Magic of Pokemon
The Magic of Pokemon is a 1998 book consisting of four parts and an introduction. The book begins by discussing the "Dennō Senshi Porygon" incident, with Part 1 mostly consisting of a collection of newspaper clippings about the case. Part 2 contains general information about Pokemon, Shogakukan, and CoroCoro. Part 3 begins with the chapter "The Birth of Pokemon", which discusses Pokemon's roots. Part 3 further contains an interview with Shigesato Itoi, a short history of Japan's video game industry, and again a chapter about the "Dennō Senshi Porygon" incident. Part 4 contains essays about the influence of mass media on children.
The book contains a few graphics that are difficult to put in wiki markup. In particular, it features a rather complex table on pages 162-163 which I attempted to replicate here.
Table of contents[edit]
| Chapter | Pages |
|---|---|
| Cover, Back | |
| 0_2 | |
| 1 | |
| Introduction | 2, 3 |
| Table of Contents | 4 – 6 |
| PART 1: The "Pokemon Case" and the Media | 7 |
| The Role of the Media as Revealed by Incident Coverage | 8 – 12 |
| News File | 13 – 91 |
| The "Pokémon Incident" Tons of Words | 92 – 102 |
| Celebrity Emergency Anket | 103 – 112 |
| PART 2: What is "Pokemon"? | 113 |
| "Pokemon" course for fathers | 114 – 121 |
| "Pokemon" has become a part of our daily lives | 122 – 128 |
| PART 3: The Age of Television and Gaming | 129 |
| The Birth of Pokemon | 130 – 144 |
| Interview with Shigesato Itoi | 145 – 152 |
| History of the Video Game Industry | 153 – 157 |
| Why did the children fall | 158 – 159 |
| Children's Incidents and Adult Logic in Subcultures | 160 – 168 |
| PART 4: Children as Consumers | 169 |
| Both mother and child have begun to have a strange immunity to the media! | 170 – 178 |
| What have we done for our children? | 179 – 185 |
| Everything is full of cartoons | 186 – 187 |
| Appendix | 188 – 190 |
| About the authors, publishing information | 191 |
| Books by Takahiro Otsuki | 192 |
| 193 | |
Release[edit]
The Magic of Pokemon was released on 30 March 1998. It was published by Mainichi Newspaper Corporation, which is of course the publisher of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
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ISBN: 978-4620312187.
Download[edit]
For a ZIP file containing all scans, go here (849 MB).
Here is a mirror of the ZIP file at MEGA.
I can create a PDF document of the book if all pages have been proofread.
Similarly, I can create a PDF document of the book if all pages have been translated.