History YMMV / PokemonSpecial

** [[spoiler: Zapmolcuno]] is finished off by a Blastoise, Charizard, and Venasaur simultaneously using their strongest attacks. It's [[SuperSmashBrothers the Triple Finish!]]

* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: There are those who bash White for being a NeutralFemale and not being an ActionGirl like her predecessors. Never mind that:

** 3) Said job has involved producing a brand-new, major tourist attraction among various other responsibilities, a rather impressive feat for a girl in her mid-teens.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The Black&White arc's subway scene, especially for people who ship Black and White. The fandom on various sites have almost literally gone NUTS over what happened in that chapter.

* SharedUniverse: The regions from the ''[=~Pokémon Ranger~=]'' series also exist in the [=PokéSpe=]-verse, although the manga for it only exists online.

** The manga started Fatherly Shipping. Hilariously enough, rather than having Falkner and Janine respect each other over their mutual daddy issues, the games took it into the [[MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad other direction]].

** The Masked Man from the G/S/C arc seems to qualify. [[spoiler: It's [[AntiVillain MAJORLY averted]] in the end, with both the characters and the reader realizing he's just an insane but miserable and lonely old man.]]

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Blue has been shipped with [[{{Nakama}} Red, Green,]] [[ShipTease Silver,]] [[FoeYay Sabrina,]] and even [[StealthMentor Yellow.]]

*** The train scene. Oh boy the train scene.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Blaine and Mewtwo in the first arc, Norman in Hoenn

*** When White goes missing, Black even spends the whole night looking for her, and, upon meeting the person who he thinks is responsible for her disappearance, immediately sics out his entire team on the person.

* FetishFuel: First we have Blue (Green in the US); a spunky, snarky, flirtatious little thief in a little black dress, who even goes as far at one point as to put Pokéballs on her chest to make it look like she has much bigger breasts than she actually does.
** Secondly, there's Crystal, who [[KickChick enjoys using]] [[ShesGotLegs her long, athletic legs a lot...]]
** Later there's [[WildChild Sapphire]]. ''[[MsFanservice Just Sapphire.]]'' Incidentally, did you know that white thing just below the belt pouch is supposed to be a ''skirt''? No wonder she wears bike shorts underneath it...It would be one continuous PantyShot otherwise. Well, at least her body [[{{Pettanko}} matches her supposed age of 10]], unlike her anime counterpart (and arguably game counterpart). The best part? Ruby made that for her. Before, she went around in a leaf bikini.
** White's short shorts have garnered more than one "DAT ASS" comment. It helps that the artist is finally getting the hang of drawing girls' hips properly.
*** Under the right pose, it is possible to see part of her bare rear.

* HarsherInHindsight: The RS arc was chosen via poll to be re-released in wide-ban format. The arc whose legendaries had nature-based abilities and used them to reek havoc on the region. Cue the horrific earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan right afterward.
** The aforementioned Tohoku Earthquake caused the publisher to postpone the release of second and third volume of wide-ban format.

*** And then they go ahead and [[http://www.otakuworks.com/view/76067/pokemon-adventures/vol-29-chp-328-337/read/142 Use the phrase]] [[http://www.otakuworks.com/view/76067/pokemon-adventures/vol-29-chp-328-337/read/143 itself]]. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe that's where they got the name?]]

* ShipToShipCombat: Despite the shipping fandom being generally peaceful, small breaks happen every now and then. [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Blue/Green]] and [[LikeBrotherLikeSister Blue/Silver]] shippers in particular are quite bitter enemies. And the less said about the ongoing [[BodyguardCrush Dia/Platinum]] vs. [[WellExcuseMePrincess Pearl/Platinum]] debate, the better.

** A popular discussion topie also includes whether this manga or the anime is better.

* HilariousInHindsight: So much so that it's more prophetic than hilarious.

** 3) Said job is owning and actively running her own damn business, a rather impressive feat for a girl in her mid-teens.

** Dia and Pearl's pun-based manzai skits are different in every translation, for obvious reasons.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the Yellow arc, there's a flashback of Oak's Kangaskhan beating one of Agatha's ghosts with a Dizzy Punch, which should be a total cop out seeing how Normal moves don't affect Ghosts. Now about a decade later in the newer games, Kangaskhan is given the ability Scrappy...which allows Normal (and Fighting) attacks to hit Ghost types.

** In the GS arc, Misty ends up fighting Suicuine in a cave behind Tohjo Falls. Turns out there really is a cave there in the game canon...

* {{Woolseyism}}: During GSC, Gold faces the Sprout Tower's sages. In the Japanese original, they have [[PunnyName punny names]]; this is kept in Chuang Yi's version, but Viz played it for game accuracy and the pun was lost.
** Viz switching Green and Blue's names around may be this seeing as Red and ''Blue'' were the original games to come out in the US.
** Dia and Pearl's pun-based manzai skits are different in every translation, for obvious reasons.
** At the end of the GSC arc, rather than editing out the image of Gold patting Blue's butt, Viz made Gold claim it was an accident. Since Gold's face still indicates him doing it on purpose, it works by making him seem like he was making excuses for himself.

* BetterThanItSounds: Most fans agree that this manga is actually better than the more well-known anime.