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look at... 2 In an interview with the Pokémon creator Satoshi Taijiri, he believes Americans understand the concept of Pokémon better than the Japanese image by mrchopin.tumbli.conm

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Fresh Prince of Nohr

Sep 05, 2013 at 09:00AM EDT in reply to Zancrow

I read the interview in question (and keep in mind this was a fairly old interview) and what he was saying was that when at how Pokemon merch was marketed at the time, Japanese merch usually only had Pikachu on the tag to represent it, while American merch had both Pikachu and Ash showing a bond between Pokemon and humans, and that is why he said Americans understand it better.

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