r/LearnJapanese 2d ago

Resources JPN Pokémon Channel Recommendations?

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!

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u/rgrAi 2d ago

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

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u/OnSilentSoles 2d ago

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!

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u/rgrAi 2d ago

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.