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Q: Next I'd like to talk a bit about Roy's partner, Hogator. Liko's Nyahoja and Roy's own Pokémon Kaiden have accompanied Hogator on this entire adventure, and they've now evolved into respectively Nyarote and Taikaiden. Not only that, but in episode 52, "Storm Warning for Kaiden", the Ghost-type Gym Leader Lime talked about how strong Hogator's passion was. This has led fans to wonder when it's going to evolve. What are your personal thoughts on this?
>Terasaki: Well… This is actually a question not only I, but ALL the cast members have been asking as well!!
To be quite honest, Hogator is so cute that I don't WANT it to evolve, I want to travel with it as a Hogator forever… However, since Hogator dreams of eventually becoming as strong as Lizardon, it might actually HAVE to evolve into a Loudbone. I do wonder what's going to happen to the Hogator song if it evolves, though. "A-A-Achigator" has WAY too many syllables!
Q: The Pokémon themselves always get really happy when they evolve, though.
>Terasaki: That's true! Evolution is obviously a happy moment, but it always carries very mixed feelings with it as well. That's something that's very unique to the Pokémon franchise.
Q: It's a happy moment, but there's something sad about it as well, huh?
>Terasaki: If Hogator was to evolve, its name would obviously change as well. You wouldn't be able to refer to it as "Hogator" anymore. Nyahoja's evolution into Nyarote brought Liko's voice actress Minori Suzuki-chan to tears as she asked herself if she and Nyahoja didn't still have things left undone. So yeah, there IS a certain kind of sadness to evolution, isn't there?
