All Aboard the Pre-World Hype Train! Choo! Choo!

This is it. Your last day to make predictions before the Pokémon World Championships commence and we either do get a new game announcement or, Arceus forbid, we don’t. So what are you expecting to see? Pokémon Z? X2 & Y2? Pokémon Alphabet Soup? And of course, there’s more to speculate about than a simple title. Will … Read more

Dance along and learn the Pikachu Dance

Ahead of the Pikachu Outbreak event coming up in Japan, the Official Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel has uploaded a tutorial so fans can learn the Pikachu Dance at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiXYK-GAn4c The five minute video runs through each step of the moves in the Pikachu Dance and while we don’t expect many of our readers will … Read more

What would Pokémon Power Rangers look like? Intrepid cosplayers show us

For Otakon 2015 five skilled cosplayers went as “PokéRangers”, featuring Mega Garchomp, Charizard Scizor and Rayquaza… as well as plain ‘ol Magikarp. Although Western Audiences may associate the theme with Power Rangers, the actual cosplay was a Super Sentai (that’s an ‘s’ not an ‘h’) crossover, which is essentially a series of very similar shows … Read more

PJT ’15 has been delayed & some stuff

PJT ’15 delays As most of our readers are hopefully aware, we announced out second annual tournament at the end of May and were all expecting to be heading into the final rounds right about now. However, due to issues with time, participant availability and some other issues we’ve made the decision to delay the … Read more

PJN in JPN: Hands-on with Pokkén Tournament

With Pokkén Tournament having launched a week ago, I figured it was time for me to try this new arcade game and see how it played. For the trip I also recruited a fellow Pokémon fan and friend to come with me since I knew I’d need an extra pair of hands for filming. We stopped in … Read more

PokéJungle Asks: What’s Your Favorite Shiny Pokémon?

Shiny Pokémon are as cool as they are elusive. Some will go entire games without seeing any, while others will hatch egg after egg in search of one. A friend in here in Tokyo is currently working on hatching a shiny Snorlax and has already gone through 500 eggs. He probably has many, many more … Read more