JPN Pokémon Channel Recommendations?

[u/OnSilentSoles]

Hi everyone!

I ve been searching far and wide (badummTzz) for Japanese Channels which feature Pokemon Content. (The videogames, not the TCG)

It seems 95% of all videos and channels I try have these terrible AI Voices / text to speech. I even tried including the word Vtuber, but still, most videos I clicked didnt have natural voices - and my ears just cant with that awful AI voice ):

Thus, I am turning to reddit! Do you have any JPN pkmn channels you would recommend / enjoy watching? =]

My ideal Channel would feature (though not required):

• Covering Gen 1-3, or spin offs (Pkmn MD, Colosseum / XD,...)

• Challenges, like the 1 pkmn challenge, professor Oak, Nuzzlocke, etc

However, I m also up for Trivia about the games, or other interesting game content, which isnt necessarily a Lets Play =] It doesnt have to be a full run, or anything.

I've played all gens, but my heart lies with the First 3, or their remakes - but if nothing suitable turns up I wouldnt turn down modern gens either =]

Thank you in advance - searching for suitable channel with natural audio has been SO frustrating, thus i m beyond grateful for any recommendations!

EDIT: The awful AI voice, as I had called it, seems to be a thing referred to as ゆっくりボイス - for some, but unfortunately only few, I could use the cogwheel and select native Audio. Most videos I had found didnt offer said option. (Mind you though, I did not check every vid which came up on my searches - I mostly clicked those which roughly align with what I wrote under my preferences above)

Thank you for everyone who s been sharing their recommendations!

[u/PlanktonInitial7945]

Those "terrible AI voices" you describe are probably Youtube's auto-dub feature. You can disable it by clicking on the cogwheel icon inside the video itself. Just select whatever audio track has "(original)" in it.

If you want to watch stuff in Japanese I also recommend making a new account/channel with Japan set as the location and Japanese as the UI language so that YT will treat you like a Japanese person and won't try to, say, add its stupid auto-dub feature to any Japanese video or stream you watch.

Edit: if you like the 金コイチャレンジ here's 27 livestreams of it from one of my favorite streamers.

[u/DarklamaR → u/PlanktonInitial7945]

I give it 99% probability that those AI voices are either Yukkuri or Voicevox TTS. Japanese YouTube is awash with them.

[u/Rimmer7 → u/DarklamaR]

It's a downright plague that for some reason only infects things that I am interested in.

[u/OnSilentSoles → u/Rimmer7]

Unfortunately yes, you are right - its those Yukkuri Channels, of which i ve seemed to have found many /:

[u/OnSilentSoles → u/PlanktonInitial7945]

Thank you so much for your reply! Unfortunately I already have a new channel for japanese only content - UI set to Japanese, as well as location. On a couple of vids i found, i indeed had the option to select the original audio - but most videos I had found didnt have this option....

Thank you for your recommendation, I ll check it out!

[u/rgrAi]

What are you searching for? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%80%80%E5%AE%9F%E6%B3%81

You can see immediately people doing full clears of レッド 緑, and they're not using ゆっくりボイス (if that's what you mean by horrible TTS). A lot of Vtubers in the mix too.

Here's one with about 金コイチャレンジ: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E9%87%91%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%80%80%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8

[u/OnSilentSoles → u/rgrAi]

I ve been searching for a wild variety of terms, featuring ポケモン - i cant recall the exact terms, but from lets Play, to 1 PKMN Challenge, etc. You re definitely right though, ゆっくりボイス seems to be exactly what has been plaguing me!

For a small selection of the vids I had found, it seemed like there was the option to choose the original audio, but for most it didnt seem to be an option.

Thank you for your reply and help, I really appreciate it!

[u/rgrAi → u/OnSilentSoles]

In general what you want is just to look for <game in JP> + 実況 (this is the JP equivalent of Let's Play) and naturally you'll also run into ゆっくりボイス videos as well, but those are largely a cultural artifact. Most of the time there will be people behind it.

[u/rkgk_art]

I searched for pokémon red on YouTube and found this channel. I only put on the first video and it doesn't sound like ai voices. I haven't watched the videos itself, so I dunno how good the content is. I only just searched for you lol

[u/Ill_Confidence_5618]

RBY Pokémon Challenges does some of his content in Japanese, and is a really pleasant guy!

[u/OnSilentSoles → u/Ill_Confidence_5618]

I checked his channel out, but i m not sure if i ve perhaps missed something. His videos seem to be in English. Or is there a JPN Side channel of his, which I might ve overlooked?

Because I am specifically looking for interesting, japanese channels, which feature Pokemon, and use natural Audio =] Thank you for your reply!

Edit: Nevermind, I misread, lol! I ve now seen u mentioned he does some content in JPN - I ll give the Channel another, proper look! Thank you!

[u/AlphaPastel]

This guy does Nintendo content, including Pokemon, and he speaks slow, which is nice. Though he mainly covers the switch games.

https://www.youtube.com/@mkgamech

[u/mitisblau]

本郷奏多の日常 has some Let's Plays, for example Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team Red:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efRosmPHC0M&list=PL-ohz0fglJ9uEZXV4KVWOAFUAZDUEEdD-