Dr Lava
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Two Mew Translation Videos
🕑 Added 2021-03-24 08:57:57 +0000 UTCHey guys, first off I just wanna say thanks so much y'all's support on Patreon. It really means a lot. About 20 of y'all just signed up this month, which has allowed me to commission a lot more translations and Lost Pokemon artwork. I recently had an 11 page interview translated, but it still needs commentary written, so that's not ready to post just yet. But I do have a couple video interviews translated, which you can download and view here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qq4COx9KoazUvL-bqOMNOMWSyeTQzMSM?usp=sharing
Normally I don't share raw material like this -- I usually wait till I've got a lot of raw material and I condense it into a polished product I can show y'all that only hits the highlights. But in this case I figured I'd go ahead and give you the raw video translations, since otherwise nobody would ever see them (in English). Some details you may have heard before, but some you probably haven't. Highlights include:
1) Sugimori was originally supposed to design Mew, but Morimoto ended up doing it himself because Sugimori wouldn't make time for it, so he realized if he didn't do it himself, Mew wouldn't make it into the game.
2) Mew giveaway events never would've happened if Mew wasn't discovered first by fans who encountered a glitch. That glitch was put into the game by Morimoto himself... by accident. If that accident never occurred, Pokemon wouldn't have sold nearly as many copies, and probably never would have left Japan.
3) Mew's movements and personality were created independently by the staff of Mewtwo Strikes Back, and Morimoto was surprised how it turned out when he saw the movie. He never planned for it to move and act the way it does now.
4) Even though canonically Mewtwo is Mew's clone, in reality Mew's design was based off Mewtwo. Which means in a way, Mew is actually Mewtwo's clone.
5) Mew's design is so simple and small because it was the last Pokemon added into the game, and there literally wasn't enough space left on the cartridge to make it bigger or more colorful
Like I said, these two videos are just two pieces of the puzzle when it comes to Mew's origin story. I'll put it all together in a video at some point, similar to the Lugia video I wrote a few months back. But it won't include every detail from these videos, so I figured I'd give them to you here, unedited. Here's a link to that Lugia video in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQbKwNmsTes
Okay cheers guys, I'll let y'all know when I've got more to share.
- Dr Lava
Comments
Alex Nagler
Interesting that they view the Mew glitch discovery as a major reason that they were able to boost sales and cross over. Thanks for sharing!
Nosarms Chesumasutã
That's awesome ! Thank you for your hard work, and for sharing us this :)
