Sure, you learn the headline appropriately. With Pokémon’s 25-year-plus historical past, there are at all times little tidbits popping out about how the franchise propelled itself to success the world over, and one of the crucial current gleamings we’ve gotten from the historical past of the sequence is that, apparently, American entrepreneurs needed to present Pikachu boobs.
Happily, we by no means needed to see Pikachu boobs, however we will take a guess at what it might need seemed like from listening to Tsunekazu Ishihara’s phrases when talking to Alex Pappademas for The Huge Hit Present podcast. He described the American redesign as “one thing like a tiger with big breasts”, including that “it seemed like a personality from the musical Cats”.
I’m fairly certain your personal creativeness has run wild with what little data we’ve given, so be glad to know that that’s as a lot because the president of the Pokémon Firm was prepared to share on this event. We hate to suppose what Mr Ishihara would take into consideration the thicc Pikachu that’s been doing the rounds in current months, however at the very least it doesn’t appear like one thing out of the thoughts of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A heavy-chested Pikachu redesign isn’t the one little bit of recent data we managed to take from episode 3 of The Huge Hit Present. It seems that the identical advertising and marketing workforce liable for attempting to pin the booby on the Pikachu got here up with over six units of different names and translations when naming the primary 151 Pokémon. Nonetheless, with what we all know their imaginations had been able to, it’s in all probability for the perfect these by no means noticed the sunshine of day.
There you will have it, all you want to know in regards to the time {that a} bunch of promoting specialists tried to present Pikachu boobs. For extra bare-chested Nintendo-related information tales, take a look at the most recent on Bayonetta 3’s NSFW naive angel mode.
