Guidance - Pokemon

Blake Anderson

Their cards are breaking auction records. Growing evermore, you could do a video on the rise of the value of pokemon cards, and all the intricacies/details involved in such.

I was introduced to Pokemon in its anime form, prior to knowing a game existed. This is probably how a lot of us first encountered it. The anime aired at 6:00 in the morning when I was in school, and it gave me something to do before leaving home. This one might be worth multiple entries over time, but it is perhaps best to start with how it came to be, and its rise into what it is today.

Company Man

Appreciate it. Hadn't thought much about Pokemon Go.

Brett Walton

I don’t know much about Pokémon but I have played Pokémon go. It would be interesting to here the ridiculous ways people did to catch Pokémon.

Christopher Bassett

I agree, this should be a series. Otherwise you'll end up with long videos or cutting good or important information. I would touch on both American and Japanese, their differences but consider your audience. You may do better with the American versions.

Company Man

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. I almost wanted to call it a fad in the way that it came on so fast and strong but then it's also still going strong. So that should be a really interesting thing to talk about. Appreciate the help.

Company Man

It's not going to be three videos but those are probably 3 good segments for a single video.

Catherine DeKorte

Seconding these core three sections. The main series games are the primary focus and the anime and TCG schedule is often built around those game releases (hence why dexit probably had to happen, to keep all of that and more on a coordinated schedule).

llibertygamer

I think a good talking could be just how quickly the series expanded in terms of multimedia and licensing. The video games, show and card games launched practically simultaneously here in the west and within a short time we had a theatrical film, an album, toys, comics, and even a stage play. While yeah most kids media hits most of these eventually the way Pokemon managed to rapid fire content to consume during it's early years always stood out to me.

Perseus Barahona-Molina

I would suggest maybe splitting it into 3 videos. You can do the history, show/games, and the gaming area (such as the games and cards).

Company Man

Yeah, that statement is for Nintendo and talks shockingly little about Pokemon. I could try to pick through some of those over the years and see what I could find but I don't have high hopes.

Company Man

That's good Anthony. It sounds so much simpler when you separate it into 3 categories like that. I may try to use that to structure the video.

Company Man

Yes, I think that'd be a perfect start. It's also going to be a struggle on choosing to focus on the Japanese or American side of things. You say Red and Green, but it's Red and Blue in America so things like that are going to be a constant distinction I'll have to make.

Not public but it seems like they still release annual statements if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/annual1903e.pdf

Company Man

Those are all things I'd really like to include as well but as far as I can tell, it's not publicly available. It's not a public company so almost anything I find along those lines are broad estimates which I typically try to stay away from. I'm going to include whatever I could find but I hope the absence of some of it doesn't hurt the video too much.

Anthony Alberti

I'd focus on the TV series, Gameboy games, and trading card game. There's a lot you could expand to from there, but for me all of those qualify as the "must-have" essentials.

Would love to learn about the money aspect of the franchise. The market cap in a sense, possibly the rivalry with Digimon. How Nintendo really capitalized on growing Pokemon, how much of the revenue of Nintendo is from Pokemon, stuff like that.

milkshake

pokemon is such a huge topic, i’d have a hard time trying to figure this one out. i’d probably start with the creator, how the game was based on his childhood of collecting insects. followed up by the first games (red and green), then the trading cards, then the anime, and lastly the manga. i never read the manga and have only watched the earlier episodes of the anime so i cant say much about those. same with trading cards.