{"id":18020,"date":"2023-02-28T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18020"},"modified":"2023-02-28T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:08:37","slug":"20230228-18020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230228-18020\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\u2019s Okidogi quickly becomes a meme in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>The Pok\u00e9mon Company has <a href=\"https:\/\/scarletviolet.pokemon.com\/en-us\/news\/new_pokemon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that new Pok\u00e9mon Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti will debut in <em>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet<\/em> and <em>Violet<\/em>\u2019s <em>The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero<\/em> DLC. In Japan, Okidogi has drawn the most attention of the three and is already becoming something of a meme.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero \u2728| Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Pok\u00e9mon Violet\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yiYSuUoI-dY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero<\/em> DLC is split into two parts\u2014<em>Part 1: The Teal Mask<\/em> is due out in fall 2023, while <em>Part 2: The Indigo Disk<\/em> due out in Winter 2023. In <em>Part 1<\/em>, players will visit Kitakami, a land abundant with nature, for an outdoors study opportunity held in collaboration with another school. It features a new Legendary Pok\u00e9mon called Ogerpon and brings back familiar Pok\u00e9mon that didn\u2019t appear in the main game, such as Milotic, Shiftry, and Ninetales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The designs for new Pok\u00e9mon Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti are based on a dog, monkey, and pheasant, respectively, and Ogerpon\u2019s design vaguely resembles an oni (a Japanese ogre). All four are reminiscent of characters that appear in the Japanese folktale <em>Momotaro<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okidogi\u2019s Japanese name is iineinu. \u201ciine\u201d is a term used on social media in Japan, serving as the equivalent of \u201clike\u201d in English. Users have really taken to the name; for example, drawing illustrations of Okidogi smiling and giving a thumbs up (a symbol associated with the like button on social media), and creating the opposite of iine (like) inu (dog): yokunai (dislike) neko (cat).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u5168\u3066\u3092\u80af\u5b9a\u3057\u3066\u304f\u308c\u308b\u30a4\u30a4\u30cd\u30a4\u30cc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XjvhSHphBg\">pic.twitter.com\/XjvhSHphBg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \ud835\udd4b (@Tomo_Tomo_mau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tomo_Tomo_mau\/status\/1630230963224723457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet Translation:<br><\/strong>iineinu likes everything<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30a4\u30a4\u30cd\u30a4\u30cc\u306e\u30ef\u30f3\u30dd\u30a4\u30f3\u30c8\u30ec\u30c3\u30b9\u30f3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3SV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3SV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAQ7dMUYhj\">pic.twitter.com\/pAQ7dMUYhj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30a8\u30b9\u3055\u3093\u3055\u3093 (@esusansan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esusansan\/status\/1630342017451536388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet Translation:<br><\/strong>iineinu\u2019s one point lesson<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30a4\u30a4\u30cd\u30a4\u30cc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aBCWrQsWrN\">pic.twitter.com\/aBCWrQsWrN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \uff2d\u30cf\u30b2\u69d8@\u6607\u308a\u9f8d\u3002\u9df2\u63b4\u307f\u3002 (@mhagesama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mhagesama\/status\/1630230994027704322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\">(Text on left: iineinu; Text on right: yokunaineinu)<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30a4\u30a4\u30cd\u30a4\u30cc\u3068\u30e8\u30af\u30ca\u30a4\u30cd\u30b3\u306e\u7d75\u3067\u3059 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r9l2wukRkr\">pic.twitter.com\/r9l2wukRkr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30b7\u30eb\u30bd\u30eb (@silsol1996) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/silsol1996\/status\/1630243502876672000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet Translation:<br><\/strong>A picture of iineinu and yokunaineko.<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Japanese names for Munkidori and Fezandipiti are Mashimashira and Kichikigisu. In both languages, the names of all three Pok\u00e9mon are combinations of an animal and a word expressing something positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This actually isn\u2019t the first time that a \u201cdog\u201d Pok\u00e9mon in <em>Scarlet and Violet<\/em> has attracted a lot of attention. When the design of Greavard was revealed prior to the game\u2019s release, its name was kept under wraps, leading Japanese users to start guessing what the name would be. One especially popular name was Shinunuwan. This name may have been a reference to the cry of Yamper in <em>Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/em>, which in Japanese text is \u201cInunuwan!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can expect more information about Okidogi, everyone\u2019s new favorite dog-like Pok\u00e9mon, to be revealed in the future.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by.Marco Farinaccia  based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230228-238852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-02-28 13:05 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet\u2019s new Pok\u00e9mon Okidogi quickly becomes a meme in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":18022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-18020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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