>>39815550>>39815550>It's a US only commercial for a game that came out in 1999No the game was released in 1998, the commercial aired in Oct 1997 because the game was was supposed to come out at Easter but got delayed until September. The english dub of the anime and Red and Blue had simultaneous launches but the commercial still predated it by a year.
>The anime started in 1997In Japan in September, the ad aired in December it is unlikely a third party company who made that ad for Nintendo were aware of an anime which at that point would only have maybe 3 episodes and was completely in Japanese with a different context. Even if they were WHAT DOES IT MATTER, only Pikachu would be present as charmander wouldn’t be present until episode 11 which due to holidays and events didn’t air until January 1998. So unless you are arguing Pikachu is a starter you got no point
