Where the fuck is him
He's like the original dragon, he will never return
>>58355012Swimming in money and praise for creating Pokemon while his best friends Sugimori and Masuda drown in all the hate and criticism for ruining Pokemon.There's literally zero upsides for him to return to the spotlight ever again.
Legitimately too retarded to actually make public appearances or work on real corpo game dev. He twiddles his thumbs and sits on his shit throne quiet making money while all the big boys around him do all the hard work trying to maintain the monster he created
you leave him out of this mess
>>58355110Guess you could say the monster he created......is out of his pocket.
>>58355012Living the dream
>>58355012>no one will ever realize i'm a one trick pony if i simply never make another game
>>58355157I got a monster in my pocket if ya wanna see it...
Tajiri was unfit and unprepared for how massive of a franchise Pokemon became.
>>58355407Masuda was the dad that stepped up when Tajiri went out for milk
>>58355407no one was fit and prepared, look at the state of it today
I want to know how he did it. How do you make literally the biggest ip on earth yet remain out of the public eye for decades
>>58355569You staunchly reject 99,99% of interview requests while raking in mad money regardless, I imagine.
Fucked off to upper management and director roles like all Japanese men do
Not a single gray hair. Standing next to him is Ken Sugimori, chief illustrator of the series.You can tell who has continued working on it and who hasn't.Satoshi has been swimming in money since the late 90s and lives a trouble-free life and has never touched Pokémon since then.
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>>58355012He died in 2009
>>58355610Was his handwriting always this bad or did something happen to him? There must be some examples of his handwriting from early GF magazine era we can compare.
>>58355632Holy shit he looks so young
>>58357064It was written digitally>>58357123Autistic genes
>>58355012He only cares about Kanto. He doesn't give a damn about the other regions
>>58357123The irony is Tajiri is actually older than Sugimori by 1 year.
>>58355012Presumably hiding quietly in Japan collecting royalties. City location unknown.
>>58355632>>58357123>>58357827CEOs are vampires who leeches the youth off their hard-working employees while they fuck off to play 80s arcade games all day
>>58355610>>58357064>>58357407>signed in romaji>>58355632When was this photo taken?
>>583579932016https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/xeviousTajiri is still involved with Pokemon and Game Freak. He's taken on a Miyamoto role, a sort of lorekeeper/advisor. He was fairly hands on for the Detective Pikachu movie. I don't think he has any real veto power, but if he makes suggestions to younger devs they're not going to say no, but most younger devs only see him when he shows up to play on arcade cabinets
>>58358018>https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/xevioushe looks pretty normal in photos, even if his laugh is somewhat awkward. Maybe he's in the spectrum but what's the origin of the myth that he was borderline nonfunctional?
>>58357064He's mentioned in interviews that he struggled with clean typeface and sprite illustrations, and often threw away and redid pages. He used stencils wherever possible, but his freehand writing in both English an Japanese is clearly a messy writer trying to be legible. You can see his hand twitching in those old issues. This was the main reason Masuda was brought on to help with the magazine. Like others said, it's also a digital signature, and it's cursive. >>58357993During the magazine days, they all signed in romanji. He wrote the company name "Taji Corp" in romanji and often signed as STR
>>58355012too based for this dogshit series
>>58355012Why does he allow unpolished and glitched games?
>>58358064The origin of the claim was dug into and debunked.https://youtu.be/MuvGD5tC69o?si=3XvJr59ReQf-tUSJ&t=34He's obviously on the spectrum, but there's no actual facts or source to back up the claim that people parrot as face
>>58355012Holy ESL
>>58358064Also, the Time Magazine interview, where he talks about pulling all-nighters and crashing out. He looks absolutely manic in those photos. It's obvious he had unhealthy habits. Couple that with Masuda taking over during Gold, the state Gold was in when he took over, and how long Red/Green and Gold were in development.Add to that, Tajiri being a ghost ever since the GBA era, and assume he's a reclusive freak. It's pretty clear Tajiri isn't suited to be a project lead on a multi-million dollar project. But most people aren't suited for that. He stumbled into a role he was never cut out for, and stepped back to let Masuda, Ishihara, and the rest take over. It's no coincidence that The Pokemon Company was formed around the same time. The leadership and brand had to change to properly manage Pokemon's global success.
>>58358130>Also, the Time Magazine interview, where he talks about pulling all-nighters and crashing out. He looks absolutely manic in those photos. It's obvious he had unhealthy habits.That's every game dev and general otaku-related hobbies industry person back in the seventies-eighties-nineties.Why do you think, say, so many mangaka die so young?
>>58358156Tajiri didn't have a PR filter, he just spoke off the cuff about how messy he was. This was unique for a Japanese creator or brand in the American press. Time Magazine was the biggest platform, and Pokemon was the biggest brand. It wasn't relegated to the back page of an otaku publication.The American press was already manufacturing reasons to vilify Japanese media. Tajiri's messy personality was on full display at the worst time, and unlike the joyful persona Miyamoto had, Tajiri's habits reflected poorly on Pokemon, but it was a double edged sword. The brand made the right call when they relegated him to an advisor, but it meant there was no real opportunity to fix his public image. Gives the impression that he's just the weirdo savant they locked up in the basement.
>>58358130TPC was formed to reduce need for Game Freak to OK project proposals. Tajiri wasn't brilliant at being a game director, but it didn't help him in the slightest having to piss off every friday to a room with Ishihara and a Nintendo head to OK project pitches and merch proposals. He then stepped back to run Game Freak the company, subtly turning it from an indie studio into one large enough to absorb 2/3rd's another studio's staff, then buy out and absorb an independent outfit and finally dabble with self-publishing games. Because Tajiri's still invested in his studio and his IP.
>>58358190>Gives the impression that he's just the weirdo savant they locked up in the basementTo be fair a sperg reputation is better than a cokehead reputation
>>58355012Doing what we all want to do:Fucking off from society and getting paid millions and millions to be a NEET and capture bugs to fight in his free time.
>>58358313That's true for Japan. In the west, being gregarious and always on is more valuable. It's why coke is common and generally accepted among workaholics, artists, and cooks. It's about results, more results, and faster results. Tajiri never had that fire under his ass. The anime had to tread water for years because he approached Gold with the work ethic of a stay at home wife twiddling away on her cricut projects.>>58358272It was also an insurance policy, to bring most licensing under one roof, because the boom was over and they were unsure if Advance would be a success. Additionally, there was a lot of confusion from licensees, especially in America, who kept reaching out to Nintendo to cut deals. That's probably why the company has such a boring literal name, so licensees know who's in charge
Satoshi Tajiri was 30 years old when Pokemon was released.What have you accomplished at 30?
>>58358369>That's true for Japan. In the west, being gregarious and always on is more valuable. It's why coke is common and generally accepted among workaholics, artists, and cooks. It's about results, more results, and faster results.That's true among elites, but I'm talking about public image. Everyone in the west does coke, yes. Everyone tries their best to hide it from the public too while they gather in private parties to sniff like madmen. We all know know they do and think about it as little as possible.West and East alike, Tajiri's rainman image serves Pokémon's family friendly image much more than if he was a known junkie
>>58358429Pokemon's brand is friendship and connections. We know that's not what drives revenue, we know obsession and compulsion is what makes Pocket and Go and Unite and the TCG billions of dollars, but the brand will never publicly embrace that. Tajiri is a lot like us, and that's the problem. They need to plant the seeds for the next generation of fans, they need to be a safe brand for moms. Moms would rather put on Bowie or Britney, knowing full well they were on coke, than buy their kid a game made by an anti-social recluse who made an anti-social childhood hobby simulator.
>>58358419I have a wife who indulges my vore and pregnancy fetishes.
>>58358481>than buy their kid a game made by an anti-social recluse who made an anti-social childhood hobby simulator.If that were true then no parents would ever buy games for children because thats just what everybody has always thought of gamers.
>>58358072based anon with the receipts, the writing in picrel is surprisingly neat
>>58358545And that's why brand image is so important. Pokemon is safe and social. Even in the 90s, this distinction helped separate it from MTG or D&D, the main pop culture comparisons for card games and roleplaying games. And unlike DBZ or Sailor Moon, it wasn't just a combat anime. That's why the marketing focused on collecting, why the first movie tacked on a "fighting is wrong" moral, and why the second movie was marketed around "one person can make a difference" which they spun into sponsored community events for safer streets. They spun the plot of the second movie, a fetch quest with legendary Pokemon fucking each other up, into a story about picking up litter and Kobe Bryant telling kids that drugs and guns are bad.>>58358610A bunch of Game Freak issues were in the teraleak, if you're curious to check them outhttps://archive.org/details/doujinshi-game-freak/GAME_FREAK_Vol.1/page/n7/mode/2up
>>58358533Holy based
>>58358674>A bunch of Game Freak issues were in the teraleak, if you're curious to check them outWow, that looks like everything, and it's all scanned straight from the source so that's the best it can possibly be. Who would've figured this is how the rest of the world can finally get our hands on a full collection of GF mags?Kinda strange all of this is here in the teraleak but not the document with the original 181 Pokemon's front and back sprites though. Doubt it hasn't been archived on GF's side yet given how they take it out every now and then.
>>58358832There's material we've seen on paper that wasn't in the leak. When GameInformer visited GF in 2016, they pulled out a bunch of old documents that weren't in the leak. Masuda mentions how they didn't take archiving seriously until Black and White, and recently (circa 2016) formalized their archival process.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l8V_eQ6wGQ
>>58358533Does she indulge in unbirthing?
>>58355012In space, it seems
>>58358018>He's taken on a Miyamoto role, a sort of lorekeeper/advisor.isn't he still the ceo of gamefreak? the fuck you mean miyamoto? He decides and signs every decisions anon.
>>58355632>>58357123>>58357827Scientific proof that working on Pokemon makes you old and sad while doing anything except Pokemon makes you young and happy
>>58359993He's president, it's more of a figurehead role. He trusts his peers to make business decisions, and only offers input when it comes to worldbuilding and vibes
>>58360040Do we know for sure he even offers input anymore? It sounds more like he's completely hands off with Pokemon now that it's grown so much without him, in a direction different from his. I doubt he even knows Lillie left for KANTOOOO at the end of SM or any other current happenings in the modern pokeverse while he's off playing Xevious in GF's arcade room when he's not signing papers.
>>58360069He was hands-on during the planning and development phase of the Detective Pikachu film. With it being developed by an outside studio, rather than an established partner like ShoPro, he helped guide production to make sure the world felt authentic.I think his role with the games is similar. He's not involved with game systems or characters, but he gives input during the project planning and pitch phase. 'What's the setting, how does that connect to the theme, and how does that influence the player.' The most well known example is the brail puzzles, that was Tajiri's idea to help connect people and build on the game's theme of communication/understanding. Pokemon makes great effort to simplify and obfuscate the development side of things. They're often hush hush about who designed Pokemon, they won't say who determines Shiny colours. There's apparently one person who writes the Pokedex entries and manages the ecology/interactions of different species, but they won't say who. They withhold story elements that were established before release just for the sake of mystery. And in the case of the brail puzzle, Masuda has told a simplified version of the story where he came up with the idea and implemented it. Just glossing over it being Tajiri's concept, despite Tajiri having recounted it years prior. We know from the Gold beta that Tajiri's version of the game had honey instead of headbutt. This is the same system later used in Diamond and Pearl, and is the reason Teddiursa and Heracross have an affinity for honey. In the lead up to DP, Honey was discussed frequently by the devs and press, and at no point was it attributed to Tajiri. There are likely lots of elements in the modern games that came from Tajiri, and we just never hear about it, because it would distract from the product and marketing.
>>58355012What are the chances that Pokemon was just his autistic hyperfixation in the early 90s but he lost interest in it after Gen 1 was done and simply never looked back since?
Does Tajiri approve of sexualized children? Alola was the 20th anniversary game after all.
>>58355012He took a backseat after Pokemania waned. Can't blame him. He didn't want to deal with the difficulty of keeping the series relevant beyond just being a passing late 90s fad and gave that job to Masuda instead.
>>58360325I wonder if he had a part in the new "Gamers want easier and simpler games because we have to compete with mobile games now" philosophy Game Freak adopted after BW
>>58361737Nah, that was TPC recognizing market conditions to keep the brand safe. Tajiri's approach to game design was entirely at odds with that. He would purposefully include fake game hints in Game Freak, just to get people talking. You see that influence in stuff like the ghost girl, Sinnoh Pokemon Mansion's locked doors, or how GF tease bits of lore then cheekily deny it. That's why there's a truck in Vermilion, and why the included references to a secret 151st Pokemon that wasn't supposed to be in the game, and why shiny Pokemon had such an absurd encounter rate. Tajiri wasn't concerned with making games easy or directly competing with other titles. He pushed forward with Pokemon despite industry peers jeered him for developing a 2D game, and developing for the GameBoy. Instead of chasing trends, he included Porygon is a pisstake. 'See? The game has polygons! It's so next gen.'
>>58361248Hard to say because even Stephen Hillenberg came back to SpongeBob and that time gap is a shorter timeframe than Tajiri dipping from Pokemon. Sure he works as Game Freak as Executive Producer as the ethereal "old man does nothing" job but I sincerely doubt he's had any say on the games since the 90s because I doubt a guy like him would greenlit an idea as terrible as Galarian Weezing from a design standpoint
