I hate the fact they're doing exactly same thing again. JP only stream.
If I had to guess, and no matter what it's a stupid reason but it's still a reason I can see them coming to, it's subbed which means people have to split their attention between reading and watching the visuals. And its a fairly quick pace video too so you may miss something while reading or not read something in time. Sure, you can pause the livestream, but that kind of defeats the purpose of it being a livestream if some people need to keep pausing it to watch it and know what's going on (it's as if Pokemon Company should of thought of that ahead of time and hired at least an English voice actor). Of, course, since they still wanted to do a livestream we had to wait until the Japanese trailer was fully done with... and then 10 more minutes for good measure (seriously, was someone asleep? It wasn't until 15 minutes after 9 did they finally post the subbed trailer).
And whatever the heck this thing is O_O
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Why, it's a completely new Pokemon that we in no way in the Distortion World could have ever guessed so WHY EVEN BOTHER WITH THE GUESSING GAME? At best people did predict it was a frog-ish Pokemon (though some people also had looked through the leaks), but she could have described it until the Miltanks came home and no one would have ever figured out what it looked like. They might as well just had it be the one video.
"Well, you see, they addressed that. The 2-video idea was a ploy Iono did in order to get double the viewer ship!"
1. Iono isn't real.
2. There was no viewership count.
All this did was waste time with what they could have done in one video. That viewership joke, they could just had her go on break (play an old or new trailer for the game as a joke on top of that), and have her comeback giggling at all the views she's getting by prolonging the reveal. There, you did your "streamer cares about view count" joke while keeping it contained in one video.
Oh, and then let's not forget soon after they released the gameplay trailer of Iono and Bellibolt. I just don't get it.
Oh, BTW, the trailer does confirm that Levincia is that bridge city on the east side of Paldea, and her Gym Ball is at the center of the bridge:
Bellibolt...a big electric frog.
This has got to be one of the weirdest, goofiest Pokemon I have ever seen in my life.
Let's see, with all the animals out there surely there has to be ONE frog that can at the very least sense electromagnetism... Huh. Well, I found something relating frogs to electricity, something that's manmade,
and not for the faint of heart...
Calling English "normal human" implies japanese people arent normal humans which raises some weird ethical questions
By "normal human" I think
Worldie just meant someone who isn't a brightly colored cartoon that sounds like they breathed in an entire tank of helium.
If "normality" has to be defined by the most present thing in a given sample, I am afraid english speaker people are the norm.
So yes, if your plan is to make content that can service as many people on the planet as possible, you're meant to be doing it in English.
... Or not.
Not that I disagree there should have also been an English dub, but I'd try to ignore sounding like any other language is inferior to English (which is a bit of a Frankenstein Monster of a language if we're to be honest).
oh OK Pokemon, so "Herbivorous" has to become "Sap Sipper" for the kiddies, but "Electromorphosis" is ok? I see how it is....
Hm, you know, I think they decided to go with "Sap Sipper" instead of "Herbivorous" to avoid an implication the Pokemon was actually eating the Grass-type Pokemon.
As for why "Sap Sipper" specifically, I think they may have been trying to do a pun. "Sap" is a word with multiple definitions, the two which I think the translators intended being "plant nectar" to relate it to Grass-types and "to weaken and/or absorb" referring to its effect of nullifying Grass-type moves and increasing the Attack stat. The "Sipper" part probably comes from it being the Ability most associated with the Deerling family; Deers drink sap, going with "sip" for the alliteration.
Silly? Yes. But it's also silly thinking how in the world does a Herbivorous Pokemon eat a Solar Beam, Energy Ball, Absorb/Mega Drain/Giga Drain, & Sleep Powder/Spore/Stun Spore.
I mean there's no confirmation thsi is her ace either, though? She's not using terastalization in the footage and we don't know how many Pokemon she has. This could be a "signature" pokemon but not her ace.
Ain't NO way Gimmick Freak is giving Tera to mons that aren't aces.
Honestly with all the potential things they could do with Terastallize it's hard to say. The only example we have right now is Brassius Terastallizing his Sudowoodo into a Grass-type. While we had previous Gym Leaders who's "ace" was from a previous gen, I feel in this case Sudowoodo isn't his ace and done as mostly a joke if you battle him early enough where Sudowoodo could be a challenge.
I have the feeling their "ace" may change depending on when they're battled. Early on they may do a complete Type Change, but later they may Terastalize their signature Pokemon in order to give it Super STAB. Also let's not forget the possibility of them Terastallizing a Pokemon of their specialty into another Type as a surprise.
I don't however expect it to be particularly fast, probably 70 at best.
That's being a bit generous. Also I think it would want low Speed to take advantage of Electromorphism.
The people who usually dub this kind of archetype tend to not be quite the same level of high-pitched, high-energy that sets people off
They get close to the vibe but, probably helped mostly by being in your language, it's not as "striking". And sometimes the voice direction takes them in a slightly different direction to compensate.
Regardless I think it's probably not laziness and probably just more, like, budget or time. The English trailer voices in general, for all of pokemon's trailers not just SV and that extends to their Pokemon Presents stuff too, have just been not great. I get the feeling they don't have a big budget to, you know. Hire the VO, give proper direction, retakes, all that jazz.
And wouldn't surprise me if they were on a tight schedule for this. Who knows when they even got the videos, you know?
If they were on a tight schedule so only had time to dub it, well, there's no really getting around that.
But as for finding a VA just to do this trailer? Ignoring we have both an anime and Pokemon Masters, if the reason is cause they wanted to match the energy of a VTuber, well then, hire a VTuber. There's plenty of freelance ones, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them are voice actors.
However, I probably think it is the time issue for one other big reason: lip syncing. That means re-writing what she says in a different way trying to match the lip flaps (and then having the VA match her lines to the lip flaps).
If Pokemon Company honestly cared about getting it dubbed, they would have to have planned this months in advance to have time to properly dub it. But I have a feeling this idea to do a stream was something they cooked up in under a month and weren't really worried about the international market cause this is just a silly little trailer and they were going to release a gameplay trailer soon after.
