Detective Pikachu

Pokémon Fans Pay Tribute As Original Misty Voice Actor Dies At 46

Rachael Lillis’ fans helped raise money for her breast cancer treatment in May

Detective Pikachu Returns: The Kotaku Review

Despite simplistic gameplay, this adventure sequel offers one of the Pokémon world's best depictions yet

Detective Pikachu Returns Has A Fun Joke About The 2019 Movie

‘Movies usually do their own thing, don’t they?’ - Tim Goodman

Is Detective Pikachu A Cop? Kotaku Investigates

With Detective Pikachu Returns out on Switch, we try to solve a real mystery

All The Announcements Packed In Pokémon’s Big Event

Scarlet and Violet ’s DLC was the headliner, but Detective Pikachu , anime, and mobile games made an appearance

Detective Pikachu Is Still One Of The Best Pokémon Games

You may have seen the live-action movie, but the Detective Pikachu game offers plenty of mysteries of its own

The New Detective Pikachu Game Still Exists And It’s Coming This Year

Detective Pikachu Returns comes to Switch on October 6

Detective Pikachu Sequel Inches Closer To Being Real

The live action Pokémon adaptation may have found a director

I Didn’t Expect An AI To Make Fake Pokémon This Good

Everyone from Boris Johnson to Master Chief can be reimagined as a pocket monster

Detective Pikachu 2 May Still Exist, Even Be ‘Nearing Release’

According to a mention on a LinkedIn profile, the Pokémon sequel might be nearly done

We Are All This Detective Pikachu Plush

I feel you, Detective Pikachu. 2020 has not got off to the greatest start. This wrinkled and very sad plush, which came out in Japan last year, is available today at the Pokémon Center for $20. He is almost unfathomably cute.

This Venusaur Was Too Scary For Detective Pikachu

RJ Palmer, an artist on the film Detective Pikachu known for his hyper-realistic Pokémon drawings, posted his menacing vision for the Pokémon Venusaur yesterday—one that never made it into the blockbuster movie. If you saw Detective Pikachu, it’s likely you left the theater either in awe of its realistic imaginings of Pokémon or wondering where…

Detective Pikachu is coming to the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo just announced at a press conference in Tokyo. The game was originally released on the 3DS in 2016.

Detective Pikachu Turned Into A $200 Life-Sized Plushie

Bandai is releasing a life-sized Detective Pikachu plush toy. His ears, hands and tail are all poseable. Just look at it! The doll is priced at 21,780 yen (nearly $200) and will go on sale this December in Japan. No word on an international release.  Check out more images below.

Detective Pikachu’s Pokemon Designs Are Disgustingly Cute

Stephen Molyneaux was one of the artists on Detective Pikachu, and his work—helping “translate the wonderful designs by Ken Sugimori into the real world”—is so cute I can barely look at it. It’s like staring into the sun. Only the sun is small, and covered in fur. Eevee is a particular hazard. While the designs…

Detective Pikachu Director Explains A Most Unexpected Easter Egg

Pokémon Detective Pikachu is full of Easter Eggs—namely, a bunch of Pokémon getting cameos. You’d expect that! But there is one Easter Egg I was surprised to see. [Note: This article includes spoilers] During one scene early in the movie, Justice Smith as Tim Goodman goes to his missing father’s apartment. On the TV, an…

The Detective Pikachu Game Is A Perfect Complement To The Movie

After watching the Detective Pikachu movie, all I wanted was to live in that world. Luckily I had a copy of Detective Pikachu, the game, which gave me that chance, and some fun puzzles to boot. The first thing that struck me about the Detective Pikachu game, which was released last year for Nintendo 3DS,…

What We Loved About Detective Pikachu

Detective Pikachu hit movie theaters this weekend and turned me into a puddle of nostalgic goo. I sat down with senior reporter Cecilia D’Anastasio and video producer Paul Tamayo to talk Pokéballs, Pikachu and a severe lack of Venusaurs. Gita Jackson: I never thought I’d see a live action Pokémon movie in my lifetime, let…

Avengers: Endgame Doesn’t Dominate In Japan

Marvel movies are definitely popular worldwide, even in Japan. But you know what is more popular in Japan? Pikachu, it seems. And depending on the week, Detective Conan, too During opening weekend in Japan, Avengers: Endgame debuted at number one. Bravo! Cinema Today reports that the following weekend, Detective Conan: The Fist of the Blue…

The Pokemon Company Didn’t Like That Lickitung Scene In Detective Pikachu

Pokemon Detective Pikachu hit theaters this weekend and contains many CGI recreations of famous Pokemon creatures. Creating these digital animals was challenging and in a Time Magazine story, released earlier this week, the visual effects team behind the film talked about the work involved in creating some of these creatures. Also, The Pokemon Company doesn’t…