Pokemon Voice Actress Allegedly Involved in Covid Relief Scam

According to Japanese publication Friday (via Hachima, summarized and translated past Doug Dinsdale), vocalism actress Rika Matsumoto — who voices Satoshi (Ash) from the Pokemon anime — allegedly took advantage of Japanese regime covid-xix relief grants relief. Due to the global pandemic, the Japanese government offered to help back up artists suffering from the impact of covid-19 by offering 100,000 yen ($960) to those artists in need.

The study states that the voice extra is declared to have gathered a group of half-dozen individuals and demanded that their relief coin be deposited in her bank account instead of directly into each creative person'southward own, per the official regulations. Apparently, two of the applicants included in the application weren't even eligible for the relief payments.

One of those accusing Matsumoto, her onetime director who was supposedly included in that group receiving a authorities relief payment — alleged that Matsumoto included her in this grouping without her cognition. She then reported this to the authorities, who said that the money should have been paid straight to each individual listed on the grant application. The government realized that the manager was not eligible for the grant and demanded the money paid back. The manager had also claimed that the vox extra was quick to acrimony and would often change the Pokemon anime scripts, and alleges that Matsumoto was non the easiest person to piece of work for, claiming that ten assistants had quit in the past four years.

Matsumoto refutes these claims, which have non been confirmed as of now, and told Friday that "I'thou simply holding the money." The vocalisation extra also claims to accept paid dorsum the money her one-time manager owes.

In other news, according to the official Pokemon Twitter business relationship, it was revealed that the franchise will concur some sort of "celebration" in 2022 to marking the series' 25th anniversary. No details have been shared yet on what this celebration would look similar just it'due south likely it would include a brand new Pokemon game.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield released for Nintendo Switch on November 15th, 2022. Meanwhile check out our in-depth review for the game here, in which the News Editor states that "Sword and Shieldare a lot of fun, even if the series is experiencing growing pains with the transition to home consoles." You tin purchase Sword hither andShield here.

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