A Pocketful of Adventures

Pokémon Live: A Pocketful of Adventures (Japanese: ポケットに冒険をつめこんで 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 |
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| PPA01 | 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! | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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! | 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 | ……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! | 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 | 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 | 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
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| 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 | |
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| Okido | Ōkido | Toshirō Yanagiba | 大木戸 | 柳葉敏郎 | |
Staff
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| Planning and Produced by 企画・プロデュース |
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Gallery
Characters
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Cast
Posters and logos
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Announcement teaser
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Key visual
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Japanese poster
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English poster
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Chinese poster
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Korean poster
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English logo
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Japanese logo
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
| Language | Title | |
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| Arabic | مغامرات متنوعة | |
| Mandarin Chinese | 口袋裡的冒險 | |
| Korean | 포켓에 모험을 가득 담고 | |
See also
External links
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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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