{"id":117157,"date":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/watch-ed-sheeran-voice-pokemon-characters\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","slug":"watch-ed-sheeran-voice-pokemon-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/watch-ed-sheeran-voice-pokemon-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ed Sheeran voice Pok\u00e9mon characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-22\/M_EdSheeranAmericanIdol1_051123.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Eric McCandless<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <strong>Ed Sheeran<\/strong> was in Japan not long ago, he didn&#8217;t just play concerts: he also got to fulfill a childhood fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Most fans of Ed know that he loves <em>Pok\u00e9mon.<\/em>\u00a0In 2021, he did an in-game performance as part of\u00a0<em>Pok\u00e9mon Go, <\/em>and in 2022, he wrote a song called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=23g5HBOg3Ic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Celestial<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; for the end credits of the video games\u00a0<em>Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Violet.<\/em>\u00a0On Instagram Thursday he revealed that while he was in Japan, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3plxLRi_Ww\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>got to provide the voices<\/strong><\/a> for some of his favorite\u00a0<em>Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>characters.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, he&#8217;s seen recording the voices \u2014 well, not voices, more like sounds and occasional words \u2014 for\u00a0<em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> characters like Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charizard and Snorlax.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining in 2022 why he&#8217;s such a fan of the Japanese media franchise, Ed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=629794681846440&amp;set=a.279292886896623&amp;paipv=0&amp;eav=AfZsMcLqWT1N8BQzIeiQsQvHA3fw7cSs028k1jbWfJXaqW20i3kSBe3sMU9xWYSr4-s&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>wrote on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;I really really love it. It gave me a proper escape as a kid into a fantasy world that seemed to go on and on, and in adult life it\u2019s nostalgia that makes me feel like a kid again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Eric McCandless When Ed Sheeran was in Japan not long ago, he didn&#8217;t just play concerts: he also got to fulfill a childhood fantasy. Most fans of Ed know that he loves Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0In 2021, he did an in-game performance as part of\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Go, and in 2022, he wrote a song<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/watch-ed-sheeran-voice-pokemon-characters\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}