Japanese and Korean Shocked By Pokemon Name Differences Around the World l France, Brazil, Germany 

Actual game? Who will make it? Nintendo or others?

@@JacsonFreitas18 Not by Nintendo. This is an indie project completely unrelated to the Pokémon franchise (otherwise they'd have legal issues of course). But you can see it as a sort of parody (or more like a homage) of Pokémon/Digimon. It's its own thing, but it works the same way as Pokémon. Such fan designs in general are usually called "Fakemón", usually an artist just makes a few designs just for fun. But this particular project "BágDex" ("Bág" is the artist's nickname, and the creatures are "Bágmon") had the goal of making an entire dex with 151 creatures. It became a thing on social media, then they released a mobile app with the whole dex (not a game, just the dex so you can see the designs, stats, and form what would be your team). It's really well-made; every single Bágmon has their own origin from some meme or aspect of brazilian culture; complete with description, evolutions, types, moves, etc. Then they posted a crowdfunding project for an actual game and it quickly succeeded in gathering a lot of revenue (currently they funded base game + 4/5 extra goals). One really cool thing about this project is that their trailer even managed to feature the same iconic voice actors that dubbed Team Rocket in the anime here in Brazil (in the trailer, their characters in the game would have a role similar to Team Rocket). If they manage to reach the last funding goal we'd even get dubbing for the game, which means we'd get those iconic voices of Jessy and James too. Look it up, it's really cool! It's all in Portuguese, but you can see the designs.

​@@JacsonFreitas18 he's making on his own, seeeking crowdfunding. Nintendo unfortunately never (as far as I know) shelter this kinds of game ideas. I know he's making avery adjustment so that the game comes out as something of his own, so to not gain any lawsuits or something

@@matheusmaydepaula9603 Actually, the game was announced to be released on nintendo switch too so... thats a thing :D

Eu quero mt ver esse jogo!!

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if i remember right it was thanks to france that we even had translations in the first place gamefreak and nintendo didnt think about it in the first place but a french localizer thought about it and told them that it'd be better to have the names in french also all the western songs sound the same because all of the anime just derived from the american channels

Pretty sure Chinese didn't even have its own (official) localization at first? Like, I remember they made somewhat of a big deal out of it when Chinese language-options were added to the games, I think in Gen 7. Pretty sure most of the older Pokemon-names are just the Japanese ones written in Chinese characters. And in general, since they introduced the language-options when you first start the game in Gen 6, Italian and Spanish at the very least, maybe also Portugese, should have received their own localizations of the Pokemon-names iirc.

@@Justic_i’m italian! We use the english names except for Type Null (Tipo Zero) and paradox pokèmon (for example Iron Valiant is Eroeferreo)

@@kavrka I'm Italian too. Cydonia and Leakkedì teach us something about naming

OOOOH so THAT's why, when the english OP starts up, it always feels like an MJ song before it becomes Pokemon again!

It was actually sung by a man named Jason Paige. But he certainly sounds like Michael Jackson.

​@@arianawhite1770they didn't say it's sung by Michael Jackson. They said that Jason Paige did backup vocals for Michael Jackson.

The guy who did the german version of the Pokérap is in a very famous metal band

@@lightsideofsin8969 Eisbrecher/Megaherz :D

In what part of France does " cager " means taking a shit ?

@bendu49100 sorry I forgot a "u", caguer not cager!

@@miyabihyatt Never heard of it either.

Caguer est utilisé dans le sud de la France, mais on l’étend de moins en moins

@bendu49100 oh really! The person who commented just before me already wrote where it's used. As I'm from the South we can hear it often

It was because in the past most animes were distributed/translated by 4kids, I believe you must remember their logo appearing at the end of a lot of old animes.

Very few pokemon are translated still, such as Bulbasaur/Ivysaur/Venusaur, all of which end with "ssauro" instead of "saur", as this is also the way we pronounce "dinosaur" (Dinossauro).

USA got a bunch of anime waaay after we did. Sometimes we got stuff from mexico, and a lot of the times directly from japan. Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries were pioneers when it came to anime. Americans used to have their own stuff and were not interested in importing cartoons.

Karamatsu with long hair jump scare??

BRAZIL IS UNIQUE

Kleinstein, Lichtel, Taubsi... alle so niedlich!

Die deutschen Namen sind wirklich sehr ausgefallen und manchmal kreativer als das Original oder US Version

Unlicht for the dark type is the coolest invention in my eyes

@@ungeschaut kreativer als die japanischen sind eigentlich alle. die namen sind hilarious im japanischen wenn man sie übersetzt. lavados heißt einfach feuer oder so xD die sind richtig low-effort

@@IssyCoonify als kind hab ich nichtmal geblickt dass mit unlicht einfach dunkel gemeint war, bis ich die englische version gesehen hab XD

In the Japanese version they sing “under that girls skirt” while in the US version there is nothing said at that part

I think it's more about a money reason: so much less expensive to just adapt a ready-made song than to create a new one, particularly with the time they had to do so!

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Except Italy. Italy never translated foreign anime openings and they always made their own, original for every anime and cartoon. And they all kick ass.

@@abcPIPPO95 not all the time lol, sometimes it's really off theme and just weird. And I know what I'm talking about because we did that too in France, and sometimes that gives you murder impulses when you hear the original songs that's so badass and ours that's super childish... For DBZ for example, that's just ridiculous!

Exato. Aqui não pronunciamos "tcharmendãr" e sim "xarrmanderr"

There's a twitter user who used to have a thread on how a Russian localized Pokemon would be like

thats called working on a budget :s sorry for ya. thank god the the translating and dubbing is a big thing in germany and i get some really high quality shit

@@RoyalKnightVIII that sounds hilarious tho. with the stereotypical bleak world view of a russian. god damn.

@@Foatizenknechtl why? The names were translated the way they woud for Chinese and Korean

He also did an alt version and an updated one after Ash left the show.

He also did a collaboration with Jonathon Young for a Metal version.

@@Dremag_Gaming Don't remind me it still hurts...

I always wondered how Squirtle would translate to other languages cuz in English Squirrle and Turtle almost rhyme and the word squirt plays into the water type so there's 3 parts that go into the name and most likely the words for squirrel and turtle don't rhyme and also don't make the word suirt as well

In Portuguese, we call it "carapaça"

Also with "Noctali", it's not about Night and Stone, but more a modification of Evoli to fit Night in it (from the word "Nocturne") Every evolution of Evoli/Eevee has this scheme, like in english with for exemple Umbreon, Vaporeon and Flareon becoming Noctali, Aquali and Pyroli

​​@@pierrehayek1906According to Julien Bardakoff who translated the Pokémon names to French for Nintendo (on an old web page of the journal liberation) the ending "li" comes indeed from "lithe" which is the ancient greek term for stone.

"Puce" means bug or flea but it is also a cute slang used to call someone you know and like especially if it's a girl. You either say "pupuce" or "ma puce"

The French one is badass

Wrong time and would only agree for the dubs in early years. Simulcast ftw

It's actually more because when 4Kids Entertainment acquired the license, that also included worldwide distribution rights. Saying that European countries "took" songs/names from the American version is kind of inaccurate, since the same company did all of the translations in-house. This also explains many of the bizarre editing decisions made during that time, like the infamous "jelly donut" scene; Eric Stuart explained that it made sense to refer to it as something easier for a worldwide audience to relate to, as opposed to its Japanese "onigiri" name.

In Germany we did regularly use the JP material. One Piece (with exception of first op), Digimon & Detective Conan (Case Closed) we've taken the JP stuff and dubbed/altered it.

@@PkmnMstr10 Which is understandable... but they could've just called a riceball. In the Italian dub they did just that and everyone understood.

The US American fella was trying to make her feel better with the "Maybe it's an Americas, like North and South America thing." I appreciate his attempt.

I so love German opening anime songs

wtf ernsthaft!?

Really ? I didn't know that and I have been hearing them for a while

i double checked and he even sang the (kinda bad) opening of Diamant / Perl intro@@milckop2972

This guy also did the openings for many other animes in germany like digimon, yu gi oh or DragonBall.

we germans gotta be special😂😂

same with french people

I mean Korea, France and America have different names from the Original Japanese too

Parceiro, todo mundo nesse vídeo é muito bonito. Sem exceção.

Bro u down bad??

​@@ZVLIANfr he only comments on videos with them lol

simp detected lmao @@NicolasOGordao

It’s great that you enjoyed this but this is a little much…

It's because of licensing and distributing rights, in the west, the US hat the rights at the time, that's why the animation opening sounded the same

@@KiaraKitsune That makes so much sense. Thanks for that clarification

I would have gladly traded with you, I loved having cards in different languages. lol

@@32-bitcloud I still have them as well as some French and maybe a few Italian ones

In germany and france they started to create own names for the pokemon. In other european countrys like spain or italy they just used the english names. Don't know anymore what the reason was xD So it is still like that today. At least in germany they come up with own names for the new pokemon xD

Apparently Quebec uses the French version, but French Canada, might depend where you are from, and what's the first language. Generally, the English names are used, but the French versions are acceptable.

Not surprising at all. French people would never use English names xD

@@Micha-qv5uf They are cool that way.

Also Italy uses US names for pokemon, just with mainly Italian or itanglish pronunciation

it was Jason Paige 😭

Nossa mas ela tava com vontade 0 de estar ali tambem credo

Ainda bem que não traduzem, os nomes ingleses são bem melhores

Mas já tivemos Bulbassauro e Magikarpa em vez de Bulbasaur e Magikarp.

It’s Nyahojas and Miburim, Nyoha and Miburi must be Liko’s nicknames for them

Digimon definitely did do that and still does that to this day, at least in the US.

I mean, the French guy corrects him literally right after

Let's be honest, though, it /should/ evolve with a moon stone, just like how they changed Leafeon and Glaceon to use Leaf and Ice Stones now.

@@dani007a Maybe they could work it so every Eeveelution can come from a Stone (Espeon from Sun Stone and Sylveon from Shiny Stone, maybe?), but evolving your Eevee the intended way grants it a good move (for example, Return, since Friendship should be high).

@@dani007a especially cause umbreon is literally moon related while espeon is sun related (daytime), he even has an ability called moonlight that restores hp and restores more if it's nighttime lol

A lot of fan games add the sun/moon stone evo just for convenience.

Il n'ont pas passer la chanson pokemon en français 😭😭 pourtant c'est la plus belle

Time to get a Dutch translation for the games...Imagine Squirtle Spuitcanon lol.

@@nickdentoom1173 hydroschild

Parle français alors

Makoya - makoyaa - maaakoya - makoyyaa!