User:Team Rocket Grunt/Interviews

This is a comprehensive list of interviews and other sources featuring Pokémon creators and key individuals involved in Pokémon production.

Interviews

Other

Date	Interviewee	Topic	Source	Links
2017.07.12	Junko Ujiie, Kengo Nakahiro, Yuki Hatake of Pokemon CG Studio	creating 3D models	cgworld.jp	[1]
	K.F. and H.T. (Tani Hiroyuki), Game Freak Planners			[2]

TCG

Date	Interviewee	Topic	Source	Links
		Pokémon TCG illustrations	ptcgic-cr.com	[3][4] [5][6] [7][8] [9][10] [11][12]

Anime

Date	Interviewee	Topic	Source	Links
2023.08.27	Satoshi Nakano, Executive animation director for SM series	Satoshi Nakano discusses animation, mentorship, digital transition, and collaboration with Yuasa	Matteo Watzky for fullfrontal.moe	fullfrontal.moe

Games

Date	Interviewee	Topic	Source	Links
1998.01.21	Atsuko Nishida	Designing Pikachu and other Generation I Pokemon and favorite animals	gamefreak.co.jp	[13]
1999.11.22	Satoshi Tajiri	Designing games, Space Invaders, childhood, bug catching, Pikachu as mascot, story of Mew, contact with Nintendo, violence in games, seizure incident	edition.cnn.com	[14][15]
2000.07	Satoshi Tajiri, Tsunekazu Ishihara	Working together, AI in Pokemon, talking Pokemon, names of the games and proposed redesign of Pokemon for USA	nintendo.co.jp	[16][17]
2000.07	Junichi Masuda, Tetsuya Watanabe, Ken Sugimori, Koji Nishino, Shigeki Morimoto		nintendo.co.jp	[18]
2000.07	Makiko Nagata, Yumiko Murai		nintendo.co.jp	[19]
2000	Ken Sugimori	Designing Pokemon	shmuplations.com	[20]
2005.08.27	Junichi Masuda, Shigeki Morimoto, Akito Mori, Emi Yoshida		amgakuin.co.jp	[21][22]
2006.04.24	Hironobu Yoshida	Designed Pokemon relation with Mr. Nishida	gpara.com	[23]
2006.10.23	Junichi Masuda, Ken Sugimori, Tsunekazu Ishihara		nintendo.co.jp	[24]
2007.05.01	Junichi Masuda, Ken Sugimori, Shigeru Ohmori, Takao Unno		Nintendo Power (May 2007)	[25]
2007.06.14	Tsunekazu Ishihara		spong.com	[26]
2009.03.19	Junichi Masuda, Takeshi Kawachimaru	Pokemon Platinum's development, antimatter inspiration for Giratina, Distortion World, Battle Frontier, more powerful legendary Pokemon, Pokemon MMO, well thought as Pokemon like Pichu and Spinda, hidden values, adult fans and Golden Gate Bridge	g4tv.com	[27]
2009.04	Junichi Masuda and Takeshi Kawachimaru	Pokemon Platinum, music, game development and game being accessible to new users	Nintendo Power magazine	[28]
2009.09.04	Shigeki Morimoto, Tsunekazu Ishihara, Satoru Iwata		iwataasks.nintendo.com	[29]
2009.09.17	Morimoto Shigeki, Tsunekazu Ishihara		pokemon-memo.com	[30]
2009.09.18	Shigeki Morimoto		dengekionline.com	[31]
2009.09.19	Shigeki Morimoto, Takao Unno, Kenji Matsushima, Akito Mori, Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Ken Sugimori		Nintendo Dream (Nov. 2009)	[32]
2009.09.25	Akito Mori		gamefreak.co.jp	[33]
2009.10.09	Shigeru Ohmori		gamefreak.co.jp	[34]
2009.10.10	Shota Kageyama, Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Takuto Kitsuta		OST Booklet	[35]
2009.10.23	Yusuke Ohmura		gamefreak.co.jp	[36]
2009.10.26	Go Ichinose		gamefreak.co.jp	[37]
2009.11	Morimoto Shigeki	Lugia's design and type	Nintendo DREAM	[38]
2010.01.20	Takeshi Shudo	Third Pokemon movie	style.fm	[39]
2010.03.31	Shigeki Morimoto, Takao Unno, Kenji Matsushima, Shigeru Ohmori, Akihito Mori, Junichi Masuda		pokemon.com	[40]
2010		informations about Pokémon Black and White		[41]
2011.02.20	Junichi Masuda and Mana Ibe	New Pokemon, C-Gear, Legendary Pokemon, favorite Pokemon and the third version	M@T	[42]
2011.02.25	Junichi Masuda and Mana Ibe	New Pokemon in Pokemon Black and White, C-Gear, Entralink, Pokewalker, Triple and Rotation Battles, Team Plasma's message, Pokemon's success, attack's animations, 3D maps, favorite Pokemon	Gameblog	[43]
2011.03.04	Junichi Masuda and Ken Sugimori	Reboot of the franchise, why portable consoles and favorite Pokemon	spong.com	[44]
2011.03	Junichi Masuda	About cutting unpopular Pokemon and why western region for Pokemon Black and White	Nintendo Power	[45]
2012.06.09	Tsunekazu Ishihara		pk-mn.com	[46]
2012.08.05	Junichi Masuda and Takao Unno	Creation of Pokemon Black and White	Fan Meeting in Pokémon Center	[47]
2012.09.07	Junichi Masuda	Pokemon Black and White sequels, Nintendo DS, 3D in the future, Pokémon MMO, Pokemon cries and real-time battle system	gameinformer.com	[48]
2013.09.19	Junichi Masuda and Hironobu Yoshida	Pokemon X and Y, their names, region, Horde Battles, Sky Battles, Starters, flowers in tall grass, rivals, Team Flare, Poke Amie, custamization, worldwide release, higher pace, why Kanto starters appear and what excites them	gamesradar.com	[49]
2013.09.24	Junichi Masuda, Hironobu Yoshida	Online concetivity, Pokémon Conquest, Masuda's music, favorite Pokemon, Super Training, inspiration for Mega Pokémon, new battle types, a new Pokémon type, rejected designs, Pokémon Z, Super Smash Bros, Azure Flute	nintendoworldreport.com	[50]
2013.10.11	Junichi Masuda	Making Pokemon living beings, Player Search System, 'E' rating in America and Europe and DLC	vg247.com	[51]
2013.10.12	Junichi Masuda	France as inspiration for Kalos, Nintendo 3DS and its features, Mega Evolution, which Pokemon are chosen to be included, Fairy-type, how hard to come up with new ideas and too weird ideas	YOGSCAST Kim	[52]
2013.10.23	Junichi Masuda	Pokemon X and Y names not being colors or gems, counries inspiring Pokemon regions, Mega Evolution, favorite Generation VI starter, Generation I starters and spin-off games	games.ch	[53]
2013.11.01	Junichi Masuda	Ultimate Weapon, role of legendary Pokemon and rebalancing the game with each generation	Pokémon Trash	[54]
2014.02.09	Junichi Masuda	Touch screen, number of new Pokemon in X and Y, international regions and experience in France	PokebipTV	[55]
2014.03.13	Junichi Masuda		gameinformer.com	[56]
2014.05.13	Junichi Masuda	Music interest	pokemon.com	[57]
2014.05.13	Junichi Masuda		pokemon.com	[58]
2014.08.08	Nob Ogasawara	Translations of the games, mistranslations, favorite lines and Zelda games	TheSpeedGamers	[59][60][61]
2014.10.14	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	On Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire	ntower tv - Deine Nintendo-Videos	[62]
2014.10.14	Junichi Masuda	Everyone is more busy, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Pokemon Z and rebooting the series	gamespot.com	[63]
2014.10.16	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori, game producers		GameXplain	[64]
2014.10.23	Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, Minako Adachi		2083.jp	[65]
2014.12.11	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Junichi role as director and passing it to Ohmori, Johto and Hoenn's concepts, Eon Ticket, balancing child as adult audience, hidden values, Pokemon design process and the future	wired.com	[66]
2016.10.19	Shigeru Ohmori	Reexmining Pokemon for Generation VII, Z-Moves, transfer from Pokémon Red and Blue and Festival Plaza	USgamer	[67]
2016.11.25	Junichi Masuda	Masuda's experience on Japan Expo and conference about Pokemon Sun and Moon	Japan Expo	[68]
2016.12.11	Junichi Masuda and Ken Sugimori	Game Boy Challenges, Pokemon Red and Green western names, coordinating various Pokemon media, limit on the number of new Pokemon introduced and new types	Retro Gamer	[69]
2017.01.03	Yajima	Alain's role, Ash's hair, Ash-Greninja, Serena's kiss	AnimeStyle010	[70][71]
2017.04.19	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	New ideas for Pokemon, Pokemon GO's impact, sucess of Pokemon Sun and Moon, new challenges with those games, impact of hybrid nature of Nintendo Switch, working on such impactful franchise and future plans	GAMES.CH	[72]
2017.04.22	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Shiny locked legendaries, favorite Generation VII Pokemon, Trials, concept of Alolan Exeggutor and Alolan Forms	Newtiteuf	[73]
2017.08.11	Shigeru Ohmori and Junichi Masuda	Player's freedom and story in Pokémon	Game Informer	[74]
2017.08.14	Junichi Masuda	Challenges with Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire and stress that lead to hospital visit	gameinformer.com	[75]
2017.08.16	Junichi Masuda	Difficultes with creating Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire	forbes.com	[76]
2017.08.16	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Looking at early design documents and programming in assembly	Game Informer	[77]
2017.11.20	Rafał Gosieniecki	Work for Pokemon and concept arts for Pokemon XY	pl.ign.com	[78]
2018	Shigeru Miyamoto		Satoshi Tajiri: Pokémon wo Tsukutta Otoko	[79]
2018.02.27	Junichi Masuda, Shigeru Ohmori		gameinformer.com	[80]
2018.05.02	Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Kōji Nishino	original concepts and design process for Pokemon like Piakchu, Snorlax or Clefairy	Takeshi Tsuzuki for yomiuri.co.jp	[81]
2018.05.02	Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, Koji Nishino		yomiuri.co.jp	[82]
2018.06.08	Junichi Masuda	Smartphone and switch connectivity, exclusive Pokemon, Pokemon GO's success, concept of "Let's Go" game and Pokemon Yellow inspiration	eurogamer.net	[83]
2018.07.18	Junichi Masuda		Weekly Famitsu	[84]
2018.07.26	Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, Koji Nishino		Pokemon.com	[85]
2018.09.28	Junichi Masuda	Beginning of Pokemon series and comparison with the Let's Go games	polygon.com	[86]
2018.09.28	Junichi Masuda	Pokemon being too cute for American audience	usgamer.net	[87]
2018.09	Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Motofumi Fujiwara	Eevee's design	lavacutcontent.com	[88]
2018.09	Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, Motofumi Fujiwara		Pokemon ORAS Art Book	[89]
2018.10.16	Junichi Masuda, Kensaku Nabana	Let's Go in the Kanto region, postgame content, HMs and Meltan's leak	eurogamer.net	[90]
2018.10.17	Junichi Masuda	On jerk rivals	gamespot.com	[91]
2018.1027	Junichi Masuda and Kensaku Nabana	Game development, Poke Ball Plus, favorite Pokemon and GO Park	NintendoAU	[92]
2019.05.10	Junichi Masuda, Takao Unno and Tani Hiroyuki		ゲームフリーク公式チャンネル	[93]
2019.05.23	Junichi Masuda	History of Pokemon brand	Famitsu Weekly	[94]
2019.06.13	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Designing the Galar region, creating new Pokémon, developing a new Pokémon game, Dynamax, Wild Area and music	pokemon.com	[95]
2019.06.13	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Dexit, size of Galar Pokedex, return of Pokemon in the updates, other titles than Pokemon, Dynamax and Wild Area	famitsu.com	[96][97]
2019.06.13	Shigeru Ohmori and Junichi Masuda	Nintendo Switch, Dynamax, United Kingdom as inspiration, Max Raids, Dexit, comparisons to Breath of the Wild, and Gym Stadiums	usgamer.net	[98]
2019.06.18	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Dynamax, Detective Pikachu movie, Pokemon design process	metro.co.uk	[99]
2019.07.10	Daiki Tomiyasu	Ash never winning the league	@AshandSerena	[100]
2019.10.01	Shigeru Ohmori and Kazumasa Iwao	Influence from Pokemon GO and Max Raid Battles hardship	gameinformer.com	[101]
2019.10.03	The Pokémon Company International	Clarification on gyms in Pokemon Sword and Shield	gameinformer.com	[102]
2019.10.14	James Turner	Designed Pokemon, hirining interview and personal style	Game Informer	[103]
2019.10.24	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	British slang in Pokemon Sword and Shield, Dexit, number of new Pokemon, graphics, voice acting, AI in Pokemon, Wild Area, similarities between the UK and Japan, storytelling and what if Pokemon were real	metro.co.uk	[104]
2019.10.24	Shigeru Ohmori and Junichi Masuda	Interactions with Leon, Game Freak logo on cape, intractions in the Wild Area, ultimate Pokémon game, Max Raid Battle difficulty, Pokémon timeline, gyms, two versions and anatomy of Pokémon	gameinformer.com	[105]
2019.10.24	Shigeru Ohmori, Junichi Masuda	Pokemon Sword and Shield	gameinformer.com	[106]
2019.10.25	Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori	Adapting to the Nintendo Switch, nations of United Kingdom, favorite starter, balancing gameplay, Dexit, criteria of Pokemon in the game, attention to new mechanics like Dynamax and Mega Evolution and fish & chips-themed Pokémon	nintendolife.com	[107][108]
2019.11.12	Shigeru Ohmori and Junichi Masuda	Wild Area, fully open-world Pokémon game, Pokémon Camp, Poké Jobs, Exp. Share, Balancing Battles, Dynamax, Max Raid Battles, What Makes a Pokémon RPG, Creating New Pokémon and Galar regional variants	pokemon.com	[109]
2019.11.17	Junichi Masuda	Annoucing new Pokemon in creative way	nintendoeverything.com	[110]
2019.11.30	Takeshi Shudo	Different story for Anime, Lugia, addiction	lavacutcontent.com	[111]
2020.03.26	Hideaki Hakozaki	Making illustration for Pokemon TCG	famitsu.com	[112]
2020.10.18	Tomokazu Komiya	Illustrations for TCG	Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Collection book	[113]
2021.11.10	Atsuko Nishida	Piakchu's design, Fairy type, Sylveon	funs-project.com	[114]
2022.03.09	Nob Ogasawara	Translations of Pokemon games and working with Nintendo	gamehistory.org	[115]
2022.04.25	R.M.	Working on Pokemon Sword and Shield	gamefreak.co.jp	[116]
2022.06.01	Junichi Masuda	Statement about stepping down	corporate.pokemon.co.jp	[117]
2022.08.28	Nob Ogasawara	Nob Ogasawara's game translation career, challenges, Pokémon localization	ANMTVLA	[118]
2024.04.24	Iwata, Ishihara, Morimoto	Logistics of the game release, Mew, Pokemon Gold and Silver	nintendo.com	[119]