The Pokémon Company and Tokyo TV have revealed that it’s set to debut a new live-action Pokémon television series in Japan this October, although that comes with the caveat that it’s a drama series set in the real world as opposed to a live-action take on the world of Pokémon itself.
The show’s title can be roughly translated into “Fill Your Pocket With Adventure,” according to a quick machine translation via Google, and will focus on a woman named Madoka Agaki (played by Nanase Nishino) who moves to Tokyo for a new job and winds up becoming obsessed with a copy of Pokémon Red that her mother gives her as a graduation present.
The series starts airing on October 19th in Japan, and so far there’s been no indication that it will receive any kind of wider global release.
Serebii Update: A live action series based on Pokémon is to air in Japan from October 19th. Follows the story of a young woman who becomes enamored with Pokémon after receiving Pokémon Red from her mother
Details @ https://t.co/NWlAdn57aQ pic.twitter.com/gv1troCIsE
— Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) August 30, 2023
Another Pokémon series that is slated for a global release and marks something a bit different from the usual anime fare is Pokémon Concierge, a new stop-motion animated series coming to Netflix that was revealed back in February as part of a Pokémon Presents presentation.
Pokemon Concierge is set to debut this December.
