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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 12:27:18 GMT -5
I love the Pokemon Adventures manga. I wish they'd hurry up and make a real-time Pokemon game based on that. The character designs are so much better than most adaptions as well. And Red is a lot less dense than Ash  Plus, Pokemon get carved up and smashed. Woohoo! I love Red, seriously--especially because Ash is a Pokemon Retard. The reason Ash never wins anything is so they can continue to use him as the show's main character...but that also makes him a dreadful bore. Red, meanwhile, has won his fair share of competitions--they gave him a break for a few years while Adventures focused on the Gold and Ruby generations--now he's back and he's still an interesting character despite his victories  And yes, the Adventures manga is very violent to Pokemon. Seeing an Arbok get sliced in half and a Zombie Psyduck in the same issues rocks out loud. |
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Post by Smashchu on Mar 25, 2007 15:00:35 GMT -5
Zombie Psyduck? Oh, I have to see this. Don't think Galbadia has that Manga though.
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 25, 2007 15:05:27 GMT -5
I only have a couple of them, but the zombie Psyduck is one of them. I'd scan it for you, but I can't get to it right now...
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 25, 2007 17:01:13 GMT -5
I've got that one as well... but it's tucked away in a box on the wrong side of my bed, so I can't be bothered to fetch it |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2007 22:33:52 GMT -5
Pokemon Adventures mangas are very difficult to come by now. As I understand it, while it's still actually in production in Japan, it didn't sell so well Stateside and stopped getting translated during the "Yellow Cabarello" storyline (which covered a new, fourth trainer to the original generation of games named Yellow--a girl who could speak to Pokémon and understand them). So everything from that point--GSC, RuSaEm, FRLG--has been catalogued.
RuSa is actually really interesting in terms of character development. Ruby (male trainer, 3rd Gen) is a Contest Trainer who detests violence. Sapphire (female trainer, 3rd Gen) is a Battle Trainer crazy jungle tomboy who thinks Contests are for pussies. This whole situation goes back to when both were children, Ruby saved Sapphire from a wild Salamence; Ruby swore off training his Pokemon to be violent, while Sapphire vowed to be strong enough to handle any of these situations. Ruby gets sliced in the forehead by said Salamence and neither sees each other until they're older, but are unaware of the fact that they met before since Ruby hides the Salamence scar under his headband. It's really neat--it goes the extra mile for character development the games and anime absolutely ignore.
Another neat, added little thing is that Silver (Rival, 2nd Gen) and Blue (Female Trainer, 1st Gen) have known each other very well since they were young and trained under Mask of Ice/Pryce (Ice Gym Leader, 2nd Gen). Silver is also the long-lost son of Giovonni.
The only way you can find Adventures now is if you import the "bootleg" translations from China...there's certain channels you have to follow and it's wicked expensive. The next best thing you can do, really, is read the transcription summaries up at Serebii.net.
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 26, 2007 5:12:59 GMT -5
Actually, Silver being Giovanni's son is a game thing.
The thing I didn't like about Pokémon Adventures was that most of the Gym Leaders were made out to be evil for no particular reason. Aside from that, it was great.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 26, 2007 6:06:28 GMT -5
I thought Green was the female trainer from the 1st Gen... Or was that a translation thing?
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 26, 2007 6:24:13 GMT -5
Translation thing. Blue and Green's names were switched in the English version.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2007 12:08:10 GMT -5
Kirbychu: The Silver/Giovonni thing is in the game? I never really played GSC in-depth, so I wouldn't know.
Fry: The Blue/Green switch was made to accomidate the fact that Japan got Red and Green, while everywhere else got Red and Blue. "Gary" is Green in Japan, and Blue in the States and UK, while it's the inverse for the female trainer. I don't bother making heads or tails of it because it confuses me, so I just went with whichever first sprang to mind XD
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 26, 2007 12:13:05 GMT -5
Kirbychu: The Silver/Giovonni thing is in the game? I never really played GSC in-depth, so I wouldn't know. It didn't come up in GSC as far as I remember, but it was mentioned in FRLG, though Silver himself didn't appear. I think it was revealed during the FRLG series of comics too, wasn't it? If it was revealed before that, then I guess Game Freak just thought it was cool and decided to add it into the games, too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2007 12:10:52 GMT -5
Kirbychu: The Silver/Giovonni thing is in the game? I never really played GSC in-depth, so I wouldn't know. It didn't come up in GSC as far as I remember, but it was mentioned in FRLG, though Silver himself didn't appear. I think it was revealed during the FRLG series of comics too, wasn't it? If it was revealed before that, then I guess Game Freak just thought it was cool and decided to add it into the games, too. Ahh, I kinda remember somebody mentioning that in the Rocket Warehouse in the Sevii Islands. It was brought up in Adventures FRLG, though, so that'd make sense. (Only because Silver and Giovonni are actually there for Adventures, it's done much better.) |
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Post by Saim on Apr 3, 2007 2:07:05 GMT -5
They only said that he had a red-headed son who was against Giovanni. So it could be Lance as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni (Pokemon)#Family
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