{"id":38629,"date":"2026-08-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38629"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:17:10","slug":"she-was-there-for-pikachus-first-pika-when-the-pokemon-series-debuted-in-japan-it-was-actress-ikue-otani-who-brought-its-electric-lead-to-life-shes-been-the-defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=38629","title":{"rendered":"She was there for Pikachu\u2019s first \u201cPika!\u201d When the Pok\u00e9mon series debuted in Japan, it was actress Ikue \u014ctani who brought its electric lead to life. She\u2019s been the definitive voice of Pikachu ever since, recording for movies, video games, and international versions of the anime. \u014ctani stayed in character for this Stamp Box promo, signing her name in Pika\u2019s favorite color. \u26a1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She was there for Pikachu\u2019s first \u201cPika!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the Pok\u00e9mon series debuted in Japan, it was actress Ikue \u014ctani who brought its electric lead to life. She\u2019s been the definitive voice of Pikachu ever since, recording for movies, video games, and international versions of the anime.<\/p>\n<p>\u014ctani stayed in character for this Stamp Box promo, signing her name in Pika\u2019s favorite color. \u26a1<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @PSAcard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/2085199180629209116\">Aug 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was there for Pikachu\u2019s first \u201cPika!\u201d When the Pok\u00e9mon series debuted in Japan, it was actress Ikue \u014ctani who brought its electric lead to life. She\u2019s been the definitive voice of Pikachu ever since, recording for movies, video games, and international versions of the anime. \u014ctani stayed in character for this Stamp Box promo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":38631,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":["post-38629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-psa","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38630,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38629\/revisions\/38630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}