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7 Minutes of Rare Gen 5 Concept Art (Read Description)
🕑 Added 2019-06-27 02:07:26 +0000 UTCI've uploaded an extremely rare recording to my second channel: a slideshow exhibited at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan in late 2010. It includes some art that was displayed or published elsewhere -- like several issues of Nintendo Dream Magazine and the 2011 TCG World Championships -- but it appears some was never presented anywhere else. I believe this to be the only recording of that slideshow to ever be made public.
Just between the 29 of us, what made me go searching for this rare recording is the beta Sawsbuck concept art shown at 4:44. But don't tell anyone, it's a bit of a secret for now. I'm currently having original artwork curated to reflect the messages conveyed by this particular piece of artwork, and it will be included in episode 21, which will cover lots of Gen 5 beta designs.
This recording was originally uploaded to YouTube in early 2011, but as its title and description were in Japanese, I figured no one outside of Japan would ever see it. Indeed, despite the fact this is the only public record of some of this artwork, the video had only garnered 22k views over the past 8.5 years. So I don't think the JP video description was very descriptive. I honestly don't believe the original uploader knew the rarity or significance of what they'd recorded -- their channel only has 6 subscribers, and the only other video on the channel is a 30 second clip of basically nothing. It seemed wise to re-upload their video not only for English-speakers, but also for general archival purposes, and it's very possible the original uploader could delete their YouTube account at some point in the future, and this recording would be lost. Here's a link to the original upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8t-jF3R9NY
Normally, I would never just straight-up reupload someone else's video, but in this particular instance it seemed like the right thing to do.
