On the day before Christmas, Pikachu and its Pokémon friends are playing in a snowy town. But their snowball bowling game goes awry, and Totodile's snowball knocks a passing Delibird out of the sky!

while "Rai" comes from the Japanese kanji character that means "thunder". The only version of the family that doesn't have a ...

However, 'Gorochu' was removed due to cartridge space concerns, and a pre-evolution for Pikachu, Pichu, was later added ... both the Pokémon franchise and Japanese pop culture as a whole.