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Had a look at the commercial. As we already know, you'll be able to find Pokemon and items in the Dream World and transfer them to your game. It appears you meet Pokemon through a graphical interface like that of the games, and the Pokemon appear as overworld sprites. You also get a "home"...

Looks wise, I loooooove Reshiram. Massive weakness for birds of prey and it just looks so... seraphic. Throw in typings though, and, well, I gotta admit you just can't beat Dragon/Electric. So I pretty much like them equally. Still voted for Reshi though.

:B Awesome, saves me the trouble lol. What exactly is that kanji in the train caption? I don't recognise the kanji, can't find it through kanji search, and can't find anything under いと (which I assume is the ruby there, it's hard to make out). Pfft.

My Japanese isn't that great, but the text under the train picture says something like "Pokemon Gyms with a great variety of tactics will appear!". Would you be interested in a rough translation of the whole thing? Actually, I'm really excited about the storyline of the new games! :D...

@Tobi: Well, they are based on the Japanese legend of the three wise monkeys. Also, easy way to market the triple-battle system! Logical, yet at the same time... makes you want to bash your head in.

@dividePower: Haha, that was me! CHINESE NERDS UNITEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! I adored Infernape on that reason alone. Aaaand no prizes for guessing what I nicknamed mine. :B (This is also really lame but I nicknamed my HM slave Bibarel after San Zang because he manages to be the most useless and yet...

As for Mijimaru's final evo, it may also be based on the Pi Xiu, a Chinese mythical being usually depicted as having a single horn (it's related to the Qi Lin or "Chinese unicorn"). It's somewhat associated with water (and thus wealth), has grey or white fur, and is known to be fierce (was...

I think they're really drawing a lot from Chinese classics this gen. The pig evolution is probably based on Zhu Bajie from the Chinese classic Journey to the West, which is interesting given that Infernape was obviously based on Sun Wukong, the monkey god and main character of said novel...