Here’s The First Trailer For The Live-Action Pokémon Series
Pokemon live action drama
A little over a month ago, it was announced that Pokémon is getting a live-action drama series in Japan, with a very meta premise that was a little bit surprising to learn about. Now, we’ve got our first look at the series, and it’s looking very charming.
The series is called “Pockets Filled With Adventure,” although everyone (including The Pokémon Company) just shortens it to PokéTsume. As previously reported, it follows Madoka Akagi, a young woman with a new job who rediscovers her love for Pokémon after receiving a gift from her mother.
The new trailer for the series is about a minute and a half long, and introduces us to all the characters. I’ll be honest, I don’t speak Japanese, so I did not understand even a quarter of what was going on, but it looked very silly, very fun, and had some fantastic game-inspired music that sent a chill down my spine.
??#ポケットに冒険をつめこんで??
10/19(木) 深夜24:30? 出発??
1??大ボリューム??
100秒トレーラー解禁??
2??各登場人物の元になった
#ポケモン も解禁！ #ポケつめ #西野七瀬 #笠松将 #長谷川朝晴 #平野綾 #世古口凌 #渡邉斗翔 #塚地武雅 #内田理央 #佐藤江梨子 #柳葉敏郎 pic.twitter.com/5AGezgzTsm— 西野七瀬主演??ドラマ「ポケつめ」【テレビ東京公式】 (@poketsume) October 5, 2023
It’s worth noting, too, that there aren’t actually any Pokémon creatures in the series. PokéTsume is set firmly in our world, not in the Pokémon world, so all of the Pokémon stuff featured is about the real-world products — games, cards, anime, that kind of stuff.
This isn’t the first live-action Pokémon project, of course — that honor goes to the Detective Pikachu film from 2019. Detective Pikachu featured Pokémon creatures heavily, with a surprisingly realistic design ethos that was cute for some Pokémon and utterly terrifying for others. Rumors swirled for a while about potential follow-ups to the movie, be it a sequel or something else entirely, but if those follow-ups exist, The Pokémon Company sure isn’t talking about them.
As cute as PokéTsume is, it unfortunately probably won’t make it outside of Japan anytime soon. The series is set to premiere on Tokyo TV on October 19, and no English release has been announced. Given The Pokémon Company typically avoids subtitling Japanese media – even for series like Pokémon Horizons which really needs an official sub – we can probably expect it’ll remain exclusive to Japan for the foreseeable future.
Still, like Pokémon Horizons, it’s likely that fans will step in and subtitle the series in one way or another. As with anything on the internet, if companies won’t make something available, somebody out there will.
