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What Japanese fans actually said about Pokémon — reveals, trailers, and updates, pulled from Japanese YouTube comment sections and translated into English. Every quote is a real comment with its original like count, linked back to the source video.
4 reaction roundups · Updated Jun 28, 2026
“Being abandoned by a Friendship-evolved Pokémon hit way harder than I expected. He's a piece of garbage and it STILL manages to look genuinely tragic. That's some skill.”
なつき進化に見放されるというのが予想したよりキツイ描写だったな クズでもすごく悲惨に見えるの凄い
20 comments pulled from the comment sections of 4 roundups of this title. The selection changes every day.
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“Gotta say Slugma and Magcargo. Fine if you've got a hearth, but without one your house might just burn down lol”
マグマッグ、マグカルゴかなぁ 竈があれば良いけど、無かったら家が燃えるかも（汗）
— @緑のきな粉餅 · 113 likesPokémon You Could Never Own IRL: Magcargo's Heat and Wailord's Size, Debated
Gotta say Slugma and Magcargo. Fine if you've got a hearth, but without one your house might just burn down lol
マグマッグ、マグカルゴかなぁ 竈があれば良いけど、無かったら家が燃えるかも（汗）
If they do a "Legends: Unova," I want it to land on Ghetsis being Ghetsis whether it's the past or the future lol (and if it's the past, I'd love N's parents to show up).
『レジェンズ:イッシュ』やるなら、過去でも未来でもゲーチスはゲーチスだったっていう話になってほしいw(過去なら、Nの両親とか出てほしいな)
Especially since Scovillain and Victreebel got handed broken or perfectly-synergizing Abilities… makes it sting even more.
スコヴィラン・ウツボットはチート特性や噛み合う特性を貰ったから余計にね…
Liko was being a total saint, I never thought Pokémon anime could pull off something this heavy. My family was writhing and losing it over Umbreon and Amethio.
リコがめっちゃ聖女してた、アニポケでここまでの出きるとは思わなかったな 身内がブラッキーとアメジオで悶絶しながら発狂してた
When you think about it, Rowlet really is the MVP. There's no reason you couldn't keep one.
そう考えるとやっぱモクローは優秀よな、飼えない理由がない
There's no way we don't get an Alola dynasty arc… lol
絶対アローラ王朝編来るやろ…w
Yeah, the Lumiose-born Mega Evolutions really do have a lot of high-quality Pokémon in the bunch.
やっぱりミアレ産メガシンカは質のいいポケモン多いね
They pay off the carefully planted foreshadowing — that overusing the Strong Sphere destroys bonds — and cap it with total dignity annihilation. Even a kid can take one look and instantly get that Spinel got exactly what he had coming. A great way to land that payoff.
SSの過剰使用が絆を壊すという丁寧な伏線を回収する際に徹底的な尊厳破壊で〆る、 子供でもパッと見てスピネルの因果応報が理解できるいい回収の仕方だった。
Honestly there are probably fewer Pokémon you CAN keep than ones you can't.
飼えるポケモンの方が少なそう…
Arceus had a quiet, understated charm so I get that, but Z-A is for kids, no?
アルセウスは地味なおもろさだったからわかるけどzaは子供向けだろ
I just swept all three of my opponent's Pokémon with Mega Staraptor. This is absolutely the kind of success that ruins you.
メガムクホークで3タテしてしまった 絶対よくない成功体験だコレ
Looking back at Spinel's ending, it's genuinely clever that his main Pokémon is an Umbreon. The other two executives carry Pokémon that can Mega Evolve — and Mega Evolution requires a bond, so using it confirms one exists. Umbreon's evolution involves a bond too, but it can't Mega Evolve, so while the bond clearly used to be there, there's now no clear way to prove it still is.
スピネルの最後見るとメインポケモンがブラッキーなのがかなり秀逸 幹部3人の手持ちにメガシンカできるポケモンが揃っている=メガシンカには絆が必須なので使用する地点で認識する一方、ブラッキーは進化条件に絆が関係するもののメガシンカ出来ないので当時は十分な絆があっただろうけど現在ははっきりと証明する手段がない
It's because everyone in that world is basically a super-powered Pallet Town person.
あの世界の人が全員スーパーマサラ人なんやで
Give me a Legends Celebi where I can see Entei, Raikou and Suicune before their reincarnation, and the Burned Tower before it burned down…
レジェンズセレビィで転生前のエンライスイ、焼ける前の焼けた塔を見たいんじゃ…
When I saw Mega Staraptor dumped the majority of its base-stat gains into bulk, I was like "wait, you're THAT kind of guy now?" — and then THIS happened. Dude, what even happened to you?
メガムクホークは種族値上昇分の過半数を耐久に回してた時点でお前そんなキャラか？って思ってたらこれだよ、お前何があったんだよ
So once Spinel gets out, does he get to rekindle things with the Umbreon that waited for him all along — or does he get his brain shattered watching it lovey-dovey with some other trainer, wearing a doting face it never once showed HIM……
これスピネル出所した後にずっと待っててくれたブラッキーとヨリを戻せるのか、はたまた他の男性トレーナーに自分には見せた事の無い顔でデレデレラブラブしてるブラッキーの姿を見て脳破壊されるのか……
When you read the Pokédex entries some of them are clearly impossible to keep, yet in-game people just casually own them. I'm starting to think the Pokédex is lying.
図鑑説明見ると絶対飼えないだろってのでもゲーム内で普通に飼ってる奴いるよね 図鑑説明嘘なんじゃねぇの
I want the Scarlet & Violet Legends to be split into a future arc and a past arc.
SVのレジェンズは未来編と過去編で分けてやってもらいたい
All those Megas that got called "yeah this thing's trash" before the Abilities dropped keep getting saved one after another — and then there's poor Malamar, the one and only that turned out exactly as bad as everyone predicted.
特性発表前こいつゴミだろ…って言われてたメガ達が次々と救われてく中、一匹だけ悪い意味で予想通りだったカラマネロさんかわいそうすぎる
Losing the trust of a Friendship-evolved Pokémon — the literal symbol of a Pokémon being deeply attached to its trainer — is the kind of dignity-destroying ending that feels obvious in hindsight but the franchise had somehow never actually done before.
なつき進化というトレーナーに良く懐いているということの象徴であるポケモンとの信頼を失うというありそうで今まで無かったポケモン界きっての尊厳破壊な末路。
Alongside the news cycle — new Megas, the next Legends region — Japanese fans are at their best in hypotheticals: which Pokémon you could never actually keep as a pet, or why being dumped by a friendship-evolved Pokémon is the heaviest punishment in the Pokémon world.
243 likesPokémon fans in Japan worked out which species would be impossible to keep as a real pet, and the Pokédex makes it brutal. The thread weighed Magcargo's 10,000-degree body, Wailord's size and Snorlax's grocery bill, joking that everyone in that world is just built different. Then someone names the obvious fix.
254 likesWith Pokémon Legends: Z-A out, Japanese fans are debating which region the next Legends should explore — and the comment section turned into a full-on communal wishlist. The most-liked picks split into a few camps. The runaway favorite is Unova: a top comment dreams of a Scarlet & Violet-style Legends split into "a past arc and a future arc," while others want a payoff for Complete Forme Kyurem and the Zekrom/Reshiram hero legend. Right behind it is Johto set about 150 years before Gold & Silver — "I want to see the legendary beasts' true forms before they were revived" — digging into the origins of Raikou, Entei and Suicune. Alola has a loud bloc too, betting on a trip to the past to finally unpack Ultra Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts. And the most ambitious wishlist mechanics got people dreaming big: fusing with a Pokémon to control it directly, and one fan's pitch to "travel between past, present and future where your past actions change the future" — a game so huge that, as fans joke, "even the Nintendo Switch 2 might struggle to run it." It's a light, hopeful thread, equal parts lore theory and pure fan wishlist. So: Unova, Johto, Alola — where do you want Legends to go?
218 likesPokémon Champions revealed a fresh batch of new Mega Evolutions and their Abilities for the competitive Regulation Set M-B ruleset, and Japanese trainers immediately broke out the spreadsheets and the shitposting in equal measure. The breakout star was Mega Staraptor, which got handed Contrary — meaning an enemy's Intimidate or even an ally's Charm no longer weakens it but BUFFS its Attack instead. Fans lost it over the implications and the animation: top comments joked that Staraptor "realized the best defense is offense," that it gets "so hyped by a teammate's Charm it just keeps bulking up," and that the buffed-up look is straight-up cursed ("I want the stoic, hard-boiled handsome Staraptor back!"). The other big thread was a redemption arc: a lot of reveals that fans had pre-judged as "this thing's trash" got quietly saved once the Abilities dropped — Mega Eelektross pairing Levitate with Beast Boost, Mega Pyroar slotting into the fire-type balance — with one glaring exception. Malamar, the lone Galarian-flavored letdown, landed exactly as badly as everyone predicted, prompting the instant-classic "Malamar, you didn't have to be contrarian about your stats TOO." Expect base-stat math, niche tech like Speed Boost Baton Pass setups, and a lot of love for the most unhinged bird in the format.
338 likesPokémon Horizons: The Series wrapped its "Rising Again" arc with episode 136, "Stellar Finale" — the grand conclusion of Liko and Roy's journey — and Japan's most-liked reactions zeroed in not on the Mega Rayquaza spectacle but on the quiet gut-punch of the villain's ending. After Spinel is defeated and jailed, his lifelong partner Umbreon flicks his thrown Poké Ball aside and walks away. Japanese fans immediately read this through the franchise's own mechanics: this is an Umbreon, a Pokémon that only exists because an Eevee evolved through high Friendship — so being rejected by it is, as the top comment puts it, the single heaviest punishment the Pokémon world can hand down. From there the thread becomes a close reading of the staff's cruelty: the deliberate contrast with the lovable, never-truly-evil Team Rocket; the careful foreshadowing that Spinel's power-up item, Laquium, corrodes the very bonds Mega Evolution requires; and an unsettled debate over the final shot — when Umbreon glances at Spinel's prison cell, was it pity, lingering attachment, or pure coincidence from a Pokémon who'd already forgotten him? The argument over that one ambiguous glance is where the comment section truly lives, before someone lands the only verdict a Pokémon fan could.