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Detective Pikachu added to iMessage sticker suite

/ 04:52 PM March 25, 2018

Image: Nintendo via AFP Relaxnews

With “Detective Pikachu” headed for cinemas in May 2019 and the video game released internationally this week, Apple’s iMessage app has integrated a collection of themed stickers to mark the occasion.

The yellow, squeaky gerbil-like animals that are Pikachu have been synonymous with the Pokémon franchise since its 1996 launch.

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Up until very recently, 2017’s “Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!”, the diminutive enthusiasts could communicate only using high-pitched variations on their own name.

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That trend was also bucked to comedic effect in the “Detective Pikachu” game for Nintendo 3DS, first released in 2016 for Japan and now this week elsewhere, in which a unique, mystery-solving, coffee-swilling and low-voiced Pikachu discovers that a local boy can understand everything he says.

So it is that together they set off to solve a series of cases around Ryme City.

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Cast in the 2019 feature film are Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) as the boy, Tim, and Ryan Reynolds (“Deadpool”) as Detective Pikachu.

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Also involved are Kathryn Newton (“Lady Bird”) Bill Nighy (“Pirates of the Caribbean 2”), Suki Waterhouse (“Billionaire Boys Club”), Ken Watanabe (“Batman Begins”) and pop star Rita Ora.

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Short story “Detective Pokémon: Episode 0 – Eevee’s Case” is available on Apple iBooks and Amazon, free for a limited time.

Stickers for “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” were added to iMessage in December 2017, while a collection of Mario stickers were rolled out in September the previous year after Nintendo and Apple announced a partnership over mobile game “Super Mario Run”. JB

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