Pokémon’s new live-action drama series heaps on the nostalgia in new trailer
by Charles Pulliam-Moore from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FB3S)
Nanase Nishino as Madoka Akagi. | Image: TV Tokyo / The Pokemon Company The Detective Pikachu movie proved that The Pokemon Company is more than capable of producing solid live-action projects for the big screen. And from the looks of TV Tokyo's new upcoming Pokemon-inspired show PokeTsume, that's true of episodic series, too.
Set in our own mundane reality, PokeTsume centers the life of Madoka Akagi (Nanase Nishino), a young woman from Japan's actual Kanto region (which was the inspiration for the Kanto region from the Pokemon games). After graduating from college and doing a short stint working as a kamaboko-maker, Madoka finds herself moving to Tokyo for a new job at a small ad agency, and while the gig definitely feels like a step in the right direction for her, life in the city isn't anything like what...