Update: I made an anki deck of the first generation Pokemon’s pokedex entries.

I made a post yesterday asking if anyone had any similar decks, but the people who commented motivated me to put more effort into my deck and share it, so here it is.

The idea for this deck is to be a sort of trivia deck. The content is something that I'm interested in and wouldn't mind learning, but is entirely in Japanese. I've found it very discouraging to struggle through a piece of text that I don't know half the words and have to keep looking them up to get through. Having furigana makes it more bearable because I can just read that, move on and eventually get the meaning from context, but having everything furigana I tend to not read the kanji and just look at furigana.

This deck is all in Japanese*, and all of the kanji have toggleable furigana. By default when a card is first shown there is no furigana, pressing the "Show Furigana" button shows all furigana (and turns the button into hide furigana). Imo this will encourage people (me) to try to read it first, and if I really can't recall the reading, I can press the button to check instead of trying to copy paste into jisho or using google lens if it's not copyable which really kills my flow of learning.

This is the link to the deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1916770929
Ankiweb says it'll take 24 hours to be visible to the public, but I'd like to share what I made so far, and see if anyone has any feedback.

So, there's 151 (plus some) cards. Each card contains
– Pokemon Name

– Pokedex No.

– Type (s)

– Ability Name

– Ability Description

– Pokedex Summary

Every (pokemon) card has a button to toggle the furigana. This works on all the content on the page. Not just UI elements, or card fields. anything with a <rt> tag gets toggled.

Cards are styled with css to look like the Pokemon Summary Screen from FireRed

Here's some screen shots of the cards, lmk what yall think!

Pokemon -> type

Pokemon -> type (answer with furigana shown)

Info -> pokemon (question)

Info -> pokemon (question with type revealed)

Info -> Pokemon (answer)

Description -> Ability (question, everything hidden)

Description -> Ability (question, pokemon and type revealed)

Ability -> Description (Question, nothing revealed)

Pokemon -> dex No. (question)

Pokemon -> Dex Summary (Question)

All of the text content was taken from zukan.pokemon.co.jp and all of the images were taken from https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites

Which there are a couple of things that I dislike about the deck

– zukan.pokemon.co.jp has dex entries from "random" games. Basically BDSP or Scarlet/Violet. Some pokemon have entries from both, some only one. If the card has Kanji it was from Scarlet/Violet, if it doesn't it was from BD/SP

– the abilities a given pokemon has on their card is somewhat random. I believe gen 1 pokemon could only have one ability, but I wanted to include as much content as I could, so if a pokemon and it's evolution can have different abilities, they will if both of the abilities were new abilities (at the time of me adding the card). But I also wanted to create the sense of like if you remember Bulbasaur's ability you don't have to remember another one for Venusaur. I might end up changing these later when I do more gens, so that hopefully all abilities are covered, but there's the least amount of unique abilities per gen to have an easier amount of things to learn at the start.

– the furigana tags are not ideal. I don't know of any being inaccurate, but they're not in the style I would like. Currently if 食べる was a word then there would be furigana for た and べ because the tokenizer I used says that's one token. I would prefer there to only be furigana for た, but I was too lazy to put any more effort into the go program I wrote to tokenize and add <ruby> tags

– Gender (not zukan's fault)

I wanted to show the gender thing, because when searching for Nidoran it's helpful to know ♀ (めす） and ♂（おす）. And because it shows it on the summary screen I thought I'd add a random chance for each time you see a card it to be male or female and it has the furigana toggle for it.

However certain pokemon like ガルーラ can only be one gender, or are genderless. This leads to some inaccurate information being shown like it's possible for a male ガルーラ.

Also because the gender is coded on the card template, I also wanted to include it in the Nidoran's name because it's important to know which is which, it shows up twice there, the end one has a chance to be inaccurate.

Oh and the 必要単語 deck is comprised of most of the vocab from the abilities description. They're a bit scuffed as I wrote a program to look through all the abilities, tokenize the sentences, find unique words and look them up in Jmdict. There's more definitions than are needed, but I didn't want to curate them so…

There are also cards I did make of the static words on the UI

情報（じょうほう）- Information/Summary

図鑑（ずかん）- Lit. Picture book/Field Guide (what the pokedex is called)

特性（とくせい） – Lit. Special Characteristic (Pokemon's Ability)

一覧 （いちらん）- Summary

Oh also I am not confident in the sentences I made to ask the questions, specifically for type and what pokedex number, so any help there I won't turn down.

Edit:

Have changed in the card questions:

このポケモンは何のタイプがありますか -> このポケモンは何のタイプですか

このポケモンの特性の説明してください -> このポケモンの特性を説明してください