![]() It was also the first true Pokémon manga. "Me and Billy are gonna play with our Pocket Monsters!"īut, yeah, even though Pocket Monsters was the way it was introduced to me first (I lived in Japin at the time), I still used Pokemon just because I thought it sounded cooler. Pokémon Pocket Monsters (Japanese: Pocket Monsters) is a shnen Pokémon manga based on the Pokémon games by Kosaku Anakubo. Intreging, I always thought Pocket Monsters just didn't sound right. But "Pokemon" is an acceptable contraction, simply because we don't go around saying "Pocket Monster Mart" or "Pocket Monster League". Yes, "Pocket Monsters" is more intelligent, and, frankly, it also makes the franchise seem more mature. People get lazy, or find something easier to say that carries far more meaning. To me, Pokemon is just the general term and an indication of the deterioration of language into contractions. So, technically, "Pocket Monsters" is more correct and "Pokemon" is the next best thing Nintendo had to go with. "Pokemon" was chosen when shifting the franchise over to the West, namely America, to avoid copyright infringement on the similarly sounding "Monster in My Pocket" franchise. I know I probably do offend when I say all that (not that I mean to) but I just. ![]() o_O And I dunno, I've always found Pokémon to be a really catchy name and it IS used in Japanese, too (iirc the games use the short form? I just looked up the new Mystery Dungeon game and it uses "Pokemon" so.). It's not like the name was dumbed down here which is the argument I see for a lot of people using original Japanese names in franchises-it was just shortened the natural Japanese way. To me it's only a minor step-up from saying Seera Muun instead of Sailor Moon. but I still don't understand the why people use the foreign name. It just sounds so, so unnatural in English. I don't call people out over it because I do know it comes down to preference but try as I might, it still just. I can tell when someone genuinely uses the term and when they use it just to look cool but it still irks me either way. 5 years ago), it's been way, way too hard for me to shake the preconception and not for lack of trying. Ever since (and most of this elitism was probably like. Well, for me it's because a lot of the people I used to know in the fandom who used "Pocket Monsters" were elitists and considered themselves better for using original Japanese names and terms.
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