Pokemon Special/Adventures

May 28th.

Well, What a coincidence, since that's my Birthday.

Vol. 40 came out today, no summary yet. Pokemon Ranger manga confirmed canon, though.

Yaaaaay, DPPt will finally be wrapped up!

edited 28th May '12 3:28:36 AM by Saiga

What's known so far is: Palmer and Pearl finally see each other again, they battle Sird's Darkrai (Sird herself is nowhere to be seen, though), lots of characters meet up in the Distortion World where they face Charon and Giratina, Dia nearly dies for some reason, Cyrus and the three young Galactic commanders return and make a Heel–Face Turn, and Charon gets arrested by Looker. The volume ends with an epilogue and a tease for the HGSS arc. It looks to be good.

edited 28th May '12 10:57:26 AM by ManwiththePlan

End of page for volume summary here! Thanks Coronis!

As expected, lots of shit went down. But seriously, I find it hilarious that Platinum's Pokemon somehow caught the Pokerus. THE GODDAMN POKERUS. Seriously, you rock Kusaka.

Pokemon Ranger manga?

Kusaka and Yamamoto did short online manga for the first two ranger games. You could find them on mangareader. They're pretty enjoyable.

Oh yeah, I'm curious about the HGSS arc, was it already wrapped up or not? Because if so then it was ridiculously short. I kept hoping that it wasn't but the last chapter felt like a finale, though a rushed one.

And in my last comment, I wasn't saying that Kusaka's writing became downright terrible, more that overall the plots are getting less and less interesting to read through; I did like Diamond and Pearl and Platinum heaps more than Emerald Arc, and the Sinnoh trio really felt like the closest trio of friends out of everyone introduced so far. But it was really saying something when I preferred the anime's adaptation of the Black and White games over Special's. (Best Wishes is actually pretty good by itself though, lol. No, I don't think either adaptation beats the games themselves.) But lately the BW arc has picked up a bit, and I really like White's determination and character development. Black also got a bit too in that he doesn't really fly off the handle quite as often and he's a bit more focused.

I think the anime really topped themselves with Best Wishes. I didn't think they could fail any harder, and yet they did!

HGSS did have a conclusion in the magazines, but it's likely to be expanded to wrap up loose plotlines; that's what happened to the DP arc.

Unfortunately, I still can't get myself to watch the anime no matter how much other people say it got better; it took too long to do it, I'm afraid that any emotional investment will be declared null and void by the end of the generation (just like always), and, even with the pulled two episodes, it's pretty clear that Team Plasma was never to have that much of a big role. And goddammit so much wasted potential lost with N not meeting Ash and Pikachu.

edited 18th Jun '12 6:56:50 AM by moover

Apparently volume 41 http://www.serebii.net/manga/41.shtml the first HG/SS volume is out in Japan.

I did not know that Viz was releasing BW Adventures in English. Including stuff from the magazines the scanner doesnt get. So here http://jb2448.info/Magazine_Scans/Viz_BW are some scans from the English Viz releases.

edited 7th Jul '12 2:51:29 PM by Deadpoolrocks

So volume 40 is fully translated, now. The last chapter took fairly long considering Anon scan's usual pace, but it was longer than usual so I guess that's to be expected.

Cynthia waiting outside the Distortion World portal to hit Giratina with Draco Meteor was absolutely boss.

I really liked the epilogue, now I really want volume 41 to start being translated.

Wow, that ending was really cute for the arc. Ah, Sinnoh trio really are the closest out of all of them, their friendship with each other is clearly shown to be their most important treasure; it warms my heart. The manzai routine with Platina as the sole audience member really yanked my heartstrings pretty hard.

And I agree, the epilogue was really interesting, and leads me to think that we'll get to see all the protagonists together again.

OH GOD I HOPE NOT

Why not?

We need less arcs tainted by Yellow's disgusting, foul presence.

I like Yellow and would consider more of her a good thing. Then again outside of the first two story arcs I have not read much of the manga so I do not know if she stops being a good character.

She doesn't really change so if you like her now you should probably continue to do so.

But I really can't stand her.

Seriously Saiga, stop it.

We know you hate yellow.

Get over it, and accept that not everyone else dislikes yellow.

edited 30th Jul '12 5:40:12 AM by Demongodofchaos2

No. You stop being so defensive if you're going to tell people what to do.

edited 30th Jul '12 6:03:03 AM by Saiga

Well, we get the point, err, you serr imaterr, guh, shut up, you're not thinking about it, Yellow is ASWEM.

Ok, i'll stop. But why do you hate her, anyways? It's not like she's the cause of the conflicts in the series... As far as we know.

edited 30th Jul '12 6:05:53 AM by eternalNoob

That's not what I'm saying.

A lot of people besides myself find your yellow hate grating and repetitive.

The random out of nowhere All caps post you have above shows that.

edited 30th Jul '12 6:19:33 AM by Demongodofchaos2

Her character was completely unnecessary, Red was Put On AB Us just so she could take over the plot, she has many Sue-ish traits, and I don't find anything about her likeable.

You can't tell someone to stop it and then tell them that you're not telling them what to do. 'Cause it's pretty obvious that's exactly what you're doing.

Except for the simple fact that no one else really agrees with you on it, so stop bringing it up, I asked you nicely to do so already.