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Team rocket games origin jesse james anime origin, GI interview, 17 August 2017

GI interview, 17 August 2017

ReportedReported by a reliable secondary source, or read carefully from filed documents.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

The value

  • Team Rocket from games; Jesse and James from OLM

Where it comes from

Pokemon's Creators On The Anime: 'We Weren't Really Sure About It' Game Informer · 17 August 2017 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

Game Freak came up with the idea for Team Rocket (they were in the games after all) but the characters Jesse and James can also be attributed to OLM

In English

Reporter's paraphrase of Masuda: characters of one organisation have two authors, one game-side, one anime-side.