New Translation: Game Freak Origins

Hey folks. So today's translation is a 5 page interview with Junichi Masuda discussing the early days of Game Freak and Pokemon. As usual, I've included some outside sources, including about 25 translated pages from the Satoshi Tajiri biographical manga. Like all the Patreon-only articles, the password to access is "Pokemon History Club". Here's the link: http://lavacutcontent.com/masuda-game-freak-history/

Next up is an interview translation with Gen 1 producer Takashi Kawaguchi. I'm sure y'all have all heard of the 1990 Capumon pitch. Well, Kawaguchi was the guy who Tajiri pitched it to -- he was the guy sitting across the table from Tajiri. Then the next article's gonna be a 34 page Tajiri interview from May 2000. It's super long -- the longest interview he ever did -- so I'm gonna break it up into three parts and post them a week or two apart.

I mentioned a few posts back that I'm in the process of acquiring some never-before-seen Lost Pokemon designs. I just wanted to let y'all know it's still progressing, although much slower than I'd like. Unfortunately the speed is out of my control. But it's still moving forward, and I'm very excited about it. I've also hired Nob Ogasawara to translate all 70 pages of the Pokemon Colosseum manga, but that'll take some time as well.

Below are links to all the previous Patreon-exclusive articles. The password for all of them is "Pokemon History Club". Thanks again for y'all's support, it really means a lot, and helps keep the wheels turning. Cheers mates.

1. Translation from the Pokedex book, all nine Game Freak developers are interviewed to discuss Gen 1's development (1996): http://lavacutcontent.com/satoshi-tajiri-pokedex-interview

2. Tajiri and Ishihara interview translation about Game Freak and Pokemon's early days (2000): 

  a. Part 1 is freely and publicly available on my website: http://lavacutcontent.com/satoshi-tajiri-ishihara-interview/

  b. Part 2 is only on Patreon: http://lavacutcontent.com/tajiri-tsunekazu-ishihara-interview/

3. Sugimori and Masuda interview translation about the Tao Trio's development, taken from two Japanese magazines (2011-2012): http://lavacutcontent.com/sugimori-masuda-tao-trio/

4. Two Morimoto video interview translations about Mew's development (2019): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qq4COx9KoazUvL-bqOMNOMWSyeTQzMSM?usp=sharing

5. Sugimori and Masuda interview about Diamond & Pearl's development (2007): http://lavacutcontent.com/diamond-pearl-masuda-sugimori/

6. Translations of all 21 Pokemon pages from the 2014 art book Ken Sugimori Works: http://lavacutcontent.com/ken-sugimori-works-artbook-scans

7. The 5 page interview from Ken Sugimori Works: http://lavacutcontent.com/ken-sugimori-works-artbook-translation

8. Pokemon Colosseum interview and concept art: http://lavacutcontent.com/pokemon-colosseum-developer-interview/