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“Its name was Gorochu.”Did you receive any orders when creating Pikachu?Nishida: “There were no specifications other than gameplay ones, such as it had to be Electric-type and that it would evolve twice. I designed Pikachu and Raichu based on that.”Sugimori: “Weren’t you told to make it an Electric-type Pokémon and to make it cute?”Nishida: “No, I wasn’t. I was told to make its final form look strong. That’s right, there was an evolved form after Raichu at the time. Its name was Gorochu. It had fangs and horns andlooked like a god of thunder.”Why was this Gorochu rejected?Nishino: “That’s because, in the game specifications, Pikachu ended up being the kind of Pokémon that evolves only once.”Sugimori: “There was nothing wrong with its appearance—it simply had to do with the balance within the game.”Nishino: “There was also a problem in terms of the size of the game data. We had to save space by taking Pokémon originally designed to evolve twice and making them evolve only once. Pikachu was not one of the first three Pokémon, so it was an easy target for this kind of reduction.”
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Sugimori: “Come to think of it, the one who came up with the name was Ms. Nishida.”Nishida: “Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese]. For ‘chu,‘ [the “squeak” sound a mouse makes in Japanese] I wasn’t thinking of a mouse but rather chose it because it sounded good, and also because of its size, so I combined several different elements to come up with its name. Pikachu is not particularly mouse-shaped, and a Mouse Pokémon named Rattata already existed, so I actually hadn’t intended to make it a mouse.”Sugimori: “Making Pikachu a Mouse Pokémon happened after the fact. I think Mr. Tajiri [the president of GAME FREAK], who wrote the setting text, made that decision.”“We really would do whatever.”By the way, who designed the first three Pokémon chosen by the main character?Sugimori: “Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle were all designed by Ms. Nishida.”
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