Board 8 > "They turned Pikachu into something like a tiger with huge breasts."

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Grimlyn
07/10/20 1:51:10 PM
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(dum webhosts have long url-names so have the tweet to redirect to the article)
https://twitter.com/NinEverything/status/1281371722017431552

At the time, it was widely believed that American kids would never want to play games with a lot of text, (so) we thought Pokemon only had about 10% chance of success outside Japan. [...] The first time we showed off some Pokemon in the US, we were told they were too cute.
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The staff in America submitted their ideas for replacement designs, but we just couldnt believe the kind of stuff they were proposing. They turned Pikachu into something like a tiger with huge breasts. It looked like a character from the musical Cats. When I asked how is this supposed to be Pikachu?, they said Well look, theres its tail right there ... Seriously, that was the kind of stuff being proposed

translated from https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0007/taidan1/page03.html

just gonna leave this here

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Raka_Putra
07/10/20 1:59:31 PM
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Hey, American kids finally get to have Incineroar a few decades later! All is well.

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XIII_rocks
07/10/20 1:59:35 PM
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I feel like foreign businesses don't give Americans anywhere near enough credit

Like I'm not sure exactly how much credit is actually due but surely it's enough to "read text in a videogame" and "pronounce Philosopher".

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ZeldaTPLink
07/10/20 2:04:18 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
At the time, it was widely believed that American kids would never want to play games with a lot of text

They hadn't heard of GameFAQs yet.
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Xeybozn
07/10/20 2:04:28 PM
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I bet someone on the American side had already thought up the boob-tiger character and was just looking for a way to get it into a game.
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Emeraldegg
07/10/20 4:00:00 PM
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Okay but where' shte pics though
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GenesisSaga
07/10/20 5:09:39 PM
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Sounds like some Digimon ish

No thank you. But uh... I did kind of want to see it.

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Paratroopa1
07/10/20 5:15:31 PM
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Joke's on them, furries were perfectly able and willing to sexualize Pikachu as-is
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FFDragon
07/10/20 5:45:01 PM
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XIII_rocks posted...
I feel like foreign businesses don't give Americans anywhere near enough credit

Like I'm not sure exactly how much credit is actually due but surely it's enough to "read text in a videogame" and "pronounce Philosopher".

you say this

but then trump becomes the face of the nation

and then you kinda see where they're coming from

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kateee
07/10/20 6:10:13 PM
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need pics
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Grimlyn
07/10/20 6:27:27 PM
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i expect mock-ups to be online by now surely

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Bartzyx
07/10/20 7:07:28 PM
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That's so weird they would think that after the success that the Final Fantasy games had in the US.

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Paratroopa1
07/11/20 12:35:14 AM
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This stuff really fascinates me, on a more serious note. I was thinking a lot about how they kept feeling the need to change Japanese things to be more western, and they just didn't realize that there was a whole young generation of me and other kids waiting to accept the Japanese things as they were

I was thinking about the Kirby's Dream Land 2 commercial the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqVVG4FCq7w

And it's absolutely bizarre to me that there was a day once where they thought they had to sell a KIRBY game like this. Kirby, of all things. I don't remember this commercial but I'm pretty sure it would have scared me off as a kid! It's so grotesque and mean when Kirby is so cute

Pokemon wasn't the first thing to change this trend - I feel like Sailor Moon was also a trailblazer here - but I feel like the success of Pokemon killed this era of localization for good. Once everyone saw the cutesy Japanese schtick was beloved here, they knocked it off with this shit, and good riddance.
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kateee
07/11/20 12:45:17 AM
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the difference between japanese and na box arts for kirby is always funny to me
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NFUN
07/11/20 12:47:23 AM
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kirby's fucking pissed

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Grimlyn
07/11/20 1:16:17 AM
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kateee posted...
the difference between japanese and na box arts for kirby is always funny to me
lmao was gonna say

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KamikazePotato
07/11/20 1:28:19 AM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
This stuff really fascinates me, on a more serious note. I was thinking a lot about how they kept feeling the need to change Japanese things to be more western, and they just didn't realize that there was a whole young generation of me and other kids waiting to accept the Japanese things as they were
While this is true, let's not forget that there was a long period of time where Nintendo lost a lot of ground by being portrayed as the less-mature option. Nintendo was 'kiddy' and for babies. We don't give a shit NOW, but back then it actually mattered. Biggest examples I can remember are Mortal Kombat (which got super popular specifically because of being gory and edgey) being censored on the SNES and Wind Waker being Celda.

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Grimlyn
07/11/20 1:32:39 AM
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remember when BMX XXX was uncensored on gamecube lmao

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SantaRPidgey
07/11/20 2:57:54 AM
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Man do I ever!

I played the hell outta that game

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Mr Lasastryke
07/11/20 7:36:26 AM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
This stuff really fascinates me, on a more serious note. I was thinking a lot about how they kept feeling the need to change Japanese things to be more western, and they just didn't realize that there was a whole young generation of me and other kids waiting to accept the Japanese things as they were

I was thinking about the Kirby's Dream Land 2 commercial the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqVVG4FCq7w

And it's absolutely bizarre to me that there was a day once where they thought they had to sell a KIRBY game like this. Kirby, of all things. I don't remember this commercial but I'm pretty sure it would have scared me off as a kid! It's so grotesque and mean when Kirby is so cute

Pokemon wasn't the first thing to change this trend - I feel like Sailor Moon was also a trailblazer here - but I feel like the success of Pokemon killed this era of localization for good. Once everyone saw the cutesy Japanese schtick was beloved here, they knocked it off with this shit, and good riddance.

they DID try to make pokmon more western, though.

i believe the anime dub was pretty faithful to the original but they still did some weird shit like translate "rice balls" to "donuts" (which made no sense as they clearly weren't eating donuts).

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foolm0r0n
07/11/20 11:45:31 AM
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I'm assuming it was a design more like Thundercats than like furry hentai

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GenesisSaga
07/11/20 12:04:08 PM
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I dunno foolmo, if it just looked like Cheetara or something I dunno why they'd emphasize "huge breasts"

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foolm0r0n
07/11/20 12:05:27 PM
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Not Cheetara but Lion-O. It sounds like they're talking about male breasts i.e. chest.

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