#Japanese Pokemon

[nidorinas]

this Pikachu card deck box is EVERYTHING

[muleydoestreasurehoard]

Vaporeon collection 💙

My favorite is between her and eevee if only they had made a gold star eevee

[spiritofthemountainnaturephoto]

I saw pokemon is trending its my time to shine (aka show off some favorites)

[sambirdyanim8]

Nate knows. I know.

Fish man's would treat me right.

Get you a fish that can man you man so that he right you treat!

Also thanks a lot, @xjesslynne . Best moot who spoils literally everyone in the streamussy.

So many cool hits in this lil box.

I live the little Kimiwari (or Sunflora) so much. They're so cute!

[gatr-gatr]

Vacation activity

[adobe-outdesign]

recently I discovered that Kawayoo, one of my all-time favorite Pokemon TCG artists, has some art of Loudred floating around and it's the best thing I've ever seen

[eekgrl]

Pokémon stamps~

[retrogamingblog2]

Nintendo Characters in Traditional Japanese Art Style made by Ukiyo-e Heroes

[voices-in-dark-violets-head]

An Okami-style Ninetales piece I drew a long while ago!

[chelseajackarmy]

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Just a small detail that I wanted to highlight from Netflix’s One Piece. Even though this is clearly a Western production of a Japanese series, as you can tell from the more Hollywood-ish dialogue and action, the series isn’t completely divorced from its Japanese roots. For example, in the first episode, you can clearly tell Koby and Luffy are eating with chopsticks. And the little girl serves chocolate onigiri to Zoro.

It feels like the reverse of how anime used to be treated in the early 2000s. Remember when Pokémon had to change the name of the food to stuff like donuts and pizza? Now we have a Western show that’s based on an anime, and they’re making sure not to erase the Japanese influence in the series.

[bluebellowl]

I had this great realisation that Sneasel sounds mad close to ‚weasel‘ and whoops I went deep into the Japanese folklore of the Kamaitachi, which are lightning fast blade wielding weasels who cut your legs in cold climates.

There‘s a great 16 min youtube podcast that explains the folklore far better. Go show them some love!

[muleydoestreasurehoard]

Japanese 711 Bottlecap Figurine trunk

[zaebucca]

Mythical Encounters in ancient Hisui: the Shrine at Newmoon Island Grove

[nightmarereverie]

Glow in the dark life-size sleepy Jirachi *ੈ✩‧₊˚

[runawaycarouselhorse]

I don't want to act like a snob, but, y'all... really don't read old fairy tales or mythology, do you...? You only know the sanitized, bloodless Disney versions? People get cut to pieces (Cinderella/Ashputtel, The Red Shoes), women are abducted to be wives (an upsetting practice that continued until very recently, still practiced in some countries today—horrible, but part of life that found its way into stories, like The Seal's Skin), and magical talking animal husbands / wives (The Crane's Return of a Favour; East of the Sun, West of the Moon, etc.) abound in old mythology. Kids have been raised hearing these stories and not thinking about sex for centuries...

Humans marrying Pokemon in the ancient past was frankly stated in the Japanese version of DPPt. The English version rightly assumed English-speaking fans won't take it and reworded it from used to marry to used to eat at the same table (some euphemism!)

The Typhlosion story is no different from western stories like East of the Sun, West of the Moon (the way she was advised not to look at him reminded me of that) or The Seal's Skin (selkies cannot transform and return to the sea without their pelts—the abducted wife leaves her half-human child on land, escaping with her pelt when she finds it... the half-human, half-Pokemon children are bullied by their pelts being thrown on them to transform them against their will for cruel human amusement..)

The bloody myth about the boy with the sword is Veilstone's myth, but told in detail, right down to the Pokemon exacting a toll from him for how he maimed and slew them for amusement.

A man unknowingly marries a transformed-into-human form Froslass he met once before in Pokemon Legends: Arceus and she flees when he finds out what she was... it's based on a tale about the yuki-onna, the folkloric snow woman Froslass is based on.

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