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Below is an English
translation of How to Craft
a Story: Takeshi Shudo, How Anyone Can Become a Screenplay Writer (シナリオえーだば創作術 だれでもできる脚本家 首藤剛志), a blog written by former Pocket Monsters series organizer
and head writer Mr. Takeshi Shudo. The following are excerpts taken
from Blog Post No. 166 "The Theme of Pokémon "Mewtwo Strikes
Back!"," a blog entry related to the Pokémon
Shock incident.
Notes about the translation below
I have two notes
about the translations you're about to read.One, the Japanese version of the blog is written the way a lot of Japanese blogs are written in that the author only types out (roughly) one sentence per one line. To a native English speaker like me this makes the blogs seem weird and choppy but that's just the way a lot of Japanese blogs are written, for some reason. For simplicity's sake I've replicated this one-sentence-per-line writing style in my English translation. Two, the following translation is a truncated version of a much, much longer blog entry. Mr. Shudo is an absolute treasure trove of behind-the-scenes information you can't get anywhere else but his blogs are, as far as your average Pokémon fan is concerned, about 80% filler. The writer had a tendency to trail off into some very off-topic tangents in his blog and so what I've decided to do is to pick out the parts that actually discuss the Pokémon Shock incident and present that to you on the page below. I hope you will find this abridged presentation a bit easier to read that it would have been otherwise. If you're someone who would prefer to read an unabridged translation, however, I've also got you covered; you can check those out here.
The final blog entry Mr. Shudo makes where he talks about the Pokémon Shock incident was posted on December 3rd, 2008.
The rest of this particular blog entry goes into some behind-the-scenes details about the making of Mewtwo Strikes Back! and how he struggled to come up with a theme that he thought would work well both in Japan and overseas.
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