History Trivia / PokemonSpecial

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Pokemon Special has the dubious honor of allowing its creator to suffer this on its own due to its extremely complicated magazine release.
* BigNameFan: Coronis, as for a long while he was literally the only source of information for the fans of what was currently going on in the series.
* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, once stated that the manga most resembles the world that he was trying to convey. It's a long outdated quote though, and may not hold true post Generation II (and Tajiri isn't even in charge of the franchise past then anyway, Junichi Masuda is,)
* FandomNod: Platinum's birthday is October 27th (27/10)...which happens to be the Japanese ship name for Cyrus/Dawn. Um, okay...
* FanNickname: The manga itself tends to be [[PortmanteauSeriesNickname affectionately abbreviated]] as "[=PokéSpe=]" or "[=PokéSupe=]" in both Japanese and English.
** Crystal's mom--Lady Gaga.
** Lady Berlitz has half of the fans calling her Platinum, while the other half calls her Platina.[[note]]''Purachina'' is the Japanese loanword for "platinum", so while the game did end up getting named Platinum, those fans cling to Platina because it sounds more feminine, can fit in the seven-digit name input when the game asks you to name your character, and is technically a more literal transliteration of ''purachina''.[[/note]]
* IKnewIt: The collective fan reaction to [[spoiler:Silver being Giovanni's son, and officially video game canon when [=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=] came out]].
** FR/LG video game fame checker entry:
-->[[spoiler:'''Giovanni-Rocket Warehouse Gideon''': Family and Friends?: You...You're not Giovanni's kid are you? No, that can't be right Giovanni's kid has red hair.]]
* NoExportForYou: For years, nothing past the Generation I chapters were available in the US. Viz has since picked up the slack by continuing into Gen II and starting new series for Gens IV and V, but left Gen III hanging for a long time until they finally translated it as well.
* OneOfUs: The author notes often have Kusaka ''completely fanboying'' over whatever new game (main or spinoff) came out.
** Yamamoto is a fan of {{Spiderman}} and SpongebobSquarepants. He also stated that he drew inspiration from his favorite {{Kaiju}} movies when drawing Groudon and Kyogre.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Wally was initially intended to be the holder of third Hoenn Pokedex; in the original magazine run, he registered the Pokedex he accidentally came across. However, this was changed in the official volume release (where Wally simply picked it up and eventually returned it to Professor Birch), as the writer realized that Wally's character wouldn't have fit into the Battle Frontier, necessitating the creation of Emerald.
** The round known as ''Escape!'' was not intended to be included in the volumes (meaning it could have ended up a MissingEpisode), but enough fans begged Kusaka to change his mind.
* The writer for this series, Hidenori Kusaka, acted as an adviser for Miho Asada's ''PhantomThiefPokemon7'', also coming up with the name for the main character Hiori.
* Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto worked on short manga for the first two ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' games, said manga only being available online. Kusaka also wrote walk-through manga for the Orre based games, though it was never collected into volume format.

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* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, once stated that the manga most resembles the world that he was trying to convey. It's a long outdated quote though, and may not hold true post Generation II (and Tajiri isn't even in charge of the franchise past then anyway, Junichi Masuada is,)

* NoExportForYou: For years, nothing past the Generation I chapters were available in the US. Viz has since picked up the slack by continuing into Gen II and starting new series for Gens IV and V, but it looks like Gen III is being left behind.
** Gen III is finally to be released in America.

* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, once stated that the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' manga most resembles the world that he was trying to convey. It's a long outdated quote though, and may not hold true post Generation II (and Tajiri isn't even in charge of the franchise past then anyway, Junichi Masuada is,)

* TrollingCreator: Despite hints suggesting it, [[spoiler:the Shadow Triad are, like in the games, ''not'' the Striaton Gym Leaders.]]

* Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto also worked on short manga for the first two ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'' games, said manga only being available online.

** Lady Berlitz has half of the fans calling her Platinum, while the other half calls her Platina.[[hottip:*:''Purachina'' is the Japanese loanword for "platinum", so while the game did end up getting named Platinum, those fans cling to Platina because it sounds more feminine, can fit in the seven-digit name input when the game asks you to name your character, and is technically a more literal transliteration of ''purachina''.]]

* TrollingCreator: Despite hints suggesting it, [[spoiler:the Shadow Triad are, like in the games, ''not'' the Striaton Gym Leaders.]] Damn you, Kusaka.

* Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto also worked on short manga for the first two ''PokemonRanger'' games, said manga only being available online.

** Lady Berlitz has half of the fans calling her Platinum, while the other half calls her Platina.[[hottip:*:''Purachina'' is the Japanese loanword for "platinum", so while the game did end up getting named Platinum, those fans cling to Platina because it sounds more feminine and is technically a more literal transliteration of ''purachina''.]]

* IKnewIt: The collective fan reaction to [[spoiler:Silver being Giovanni's son, and officially canon when [=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=] came out]].

** Yamamoto is a fan of {{Spiderman}} and SpongebobSquarepants.

* Yellow's fisherman uncle was not named in the original. However, he ''was'' based on a specific fisherman, the one who calls you about the Remoraid swarm in the GS games, which is why fans usually refer to him as Wilton. In the original Japanese, his name was Hidenori, just like the writer.

* FanNickname: The manga itself tends to be affectionately abbreviated as "[=PokéSpe=]" or "[=PokéSupe=]" in both Japanese and English.