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Midnight Drama "Cram Adventures Into a Pocket" |
On August 30th, 2023 The Pokémon Company announced that a live action series "Cram Adventures Into a Pocket" (ポケットに冒険をつめこんで), or "PokéTsume" for short, will begin airing on TV-Tokyo starting October 20th.
| Release / General Information |
| Spoiler-Free Synopsis |
Madoka Akagi (Nanase Nishino) grew up in Masshiro, a port town in the Kanto Region of Japan. After graduating from local university, Madoka starts working at a company that makes fish paste, but her long-held aspirations to one day be a creator leads her to start working at a small ad agency in Tokyo called ADventure. Madoka came to the big city with lofty dreams, but it turns out that real life isn't so easy...her days end up being completely different from the sparkling wonderland she had envisioned. And if that wasn't enough, she's assigned to give a presentation at work that'll decide the fate of the very company itself! One day, Madoka receives a package from her mother who's still back home. Inside is the Game Boy Pocket she used to play with as a kid and her copy of Pocket Monsters Red...
And so she starts playing Pocket Monsters Red for the first time in 20 years. And the game seems like it's jam packed with the things that make life so important!? It's here that the curtains rise on the world's very first "Pokémon Human Drama," a show where its main character learns and grows through Pokémon!
The show "Cram Adventures Into a Pocket," or "PokéTsume" for
short, is both filled with enough Pokémon to excite any
Pokémon fan and is also able to be enjoyed by those who maybe
aren't so familiar with it but who may want to start Pokémon on
their own.
The first trailer for the series was released on October 5th, 2023. Below is an English fansub of that trailer.
| List of Episodes |
In Japan, the series' premiere date is based on a seldomly-seen-outside-of-Japanese-TV 24 hour clock that goes past the 24:00 mark. In the case of PokéTsume, it's listed as premiering on October 19th at 24:30, which actually means October 20th at 12:30 AM. The premiere dates listed in the chart below are based on the latter way of reporting.
| # | Image | Episode Name | Japanese Premiere Date |
| 01 | "It's
Super Effective" こうかはばつぐんだ！ | October
20th, 2023 | |
| 02 | "[Pokémon]
Won't Obey!" いうことをきかない！ | October
27th, 2023 | |
| 03 | "Koiking is Koide-kun" (コイキングな小出くん。) | November
3rd, 2023 | |
| 04 | "Garura and Mr. Kogusuri" (ガルーラと小薬さん) | November
10th, 2023 | |
| 05 | "KABIGON Geezer used BLOCK" (カビゴンおやじのとおせんぼ) | November
17th, 2023 | |
| 06 | "What!? HIYAMA is evolving!" (おや!?ヒヤマのようすが…！) | November
24th, 2023 | |
| 07 | "Be gone...Intruders..." (……ココカラ タチサレ……) | December
1st, 2023 | |
| 08 | "MS. MEGURO used FIRE BLAST!" (目黒さ んのだいもんじ！) | December
8th, 2023 | |
| 09 | "A Rival's Existence" (ライバルの存在) | December
15th, 2023 | |
| 10 | "Cram Adventures Into a Pocket" (ポケットに冒険をつめこんで) | December
22nd, 2023 |
| Characters / Cast |
The cast of characters in this TV series are as follows:
More complete details about each character, as well as what their actors have to say about the roles, can be found here.
| Broadcast / Streaming Information |
| TV
Network / Air Time | TV-Tokyo, TV-Osaka,
TV-Aichi, TV-Setouchi, TV-Hokkaido, TVQ Kyushu Starts October 20th, airing every Friday morning from 12:30 am ~ 1:00 am JST BS TV-Tokyo, BS TV-Tokyo 4K |
| Streaming | Streaming
exclusively on U-Next U-Next: Streams with ads on the free service "TV-Tokyo on the 'Net" (TV-Tokyo's
homepage, TVer) |
| Home Video Releases |
All ten episodes of the TV show will be released on DVD / Blu-ray on February 28th, 2024.
Check here to see a
detailed breakdown of each release.
| Print Promotion for the TV Series |
The show was first announced on August 30th, 2023. A translation of that intial announcement can be found here.
The show's abbreviated nickname, "PokéTsume," comes from the
show's Japanese title Poketto
ni Bouken o Tsumekonde.
| Main Staff |
| The show's directors Takeshi Matsuura, Paul Young, and Takayuki Hayashi |
| Based On 原案 | The
"Pocket Monsters" video game series ビデオゲーム『ポケットモンスター』シリーズ |
| Planning
/ Production 企画・プロデュース | Shota
Hatanaka (畑中翔太) |
| Screenplay 脚本 | Shota
Hatanaka (畑中翔太) Atsuki Tomori (灯敦生) Tomohiro Otoshi (大歳倫弘) |
| Directors 監督 | Paul
Young (ヤングポール) Takayuki Hayashi (林隆行) Takeshi Matsuura (松浦健志) |
| Producers プロデューサー | Koichi
Uruma (TV-Tokyo) (漆間宏一 (テレビ東京)) Ayaka Masai (TV-Tokyo) (正井彩夏 (テレビ東京)) Hideyuki Wakuta (C&I Entertainment)(涌田秀幸 (C&Iエンタテインメント)) |
| Music 音楽 | Takahiro
Obata (小畑貴裕) |
| Production 制作 | TV-Tokyo
(テレビ東京) C&I Entertainment (C&Iエンタテインメント) |
| Production
Committee 製作著作 | The
"Cram Adventures Into a Pocket" Production Committee 「ポケットに冒険をつめこんで」製作委員会 |
Full Staff List
| Regular
Cast | |
| Madoka Akagi 赤城まどか | Nanase
Nishino 西野七瀬 |
| Kageaki
Hiyama 桧山景明 | Show
Kasamatsu 笠松将 |
| Koichi
Yadoya 宿⾕浩 | Muga
Tsukaji 塚地武雅 |
| Kazuchika
Kogusuri ⼩薬⼀親 | Tomoharu
Hasegawa ⻑⾕川朝晴 |
| Yoko
Meguro 目黒洋⼦ | Aya
Hirano 平野綾 |
| Yuhki Koide 小出優希 | Ryo
Sekoguchi 世古⼝凌 |
| Midori
Kudo ⼯藤美登⾥ | Rio
Uchida 内⽥理央 |
| Masako まさこ | Eriko
Sato 佐藤江梨⼦ |
| Sora Karasawa 唐沢空 | Towa
Watanabe 渡邉⽃翔 |
| Voice
Cast | |
| Ookido 大木戸 | Toshiro
Yanagiba 柳葉敏郎 |
Full Cast List
