Pikachu Level 100, Always
My Pokémon team was untouchable. Charizard, Mewtwo, Articuno, Mew, Dragonite, Zapdos—all level 100, all correctly movesetted, the product of hours grinding through locations whose names I can still recall without effort. I beat every kid on the playground with that team. I am not exaggerating when I say I was probably the best Pokémon player in my immediate school, and possibly in the surrounding neighborhood, and possibly in a radius I prefer not to specify.
The point is: Pokémon never really went anywhere. BEAMS and New Era just released a Pikachu fitted cap collection—embroidered, clean, the kind of thing that works both as childhood nostalgia and as a genuinely wearable hat. Available through the BEAMS online shop for around forty euros, which is reasonable for a cap that also functions as proof you know when to use Thunderbolt and when Dream Eater is a trap.
The best thing about Pokémon surviving into adulthood is that it operates as a filter. Anyone who can argue Psychic versus Mega Drain, who understands the difference between a coverage move and a sweep finisher, who spent real hours on a Game Boy doing things that had no practical application—that person and I share a vocabulary that costs nothing to deploy. A hat helps establish this quickly.
The BEAMS shop interface is in Japanese and requires some confident clicking. Worth it. Pikachu, I choose you, etc.