What this is
How the 2019 and 2020 rounds of Japan’s national character survey listed Pokémon: “Pocket Monsters (Pikachu etc.)”, naming Pikachu as an example.
How it’s built
- Read from the questionnaire item lists in the Nippon Research Center’s 2019 and 2020 reports.
What we assumed
- Earlier rounds may have used plain “Pocket Monsters”.The 2018 report shows the name alone; whether other earlier rounds cued Pikachu is not established.
Sanity check
Results from these rounds partly measure Pikachu, so they should not be compared one-for-one with 2018.
The value
- ポケットモンスター（ピカチュウなど）
Where it comes from
The line in the source
22) ポケットモンスター（ピカチュウなど）