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Harvey Randall

'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation

Pikachu looking shocked.

Some facts about videogame canon you wish you could scrub not just from the internet, but your very own mind. Unfortunately, I am burdened with the unenviable task of informing you of things that are true, and it is apparently very much true that a bunch of well-paid Americans, sitting around a room, had the fleeting thought: What if we gave Pikachu a heaving bosom.

It's an old anecdote, over two decades young at this point, but one that Game*Spark recently did the legwork to verify (thanks, Automaton, for the translation).

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