Pokemon Black & White

[Johans Nidorino]

New cat Pokémon shown in an TV Tokyo ad (to the right of Zekrom).



The pink mammal-like Pokémon that was previously seen only in screenshots is to the left of the left-most cartoon character.

Pokéxperto, the site many other news sites are trusting (the one which swears the starter evolutions are real), is claiming that the total of 5th-generation Pokémon is going to be 156 counting Victini.

[The Qu]

Famitsu gave the games a perfect score. That's pretty impressive when you consider how notoriously hard nosed Famitsu is.

[Dances in Undergarments]

They're really not any more though, the amount of stuff that gets 40/40 is pretty high recently.

[Prince~Of~Light]

Might that then mean that games are starting to be much better than before?? (-lwl-)
I'd really expect that.
But PKMN-game getting 10/10?! I'd wanna get this now. My expectations of this game being just more milking up the PKMN-series is gone.

[kirbychu]

An interview with Ken Sugimori seems to confirm those starter evolutions WERE fake after all.

In the article, Sugimori explained that Tsutarja, Pokabu, and Mijumaru's final evolutions had been divided into Western, Chinese, and Japanese designs, respectively. He elaborated especially on Mijumaru's final evolution, noting that he tried "blending a sea otter and a sea lion," and made "the shell on Mijumaru's stomach into a sword (katana)."

[Johans Nidorino]

That information tickles! Yeah, otter 2's part that is colored blue in the mysterious photos resembles samurai clothing somehow.

Some info via PokéBeach:

Isshu is based off New York according to the original beta cover of Pokemon Peer, a special one-off Pokemon issue. The circled text below says, "Our adventure's setting is New York?!" Many fans have speculated for a while that Isshu is based off somewhere in America, drawing from the far-away setting, to American-themed Pokemon like Wargle and Victini, to Black people and football players present in the games. Pokemon Peer will be released in Japan this Friday and hopefully we'll discover more background information in its interviews!

I take it that's the same magazine where they are describing the starters. More info could surface pretty soon ^_^

[Johans Nidorino]

Some first scans of the magazine.

• Artwork of the starters and other previously-published Pokémon. Some leaves are behind the yellow letters in the first scan. Some think it's probably an evolved form of the deer.
  
• Artwork of legendaries and Zoroark 1
  
• Artwork of legendaries and Zoroark 2
  
• Evidence of the New York mirroring

[8bitretroshit]

Sept 9, 2010 20:38:40 GMT -5 Johans Nidorino said:

Isshu is based off New York according to the original beta cover of Pokemon Peer, a special one-off Pokemon issue. The circled text below says, "Our adventure's setting is New York?!" Many fans have speculated for a while that Isshu is based off somewhere in America, drawing from the far-away setting, to American-themed Pokemon like Wargle and Victini, to Black people and football players present in the games. Pokemon Peer will be released in Japan this Friday and hopefully we'll discover more background information in its interviews!

Black people? In my pokemon?!

[Johans Nidorino]

Iwata Asks, Pokémon Black and White edition

Page 2 is about Masuda's decision of making the fifth region like New York, the name of the region and the design of new Pokémon.



Page 3 is about the Pokémon Dream World.

[Johans Nidorino]

Serebii.net, the decade-long prestigious news site, posted a few details of the game from an unknown source.

• There are 156 new Pokémon within this generation; 153 within normal gameplay and further 3 event Pokémon (#647, #648 & #649) that will be distributed in a manner similar to Darkrai, Shaymin & Arceus in the previous generation
  
• In regards to a few numbers and details;
  - #633 through #635 are a Dark/Dragon-type evolution chain
  - #638 is a Steel/Fighting-type Legendary
  - #639 is a Rock/Fighting-type Legendary
  - #640 is a Grass/Fighting-type Legendary
  - #641 is a Pure Flying-type Legendary
  - #642 is an Electric/Flying-type Legendary
  - Reshiram is to be #643
  - Zekrom is to be #644
  - #645 is a Ground/Flying-type Legendary
  - #646 is a Dragon/Ice-type Legendary
  - #647 is a Water/Fighting-type Event Legendary
  - #648 is a Normal/Psychic-type Event Legendary
  - #649 is a Bug/Steel-type Event Legendary
  
• In Hiun City, the boats will take you to various islands.

Pure Flying is always a lie, remember ;D

[Koopaul]

I think some of those things might be a little mixed up. I figured the "Grey Version Mascot" would be a Dragon Ice type but wouldn't it come immediately after Reshiram and Zekrom?

[Johans Nidorino]

Sept 10, 2010 16:28:14 GMT -5 Koopaul said:

I think some of those things might be a little mixed up. I figured the "Grey Version Mascot" would be a Dragon Ice type but wouldn't it come immediately after Reshiram and Zekrom?

Giratina wasn't next to Dialga or Palkia either.

Pokémon fan sites keep trusting Pokéxperto, whose staff has supposedly seen a majority of the new Pokémon's sprites.

[Shrikeswind]

Weren't they the guys who made the Dialga look-alike Final-evo for the otter?

[Johans Nidorino]

People, the starter evolutions seem to be going to be real nonetheless x'P

September CoroCoro has begun to leak, so yeah.

[Koopaul]

Great now I'm hearing those are fake... Are they?