Jan
5

Our Man in Japan – 4

by the Pocket World team


Our Man in Japan - 4

From his secret base in Tokyo, our nifty ninja brings you all the latest Pokémon happenings from the Land of the Rising Sun!

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Forget Texting – How About Pokémoning Your Mobile?

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Our Man in Japan - 4

And you thought that the DS was the only way to get portable Pokémon videogames, right? Not if you live in Japan and happen to have one of these nifty mobile phones. The entire phone system is customised with Pokémon characters! Pikachu pops up with a letter for you when a text message arrives; Meowth and Charmander do a little dance when you change your ringtones – how brilliant is that eh? If there’s one thing we can say for Japan, it’s that they really LOVE Pokémon, or Pocket Monsters as they prefer to call the craze. We think that customised phone menus are a brilliant idea – it would certainly make some of the boring phones on the market seem a bit more exciting. Film and game companies should look in to bringing this to the Western world – we think it would go down really well. Perhaps we should visit the Dragon’s Den?

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Let Your PokéFeet Do The Walking!

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Have you ever seen so many cool shoes in one place at one time before? There’s a plethora of Pokémon footwear in the Japanese shops. You can wear a different Pokémon character on your feet every day of the week if you like! There are even cool PokéWellies to keep the water from your socks on those wet winter days. Now, why oh why can’t us UK shoppers get in on some of this action?

Our Man in Japan - 4

Our Man in Japan - 4

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Cool Plushies!

Japandp_xmasplushDid you get anything cute and cuddly for Christmas? What about Pokémon shaped? Check out some of the great Pokémon plush toys that we’ve seen lately…

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Yum, yum!

Mmmm… feeling hungry? How about a Pokémon snack to keep you going? Pikachu-shaped prawns are yummy!

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Atchoo!

Japanpokemon-seaweedJapanpokemon_maskThe strangest things we’ve found this month are this Pokémon face mask to avoid swine flu outbreaks! Or how about some Pokémon seaweed! Yum!

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  • 17 Comments »

    • Nick said:

      All of this stuff looks great! I hope it comes to UK shops soon!

    • Emzo said:

      I wish we could have stuff like this in the UK!

    • jake said:

      and me

    • super warrior said:

      pokemon neads to bring it to uk more often

    • Yasy said:

      Oh cool! but did you know there are pokemon x-ray machines too?

    • gliscor11 said:

      pokemon was good over here in the 90′s but people have just lost interest but i do hope they bring all that stuff over here

    • Kassim.a said:

      I hate england no but how thew get them stuff and not us england doesn’t try harder to get then great britainn are slakers lazy look how i want them japan are lucky and were soooo unluky stupid england i hate this coutry.

    • ss said:

      that is so AWESOME!!!! the pikachu stuff is ccccuuuutttteeee ^_^

    • dsi in the west said:

      Most of the stuff on there is a bit over the top like the swine flu mask that is stupid like making a mask stylish because you dont want to catch the swine flu

    • Goldenrod said:

      Facemask? What? Thats just weird.

    • Rebecka said:

      I live in Australia, and if you look in the right places you can find plenty of Pokemon merchandise, though, not like in Japan. Though, I am currently learning Japanese so I can visit the country, and while I’m there, visit one of their Pokemon Centres!

    • mad for merchindise said:

      man i wish we could get this merchandise in canada and thay should make more pokemon apps

    • dsi in the west said:

      there is no such thing as a pokemon centre shop they closed all of their shops and reopened them as nintendo world stores

    • Wavestripr said:

      DSI in the west your wrong. I just went to pokemon center yesterday! in japan.

    • Wavestripr said:

      Also, your prob just uninformed.

    • riolu 15 said:

      how come japan get all the cool pokemon stuff

    • alex said:

      ur rite, how come japan get all the gwd stuff, in australia we get nothing:( if we had the shoes i would get the pikachu slip on and i would rlly love the food

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