Saying goodbye to Pikachu and Ash, plus how Pokémon changed media forever
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Pokémon - Is Pikachu a Good Name?
When they were first thinking about bringing Pokémon over, there were ideas on how they could Americanize it outside of like dubbing it or translating the names. But eventually, I think they had in mind that there's not just a game of this. There are cards, there's TV show over there,. There are so many things that if we make one change in the games, which kind of serve as the son to the solar system of Pokémon, we're going to have to change everything. So the designs are going to stay as is they could change the names.
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