Airing every Thursday night at 24:30 from October 24th and on!
The first ever original live action TV serial based on the Pokémon franchise!
The story of a protagonist that came to the city chasing her dreams growing as a person through playing a Pocket Monsters game for the first time in 20 years!
The human Pokémon drama
"Poketsume: Cram Adventures Into a Pocket",
starring Pokémon fan Nanase Nishino
Ever since its debut in video game form in 1996, the Pocket Monsters ("Pokémon" for short) franchise has been extremely popular among all ages, and has been turned into all kinds of media formats, including an anime and a trading card game. And now, TV Tokyo and The Pokémon Company have teamed up to produce the first ever original Pokémon-themed live action TV serial!
Absolutely everyone has been exposed to Pokémon in at least SOME kind of way. This holds true for our protagonist Madoka as well, who played Pocket Monsters Red with her siblings when she was little. But when she plays her old Pokémon game again as an adult, her life changes slightly... Madoka will be portrayed by Nanase Nishino, a Pokémon fan who's played almost every game in the Pocket Monsters series throughout her life. After graduating from the idol group Nogizaka46, she has been remarkably active as an actor both on the screen and on the stage, and won the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Supporting Actress and Newcomer of the Year. Pokémon fan Nishino is truly the only one that can depict the comical and heartwarming aspects of this series that link the encounters and growth of real life with Pokémon video games.
The story begins with a return to Pocket Monsters Red after 20 years!
Madoka Akagi (played by Nanase Nishino) grew up in Masshiro, a port town in the Kanto region. After graduating from the local university, she worked as a kamabako maker for a while before taking the step towards her childhood dream of becoming a creative and taking a job at ADventure, a small advertising company in Tokyo. However, reality didn't live up to her dream, and her days are absolutely nothing like the glamorous life she dreamed of. In addition, she has now been tasked with holding a presentation the future of the company rests on. Just then, she receives a package from her mother containing the Game Boy Pocket and Pocket Monsters Red cartridge she played with as a kid...
Madoka starts playing Pocket Monsters Red for the first time in 20 years.
And that cartridge ends up being crammed to the brim with things that are important to her?!
The curtain is about to be raised for the world's first "human Pokémon drama", which depicts its protagonist growing as a person through Pokémon.
Make sure to look forward to Poketsume, the TV serial so filled with Pokémon elements it will both be irresistible to Pokémon fans and make non-fans want to get into the franchise(?!)
>A Pokémon game in Kanto being used in a show where the main character was born and raised in the real life Kanto Region in Japan that inspired the Kanto Region in Pokémon
Ok, that's actually kind of brilliant.
You missed the part where the town she grew up in is called Masshiro, an obvious take on Masara Town.
And her name is Akagi (tl note, aka means Red)
And the company she sets off to work for is literally called Adventure.
gonna be shit
gonna be awesome
Source or it's fake, but the premise sounds so bad and full of nostalgiabait, it's likely to be real.
Not OP, but here:
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/poketsume/
It's real.
Come on anon, was tossing "Poketsume" into google that hard?
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/poketsume/
Serebii, moron. Literally the most mainstream pokémon website, you stupid c**t.
2 bugs have been deposited into your anus, Mistua Merrikku.
Do brittards know any other insult than cont?
kys, liar
The fact that it's a Japanese show means that it won't be pure genwunwank at least.
Yeah, it'd also be a Gen 9 wank to get the audience in the 26-49 age range who only experienced Pokémon through Pokémania and possibly Go to buy the latest games.
>it's a Japanese show means that it won't be pure genwunwank
you know gamefreak is japanese right?
They did a Final Fantasy TV show a while back that was kinda like this. It's not some kind of crazy concept really.
>nostalgiabait
>no nugen slop
I'll take it.
I love asian women
Even having read all that... I don't get it? It will be a program about an ordinary old woman playing old Pokémon games? Who is this for?
Housewives. You've never seen a J-drama before?
>Even having read all that... I don't get it? It will be a program about an ordinary old woman playing old Pokémon games?
The description is pretty clear, anon. It's going to be about a struggling young woman who overcomes the difficulties in her life at the same time she plays a video game and overcomes the difficulties in that. You could've replaced Pokemon with any other game and it'd be the same thing.
And then a handsome young rich single CEO sweeps her off her feet and saves her from her mundane life as they bond with their favorite pokemon game. But then his conniving strict mother who does not approve of their relationship gets in the way.
This is just Ryosangata Riko but replace Gunplay with Pokemon.
>>Riko Komukai (Yuki Yoda) is a young single woman and works for an event planning company. She is considered average in regards to her personality and appearance. One day, her co-worker mentions person of a mass production model. Yuki Yoda asks herself if she could be such a person for a mass production model and she answers her question affirmatively. Around this time, she happens to see plastic model Zaku at a neighborhood store. Zaku is a robot from TV anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. She becomes interested in plastic models and challenges herself to make her first plastic model.
There's been multiple series like this. As
mentioned, there was a Final Fantasy series that went like this too.
Final Fantasy XIV: Dad Of Light:
>Years ago, Hirotaro Inaba purchased a Nintendo Famicom and Final Fantasy III for his son Akio. The two enjoyed playing the game together and the experience is a fond memory for them both, but they have since grown apart and barely speak to each other.
>Suddenly, Hirotaro quits his job without telling his family. Akio is concerned and decides to try to reconnect with his father by purchasing a PlayStation 4 and Final Fantasy XIV for him. With the help of his Free Company and friends, Aru and Kirin, Akio plans to use his character Maidy to befriend his father and discover why he quit his job.
So these shows are just really elaborate commercials that all follow the same soulless formula?
These ones make sense.
>Family bonds and reconnect through playing MMO together
>No life worker gets a plamo hobby
Meanwhile this one is..
>My job is at at a dead-end but by playing K-K-K-KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I ??? and now I'm a happy corporate drone and managed to pull the perfect presentation out of my ass
Shit makes no sense.
It's obviously going to be something like "person that struggles to make it professionally gets a confidence boost by how easy it was to solo Kanto with Charizard and nails the presentation, getting promotions and connections and job offers for actually prestigious companies all thanks to Charizarderino".
All three shows are basically "person's problems are solved thanks to Product. Isn't Product great? Buy Product" with the product in question being whatever paid the most to get shilled in the shows.
Sounds like Origins.
>All three shows are basically "person's problems are solved thanks to Product. Isn't Product great? Buy Product" with the product in question being whatever paid the most to get shilled in the shows.
I'm not arguing otherwise, but at least with those other two shows there's some "messaging" or "theming".
You can make connections with others through playing shit together.
You can find companionship and and meaning through a new hobby.
I cannot no matter how many mental gymnastics I make come up with something of the sort for how K-K-KANTOOOOO and Charizardino will solve this girl work issues short of Charizardino magically popping out of the screen and burning down her office building. Shit's wack.
As I said, it's probably just going to serve as inspiration and a confidence boost for her.
>Holy shit my Charmanderino beat Brock's Onix even though Fire is not very effective against Rock! If he can successfully do that, then I can successfully do this presentation!
like kouhai like senpai
>woman
dropped
>product shilling via relatable human situation
FFS, just call Tsuburaya and ask them to help you produce an actual live action Pokemon series
>The story of a protagonist that came to the city chasing her dreams growing as a person through playing a Pocket Monsters game for the first time in 20 years!
So it's basically the Netflix TCG cartoon? Character lives in real world, but plays a Pokémon? Why the hell is this particular premise being used for two different shows?
>This holds true for our protagonist Madoka as well, who played Pocket Monsters Red with her siblings when she was little. But when she plays her old Pokémon game again as an adult, her life changes slightly...
I can't help but think they're going to dedicate a good chunk of time in the first episode to "Oh my gosh, playing a Pokémon game? At my age? But I'm an adult now..." nonsense.
Regardless, /vp/ (and everyone else) is going to shamelessly love it just because the main character is an Asian female.
>Character lives in real world, but plays a Pokémon? Why the hell is this particular premise being used for two different shows?
Because "the main character's life becomes better when they start consuming Product. You should consume Product as well" is a very good marketing tactic.
It's for nip audience not fatassgaijins
>Moved to the Big City
Pass
Hope they get one of the twinks from Kamen Rider in it so I can go "I KNOW WHO THAT IS!!!!!" like a conZOOMER moron
Love Naachan. Watching just for her.
She's good casting for your standard autistic Pokemon enjoyer.