If you listen to Pikachu’s voice in Pokemon Red and Blue, he sounds VERY different to the “pika pika” that you hear in the Pokemon anime - but why is that? And why did it take until 2013 for Game Freak to change Pikachu’s in-game voice?

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SOURCES
Pokemon Red + Green
- http://lavacutcontent.com/masuda-inte... (Sound Driver)
Pokemon TV Anime
- https://www.howtodrawmanga.com/blogs/...
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- https://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wik... (Running for a year and a half)
- https://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies...
Pokemon Yellow/Pikachu
- https://tcrf.net/Development:Pok%C3%A...
- https://web.archive.org/web/200809250...
Modern Pokemon Cries
- http://nintendoeverything.com/game-fr... (Why Pokemon don’t say their names)
- https://www.polygon.com/2013/11/14/51...

CREDITS/FOOTAGE
-    • Pokemon Red Game Boy Intro and Pallet...   (Pokemon Red Footage)
-    • The First 17 Minutes of Pokemon: Let'...   (Let's Go Pikachu Footage)
-    • Game Boy Color Longplay [090] Pokemon...   (Pokemon Yellow Footage)
-    • Pokémon FireRed playthrough ~Longplay~   (Pokemon FireRed Footage)

-    • Sydney ANIMANIA 2011 【大谷 育江 ( Ikue Ot...   (Ikue Ohtani fan footage)