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Topic	Why is pikachu the only Gen 1 pokemon that stayed Japanese
pikakaeru 04/12/24 2:34:09 AM #37:	Dudebusters posted... They did, but it's a different word in Japanese. It appears that for whatever reason, they didn't make the name ACTUALLY "Dug" and "Trio" in Japanese, they specifically made the Japanese name a literal translation of the english "Dug" and "Trio," if I'm understanding it correctly. For all 35 names, they intentionally made them translate to the exact same name in both Japanese and English. The 8 named (Pikachu, Nidoran, etc) are just the ones that have an actual perfect letter for letter translation, the others don't because Japanese can't use the letters the same way and still make the same word, otherwise they'd be the same, too. well ok thats different than pikachu then bc in japanese pikachu means electric mouse --- Pikakaeru, use water gun! <cite>pikakaeru posted [p:979866506] in Why is pik... [t:80745064]...</cite> <quote>Dudebusters posted... </cite><quote>They did, but it's a different word in Japanese. It appears that for whatever reason, they didn't make the name ACTUALLY "Dug" and "Trio" in Japanese, they specifically made the Japanese name a literal translation of the english "Dug" and "Trio," if I'm understanding it correctly. For all 35 names, they intentionally made them translate to the exact same name in both Japanese and English. The 8 named (Pikachu, Nidoran, etc) are just the ones that have an actual perfect letter for letter translation, the others don't because Japanese can't use the letters the same way and still make the same word, otherwise they'd be the same, too.</quote>well ok thats different than pikachu then bc in japanese pikachu means electric mouse --- Pikakaeru, use water gun!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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