Random: Pikachu Was Originally Going To Talk Like Meowth In Pokémon Anime, Says Director

It’s no secret that Ash Ketchum and Pikachu will quickly be leaving the Pokémon anime for good, capping off a storyline that has lasted for the very best a part of 25 years. Despite being within the firm of those characters for thus lengthy, it seems that there are nonetheless some notable points of every that we did not know, like, for instance, that Pikachu was initially going to talk… like a human (thanks, Go Nintendo).

Ok, possibly not precisely like a human, however undoubtedly like Team Rocket’s Meowth (which remains to be a complete lot wider vocabulary than we’d wish to hear from Pikachu).

The thought was sufficient to ship a shiver down our backbone, we cannot lie, however it is a idea that was not too long ago shared by long-time sequence director Kunihiko Yuyama in an interview with Animedia journal. Instead of the standard cries of “Pika” and possibly “Pika-pika” (on a very good day), it seems that there have been plans to have Ash’s Pikachu use full phrases very like Meowth.

While the unique interview was revealed in Japanese, it was later translated into English on a Serebii discussion board by Dephender, which revealed the director’s full response:

At first we really toyed with the concept of getting Pikachu discuss identical to the Rocket Gang [Meowth] does (laughs). However, we talked about how it might be each extra real looking and extra attention-grabbing in the event that they needed to talk non-verbally, in order that’s the best way it ended up. I feel it would be actually troublesome to discover a pair of people that may perceive one another as close to completely as [Ash] and Pikachu can, however I hope we managed to depict a duo everybody can look as much as.

It seems just like the idea of Pikachu’s speech by no means made it previous the preliminary discussions, and that is one thing that we will all be thankful for. While it might need been attention-grabbing to listen to what Pikachu really seems like beneath there (we’re secretly hoping that he has a ridiculously deep voice), Kunihiko Yuyama is correct that an expanded vocabulary would not have been crucial.

After all, a “Pika” paints a thousand phrases…