Madoka Akagi

The subject of this article has no official English name. The name currently in use is a fan translation of the Japanese name.

Madoka Akagi 赤城まどか Akagi Madoka
Madoka Akagi in Pack Your Pocket With Adventure
Age	28
Gender	Female
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown
Hometown	Tokyo Mashiro (originally)
Region	Kantō
Relatives	Unnamed mother Unnamed older brother
Member of	ADventure
Rank	Designer
Live action debut	Pack Your Pocket With Adventure
Live actor	Nanase Nishino

Madoka Akagi (Japanese: 赤城まどか Akagi Madoka) is the main character of Pack Your Pocket With Adventure. She is portrayed by Nanase Nishino.

History

Pre-series

Madoka playing Pokémon Red for the first time in her childhood

Madoka lived in the Mashiro District as a child with her mother and older brother. She and her brother played Pokémon Red on the Game Boy Pocket, but as they only had the one game cartridge, she only played it for the first time after her brother managed to finish the game. She chose Bulbasaur at the beginning of the game, but didn't like its evolutionary forms.

Years later, Madoka graduated from a local university and joined a kamaboko company. Her aim was to become a great designer and eventually joined the advertising company ADventure, where she had been working for around two months at the start of the show.

Season One

In PPA01, Madoka was the only one chosen to make a crucial presentation for the marketing of a new product from SAIjirushi, with the fate of the company at stake. On the same night, she opened a box that she received from her mother, which contained her old Game Boy. However, as the device was out of batteries, she was unable to play that night.

The next day, Madoka tried to convince other members of her team to work with her, but without success. Working overtime that night, Madoka found some batteries and finally started playing Pokémon Red. Remembering her first attempt with Bulbasaur long ago, Madoka decided to choose Charmander this time. While trying to get a Pikachu, Madoka didn't realize that the hour had passed and it was already too late.

Madoka Akagi meeting a Pikachu in the Viridian Forest

The next morning, Madoka presented her first drafts of work to Kageaki Hiyama of ADventure's sales department. When explaining her idea to her coworker, Madoka had explained that she had decided to use a pun between some words for her presentation, but she was discouraged from trying it. That night, Madoka began to relate the game's challenges to her own life, remembering some concepts such as type advantage. She found a refuge from her problems by talking to Masako, who gave the young woman some life advice.

The day of the presentation, Madoka began to study how to have the correct approach with her client, using gym battles as a reference. Already in the SAIjirushi building, Madoka met her rival Midori Kudō, which Madoka related to the battles with Green. Just like in the games, her "rival" also worked at an advertising agency, Wonder Create, and used this opportunity to mock Madoka. During the presentation, Madoka used all of her studying of the customer's profile and sought to use the emotions and experiences that the product could offer to reach the feelings of the future president of SAIjirushi, Takeshi Iwakura. Thus, ADventure won its "first battle".

Madoka playing Pokémon with Sora, Masako's son

In PPA02, Madoka was in charge of creating the advertising campaign for a product called Mizuho Mare, a new brand of rice, to help ADventure, they received a visit from a renowned publicist called Oshō Kamo. While trying to learn about the veteran publicist's working methods, Madoka revealed to Kageaki Hiyama that she was playing Pokémon Red and that she was having difficulty defeating Misty in her gameplay of the game.

When introduced to Sora, Masako's son, Madoka learned some new concepts, such as Level, Obedience and how Badges influence your Trainer level and not your relationship with your Pokémon. Thanks to Masako, Madoka was able to relate this to his relationship with Oshō Kamo and they were finally able to work on the marketing campaign for the new product.

Pokémon

Pokémon	Role in the series	Level	First appearance
→ Charmander → Charmeleon	Madoka's starter is a Charmander in her Pokémon Red gameplay. In PPA02, Charmander evolved into Charmeleon after defeating a Jigglypuff.	34	PPA01
→ Pidgey → Pidgeotto	One of the very first Pokémon captured by Madoka in her Pokémon Red gameplay. It was revealed that Pidgey evolved into Pidgeotto when Madoka showed her gameplay to Sora in PPA03.	28	PPA01
Pikachu	Madoka captured a Pikachu at the end of PPA01.	22	PPA01
Farfetch'd おしょう Oshō	Madoka used a Farfetch'd she received from an in-game trade to battle a Voltorb.	23	PPA02
→ Magikarp → Gyarados	Magikarp was one of the Pokémon that was in Madoka's party when she showed her gameplay to Sora. During the course of the episode Magikarp evolved into Gyarados.	20	PPA01
Raticate	Raticate was one of the Pokémon that was in Madoka's party when she showed her gameplay to Sora.	25	PPA01

Accomplishments

In the series, each of Madoka's works for ADventure made reference to a Gym Leader from Generation I.

Challenge	Product	In-game reference	Episode
Takeshi Iwakura	Thermal pan	Brock	PPA01
Oshō Kamo	Mizuho Mare	Misty	PPA02

Trivia

• Madoka's hometown, Mashiro Town, is a direct reference to Pallet Town.
• On October 13, 2023, the anime's official Twitter account in Japan announced that Nanase Nishino has joined the cast of Pokémon Horizons: The Series to voice an Ambipom.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	赤城まどか Akagi Madoka	From 赤 Aka (Red)

Reference

This article is part of Project Mass Media, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on official Pokémon publishing, broadcasting, communications, and other media.