{"id":12329,"date":"2023-11-21T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/our-goal-is-to-keep-pokemon-alive-for-hundreds-of-years-pokemons-chiefs-plans-for-pikachu-and-pals\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:37:15","slug":"our-goal-is-to-keep-pokemon-alive-for-hundreds-of-years-pokemons-chiefs-plans-for-pikachu-and-pals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/our-goal-is-to-keep-pokemon-alive-for-hundreds-of-years-pokemons-chiefs-plans-for-pikachu-and-pals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our goal is to keep Pok\u00e9mon alive for hundreds of years\u2019: Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s chief\u2019s plans for Pikachu and pals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with a billion fans, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\u2019s COO Takato Utsunomiya talks about his plan to catch the rest of humanity \u2013 and for the far-reaching franchise to outlive us all<\/p>\n<p>When Satoshi Tajiri was a child, he developed a fascination with insects. Growing up in the greater Tokyo suburb of Machida, he\u2019d spend summer days peeling back plants and scouring the undergrowth for creepy crawlies, carefully adding each new insect to his collection. This eyebrow-raising hobby earned him the playground nickname \u201cMr Bug\u201d from his teasing classmates, but Tajiri had the last laugh. After all, it was this formative obsession that inspired his crowning achievement \u2013 Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-three years later, that first duo of ambitious Game Boy games has blossomed into the world\u2019s highest-grossing media franchise, beating behemoths such as Star Wars and Marvel. Tajiri took a step back from his cutesy creation in 2012, and his developer Game Freak is now part of a larger Pok\u00e9mon Company \u2013 whose COO, Takato Utsunomiya, now sits in front of me in Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/nov\/20\/pokemon-chief-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b8ee931635d115716ab423976d9a7d0081ce4809\/60_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=46a9a30f4625597b0ab34f2dc13fe298\" title=\"\u2018Our goal is to keep Pok\u00e9mon alive for hundreds of years\u2019: Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s chief\u2019s plans for Pikachu and pals\" \/>Not content with a billion fans, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\u2019s COO Takato Utsunomiya talks about his plan to catch the rest of humanity \u2013 and for the far-reaching franchise to outlive us all<br \/>\nWhen Satoshi Tajiri was a child, he developed a fascination with insects. Growing up in the greater Tokyo suburb of Machida, he\u2019d spend summer days peeling back plants and scouring the undergrowth for creepy crawlies, carefully adding each new insect to his collection. This eyebrow-raising hobby earned him the playground nickname \u201cMr Bug\u201d from his teasing classmates, but Tajiri had the last laugh. After all, it was this formative obsession that inspired his crowning achievement \u2013 Pok\u00e9mon.<br \/>\nThirty-three years later, that first duo of ambitious Game Boy games has blossomed into the world\u2019s highest-grossing media franchise, beating behemoths such as Star Wars and Marvel. Tajiri took a step back from his cutesy creation in 2012, and his developer Game Freak is now part of a larger Pok\u00e9mon Company \u2013 whose COO, Takato Utsunomiya, now sits in front of me in Yokohama. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with a billion fans, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\u2019s COO Takato Utsunomiya talks about his plan to catch the rest of humanity \u2013 and for the far-reaching franchise to outlive us all When Satoshi Tajiri was a child, he developed a fascination with insects. Growing up in the greater Tokyo suburb of Machida, he\u2019d spend &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/our-goal-is-to-keep-pokemon-alive-for-hundreds-of-years-pokemons-chiefs-plans-for-pikachu-and-pals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Our goal is to keep Pok\u00e9mon alive for hundreds of years\u2019: Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s chief\u2019s plans for Pikachu and pals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}