210: Pokemon’s 30th Anniversary is About to Change Everything

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Leisure, Video Games, Technology, Society & Culture

4.7 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Hello and welcome to episode 210 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we want to talk about our expectations for the upcoming Pokemon Presents happening on Pokemon Day on February 27. We think this will be a pretty big one since it's the 30th anniversary of Pokemon! Could this be the big comeback for Pokemon? Also in this episode, we break down all the things we loved about the State of Play, talk about the drama that is Highguard and why we are more hyped than ever for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Add in a sprinkling of awesome questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers and we got ourselves a doozy of an episode! Let's get started!

0:00 - Happy four year anniversary to US!
13:15 - News news news (State of Play, Highguard drama, new Super Mario Galaxy merch and more!)
1:00:36 - Pokemon 30th anniversary expectations
2:00:18 - Games we are playing (God of War: Son of Sparta, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy 7 Remake)

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0:00.0	Today!
0:01.0	Pokemon Day is just around the corner and we're probably going to get a ton of news.
0:07.8	So we wanted to see if we can think about what is our expectations, what we think is going
0:12.4	to happen and why we both feel pretty optimistic, I think, about this upcoming Pokemon Day.
0:18.1	Yeah, that was one of your big predictions at the start of the year was that
0:22.9	Pokemon Day was going to be the start of the Pokemon turnaround.
0:27.1	And I don't know if that's necessarily where my head was at at the time.
0:30.5	But the more I've been thinking about it and just kind of looking at the lay of the land,
0:33.6	I'm like, yeah.
0:34.9	I convinced you?
0:35.8	This could be it.
0:36.9	And that's exciting because it's been a
0:39.0	bumpy couple years with some ups and downs for Pokemon. But yeah, I think we're both on the side
0:43.7	of being pretty optimistic about it. I know. I feel like Pokemon is about to leave their flop
0:48.0	era behind them and get into a good era. Again, it is a big anniversary for them, 30 year
0:54.0	anniversary for Pokemon. Oh my goodness. That's a
0:57.4	long time. We all feel very old. But I have high hopes. I'm choosing for once. I'm choosing
1:04.1	optimism. So kind of excited, honestly. Yeah. And it is an exciting time because this week we are celebrating four years of doing content creation together after leaving Nintendo.
1:18.9	There was no guarantee that we would ever make it this far.
1:21.7	So that's incredibly exciting.
1:23.5	And thank you to everybody who's been supporting us through the years.
1:26.4	And I don't know about you.
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