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Are the new sold-out official Pokémon cookie kits worth the hype?
- Oona McGee
Mar 11, 2022 - Tweet
Piplup, Pikachu — we bake you!
- Japan
- (anime • baking • biscuits • COK • cookie kit • cookies • cute • food • Pikachu • Piplup • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • SNJO • sweets • video games)
Psyduck teapot produced by Japanese craftspeople is here to serve up a headache-soothing cuppa
- Krista Rogers
Mar 8, 2022
Stylishly cute new kitchen good pays homage to an item from the fourth generation of Pokémon games.
This is chalk?!? Yep, and it’s a touching Pokémon goodbye from a Japanese teacher to his students
- Casey Baseel
Mar 4, 2022
Teacher bookends three years with his class with two stunning pieces of chalkboard art.
- Japan
- (anime • art • awesome • chalkboard art • cool • Dragon Quest • education • illustrtion • moving • Pokemon • Pokémon Arceus • Pokemon Legends Arceus • schools • Teachers • touching • video games)
Pokémon is going open-world with brand-new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2022
Developers looking to modernize Pokémon with the series’ first seamless open-world installment.
- Japan
- (game freak • nintendo • Pokemon • Pokémon Scarlet • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet • Pokémon Violet • video • video games)
Live-action Pokémon cooking videos melt the heart, whet the appetite【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2022
Who wouldn’t feel like whipping up a batch of sweets if they shared their house with Pikachu and some other Poké pals?
- Japan
- (anime • cooking • cool • Live action • Pikachu • Pokemon • sweets • video • video games)
We Pokémon GO to Utsunomiya City for some Pokétourism
- Master Blaster
Feb 19, 2022
Join us on a Polywhirlwind tour of Utsunomiya.
- Japan
- (Ikuna Kamezawa • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokémon manhole covers • travel • utsunomiya • video games)
Enjoy a steaming bowl of Piplup with the taste of the Edo Period in fun new collaboration
- Katie Pask
Feb 11, 2022
Penguin Pokémon’s latest promotional product involves a nice bowl of miso soup.
Tochigi Prefecture’s three new Pokéfuta are the first in the north of Japan’s Kanto region
- Krista Rogers
Feb 8, 2022
These new Pokéfuta also mean that half of all Japanese prefectures are now equipped with their own unique Pokémon manhole covers.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • cute • manhole covers • Poké Lids • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Tochigi • travel • utsunomiya • video games)
Kagawa Prefecture is transformed into Slowpoke Paradise in a brand-new travel campaign
- Krista Rogers
Feb 8, 2022
Slowpoke buses, Slowpoke hotel rooms, and even a Slowpoke ferry pop up in Kagawa’s cities (but don’t worry because the service isn’t slow).
- Japan
- (hotel • hotels • Kagawa Prefecture • Pokemon • Slowpoke • takamatsu • themed • transportation • travel • udon • Yadon)
Hands-on with Pokémon Legends: Arceus from someone vomit-inducingly bad at action games
- SoraNews24
Jan 27, 2022
If you’re so bad at action games that even you non-gamer spouse clowns on you, will you still have fun with the newest Pokémon game?
Sorry, Piplup. Starter Pokémon buddy or not, we’re still gonna eat you【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2022
At least there’s a small bit of mercy in the artistic design of these Pokémon sweets.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Piplup • Pokemon • Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl • SNJO • starter Pokémon • sweets)
Giant Pokémon Go video display at Shinjuku Station brings our reporter to tears
- Oona McGee
Jan 12, 2022
A moving moment…for more reasons than one.
- Japan
- (ad • advertising • augmented reality mobile game • marketing • mobile games • Niantic • nintendo • P.K. Sanjun • Pokemon • Pokemon ad • Pokémon GO • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • Tokyo • video • video games)
Gorgeous Pokémon sculpture made from beer bottles and crystal candy
- Katie Pask
Jan 11, 2022
Creative YouTuber also makes Pokémon that actually charge phones, act as speakers, and more.
- Japan
- (art • awesome • clay • creative • figure • figurine • figurines • froslass • Pokemon • rare Pokémon • sweets • technology • toys)
New designs added to custom Pokémon name pendants including popular fave Piplup
- Katy Kelly
Jan 7, 2022
Use whatever words you like on your pendant and stud it with your Pokémon symbol of choice!
- Japan
- (beautiful • Dedenne • expensive • jewelery • necklaces • pendants • Piplup • Pokemon • U-Treasure)
Pokémon Café celebrates upcoming release of Pokémon Legends game with new limited-edition menu
- Dale Roll
Jan 7, 2022
Enjoy Hisui Region Pokémon in edible form!
- Japan
- (cute • food • limited time • Osaka • Pokemon • Pokémon Cafe • Pokemon Legends Arceus • Tokyo)
Akihabara card shop asks visitors to stop getting liquored up inside the store
- Casey Baseel
Jan 4, 2022
Sir, this is a place for Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh, not beer and shochu.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • collectible card games • collectible trading card games • crazy • etiquette • manners • Pokemon • Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Limited time Pokémon Lapras Cafe in Miyagi Prefecture promotes tourism in northern Japan
- Shannon
Jan 2, 2022
Like Lapras? Like the northern Tohoku region? Then you’re in luck.
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • Chansey • cool • cute • Geodude • Lapras • Miyagi • Miyagi Prefecture • Pokemon • restaurants • themed restaurants • travel • video games)
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Grand Underground Spheres enter real world, wait for you to eat them
- Casey Baseel
Dec 31, 2021
You don’t have to go digging into the earth to find them, either.
- Japan
- (candy • food • nintendo • Parco • Pokemon • Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl • Shibuya Parco • sweets • video games)
Pokémon-themed doughnut lucky bag is filled with sweet surprises
- Oona McGee
Dec 29, 2021
Mister Donut makes us feel like the very best, like no one ever was this New Year.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cute • donuts • doughnuts • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2022 • Japanese New Year • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2022 • Mister Donut • New Year's • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNJO)
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl game music is now free to enjoy or download for a limited time
- Krista Rogers
Dec 29, 2021
149 tracks from the games, including background music and sound effects, can now become the epic background playlist for your daily life.
- Japan
- (free • music • nintendo • Pokemon • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl • Pokémon DP Sound Library • video games)
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