The Pokémon Company has today announced that a brand-new live-action series about Pokémon is set to air in Japan from 19th October — however, it may not be the show that you would expect (thanks, Serebii).
Unlike the ace 'live-action' animation of the Detective Pikachu film, this upcoming series — titled 'Pocket Filled with Adventure' in English — doesn't appear to be set in a Pokémon world, but rather it will be about the act of playing Pokémon.
The news was shared by Tokyo TV, which will house the series this October, and @SerebiiNet was able to provide a little more information about the story itself. According to Serebii, the show will follow Madoka Akagi (played by Nanase Nishino), who discovers a love for Pokémon Red after moving to a new job in Tokyo — so, there might not be any actual Pokémon to see here...
The series will begin on 19th October and a new episode will air every Thursday on Tokyo TV. As to whether the show will receive a wider release at a later date, we just don't know yet — though our fingers are crossed. It might not be the live-action Pokémon series that we had imagined, but we're intrigued to see what direction this concept heads in.
What do you make of this upcoming Pokémon live-action series? Is it what you expected? Let us know in the comments.
[source tv-tokyo.co.jp, via twitter.com]
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And it will conclude with her in a dark room all by herself after dropping all her friends as she's so obsessed with the game and trying to find Mew
Can you release both Red & Blue on NSO now, Nintendo? That would be great...
Honestly much better than attempting to do a live action series set in the world of Pokémon. That would cost way too much to not look silly.
This is the second show they're launching that focuses on characters enjoying real world Pokémon products, that feels iffy.
The other one being the recently launched web series about kids playing the trading card game.
I will only care about this series if it goes through all the gens, and the series ends with them quitting the fandom because they are disappointed with Gen 8 and 9's nosedive in quality
Premise sounds like something that might have novelty for a 10 minute short but would get extremely old extremely fast as an actual show.
Wasn't there a Final Fantasy XIV series like this, but with a father and son bonding over the game?
That's one way to keep the budget down. Showing a Pokemon Red cart is a lot cheaper than having a load of digital beasties running around.
As a note, "TV Tokyo" is the name of the TV channel, not "Tokyo TV".
"Tokyo TV" would be a bit like calling ITV "TVI".
seems to go along with an anime about playing the card game
@Orpheus79V Think it was a movie, but just goes to show how little I remember from it.
This sounds awfully a lot like Final Fantasy: Dad of Light, which focused around an estranged father & son bonding over Final Fantasy XIV, after they used to play the NES games together when the son was a kid. I remember watching it on Netflix some years ago.
@Orpheus79V It was a series on Netflix called Dad of light.
It's nothing amazing, but I really enjoyed it. A story about a distant father (after retirement) and son who grow closer together through FF14.
I saw the picture and thought red and blue was announced for Switch for a split second lol
@EarthboundBenjy
This! xD
@Bunkerneath Story of my life, minus the finding Mew part xD I have plenty of those
@nessisonett What do you have against silly? Sometimes it can be a lot of fun.
I'm not interested in this.
@EarthboundBenjy I miss the days when Black and White and even Sun and Moon were such charming and cool games. Sad to say it was a decade ago
We still need the new pokemon series to launch anywhere, I really want to keep up with the new trainer after we lost Ash
@Tempestryke Detective Pikachu barely pulled it off and that was on a movie budget. TV just could not suspend disbelief. ‘Silly’ is all well and good but you can’t chuck millions at a TV show only for it to look like a live action Nickelodeon special.
Could this finally lead up to the release of Red/Blue/Green on NSO?!
I'm actually interested in this idea of a lifestyle, feel-good show about discovering a real-life love of Pokemon. Pretty meta really, but a fun idea nonetheless!
@Orpheus79V i stopped watching after his son catfishing the father pretending he's a woman in the MMO... Too twisted for my taste
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