A Pocketful of Adventures

English poster

Pokémon Live: A Pocketful of Adventures (Japanese: ポケットに冒険(ぼうけん)をつめこんで Pack Your Pocket With Adventure), abbreviated as (Japanese: ポケつめ Pokétsume), is an original live-action drama based on the core series Pokémon games. It consists of 10 episodes, and stars Nanase Nishino as Madoka Akagi.

It aired on TV Tokyo in Japan during the Moku Dra 24 timeslot every Friday at 12:30 AM from October 20 to December 22, 2023.[note 1] In Taiwan, the show was released with Traditional Chinese subtitles on the streaming platform KKTV beginning with the first two episodes on October 31, 2023, followed by a simulcast with the Japanese release. In South Korea, the show was aired with Korean subtitles on channelW every Thursday from November 9, 2023 to January 11, 2024. In the Middle East and North Africa, the show was streamed with English and Japanese audio and Arabic and English subtitles on Shahid (since rebranded as MBC Shahid) beginning on May 18, 2024.[note 2]

The series was announced on August 30, 2023. A 100-second trailer was posted on the official Twitter account on October 5, 2023.

Plot

Madoka Akagi grew up in Mashiro, a port town in the Kanto region. After graduating from a local university, she worked for a fish cake maker, but changed jobs to work for ADventure, a small advertising agency in Tokyo, in order to become a creator, which she had longed to be since her school days. Madoka moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream, but reality was not so sweet. The glittering world she had imagined was not what she had in mind. In addition, she ends up taking on a presentation that holds the fate of the company in its hands. Then, Madoka receives a package from her mother. In it is a Game Boy and Pokémon Red cartridge that she used to play as a child. She starts playing Pokemon Red for the first time in 20 years.

Episodes

Code Screenshot English title Japanese title US broadcast Japan broadcast Time between
PPA01 It's super effective! It's super effective! こうかはばつぐんだ!
It's Super Effective!
No airdate
has been announced
October 20, 2023 960 days
since Japanese airing
PPA02 Why won't you listen! Why won't you listen! いうことをきかない!
It Won't Obey!
No airdate
has been announced
October 27, 2023 953 days
since Japanese airing
PPA03 Magikarp Koide Magikarp Koide コイキングな小出くん。
Koide the Koiking.
No airdate
has been announced
November 3, 2023 946 days
since Japanese airing
PPA04 Kangaskhan and Mr. Kogusuri Kangaskhan and Mr. Kogusuri ガルーラと小薬さん
Garura and Mr. Kogusuri
No airdate
has been announced
November 10, 2023 939 days
since Japanese airing
PPA05 Roadblocking of Old Snorlax Roadblocking of Old Snorlax カビゴンおやじのとおせんぼ
KABIGON Geezer used BLOCK
No airdate
has been announced
November 17, 2023 932 days
since Japanese airing
PPA06 What? HIYAMA is evolving! What? HIYAMA is evolving! おや!?ヒヤマのようすが…!
What!? HIYAMA is evolving!
No airdate
has been announced
November 24, 2023 925 days
since Japanese airing
PPA07 Get out Get out ……ココカラ タチサレ……
Be gone...Intruders...
No airdate
has been announced
December 1, 2023 918 days
since Japanese airing
PPA08 Meguro's Fire Blast! Meguro's Fire Blast! 目黒さんのだいもんじ!
MS. MEGURO used FIRE BLAST!
No airdate
has been announced
December 8, 2023 911 days
since Japanese airing
PPA09 The Rival Awaits The Rival Awaits ライバルの存在
A Rival's Existence
No airdate
has been announced
December 15, 2023 904 days
since Japanese airing
PPA10 Pocket Adventure Pocket Adventure ポケットに冒険をつめこんで
Pack Your Pocket With Adventure
No airdate
has been announced
December 22, 2023 897 days
since Japanese airing
This concludes A Pocketful of Adventures.

Cast

Cast
Madoka Akagi Madoka Akagi Nanase Nishino 赤城まどか 西野七瀬
Kageaki Hiyama Kageaki Hiyama Shō Kasamatsu 桧山景明 笠松将
Kazuchika Kogusuri Kazuchika Kogusuri Tomoharu Hasegawa 小薬一親 長谷川朝晴
Yoko Meguro Yōko Meguro Aya Hirano 目黒洋子 平野綾
Yuki Koide Yūki Koide Ryō Sekoguchi 小出優希 世古口凌
Sora Karasawa Sora Karasawa Towa Watanabe 唐沢空 渡邉斗翔
Koichi Yadoya Kōichi Yadoya Muga Tsukaji 宿谷浩一 塚地武雅
Midori Kudo Midori Kudō Rio Uchida 工藤美登里 内田理央
Masako Masako Eriko Sato まさこ 佐藤江梨子
Voice appearances by
Okido Ōkido Toshirō Yanagiba 大木戸 柳葉敏郎

Staff

Based on
原案
  • The Pokémon video game series
  • ビデオゲーム『ポケットモンスター』シリーズ
Planning and Produced by
企画・プロデュース
  • 畑中翔太
Screenwriter
脚本
  • 畑中翔太
  • 灯敦生
  • 大歳倫弘
Director
監督
  • ヤングポール
  • 林隆行
  • 松浦健志
Producers
プロデューサー
  • Kōichi Uruma (TV Tokyo)
  • Ayaka Masai (TV Tokyo)
  • Hideyuki Wakuta (C&I entertainment)
  • 漆間宏一(テレビ東京)
  • 正井彩夏(テレビ東京)
  • 涌田秀幸(C&Iエンタテインメント)
Production
制作
  • TV Tokyo
  • C&I entertainment
  • テレビ東京
  • C&Iエンタテインメント
Executive Production & Writing
製作著作
  • A Pocketful of Adventures Production Committee
  • 「ポケットに冒険をつめこんで」製作委員会

Gallery

Characters

Posters and logos

Publicity still

Trivia

  • On the Shahid website, the title "Pokemon Live: A Pocketful Of Adventures" is used in English, Arabic, and French. In the English subtitles, the title card is translated as "A Pocketful of Adventures" in episodes 1 and 2 and as "Pocket Adventure" in episodes 3–10. In the Arabic subtitles, it is translated as "مغامرات متنوعة" (Various Adventures) in all episodes except episode 3, where it is translated as "حفنة من المغامرات" (A Handful of Adventures).

In other languages

See also

External links

Notes

  1. The series was broadcast on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting every Friday at 12:30 AM beginning October 20; broadcast on BS TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo 4K every Wednesday at 12:00 AM beginning October 25; streamed on-demand exclusively on U-NEXT; and streamed as catch-up TV on Net mo TeleTo and TVer.
  2. Specifically, it is available in the following countries and regions: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen.

References

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