BODY: Your Ditto is about to get a wardrobe. The Pokémon Company announced that the second paid content wave for Pokopia (ぽこ あ ポケモン, nicknamed Pokopoke in Japan) arrives December 9, and for the first time it lets both the player character and the Pokémon living in your town dress up.
The wave is titled 「どきどきデコレーション」 — roughly "Heart-Fluttering Decoration" — and is bundled into the Pokopia Expansion Pass, which launched June 10 at ¥4,400 (about $29). As the name suggests, the focus is cosmetic: a new "accessory" category of items that your shapeshifting Ditto protagonist can wear, and that can be fitted onto resident Pokémon too, turning the town itself into a dress-up canvas rather than just a furniture showcase.
Ahead of that, a free in-game event opens November 16: 「カジッチュのみついりりんごあつめ」, or "Applin's Honey-Cored Apple Collection." The Apple Core Pokémon Applin shows up in your town, and playing with it during the event period makes it a friend. Collecting the special item "honey-cored apple" lets you trade for apple-themed furniture, and building a proper habitat out of those items unlocks friendships with the rest of the apple line: Flapple, Appletun, Dipplin and Hydrapple.
Pokopia launched for Nintendo Switch 2 in March, developed in partnership with Koei Tecmo Games — an unusual pairing that put a Musou-and-Atelier studio in charge of Pokémon's first genuine life-sim.
The insider take
The apple framing is sharper in Japanese than it looks in translation. 蜜入りりんご (mitsu-iri ringo) isn't a fantasy item — it's a real premium grade of apple sold in Japanese supermarkets each autumn, prized for the translucent, honey-looking core that forms in fully ripened fruit, and most associated with Aomori Prefecture's orchards. Running an apple-gathering event in mid-November drops it exactly into Japan's apple season, the same seasonal-calendar instinct that keeps Animal Crossing feeling locally timed. And the December 9 date is no accident either: it lands just before the year-end holidays, when Japanese households have a Switch 2 in the living room and two weeks of oshōgatsu downtime to decorate through.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).