger and no longer

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engaged with the core games primarily, they are kind of rediscovering Pokemon through

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things like craft exhibits or different like, maybe forms of art, for example.

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For example, my son and my mother, who is very hot in the card game,

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are walking along with the dragon and looking forward to it.

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The connection between the two generations is the same as the Pokemon.

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When I was little, my father taught me how to speak English and Shogi.

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My father and I have the most important thing in the game.

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The reason why my parents are so close to me is that playing is really important to me.

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of their walks together. So you see these kind of connections that are spanning generations

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through playing Pokemon together, forming. And even when I was a kid, I remember my father

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teaching me how to play games like Go and Shogi and teaching me the rules. And those really

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remain some of the best memories of my time with him. So I firmly believe that this idea

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of playing together is just such an important thing that can connect parents and children

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to form these kind of deeper bonds.

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Yeah, it has been really special seeing how Pokemon

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can bring families together.

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It's something I've experienced in my life

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with my nieces and my godson.

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And I've seen plenty of it at the event.

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But given that we are in San Francisco, Silicon Valley,

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let's talk technology.

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major technological shifts in handheld gaming and wireless connectivity over the years.

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There is one thing that I want to talk about in this video.

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It's a game machine that one person can use to play.

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Actually, the smartphone is in the center of the game,

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but it didn't have a smartphone in 1996.

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One person can use it to play a game.

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In the game, you can collect a Pokemon,

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and you can grow a Pokemon,

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It's a game boy, and it's a handheld gaming experience on the Game Boy, which is of course a handheld gaming console.

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And that handheld nature remains really essential, I think.

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It's just one of the franchise's kind of foundational elements.

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Today, when we think of personal portable gaming device,

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we often, I think, first come to mind maybe

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is like smartphones, which, of course,

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we didn't have those in 1996 when the game came out.

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But each player, they would have their own personal game boy,

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and they'd walk around with it, collecting

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Pokemon, catching Pokemon.

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It was almost like their own digital bug catching cage

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almost.

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And Pokemon could raise their Pokemon,

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and sometimes trade them or battle with them.

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And that core, I think, style of play

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was born thanks to the handheld nature

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of the Game Boy and continues today.

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So, the main series of Pokemon games are Red, Green, Gold, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, and Fire.

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And the Scarlet Violet.

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From the very beginning, we have been making it all the time.

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And we have sent out pocket pikachu, pocket walker, or pocket mongo plus, and other gadgets.

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I really like the way the game is designed, and I love it.

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So I think it's really fun to think about devices and gadgets like that.

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Wherever they go and we've crossed to create a lot of companion devices such as you know pocket Pikachu was at the Poco Walker

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Pokemon go plus device and personally I've always loved

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Handheld gadgets and toys just in general and I'm particularly passionate about this area

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So just such a joy for me to imagine and kind of come up with ideas and create these devices and gadgets

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Well, the concept of a mobile device with a smartphone and a mobile phone has changed quite a lot.

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Before the smartphone, from the 90s to the 2000s,

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The device was originally a device that was used to add a sufficient function.

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On the other hand, the smartphone input changed all functions to make them work on the smartphone.

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Specifically, we have all the communication, cameras, videos, and GPS.

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We have all of them connected to our smartphones.

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That's why we decided to make an app.

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Functionality that the core devices

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With which they would pair did not have so kind of augment that functionality

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But once smartphones arrived they really took all of the various functionality that people wanted and packed them all into a single device

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So you know communication features photos and video

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GPS and all sorts of other functionality really just became integrated into a single device

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So the value then really became from developing like mobile apps

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apps that would take advantage of the functionality that was in the device.

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So yeah, after smartphones arrived, we had to change our approach a little bit with the accessories.

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accessories and the companion devices became more about connecting with the smart phone

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through like BLE, Bluetooth low energy technology and the Pokemon Go Plus is a really good example

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of that. I'd say in the past these gadgets or companion accessories were kind of like

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these cool secret weapons you could pull out of your pocket and do something really

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cool with but today I think going forward maybe a challenge for us is going to be

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figuring out how we can integrate Pokemon more with some of the wearable technology

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smart watches and smart glasses or even smart rings for example.

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Well, beyond gadgets and toys, after more than 30 years producing Pokemon,

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what continues to inspire your creativity?

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What do you think about the things that are all the same?

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Well, from the very beginning, the Pokemon game that Game Freak has been making

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has been amazing, so it means that it is very fun for me

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to be able to meet new technology, new creators,

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I would say that just the core concept of the main series Pokemon games that Game Freak

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continues to create today is such a just a strong game concept and finding new ways to

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be able to expand on it and new ways to express it.

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It just continues to be enormously enjoyable for me.

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Maybe the greatest source of inspiration for me, just day to day comes from exploring these emerging technologies and meeting new creators and coming up with ideas to transform those encounters into new experiences.

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Well, we've talked about the last 30 years of Pokemon, but let's look at the next 30 years and beyond that. What do you hope Pokemon and the people who carry it forward will become?

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I don't know.

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I've been playing Pokemon for 30 years now,

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but I'd like to know what you think about the future of Pokemon.

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Even after 30 years, I've been making new games.

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We asked the fans to submit their burning questions for Mr. Ishihara and the fans delivered.

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So are you ready for a round of community questions, Mr. Ishihara?

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I would like to ask a question to Mr. Ishihara from the fans.

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I have received a lot of interesting questions.

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I would like to ask a few questions from them today.

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He's ready.

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All right.

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What Pokemon would you want as a partner and why?

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I would say this is the question I get asked the most, but it's also the most difficult question.

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It's cute, so it's a lie.

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Actually, you can't choose a single partner Pokémon.

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If you discover new Pokémon next time,

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what kind of creatures will happen if you travel together as a partner?

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With this, your imagination will gradually expand.

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If you were playing Pokemon for a long time, such as Mushy, Corridon, etc.

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If you become a card game, you become a future Pokemon or if you are a Pokemon, you become a decan.

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So it's impossible to choose a Pokemon.

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I like to say Pikachu, of course, because it's very cute, but I think I would do it.

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Just kidding on that one.

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The truth really is that I simply, I can't just choose a single Pokemon, that's my favorite.

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New Pokemon are being discovered all the time as the new games come out, and whenever

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I see a new one, my imagination starts kind of running wild, like, oh, what's it going

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to be like adventuring with this Pokemon?

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And, you know, what if our travels together, depending on what game we're playing, what

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is it going to be like?

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I would say that over the years though, some of the Pokemon I've spent the most time with would be like

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Executor, Corridon recently also

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When it comes to the trading guard game, it might be like Meeridon actually, one of my favorite Pokemon

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And recently I'd say that Pokemon, Pokopia, Tinkaton

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Definitely one of my favorite Pokemon in that game. So choosing just one Pokemon

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I'm sorry to say is impossible for me. Very fair. It's very difficult for all of us.

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Next question, what is the best part about being CEO of the Pocobac Company?

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Being able to play the games just a little bit sooner than everyone else.

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I think this question could come from most people in the room.

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How can I work for the Pokemon company?

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So the Pokemon Company, we have many offices in different regions, whether you're interested

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in working in Japan or in the US here, or maybe even China, first find out where you'd

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like to work.

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Obviously, the different companies have different hiring requirements, different roles depending

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on the region.

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We'd love for you to join our team of course if you're interested and if you're really knowledgeable about Pokemon

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You've already kind of cleared that first hurdle, so please go check the job stages and recruiting information

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We'd love to have you join us

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Incredible well thank you for those answers and thank you to everyone who submitted questions

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Thank you

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Well, Mr. Ishihara, thank you so much for your time and sharing your memories and your insights.

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Thank you all so much to everyone here in the audience and all of you at home who couldn't be at Pokemon XP and the World Championships.

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We really appreciate you tuning in. Thank you so much to everyone for joining us here today.

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Please join me now in giving a big round of applause to Mr. Ishihara.

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Thank you and enjoy the rest of your weekends!

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me

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me

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me

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me

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me

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me

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I

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I

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I

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Oh

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Hello, and welcome back to Pokemon XP here from San Francisco.

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We are on Rayquaza Road.

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I am Anna.

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This is Josh and Glitter, who you've met before, and we also have a guest with us here

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on the desk.

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Would you introduce yourself to the people at home?

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I would love to.

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My name is Glaxon13. You could call me Glax. You're not going to talk to me through the TV screen,

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but I usually stream on Twitch. I am a huge Pokemon fan and content creator,

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and shout out to all my fellow Shiny Hunters out there. I see you and I represent you here today.

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I love to hear that. I love to hear that. Now, just a couple of things we want to address,

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because we want to dive in and ask you a bunch of questions, but we did get some lovely

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gifts from the folks at Funko. We got Funko'd, as you can see. You're sitting behind Rachel's

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I like the blonde, maybe I should pull it off sometime.

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Some exclusives feeling really excited about that.

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And then also we just heard from Mr. Ishihara,

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which is such an honor and a gift, such a pleasure.

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Glitter, what did you think of that?

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I think for me just the biggest takeaway was

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how much gratitude we were seeing out of him towards the community.

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He was so emphatic in telling everybody at home

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how appreciative that the entire Pokemon Company is

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with everyone sticking with them for 30 years and the thing that I was very

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excited about was the fact that he was emphasizing the fact that they do not

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want to become complacent they want to push for the 50th for the 100th anniversary

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can you imagine we're here for it yeah it's really great to see that type of

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legacy and it's been built upon a huge amount of investment from a variety of

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different people but when you have strong leadership that really understand

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and why this is so magical.

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We get to see that here in the presence of thousands

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of people and everybody watching from around the world.

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But when you have strong leadership like that,

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you can really see from the top down

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why Pokemon is such a force to be reckoned with.

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You have a lot of revolving doors

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with bigger heads of companies,

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but he's been around for so long

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and he's been loved for so long.

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It's great to see how much he loves Pokemon as well.

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I'm just gonna say for the 50th,

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I'm going to be here for the 50th, thank you so much, really appreciate it.

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Soverting from the nursing home.

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Yes, I'm 20 years I know.

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No, not you, oh my gosh.

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That's why you gotta do yoga now.

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We're speaking to you this morning.

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That's right.

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That's right, it was fun.

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I love that.

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Alright, let's talk about you, Glaxon.

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What do you do?

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So in the daytime I am a teacher of 8th grade math students in a public school, but during

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the night I am a Twitch streamer, I love hanging out with my community, and we Shiny Hunts

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together.

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We are out there getting a whole bunch of different colored pixels on all of your favorite

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Pokemon, so for those who don't know, Pikachu is like a nice little orange or yellow mouse,

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but when you find the shiny version of it, he turns like this burnt orange.

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It's like different colors. They're rare. They're fun to collect and that's what I do basically for a small living

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What do you what game are you trying to hunting in right now?

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So right now I'm focusing on getting the last legendaries I need in Dynamax adventures in Sword and Shield

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So I'm still back in 2019. Wow. How does that feel? Oh, it's great

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I mean the fact that these games are still being played for so many years later

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It's great to see you're not just stuck in Scarlet and Violator champions

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We're all the way back in the 3ds games and the early switch games. It's awesome to see it's so many secrets

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Even before we had a high speed internet to try to find out. Okay, where are these specific Pokemon?

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Yeah, unlock it and sometimes back in the day you had to share with another person to make that happen imagine talking to people

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That's all we got Pokemon go

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I need to ask them. What's your favorite Chinese? Oh my favorite Chinese the honed edge line

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phone adj to slash interesting black and red they look awesome we have not heard

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honed mentioned that's awesome is it a favorite Pokemon of yours or just

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favorite he's my second favorite clearly I have a favorite I'm probably the only

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person that will ever get the shirt made from the Pokemon server but you know

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I'm glad that they let me do it not a whole lot of hit Monly merch probably not

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No, there's not. So I had to make it myself.

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I love that. I love that.

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I love that you can.

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We have been noticing that all day

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we've been asking people what their favorite Pokémon is

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and not a single person has been a duplicate.

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Wow.

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Not yet.

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That's the beautiful thing.

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I mean, you have thousands of them now,

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but like, that's the best thing about Pokémon.

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Like, everyone is somebody's favorite.

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So, I just happen to be the hit-mom-ly one out there.

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What has been your hardest shiny to find?

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What has been the one that gave you the most epic journey?

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Okay, so I'm glad you asked because every shiny hunter has this story. Yes

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So mine happens to be pukimuku. Okay in Sword and Shield

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There is one location that you can get it and you have to fish for it

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So in Sword and Shield they introduced the overworld spawns where you can like pick and choose which ones you run into

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It's not random like in the grass, but in fishing it's random

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So it's just a small chance that you get a pukimuku. So I spent

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14,000 encounters to get my Shiny Feudal.

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14,000?

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You counted all of them?

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And yeah, I was long and arduous, and I streamed the whole process.

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You know the amount of hours it took?

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Oh God, I couldn't tell you, but it was one day a week for like a year.

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It was like fishing Fridays.

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And I fished every Friday 14,000 encounters until I finally got my little green guy.

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But how did it feel when you finally got it?

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I would love to show a clip right now of me just yelling and screaming in my basement,

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around so excited to get that thing it is still to this day the community is

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just like this doesn't live up to be committed that's gotta be one of the

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ones where you get up out of your chair right yeah we have a whole thing

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called JSC in my chat which is jump spin clap because that's what I do I jump up

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spin around and clap yes and you got to share that with your audience so they

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got to experience that with you the clip is available online it is and to

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have that type of social experience is really important you know you get

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to prove it to everybody, but I'd love to know what is your experience so far here at

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Pokemon XP.

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Oh, I'm sharing this experience with you all too.

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So I mean, living vicariously through the creators and whoever sharing is part of the

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experience if you can make it out here, but it has been so overwhelming in the best way.

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There's so much to do every turn.

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Oh, gotta go do that.

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Gotta remind myself to do that.

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Gotta get this over here.

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It's so much.

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And I haven't even been in one of the halls yet.

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So yeah, it's so busy in the best way.

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There's not a whole lot to collect that's specifically shiny here.

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And that's what I would love to change in the future.

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Interesting.

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If we ever could, we'd like to make us the niche shiny hunting community, we'd like

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to make that a little bit more, you know, present.

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What do you hunt when you're here then?

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Pokemon Go mostly is what I'm doing.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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There's a lot of shiny to be had there.

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Exactly, yeah.

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Have you gotten the shiny?

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I got both shiny costume.

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Oh, it's awesome.

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Man, I did.

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one's with backgrounds though. Just half the day I would say. Just in the line to get

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out of Pokemon Center, I did two raids back to back. Boom, both shots.

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What? Okay, maybe it's over by the Pokemon Center we have to back.

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We've done so many raids and have not gotten a Shiny yet.

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It's insane. There's the inside scoop everybody. Head over to that section.

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Go to the Pokemon Center.

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Go to the Pokemon Center.

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They're there.

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Catch us lurking over there.

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Go back on camera. No.

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No.

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Gotta get this done first.

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Gotta get the Shiny first.

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Priorities.

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Absolutely.

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Just what your Pokemon journey was like.

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We've been sharing a lot of Pokemon memories, what got us here, what made it part of your

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life that was so big that it became a stream.

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So I'm Unc.

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So I've been here since Gen 1.

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I have been playing since Red and Blue.

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That Christmas was a magical Christmas in 1998.

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And I've been hooked ever since.

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There was that awkward time where like you're a teenager and true cool for kids stuff.

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So I kind of skipped Gen 5 when it came out, but I was there for everything else.

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So it's been so cool to have adult money now to be a part of this.

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Instead of relying on my parents buying me everything Pokemon, see, my adult money brought

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me here.

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And you know, it's just so cool, like, how such a small thing, seemingly, when you're

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a kid, it just blows up and everything just becomes super popular right in front

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of you.

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early at the first of its kind for Pokemon XP, so what has the experience been like between

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the floor and Requies of Road, and how do you know the community, just all of it?

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It's cool to see what other people are interested in.

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Like I know what I like, but coming to an event like this, you get to see what is important

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to other people.

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And I think that's one of the coolest experiences.

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What has struck you that's important to other people?

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A lot of people are just collectors.

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Pokemon is about collecting, right? Completing the Pokédex. Gotta catch them all, right?

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That's what people are here to do. They're here to collect either exclusive merch, exclusive

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pins, exclusive, like, whatever, plushies, everything. So the home medals and the pin

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rally have been the most surprising things to them.

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Oh, geez, yeah, they've been huge.

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They have been insane. I got notifications all day through my app saying, oh, this

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pin's gone, this pin's gone, this pin's gone. So it's cool to see what people

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are interested in.

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I know I went for the Umbreon pin and they're like, ah, good luck to all. I

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We only have 20 minutes.

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No.

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No, sorry.

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Back in Charizard.

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Nope.

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Yeah.

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No luck.

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Not yet.

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That's right.

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Not yet.

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We still got a couple more hours today.

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We still got two more days after this.

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There's plenty of chances.

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That's the best part.

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That's the best part.

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So we're only getting started.

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Yeah.

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Now one of the elements for Pokemon XP that a lot of people have been excited

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about is TCG Pocket.

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And I know you have a lot of insight about that game.

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Tell us a little bit more about your love for the game and what you find so appealing

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So I'm going to be very brutally honest right now the state of the TCG

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It's very hard to get your hands on physical cards right now

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So pocket does an amazing job of scratching that itch of like I got to get some cards

07:54:57.940 --> 07:55:01.300
I got to open some cards. Mm-hmm. You could do it twice a day for free and

07:55:02.020 --> 07:55:06.820
It's so cool the art that they recycle and that they make brand new for the game

07:55:06.820 --> 07:55:12.740
is really exciting, like just you never know when your favorite Pokemon is going to be featured and you never know what art you're

07:55:12.740 --> 07:55:14.420
Going to pull next you never know

07:55:14.420 --> 07:55:16.500
Like if you're going to get a God pack it's good

07:55:16.500 --> 07:55:20.500
You know it's just so much fun it does it does scratch that itch and Anna and glitter

07:55:20.500 --> 07:55:24.580
We're having such great reactions earlier on seeing a lot of the artwork that was made for the card game

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And yeah, and first really see again the leadership and the protection of these different characters

07:55:30.420 --> 07:55:32.120
So when you see a

07:55:32.120 --> 07:55:38.480
Squirtle and a different element on the beach like how do we make sure that this is still the squirtle that everybody loves right and it

07:55:38.480 --> 07:55:39.760
Takes a dedicated team to do that

07:55:39.760 --> 07:55:46.100
Well, we get to really enjoy the benefits at the end of the day to see all the energy that's poured into that art and to make it another

07:55:46.840 --> 07:55:53.480
Collectible exactly and that's the cool thing about card art is that you can put these Pokemon in all these different scenarios

07:55:53.720 --> 07:55:58.440
Just off your imagination you like the the sky's the limit when it comes to card art

07:55:58.440 --> 07:55:59.940
You could do whatever you want with Pokemon.

07:55:59.940 --> 07:56:02.020
It's so cool to see them in those environments.

07:56:02.020 --> 07:56:04.980
What has the community around TCG Pocket been like here

07:56:04.980 --> 07:56:05.700
at Pokemon XP?

07:56:05.700 --> 07:56:07.900
Have you met other people who like to talk about it?

07:56:07.900 --> 07:56:08.820
Oh, yeah.

07:56:08.820 --> 07:56:13.260
I mean, I actually, as part of the standing in line,

07:56:13.260 --> 07:56:15.980
someone was opening a 10 pack in front of me.

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And I was like, I'm going to watch it.

07:56:18.020 --> 07:56:18.520
Yeah.

07:56:18.520 --> 07:56:19.740
I'm just going to give it a go.

07:56:19.740 --> 07:56:20.420
Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, they got a rainbow border.

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And I think they actually got the immersive rocket.

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So I was so excited.

07:56:27.020 --> 07:56:30.060
Okay, so does that mean you've been opening the new Rocket packs?

07:56:30.060 --> 07:56:32.220
Oh, yes, of course.

07:56:32.220 --> 07:56:33.380
I love the overhaul.

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I did not expect to see that.

07:56:35.020 --> 07:56:39.180
You open the app and suddenly it really feels like Team Rocket took over the entire app.

07:56:39.180 --> 07:56:40.780
I love that so much.

07:56:40.780 --> 07:56:45.660
So I'm looking forward to other collaborations like that, just like really surprising us,

07:56:45.660 --> 07:56:47.140
because they have the power to do that.

07:56:47.140 --> 07:56:50.100
I love the, can I watch you open the pack thing?

07:56:50.100 --> 07:56:51.100
Best.

07:56:51.100 --> 07:56:52.420
What I'm doing, like, that's what I love to do.

07:56:52.420 --> 07:56:54.700
I love to see other people get stuff that they want to get.

07:56:54.700 --> 07:56:56.540
That's what the Shiny Antic Community is about.

07:56:56.540 --> 07:56:59.020
You know, it's like, what shiny have you gotten?

07:56:59.020 --> 07:56:59.860
What are you hunting?

07:56:59.860 --> 07:57:01.280
How many counters are you at?

07:57:01.280 --> 07:57:03.820
It's like we're always interested in what everybody else is doing.

07:57:03.820 --> 07:57:05.300
It kind of reminds me of the like,

07:57:05.300 --> 07:57:08.140
do you want to come over and watch me play my video game?

07:57:08.140 --> 07:57:11.140
You know, because it's like now we're carrying our game

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along with us.

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And honestly, if ever anyone's like,

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do you want to watch me open this pack?

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Or like you said, can I?

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It's so normal and I love it so much.

07:57:20.300 --> 07:57:21.140
It's been normalized.

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Yeah, I love that because everything we do

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is just broadcast everywhere on the time.

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So might as well get some conversation going

07:57:27.820 --> 07:57:30.740
and celebrate those wins for everybody.

07:57:30.740 --> 07:57:31.660
That's the best part.

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Before you know it, you've got new friends.

07:57:33.180 --> 07:57:34.660
You've met and you're open-ended together now.

07:57:34.660 --> 07:57:36.500
We're going to be here for a couple hours,

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so might as well like each other.

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Yeah.

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And for some people that maybe are a little bit more

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on the competitive side, they want

07:57:42.340 --> 07:57:44.100
to enjoy that battle system.

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So for somebody that maybe hasn't really

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died into a TCG pocket, can you describe what

07:57:48.500 --> 07:57:49.900
the battle system is like for us?

07:57:49.900 --> 07:57:52.940
So in the basic TCG, like the physical game,

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You have a 60-card deck, and it's a lot to keep track of,

07:57:56.620 --> 07:57:58.140
and it's a lot to build with.

07:57:58.140 --> 07:58:00.340
But in TCG Pocket, it's way more simplified.

07:58:00.340 --> 07:58:02.340
So it's only 20 cards in the deck,

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and they're easier to collect

07:58:04.460 --> 07:58:06.380
as you get free packs every day

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instead of having to hope that something

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drops on Pokemon Center one day.

07:58:10.140 --> 07:58:12.020
You get through the queue, and it's really cool

07:58:12.020 --> 07:58:14.980
to see just people building so many different decks

07:58:14.980 --> 07:58:16.380
with only 20 cards.

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Like there's so much variety

07:58:17.540 --> 07:58:19.100
when you wouldn't really expect it.

07:58:19.100 --> 07:58:21.780
But yeah, I think it's simplified.

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The rules are very similar, it's just watered down I'd like to say, but in a good way.

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It's simplified.

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Very approachable.

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Very.

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And is there a specific type of immersive card that has eluded you at the moment that you're

07:58:33.580 --> 07:58:34.580
trying to get?

07:58:34.580 --> 07:58:40.780
Oh, I have been hunting the Buzz Swole one for a very long time, but I'm glad I pulled

07:58:40.780 --> 07:58:46.700
the two muses that were in the last one that had a regular and the shiny one, you

07:58:46.700 --> 07:58:47.980
know, gotta have it.

07:58:47.980 --> 07:58:49.420
So, yeah, I like that.

07:58:49.420 --> 07:58:50.420
That was a surprise.

07:58:50.420 --> 07:58:54.260
back to C2, but one was just shinies and one was regular.

07:58:54.260 --> 07:58:55.620
So that's amazing.

07:58:55.620 --> 07:58:58.580
I wanted to ask before we got off shinies,

07:58:58.580 --> 07:59:01.140
what ended up attracting you to shiny hunting?

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Because if people aren't familiar,

07:59:02.940 --> 07:59:06.620
shiny hunting is a very specifically demanding hobby

07:59:06.620 --> 07:59:09.260
where you have to do the same thing over and over.

07:59:09.260 --> 07:59:10.980
A lot of the time you have to spend a lot of time

07:59:10.980 --> 07:59:11.820
waiting and looking.

07:59:11.820 --> 07:59:13.780
It's kind of like wildlife photography almost

07:59:13.780 --> 07:59:15.900
where you just have to spend most of your time waiting.

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What is it that brought you to that

07:59:18.020 --> 07:59:19.300
and makes it so satisfying to you?

07:59:19.300 --> 07:59:25.460
So one of the coolest things and the way I describe my streams and a lot of other shiny hunting streams is that it's just chatting

07:59:25.460 --> 07:59:30.420
There's a category on Twitch. That's just chatting. You're just talking just just yapping away with your community

07:59:30.420 --> 07:59:32.420
And then sometimes something happens

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That's that's what shiny hunting is on stream. So it's just about building community

07:59:37.580 --> 07:59:40.460
and a more serious answer is I'm a teacher and

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You know students will find out whatever they want to find out so they found my stream

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So to save my neck, I decided, you know what, maybe I shouldn't be playing JRPGs with weapons and swords and stuff, so

07:59:52.860 --> 07:59:57.860
I'm gonna move to Pokemon, and I did that and I fell in love with it, and it's what I've been doing ever since.

07:59:57.860 --> 07:59:58.860
Oh, that's really cool.

07:59:58.860 --> 08:00:03.860
So yeah, yeah, I had to protect myself a little bit, and I was, the move to Pokemon was the best choice I ever made.

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As a math teacher, the statistics of Chinese are really good. I feel like that's educational.

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I'm a numbers guy. I'm a numbers guy, I think luck is a statistic.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah, I love every aspect of it. It's just so

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Satisfying when you get what you want and you have other people celebrating with you when it happens

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You know, it's just such a cool thing. It's just like, you know

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It's like opening card packs on a video or stream

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You know, you're waiting for them to get the big hit and like get the reaction like that's that's what's all about

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You know 30 years ago when we saw our teachers at the grocery store. We're like what?

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How you exist

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Now that they can tune into your stream and enjoy Pokemon collectively, have you ever assigned homework on the streams?

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I was just thinking this year our curriculum changed and we have probability back.

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No.

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So we might have to make some tweaks.

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Is this how you tie it in?

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I might.

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We're gonna try to get it. It's like not until the end of the year. So I got some time.

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If you have 14,000 encounters.

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Literally, like, yes. How many average encounters do you get a day? How many? Like, yeah.

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You can get so many you can do with it.

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do with it. That's so cool. If you were giving advice to one of the kids you teach

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or even an adult who's coming to an event for the first time what would you

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tell them about how to fully enjoy an event like Pokemon XP or engage with it

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or what would you tell them for their first time? Alright I'm gonna give you a

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real answer like just hard truth you have to go into something like this

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realizing you're not gonna get to everything. There's just so much to

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do so using the app is probably my number one thing. The app has been a

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a lifesaver just knowing where things are first off in a venue so big so the map

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has been helpful but also just picking and choosing the events that you really

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really want to get into I think it's it's it's easier on the mind to narrow

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things down and you know go in with like a clear picture what should I do today

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yeah and for some folks they're gonna be waiting in line for some of these

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activities and you get to meet friends talk to the staff talk to

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different developers but perhaps and we have had a number of experiences

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we have made lifelong friends at these events and that's a really important

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part, a really beautiful part about it. Has there ever been a very impactful

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memory in the world of Pokemon throughout these last 30 years that you

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can maybe rise to the top because we've talked about that to a number of

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different people and it's kind of really tough to choose. It is. I'm not gonna be

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any different. I would say again just being able to share my love of Pokemon

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because when I was growing up, you're nerd, you like Pokemon, right? But now like, there's

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50,000 people here, like, that you're sharing that experience with. So they exist. People

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that love what you love, they exist. And with Pokemon, it's easier now than ever to find

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those people.

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That's such a great place to leave it, unfortunately. We are out of time. But before we go,

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I want to let you tell people where they can find you on the Internet, how they

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can stay in touch with you.

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So you can find me on any of the social medias out there, but mostly on Twitch at Glaxon 13 XII I it's a

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13 in Roman numerals. I do YouTube. I do Twitter Instagram all that stuff all the same name

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So thanks so much for spending time with us. Thank you guys enjoy the rest of Pokemon X

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I will and we will keep bringing you more from Pokemon X feet right after this

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Thanks for hanging out with us here at the first ever Pokemon XP.

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I'm Anna.

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This is Josh and Glitter.

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We're here at the desk with you on Rayquaza Road.

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We've been having such a great day.

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So many things have happened.

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If someone asked me, like, what was the highlight of today, I would have way too

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many.

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The list is long and we're not over at all.

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Even for today, we've got two more days.

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This is a pretty big highlight, I think.

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I need a minute to talk about this.

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Please.

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This is the Funko people came over,

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and they Funko'd us for us with these exclusive,

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event-exclusive Funkos.

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Look at my cute little red hair,

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and I'm holding a microphone.

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How cute is that?

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I feel like we didn't get a moment for that,

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so I really, I'm sorry, I just had to talk about it.

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It was such a huge surprise for all of us.

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We had no idea they were gonna do this for us,

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so thank you very much to Funko,

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and I don't even wanna take it out of the package.

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This is going to go on the mantle forever.

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And for the celebration, really, the energy here

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has been fantastic.

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And Glitter, I know you've been having a blast just

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checking out the different activities.

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But also a lot of great interviews here on the desk.

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So shout out to Chat that have been really

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appreciative for all the different insight

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that you all have been able to provide today.

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It's been a blast.

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We've talked to so many cool people.

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It's only the first day.

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I have already developed an emotional attachment

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to my Funko.

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And this will be following me everywhere

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for the rest of the event.

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I honestly can't even begin to imagine how it's going to get better than this, but I know it's going to it has been really

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amazing the level of

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Not only insight, but positivity and joy that has come from all of the interviewees

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I feel like every time we ask them a question and we're like we're kind of excited about this

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They're like oh my gosh, I'm also really excited about that

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And that's why it's so cool because it's it's been different categories every time right whether it's

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Pokopia or the card art or the animated show or pocket or go or literally

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Music anything that we've gone up here. Everyone is so passionate about the thing that they love that they're here for

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Mm-hmm, and I feel like it makes us get even more hyped about it, too

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Mm-hmm, and how inclusive it has been for everybody, especially those that come from the og side

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It'll realize okay. There's some Pokemon

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I don't really know yet from the later generations,

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but there's so much more to learn.

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And that experience, especially to see the fan favorites

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that are currently out right now,

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the different games that are out, the animated films,

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and they all come together for this weekend.

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And as we were talking about earlier with Glaxon,

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we feel this is going to continue for quite some time.

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So the celebration of 30 years,

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there's plenty to celebrate,

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but also, as you said,

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and just the positivity of everybody being around us

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and also San Francisco hosting us.

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They have been just absolutely lovely the entire time it has been so cool to be back here

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There's so much good nostalgia here. My first world was in San Francisco. I used to live here when worlds was here

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And it has really felt so welcoming and so exciting

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But I don't want to let you off the hook because we were talking about some of the stuff that spark joy

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And we haven't seen you in a while. Yeah, so I would like to know what spark joy for you today, okay?

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Okay, I'm gonna give you all a little bit of a preview of what's gonna be happening

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maybe tomorrow or day three, but I was able to hang out with Jimmy Paul. Jimmy Paul is a

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fashion artist from Amsterdam and he's been collaborating with Pokemon on a number of different

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pieces. Now Jimmy Paul has worked with a number of different celebrities and he was able to debut

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these pieces in London and a lot of these pieces are actually here today and there is a specific

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jacket, a Mewtwo jacket that I am just falling head over heels over. I was able to try on the

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jacket and I almost just left and said goodbye guys I'm out of here and to see

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the level of artistry from the fashion side being able to be expressed in the

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world of Pokemon and the way that he was able to really advance what these

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different Pokemon meaning and how they're represented through color and

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design into something that was really meaningful especially with his own

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lineage from his family and how that was manifested in the pieces and to

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have that type of celebration which you would think a number of years ago

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fashion and Pokemon together. Yes, yes, they definitely belong together and I'm

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excited to have that presented a little bit later. I believe tomorrow in our

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broadcast and there's a number of other things I would love to reveal but I have

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to be a little bit tight-lipped about that for now but that's one more so I'll

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give you guys but I know you've been around, literally you've been around to

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enjoy a number of different booths and activities here at the event. I

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have been and I think one of my favorite parts about it is that when

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And we do get to actually find a little bit of time and kind of walk around the floor.

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And also, from a distance, I'm watching Anna run into people that know her from the community

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and she's getting time to say hi to the fans and just like watching how much love there

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is for everyone who is part of the Pokemon community.

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So yes, we're enjoying all of the amazing booths that exist.

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But as we're doing that, I'm watching in real time the very genuine human interaction

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and enjoy that everyone is finding and just all being at the same place and loving the

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same thing has been really cool for me from like the outside perspective.

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And speaking of fashion, how fantastic you all have looked today. I'm representing the

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professors of Pokemon with my suit and tie, but I have been most impressed with the presentation

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that we've been able to bring with our collective celebration around Pokemon. And that's only

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day one. And shout out to Rachel as well representing Team Rocket.

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We miss her. Nailed it.

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Funko holds her place for the moment and we are going to be bringing you more

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Pokemon XP throughout the weekend but it doesn't stop now we have another

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panel coming up it's gonna be all about TCG pocket so stay tuned we're gonna go

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to that right now

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Xp crowd! How are we feeling?

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We are getting towards the tail end of our day one coverage here with one panel to go.

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We've had a lot of exciting action on the stage today, but it's only the first day of Pokemon XP.

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We have so many more fun things planned for you for this weekend.

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Pin rallies, cozy games, collecting trade, and of course, don't forget about the Pokemon World Championships happening as well.

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But for right now, let's talk some Pokemon, TCG pocket.

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How does that sound?

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All right, let's have a big cheer

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for our moderator, Stuart Pagan.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our panel.

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My name is Stuart Pagan, and I'll be your moderator today.

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In this session, we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution and future of Pokémon

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TCG Pocket.

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Joining us today are the members of the DNA, creatures, and Pokémon Company development

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teams who contributed significantly towards building the game into what it is today.

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Before we begin, I have a few announcements.

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This panel will be conducted in a bilingual format.

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I will first ask questions in English and then interpret the same questions for our Japanese

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panelists.

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Kat, my interpreter, will also then interpret the responses into English.

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Welcome, everyone! Today's moderator is Suwato Fegen.

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In this panel, we will explore how Pokemon Trading Card Game Pockets have evolved,

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and how they will evolve in the future.

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Today, we will talk about the development of the creatures, the DNA, and the development of the game.

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Kat, would you like to join me on stage?

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Kat, please go ahead and introduce yourself.

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Hello, everyone. My name is Kat Cox, and I am your interpreter for this panel.

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I work at the Pokemon Company International in Seattle as well,

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and I work on Pokemon TCG Pocket-related projects.

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Hello everyone, I'm Kat Cox. I'm the head of the main panel.

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I'm working as an international partner for the Pokemon TCG Pocket project.

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Alright, thank you Kat. Now, before we jump in, let's take a moment to introduce our panelists.

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So let's introduce the panelists before we start.

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Thank you.

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Tatsuya Iguchi

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Kiyo Tsuji-Kawa

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Kiyosuke Hanawa

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Thank you very much.

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Now, let's start with Ibushi-san.

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Yes. In Poké Poké, we have a development team producer.

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With Ibushi-san and Chris-chan's producers,

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we are thinking about what kind of direction Poké Poké will be developing

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and what kind of game cycle it will take.

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At Pokémon TCJ Pocket, I serve as a producer on the DNA development team.

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Together with producers from TPC and Creatures, I work on developing the overall direction

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of Pokemon TCT Pocket, including its game cycle.

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As for my background, I've been involved in game operations and development since I began

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my professional career.

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In terms of Pokemon-related titles, I am also serving as a producer on Pokemon Masters ES.

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Tsuchikawa-san from Creature.

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I am the director of Creative Director, who watches all the cards in the game design department.

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In the past, I worked on the game design and product design of the physical Pokemon cards,

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and in the third series, I worked on the card design department.

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At Pokemon TC Pocket, I serve as a creative director, primarily overseeing planning, game design, and part experience.

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Prior to this, I was extensively involved in the game design and product development of the physical Pokemon Trading Card game,

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and served as the card game director for the Pokemon Trading Card game, Sun and Moon series.

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I serve as a director on the Pokemon Company development team.

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In this role, I focus on producing the title within the emphasis on making it appealing to Pokemon fans

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and ensuring that Pokemon are portrayed in an engaging and compelling way.

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Prior to working on Pokemon TCG Pocket, I was involved in marketing and events for the physical Pokemon trading card game, where I worked on the Sun and Moon series as well as the Sword and Shield series.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for your time.

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Since last October, we've had tons of exciting new expansions that are released in Pokemon

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TCG Pocket.

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Mega Rising, Fantastical Parade, Falsing Aura, and Ruler of the Skies just to name a few.

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Has everyone in the crowd been enjoying the latest Pokemon TCG Pocket expansions?

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I'm glad to hear it.

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For this next segment, I'd like to speak with the developers about their experiences

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developing the past year of expansions.

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次のセグメントでは開発チームの皆さんに

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今のシリーズの拡張パック開発について

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追従で得られた経験やエピソードについて

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お話をいただきたいと思います.

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花生さん ゆぐしさんへの質問です.

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What updates, including new features or specifications,

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have been implemented in the past year to enhance collecting?

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過去1年間ポケポケでのカードコレクション

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より楽しくするために

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どのような使用変更や追加機能など

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update, or something like that?

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In this year, we have added a variety of updates,

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but to make the user enjoy collecting,

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we were able to say that

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we were able to change the function and trade of the game.

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We were able to include the function of the present box pack,

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and we were able to collect it.

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Over the past year, we have implemented a variety of updates.

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Among those aims specifically at making card collection more enjoyable for users,

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are the introduction of the sharing feature and adjustments to trading.

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Updates such as enabling bulk receipt of packs and gifts were also well received.

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We have introduced updates and feature improvements under the broad goal of making it easier for

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our users to collect cards.

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Improvements to trading and winter pick features, as well as the implementation of the sharing

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future were introduced in line with the school. When thinking about what updates can be made

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to Pokemon's CCC pocket, we aim to strike the right balance in ensuring fans are able

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to collect the cards they want while still maintaining a sense of excitement.

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Thank you, Kat. For Iguchi-san and Hanawa-san, what update was the most memorable and

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why? We'd also appreciate it if you could touch on updates that are positively expressed

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by users. Iguchi-san and Hanawa-san, what was the most memorable and why?

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For me, the Mega Rising update released in October last year was the most memorable and included

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the implementation of sharing, changes to trading, and improvements to Wonder Pic.

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Until then, it was a situation where the card collection was so difficult that it was hard to get the pack to be released.

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However, it was a discussion that we thought that it would be possible to enjoy the collection until the very end.

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Prior to this, due to the way paths were structured and how cards were distributed,

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collecting cards became increasingly difficult, the further users progressed.

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While we wanted players to enjoy collecting all the way through,

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we recognized the gap between the goal and the actual experience being delivered,

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and we had many discussions around this.

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As a result, we decided to expand opportunities for users to collaborate

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and fundamentally increase the chances of obtaining cards they did not yet have.

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The first anniversary update was created based on this approach.

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In practice, we received a large amount of feedback from users saying that collecting has become easier,

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and we saw an increase in the number of users who were able to complete their collections.

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We believe there is still room to further enhance the appeal of the game as a collection experience,

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and we are continuing to explore additional updates along those lines.

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For me, the addition of the share feature also left a strong impression as well.

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What I find particularly interesting about this feature is that while only one person is receiving a new card during this experience, players still enjoy engaging with this feature.

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physical Pokemon trading card game.

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Tsuchikawa-san, what kind of battle experience did you aim

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to deliver to users in Pokemon T's TG pocket?

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Additionally, what kind of reactions did you receive?

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How did you feel about the game design and product design of the Pokemon Trigger Game?

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How did you feel about the battle experience?

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And what was the user's reaction to that?

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I'd like to deliver a more casual and easy-to-play Pokemon card battle.

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The deck has a victory point, energy development, and tempo control.

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It's easy to do, but the important thing is not just to do it easy,

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but to leave the fun of connecting to the physical Pokemon cards.

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As a result, there are more battles to come,

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so I think that many people knew about the rules and basics of Pokemon cards.

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We aim to deliver a Pokemon card battle experience

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that is optimized for casual and quick play.

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While elements such as deck size, victory conditions, energy generation, and overall temple were streamlined,

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the key was not simply to make the game easier, but to preserve the depth and the enjoyment of that connect back to the physical Pokemon trading card game.

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As a result, we've seen more players engaging in battles, and we feel that has helped a wider audience learn the roles and fundamentals of Pokemon TCG.

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What was the biggest surprise?

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What was the most surprising thing about it?

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Yes, it was a lot of fun to play with the players who were interested in physical games.

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I'm very happy to have both of them play with us.

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We're very pleased that many users have also developed an interest in the physical trading card game,

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the Pokemon TCG Pocket, and that they're enjoying both experiences.

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Team Rocket has finally appeared in Pokemon TCG Pocket.

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Firstly, I think fans are pretty excited, but it sounds like you guys agree!

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That's great!

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Tsukawa-san, what is your favorite new card out of the Pokemon TCG Pockets' latest expansion, Team Rocket's Ambition?

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Please also tell us why.

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The Rocket Gun has finally appeared in the game.

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I think the fans have been waiting for this for a long time.

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Please tell us what you like about the new Rocket Gun in your new card this month.

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Thanks for your input.

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I'd like to pick some of them, but I'd like to pick Rocket Gun's barrier first.

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I like the fact that I can't say anything about the Rocket Gun.

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It's hard to choose just one, but I'd say Team Rocket's Mr. Mime.

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I really like its indescribable expression that conveys the ambitions of Team Rocket.

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It feels like an expression that could only be illustrated in this expansion pack.

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Next is the research team of the Rocket Team.

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In the history of the Pokemon Card 30,

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it's actually the second time, but if you've seen it,

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if you've heard of it, I think it's a very rare Pokemon Card.

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and recognize how long it's been since its last appearance at a first glance,

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I say they're an incredibly knowledgeable Pokemon card expert.

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Tsuchikawa-san, among the cards making their debut in Team Rocket's ambition,

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could you tell us if there are any that you particularly like users to pay attention to?

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Q. Can you tell us about the card you would like to pay special attention to?

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A. It's quite difficult, but I think it's the Rattai-X of the Rocket Team.

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Rattai-X has the characteristic of being able to take away the enemy Pokémon's energy.

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I'd say Team Rocket's Radek Ex. This card can steal energy from your opponent's Pokémon.

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And in the physical game, this would be difficult to implement since energy cards from both players

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could get mixed together, potentially disrupting gameplay or even being taken home by mistake.

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However, unlike the physical game and Pokemon TCG Pocket, these processes can be automatically resolved.

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So we decided to experiment with the unique card concept.

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Because Team Rocket's ambition is themed around Team Rocket, this kind of gameplay challenge felt very appropriate.

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We hope that players will enjoy it as a unique, self-contained experience that captures the playful feeling of role-playing Team Rocket.

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With this recent update, Team Rocket's designs were also added to areas such as the homescreen in the shop.

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Iguchi-san and Hanawa-san, could you please talk about the intentions behind these changes?

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While our card was added to the team, we also updated the main screen and shop.

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Could you tell us about the new features and thoughts that Iguchi-san and Hanawa-san added to the team?

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First and foremost, we wanted to suffice users.

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One of Pokemon TCG's pocket strengths is its ease of entry.

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You can jump in at any time and it's easy to understand what to do.

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Simply open packs.

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On the other hand, we also felt that the experience blackness tends to surprise in the moment.

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You open the app each day.

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As a player, we wanted players to feel this is different from usual right from the moment they open it.

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The Team Rockins' ambition update was a challenge aimed at delivering that kind of experience.

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This was something we really wanted to take on to surprise players.

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We're really excited to see what kind of reactions we receive from users.

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Depending on that feedback, we may consider exploring more ways to create these kinds of surprising experiences in future development.

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As Yugi-san also mentioned, at Pokemon TCG Pocket, we place a lot of importance on delivering

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a sense of freshness and surprises to our users.

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We felt that the release of an expansion pack themed around Team Rocket would be the best

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opportunity to provide that kind of experience. And the development team

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worked on the concept with a great deal of excitement. Thank you, Yuji-san. Hanawa-san.

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Next, I'd like to ask you one more question. What's your favorite new card

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added with Team Rocket's ambition and how will it impact the play environment?

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Yuji-san, Hanawa-san, please tell us about your favorite card in the new card you just added.

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It's really hard to choose, but Team Rocket's boss is my favorite. I have a strong attachment to trainer cards, and I've always liked the various villainous teams, so this is a character I'm particularly fond of as well.

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I also like Rocketland's boss, and I think it's a card that's suitable for the name of Rocketland's boss.

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I also like Team Rocket's boss.

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I believe it's a card with an effect that truly lives up to the name,

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boss of Team Rocket, and one that players will feel embodies that title.

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Another card I'm particularly fond of is Team Rocket's Slow King EX.

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It's a card that grows stronger as you increase the number of cards in your hand, offering

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a satisfying gameplay experience that feels new compared to anything we've had in Pokemon

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to do pocket so far. Thank you both. And now we have a big surprise for you all. In addition

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to our panelists, we have some special guests that will be joining us on stage today.

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We heard that some devs are looking for a battle.

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A battle?

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Audience, would you like to see the devs battle our community representatives?

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I don't know, Dan, are you up for a battle?

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You can start to cancel them, you guys.

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But I'm going to show up.

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Yay!

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But I think we'll need an announcer.

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Is there anyone here who could help us with that?

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I absolutely love to announce these matches.

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You know, I cast for the World Championships just across the way,

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there's nowhere I'd rather be than on this stage right now, watching some pocket.

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Sounds great. Thank you. All right, Spraggles, what are the rules?

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Well, you're putting me on the spot, but what I think here is it will be a simple battle here.

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A best of one between the community and the developers. They will pick their favorite decks.

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May the best player win!

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in. Pretty good, pretty good. Now that we've heard about the rules, let's take a look at

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the decks that we will be playing today, starting with our community representatives, Princess

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Diana. What are you bringing on to the battlefield?

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So today I will be using one of my favorite mega evolutions because it's adorable, mega

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ulterior and the overarching goal of this deck is to help everyone get their beauty

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sleep and put everyone to bed. Yes this is one of the meanest stacks in pocket in

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my opinion able to put your opponents to sleep with a glee pop the extra damage

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of the dark cry mega ulterior. I hope you win this is a tough one to beat.

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All right, Seya let's take a look at yours. Well I love Sceptile and the goal

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for me is to get ramped up super quick and do some really big damage for

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mega Sceptile and also keep myself safe from status conditions with

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Ogre Pony X. I love it. Tell me a little bit about the Celebi in your deck.

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Well, you know, Robo has this amazing move and we can snipe the Bench and if I have Celebi out,

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well, you know I can access that move as well.

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Amazing. Alright, I cannot wait. Stuart, we got to hear about the Devs decks.

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Alright, let me ask him.

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Ikichi-san, what kind of deck will you be playing today?

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The goal of my deck is to force Pokemon on my opponent's bench with Team Rocket's boss and aim for big damage with Seekune EX's Crystal Waltz.

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Another strength of my deck is that I can attack Pokemon under bench with Greninja's ability, Water Shuriken.

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Oh my gosh, incredibly mean and from the news that, I love it Stuart.

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Excellent. Alright, next Tsuchikawa-san, let's face also about your deck.

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The goal of my deck is to interrupt my opponent's strategy with Radek's EX, while building up

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Mega Lucario EX on my bench.

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Once Mega Lucario EX is ready, I'll overwhelm them with its powerful moves.

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Wow.

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Alright.

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Unbelievable.

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We have two incredibly powerful decks, and two incredibly powerful decks from the

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devs that I cannot wait to see.

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Alright, you guys.

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Who wants the devs to win?

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Let me hear you.

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Pretty good, pretty good. Alright, who wants our community to win? Let me hear ya!

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Alright, this is gonna be fun. Alright, any last words before we battle?

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I hope everyone's ready to get some rest.

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Good luck have fun.

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Much nicer than I.

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Any last words from our dance?

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I'm the type of who likes to have fun with battles, so I'm going to enjoy it to the fullest.

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I'll do my best to win using cards from Team Rocket's Ambition.

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All right everyone take your positions. Let's get this thing started here. I cannot wait to see it

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Brand new cards team Rockets ambition. They sound incredibly mean. We needed to make Greninja

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Suicune more powerful, and that's what we're gonna see here in this first game. Are you ready community?

08:42:48.360 --> 08:42:53.600
I'm ready. Are you ready devs? All right. Let's start the battle here. We go

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Leave me, Altaria.

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Unbelievably mean as well as we're heading into our game right here.

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I cannot wait to see how your deck starts, Diana, because it could go very, very well

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for you.

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It could also go very right for me.

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That's right.

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And here we go.

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We see both of our decks here.

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On the left, we're going to have our community.

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On the right, we are going to have our devs indeed start for the devs.

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There is that Iggly Buck right away with Espeon on the bench.

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This feels pretty good for you right here, Diana.

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And you're going to be going second.

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Oh, no, sorry.

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You're going to be going first.

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Wow, this is excellent.

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This is a dream hand.

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How are you feeling?

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A dream hand, honestly.

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A dream hand where you'll be putting your opponents to sleep.

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Let's see it right now.

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Grabbing you two Pokemon, an Eevee, and a Swablu.

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It looks like you have everything but a dark cry ready to go.

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And we're going to go with the sleep ball to buy right away.

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The indeedy in the active spot is put to bed.

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And now we're going to see what the devs are doing here.

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This is the first time I've ever heard anyone clap for

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Angley Buffs put stuff in the bed in pocket.

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It's great.

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I absolutely love it.

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And we've got some new parts here, soothing shore right away.

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This is the stadium that was released in the last set with water

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energy on these Pokemon. They're gonna heal every single turn. So even though

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this has taken some damage, they're not too stressed about it.

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Copycats throwing their hand away, grabbing some more cards. We've got the

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rare candy, we've got the Cyrus. We've got the sweetcoon and we've got the

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Greninja. Here we go. The question is how are they gonna play this? And they

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are gonna move Indeedy out of the active spot right away. Sweetcoon is

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in. That means they're drawing an extra card at the end of their turn.

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But we're going right back to the deck that puts you to sleep

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What do we got what do you get what do you get?

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Fun little hand over here hold on hold on. Oh my god. I'm so welcome you right now. I'm very jealous

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Mega all-teria on the bench

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We also have espion ready to go

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And you have an interesting play. Yeah, I was wondering you're gonna break your opponent's stadium

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Put down your own at the training area more damage for all of your stage one Pokemon the instant retreat

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Espion is powered it's crazy amounts of damage and sweet coon goes to bed

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That's 50 and sweet coon is asleep. It's gonna take them a while

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But they're away

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And here we go. I know we thought Diana had a quick start with no dark right in the health first

08:45:44.680 --> 08:45:46.320
is going to kind of lack some damage.

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Yeah.

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This has been great for Diana so far.

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The only thing would be that dark cry.

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If she had that dark cry, this would be perfect.

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However, this Indeedy right here,

08:45:55.720 --> 08:45:58.640
keeping them very healthy on the side of our devs,

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they're powering the sweetcoon now.

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And they've got a pretty big hand of cards.

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They're not too worried about what they want to play here.

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Considering the giant cape, which would give them extra HP,

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considering their other sweetcoon as well.

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And there they're gonna fill their bench and they're gonna wait on their next card over to Diana. Oh, very scary car

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All right Diana, okay another professors

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Almost all your cards it feels like are in your hand right now

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I'm looking for the right one though. Yes. You are looking for a very important card that would do extra damage

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however, the sleep has

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Oh, man.

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You got a little port, look.

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Oh, man.

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Oh, my day.

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They made the game.

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That's how it goes.

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And it's just how it goes sometimes.

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All right, let's take a look at their next place here.

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Smeekun's going to be ready to fight right now.

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The question is, are they going to get more cards on their bench?

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What else could they consider playing here?

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Energy ready to go.

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for our developer.

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Looks like a lot of thought is going to the next move.

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Altaria can come in.

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Looks like a lot of thought is going to the next move.

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Yeah.

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It's a big move.

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I'm a little scared, guys.

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They recognize that this could go down, right?

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Oh!

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Oh!

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This is a big card.

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And here we go.

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One great thing for the developers right here

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is we have a very full dense but look at Diana getting insanely aggressive. Here comes the mega

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Pokemon with mega harmony and down goes sweetcoons. Our developer right now in a lot of trouble.

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This is going to be tough. They made a lot of great plays though. Saving the cape gives them

08:48:07.880 --> 08:48:10.280
enough HP to withstand this.

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Broke, now hits the bench.

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We're going to have a ton of damage here

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from this sweetcoon onto Altaria.

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Can Diana do something about this sweetcoon now?

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100 damage over to Princess Diana.

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That Altaria is very vulnerable right now.

08:48:32.560 --> 08:48:34.340
I got to trick up my sleeve.

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Oh!

08:48:36.340 --> 08:48:39.780
This is Sabrina! Unbelievable!

08:48:39.780 --> 08:48:43.380
The ace in the hole! Ready to go!

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Mega Harmony once again!

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Congratulations!

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Stand-off area win!

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Wow! Wow! What a great game!

08:48:55.340 --> 08:48:57.340
What an exciting deck with the devs.

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I think every single play that could be made to save the devs there

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was made 100% correct.

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It was just running into mega all its area, ready to go.

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Really incredible stuff.

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Let's get our second game ready.

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Congratulations, Princess Diana.

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Thank you.

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Wow.

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I'm not going to lie.

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Backstage, we're talking and we're saying, all right,

08:49:21.540 --> 08:49:24.500
it's Grinninger's week and we think, how do we beat this?

08:49:24.500 --> 08:49:26.820
We're going over it over it.

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I'm so glad we're down.

08:49:27.940 --> 08:49:28.860
They were strategizing.

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I was scared.

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Well, of course, you get them to sleep right away.

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All right, Seiya, you ready?

08:49:34.740 --> 08:49:35.480
I'm ready.

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Devs, are you ready?

08:49:37.020 --> 08:49:37.980
Thanks.

08:49:37.980 --> 08:49:39.460
All right, game number two.

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Let's go, battle, baby.

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Start it up.

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We got a Subtile family crowd.

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I love it.

08:49:49.380 --> 08:49:52.500
Absolutely, as we're getting ready for our next battle here.

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Mega Subtile and Mega Altaria, two incredibly powerful Pokemon.

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Both of them able to attack for only a few energy.

08:50:00.140 --> 08:50:04.860
But what the devs said about their deck, I think it's pretty scary here. Are we going?

08:50:05.980 --> 08:50:10.780
No, let's go. Oh, we're searching. Oh, we're searching. Okay, great.

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First thing I was, did I not say go? It feels like I might not. Yeah, I cannot wait to see this.

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I'm worried though, because they will steal energy from Septile and Septile loses energy

08:50:23.900 --> 08:50:28.860
by attacking. So that's very, very vulnerable for you as we're getting ready to head into

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this match here. I'm excited to see this new Rocket Deck. We didn't get to see a

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ton of the Rocket Cards in the other deck and I have been opening packs of Team

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Rocket's ambition. I could tell you Raticate is one of the meanest things

08:50:41.820 --> 08:50:46.460
they have put into this game so I am excited to see it here in this next

08:50:46.460 --> 08:50:52.220
battle. It looks like we're heading into it.

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Here we go.

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All right guys, who wants the devs raticate deck to win? Let me hear it.

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They need a win, right? They need a win. I think they do need a win at this point.

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And who likes Megaceptile again?

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Vubz Megaceptile. This guy loves Megaceptile.

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All right, he really likes Megaceptile. I hope you win.

08:51:19.220 --> 08:51:23.780
I really hope you win because someone will be very disappointed if that does not happen

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All right, we're getting ready for a battle

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Going between these two decks make a septile incredibly strong

08:51:31.220 --> 08:51:34.680
You have a really interesting variance of it. I would say with Celebi

08:51:34.680 --> 08:51:41.420
I love that card the ability to hit your opponent's Pokemon and then you know the evolve them. That's very exciting

08:51:41.420 --> 08:51:43.860
Yes, I love it. Love it. Love it

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I

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Think we're heading into our match now between these two

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Stewart who do you think's gonna win this one? Do you have to say the devs are you getting trouble? It's a good question

08:51:58.280 --> 08:52:03.380
I don't know this right? Yes. I've never seen before so I don't know how that's gonna perform

08:52:03.380 --> 08:52:08.780
But I do know the mega stuff out that gets pretty strong. Yeah, mega stuff tile is very strong

08:52:08.780 --> 08:52:12.440
No consistent how it evolves, you know, so I think that

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Both sides have a good chance, but my money might be on MegaSephalia X.

08:52:17.860 --> 08:52:23.460
I mean the community did so good in that first game, so I would not be shocked to see them win again.

08:52:23.460 --> 08:52:31.060
The Raticate card I absolutely love. Every time you evolve from Rattata to the Team Rockets Raticate,

08:52:31.060 --> 08:52:34.860
you steal energy from the Pokemon in the active spot.

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It's so mean it forces your opponent to never want to put energy there, to never decide to attack until they are ready.

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It is a really cool card in the new set.

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I think the new set is themed incredibly well.

08:52:48.180 --> 08:52:50.060
I love what they've done to the game,

08:52:50.060 --> 08:52:52.700
obviously changing the loading screen and all that.

08:52:52.700 --> 08:52:54.060
I think all that's exciting.

08:52:54.060 --> 08:52:56.900
But I do love a set that feels like the whole idea

08:52:56.900 --> 08:53:01.460
behind it is finding new ways to disrupt your opponent's

08:53:01.460 --> 08:53:04.460
hands, finding new ways to take their energy.

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I think a good rule of thumb in any game

08:53:06.980 --> 08:53:09.780
is if my opponent doesn't like that I'm doing this,

08:53:09.780 --> 08:53:11.060
it is the right play.

08:53:11.060 --> 08:53:13.860
And Team Rocket's ambition has a lot of that in it.

08:53:13.860 --> 08:53:16.620
So I can't wait to see it here.

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I will say, if this deck does well, I'm going to steal it.

08:53:20.020 --> 08:53:21.620
I'm going to steal it.

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I'm going to make a video about it.

08:53:22.700 --> 08:53:23.740
I'm going to pretend it's mine.

08:53:23.740 --> 08:53:24.340
There you go.

08:53:24.340 --> 08:53:25.780
I don't think that's what I'll probably do.

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And all of you are here for it.

08:53:27.540 --> 08:53:29.660
You all saw that I will make that robbery.

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As we're heading into our game here,

08:53:32.140 --> 08:53:36.300
we are taking a look at the perspective of our step tile.

08:53:36.300 --> 08:53:38.900
They have the Rotata in the active spot.

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Now it's interesting here.

08:53:40.340 --> 08:53:45.180
We're going for the professor's research right away and there we go

08:53:45.940 --> 08:53:49.440
We have a mega on the other side. We can see what's in our opponent's hand

08:53:49.440 --> 08:53:55.260
It is pretty exciting to see what they've got here. They've got some pretty powerful cards the other treat go

08:53:55.260 --> 08:53:58.700
So not every septile deck is gonna be running two lines of

08:53:59.140 --> 08:54:04.820
Septile but this one is the great thing about that if you lose one treat go you're still good to go and you

08:54:04.820 --> 08:54:07.420
Have that powerful mega Pokemon available

08:54:07.420 --> 08:54:15.420
Profesers research from our devs, Hitmon Lee, Riolu, a lot of options in this deck for our fighting player.

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Team Rocket's Ratata once again.

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It's going to be tough, Saya. They're telling you you can't put any energy in that active spot, my man.

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I see it, I see it.

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Hitmon Lee, and they are powering Lucario.

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Mario. And now it's just a time where we wait. The question is, oh, this is, oh, this is

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good. It's very good. Fragrant Forest able to grab a basic brass Pokemon from the deck.

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We did it. You're lucky. The Crown Rare Salami. Impressive. And we're powering the

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I think this is very smart obviously. We see what can happen with this Raticate right away.

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And now it really just feels like it's a game of chicken almost between these two players.

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Who is going to move in and start fighting first?

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Mega Lucario right now with two energy on it.

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And something amazing about this Raticate card, they don't even need to do it.

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The X speed. We're getting aggressive from the developers.

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Here comes mega Lucario right away. He's saying if you've got septile prove it my dude

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I think both

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big I

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Don't think I need to remind you this is not great

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This is a tough spot to be in

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He's going right for it. Oh

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We have the mega septile we have the energy on it

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we're swinging with the terminating tail crazy amounts of damage to this

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Lucario if you're able to keep energy on it you can beat it it can't take you

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down fast enough however your opponents may have a trick up their sleeve and

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they do there's the brand-new card team Rockets Raticate EX with the absolute

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brutal ability to steal the energy from the active spot mega Lucario is

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It's powered the training areas down for extra damage.

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Here we go.

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We are swinging 150.

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It is poisoned.

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So it's gonna be taking damage, but not enough.

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Not enough.

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Do we have anything?

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What do we got?

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The fragrant forest.

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All right.

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Lily.

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Maybe, maybe we can do it.

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Oh!

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Oh!

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We go for the pound!

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We go for the 20 damage!

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The poison's gonna lead them at 10!

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I don't know if we, let's see.

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Our devs right here with the fighting pulse,

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they're gonna swing for 140!

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Oh!

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Oh!

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It's enough.

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Man, it is enough.

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Congratulations to our devs!

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Amazing, great work!

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And today's winner is...

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Today's winner is...

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It's a tie!

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It's a tie!

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I don't think you guys appreciate how good a tie is.

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So we're going to try that one more time.

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It's a tie!

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Good. Very good.

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Congratulations to all of our players.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you to Spragals and to the community representatives who joined us on stage today.

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Thank you guys. Love you. Goodbye.

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Thank you to the fans who helped us to participate in the battle.

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Please give them a big round of applause.

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Please give them a big round of applause.

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Baby tell me about me

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Me

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Baby tell me about me

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Baby, baby, help me to go

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Me, oh, me, oh

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Baby, baby, help me to go

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Here we go.

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I

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I

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I

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I'm done.

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I

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I

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I

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I

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Oh

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I

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I

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I

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I

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I

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Welcome back to Pokemon XP.

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It has been such a fantastic day and it's only the first day.

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We've only just begun friends.

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I am Anna.

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We have Rachel Glitter and Josh here on the desk with us.

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We just saw a panel.

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I want to talk about it briefly.

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And then I want to talk about your whole day.

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But we have the TCG pocket panel.

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I heard there was a tie.

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There was a tie.

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We saw Raticate hit for 20.

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And chat went crazy, but it turned out to be a tie.

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So it was really great to see.

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And also to see the fan reactions and crowd reactions

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in the room.

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So hopefully, we'll see a lot more of that action

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throughout the entire weekend, along

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with a number of different features we'll be having

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for the different games that are available here

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at Pokemon XP.

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Awesome.

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I also want to hear from each of you a highlight of the day.

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I don't want to say your favorite moment

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because way too many.

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I don't like choosing favorites,

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but a highlight moment of the day for all of you.

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Wait, I don't know mine.

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Okay, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, okay.

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So, one dresser room over from ours, get this.

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Oh, God.

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All the Pikachu, Lapras, Mimikyu,

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anyone you could dream of all the most famous attendees of pokemon xp the

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pokemon themselves

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are in the dressing room over the nps uh... every once in a while i walk past

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lapis in the hall

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and i i don't i'm not a person to get starstruck

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i'm not a person who recognizes other humans very well

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but i can recognize all the pokemon

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and lapis is so adorable all the

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costumed pokemon here are so wonderful so big shoutouts

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I was coming out the door to come here

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and Lapras was coming out the door ahead of me

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and I was like, oh please, after you.

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Yes, take your time, Lapras.

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Yes, thank you.

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Much time as you need.

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What about you two?

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Glitter.

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I think for me, actually now that I've had a moment

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to think about it, might be getting to chat with Charlie

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about all of what goes into creating

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not only that opening ceremony,

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but just reimagining all of the Pokemon music in general.

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I thought that was so fascinating,

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so interesting to get chat with him.

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I think you and I could have probably continued

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interviewing him for another 10 minutes. Yeah, absolutely. That was kind of the case with a lot of the people we interviewed. Yeah

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What about you Josh?

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Plaxton, the interview we had, he's a teacher and for him to be able to share his love of Pokemon with his students and

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also to go into probability this year as part of the curriculum and to

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understand probability in a way that makes it fun and engaging and also part of your life when you're involved in Pokemon.

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I think it's not one of the not only one of the best ways to have an educational forum,

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but one of the biggest reasons why we love video games, trading card games, and the world of Pokemon and Gemini.

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So to really feel his energy, his love, and how that radiates through his channel as well, was another reminder why we do this.

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Absolutely. I think one of my highlights was talking to Liz the last about Pokopia.

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Yeah. I felt like we really just got to do our job, which was sit up here and

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and giggle about Pokopia.

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And I felt so understood by it.

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There's so many things where, you know,

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when you're playing alone at home

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or even searching the internet for inspiration

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or other people who play,

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it doesn't feel the same as when I make a noise

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from Pokopia and all of you are like,

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oh yeah, yeah, that's true.

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It's true.

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Everyone's been so great today.

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I'm kind of shocked by just how

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much has happened today.

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I mean so many different communities coming together and yet the same community and I just I keep explaining to the

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They're like how are you doing? I'm like I'm really pleasantly overstimulated. I'm just so so much is happening so much

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Yeah, that point you said about different communities coming together

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We often think of the Pokemon community is one big community

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But never do you realize how truly diverse Pokemon fandom itself is so you come to something like this?

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And now we have XP which celebrates all the different ways that people love Pokemon, not just the competition.

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And we are seeing cosplay, we are seeing some very creative people who come up with magic harp coins to give out,

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or just special little treats, just any way you can connect to other Pokemon fans.

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Even if you're a stats person and I'm a lore person and you're a design person and a fashion person,

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this is the place where all of that comes together and you see so much creativity.

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Have a good time.

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What has impressed you all about the fans, the community? What have you noticed about them?

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I would say the electric feeling everybody has right now. Just to engage, to have the interactions with the card battles, to see people's excitement about seeing the costume characters.

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But overall, the pleasantness and joy that people have to be here, to where we can take a break from the rest of the world for a little while

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and really enjoy the immersiveness that is everything Pokemon in a way that feels not

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only fun but functional. What I mean by that we have an incredible team that has put all

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this together and yeah the lines may be a little bit long for some of the pins or things

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like that but the organization has allowed these tens of thousands of people to be able

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to enjoy their experience here and also for everybody watching on Twitch and on YouTube

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I was fun to interact with chat for a little bit and you know half the chat is okay

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How do drops work? How do I get my job?

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The other half was to comment on the engagement that we had with a number of different guests

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that we had here on our desk and also the panels,

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and to see a little bit of behind the scenes of what it takes in terms of not just the willpower,

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but the talent in order to create this universe.

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I mean, for me, I think we talked about it a little bit earlier on the desk.

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For me, the biggest takeaway is just how kind and genuinely welcoming this community is.

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community is. Obviously this is my first Pokemon event and even from the small things of as

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people are passing, they're waving to us while we're sitting here on the desk talking about

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stuff to the people that we've been interviewing to Twitch chat. I mean, it has been one of

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the most least stressful kind of bringing into the fold situations for me. I have

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enjoyed every single second of every interaction both virtually and in person.

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Well, and to say that it's your first Pokemon event is a little wild because this is

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the first Pokemon event that I think has made so much space for all the different types of Pokemon fans.

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I have talked to you about Pokemon so many times. You've watched all the shows.

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You've been collecting. You were my number one trade partner in TCG Poggy.

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And I can't believe this is your first Pokemon event. But you know what?

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This is my first major Pokemon event, too. I've hosted Pokemon Go,

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the first Go Fest. I've hosted Pokemon Go Trap.

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I've never been here. And, Anna, you've been holding on this secret for 10 years.

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It was no secret, I wanted you here.

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Now is the first time that we can have everyone here.

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And I feel like the sharing and the just wanting,

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there's like a show and tell culture here,

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you know what I mean?

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Like we had some people walk by with these

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Rallet vending machine backpacks,

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and we're literally up here at the desk

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and we're like, oh, that's cool.

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And they're like, here, let me show you.

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And that's like all we wanna do.

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We wanna come here and show and be shown things

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and just enjoy them.

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We're all on the same level here.

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I have just been stopping people in my time walking around

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and being like, you're dressed as Cynthia,

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you're dressed as Yellow,

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you're dressed as this very obscure background character

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from the manga.

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And I'm like, it's so alive with what we love.

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I am so glad it's day one because-

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Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna be doing on day three.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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That's looking lovely, it's all the time.

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You'll be making a bed.

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You'll be setting up an apartment on the floor.

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Yeah.

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You're ready to move in.

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You don't have Lapras, hacking myself into the one of the Pokemon boxes.

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For all the plushies we're going to get, their own room probably is what's going to happen.

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And yeah, and also some of these pins that I'm seeing people starting to collect

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and to be able to showcase, you know, some people's favorite Pokemon.

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I think it's been my favorite question of the day because every answer has been different.

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That's crazy.

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It's so incredible that we haven't had a single repeat favorite Pokemon.

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Surely we're going to get one eventually.

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eventually you would think I mean there are some more popular Pokemon than

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others you would think I mean I'm wait I'm pleasantly surprised and I'm yeah

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we didn't even get a second new no Josh and I both like me oh that's right okay

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okay all right go the the artwork as well that we have seen showcase

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physically here on Requizal Road but also during some of the panels is really

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breathtaking and to see a character you know mouth that's been around since

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day one, but the way they're able to create a new art card in a scene that encapsulates

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really what cats like to do, but it's a world of Pokemon for Meowth.

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It just shows that there's so much more creativity still in the world of Pokemon that people

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are going to be bringing, and to see the surprise on people's faces of like, here

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we go again.

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There is more that Meowth can do that I didn't think would be possible.

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Here we go again.

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Love that song.

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great song for the opener that we heard this morning. Yeah, it's really good.

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I should listen to it. I really love that song.

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You know, that's a great song on the soundtrack for this year. Speaking of

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showing and telling, I had someone come up to me and say, hey, I got a whole

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bunch of cards and I wanted to pay them forward. So they gave me, wait what, a

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present. Yeah, they wanted to just pay it forward and I was the lucky

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recipient of that and they were like, yeah, open it when it feels right.

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And I was like, you know when's gonna feel right the end of the day on the desk

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It's right now. So we're gonna crack this pack

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I had to get I got special permission to crack this back. And I don't I don't think I've ever actually opened a prismatic evolutions

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I never have either. Oh, there's some things in here that might excite you. Is it one to the front for prismatic?

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I've never opened them. I haven't gotten I haven't got yes

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All right ready do you see this where are we looking?

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there. There. Okay, ready? Left.

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Can you see? Low punny.

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Friends in Paldea. There we go. Adjusting, zooming,

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Bronzor, and we're going in. Enhance. Enhance.

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Oh yeah, move it down your shoes.

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Where do we go? Where do we go? We must catch the moment.

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All right, Bronzor.

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Executor. Oh, you love those. Oh, it's not a lowland executor.

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That's not for my master set, but it is a cute one.

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Really, really no thoughts on that one.

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Oh, there you go. Perfect.

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Okay, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

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Binding Mochi.

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Okay.

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Oh, rescue board. Okay.

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Getting, we're getting close.

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Couple of those behind us.

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Oh, a cute little Whammy.

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Oh, the reverse all the way to the end.

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I mean, I'm going to be happy at this point

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with this pack, period.

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I mean, this is a great card for me

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for my Evolutions binder.

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I also collect cards with Pokemon I like

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with flowers in the background.

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So this is just a double whammy for my binder.

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love this hollow pattern.

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OK, who did?

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Oh, with flowers, with flowers on the other side.

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Oh, and Blood Moon or Saloon.

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All right, you know what?

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No big hits.

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But for me, I was going to say

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that the evolution is just a win.

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Yes, this is this is a really,

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really good card for my binder.

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That's very nice.

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In fact, the the person had a couple

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other cards and was like,

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do you want this Joel Tian?

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And I was like, I have a lot of evolutions.

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Pay that one forward instead.

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And so I feel like I got rewarded.

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Beautiful.

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I got my EV evolution.

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Oh, does it work?

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Deserve it.

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Just a small moment, an example of the kindness,

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the friendliness.

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People are going around here just trying

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to make everyone else's day better.

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So cool.

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And definitely succeeded with the bed.

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That was so cool.

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I'm going to just pile my shiny cardboard here

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for a second.

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And while I do, let's check in with our big Lego

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build behind us.

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The Requaza has been being built all day.

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Let's check in on the progress there.

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Oh, laying a big foundation for this.

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So I've been wondering how this was going to happen

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because you obviously can see the mini example

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of what will be the large Rayquaza build

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by the end of the weekend.

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And I was wondering how much realistically

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you can get done every day

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because this is going to be massive.

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Yeah, yeah, and for that type of structure

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to have that solid base, I mean,

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that's the most important part, laying the foundation,

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but making sure that every piece is in place

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and then building from there.

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So we'll have an update on day two and day three,

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but again, really looking forward to see

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what the final product is gonna be.

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So you got it two in all weekend long

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and you'll see the final Reqweza on day three.

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Sam, I don't want to so fear and doubt here,

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but there's a lot of Reqweza in there.

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Yeah, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

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We're gonna get it done.

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They're gonna do it, right?

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We're gonna get it done.

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And if not, I'll be over there for half the day

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trying to help them out.

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Okay.

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Well, speaking of day two,

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when you'll have to tune in to see

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how the progress of that Rayquaza goes,

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let's check out our day two schedule.

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Again, from this desk,

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we're bringing you a look at Pokemon XP.

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We'll be going out on the floor to bring you videos,

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but we also are showing panels from Pokemon XP.

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So tomorrow we get to do celebrating

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10 years of Pokemon Go,

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Pokemon Battle Bracket Bonanza,

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Lego Pokemon, you're the trainer now,

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and Pokemon X Jimmy Paul by Diffuse,

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fashion, show.

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What a day. Wow. Are you guys excited in particular for any of those? All of them.

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The fashion show in particular, but yeah, I would say all of them, Rachel.

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The Jimmy Paul, I mean, I have the Gengar, not jacket, sweatshirt, hoodie from Jimmy Paul.

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It is probably one of my favorite, if not my favorite right now, pieces of Pokémon clothing, which is saying a lot.

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It is a really great piece of clothing. I've encountered my favorite piece of Pokémon clothing, and we will see that tomorrow.

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It really blew me away, and I'm just gonna probably dream about it tonight and see if I can get my hands on that jacket

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It is something else. You gotta go shop. I know I'm ready. Alright, let's go. Let's just go shopping

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I've been staring at that Gengar hoodie for so long

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You know what we're done. We're gonna go shopping, okay?

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But do tune in tomorrow

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We'll be back tomorrow and the next day with more from Pokemon XP and to leave you today

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We have a very special trailer which is a mystery. I don't know what's in it. It is a trailer from Pokemon TCG pocket. Let's find out

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you