Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket takes all the fun of collecting Pokémon cards and puts them into a mobile game, including some from different regions. Part of that fun is collecting cards in different languages and TCG Pocket also does not ignore this element. The game supports nine languages, including the original language of Pokémon cards, Japanese.
Eagle-eyed players may have noticed the language option in the top left corner of each card display. If you’re like me, you may have initially thought that this is where you can change languages. This icon is where players can see what other languages they have collected for that specific card. In other words, Pokémon TCG Pocket allows you to collect Japanese versions of each card and all other languages.
How to add Japanese cards to your Pokémon TCG pocket collection
There are two easy ways to change the card language in TCG Pocket
Pokémon TCG Pocket Cards can be in nine different languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese. There are currently two ways to add Japanese Pokémon cards for your collection.
The first and easiest way to change the app language to Japanese. Here’s how to do it:
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Click the three-line icon in the bottom right corner of the main screen.
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Select “Other,” then “Settings.”
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Scroll down to “Language selection.”
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To choose “日本語” (Japanese) in the drop-down menu.
This will change TCG Pocketfrom the language to Japanese, which includes all the cards you take from the booster packs. All newly purchased cards will remain in Jaremain as the app’s default language is Japanese. Cards will remain in Japanese even when the language is changed back to English (or whatever your default language is).
The other way to get cards in Japanese Pokémon TCG Pocket It’s through Wonder Picks. I discovered this by accident the first time I took a card from a Spanish-speaking friend and discovered it remained in Spanish after it entered my collection. To obtain Japanese Wonder Picks cards it is necessary choosing a card from a Wonder Pick in Japanese.
You can increase your chances of learning Japanese TCG Pocket Wonder Picks cards by sending friend requests to Japanese speakers. It’s fairly easy to find people who use Japanese as their default language by looking at community collections and seeing which cards are displayed in Japanese.
Does the Pokémon TCG Pocket allow you to have cards in both English and Japanese?
Cards in TCG Pocket will remain in the language with one exception
That being said, any letters you receive in a different language will remain in that language indefinitely. This means that Pokémon TCG Pocket allows players to collect cards in English and Japanese simultaneously. The only caveat is that you cannot use a Japanese card in a match if your application language is not Japanese. If your only version of a card is in Japanese, you can use it in a battle in TCG Pocketbut it will be automatically translated into English (or the language set for the application).
Also, remember that it is possible to sacrifice a foreign language card to create talent. The game will warn you before doing this and will even let you select which language cards you want the transfer to use. In addition to these two cases, Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket allows avid collectors to capture all in any (or all) languages supported by the app.
- Released
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October 30, 2024
- Developer(s)
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DeNA, Criaturas Inc.
- Editor(s)
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The Pokémon Company
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer