Pokemon Special/Adventures

It's being localized in several languages. Wouldn't that help its popularity? Buying manga isn't that difficult.

You'd think, but I've only seen PokeSpe on store shelves once in my life, and I live in a city.

I've seen it mostly in a handful of places myself.

I did have a few volumes at my local Superstore, but those are gone now.

I feel like popular opinion has also somewhat soured on Special. It used to be that you would only ever hear it mentioned in a positive light, but now when I see people talk about it there seems to be much more criticism.

That always seems to happen to certain works after a while. Sometime, it just comes out of nowhere really.

I suppose with the games improving their stories a little bit every time, Special just doesn't seem as....special.

<Ducks a brick>

It was the best way to put it dammit! Don't look at me like that!

I love Special.

I stopped reading when B & W was being scanlated since I think there was issues with that and honestly haven't been up to date with Pokémon in general.

It's still popular if Barnes and Nobles is an indication and the library. Oh yeah, an artbook just got released here too so that's something of interest.

I saw the X/Y half-volumes at my library and a couple book stores, but not many other places.

Let's see, I've read all the way up to Gold and Silver arc, dropped Ruby and Sapphire midway (it got boring for me). Started reading BW 2 because I just finished that game and now I caught up with that one.

I really like BW 2 so far, though a 12 year old being a high ranking pokemon Interpol is straining my suspension of disbelief, but pretty much every scene with Rosa makes up for me.

Isn't BW 2 where our M Cs are a cop and former gang member turned NEET?

The NEET you're most likely referring to is X in the X and Y series.

Lack-Two being part of the International Police is great and the type of silliness I want.

I'm not fond of the mangaka giving so many relatively recent characters jobs. Yes, ten year olds are allowed to go around on their own but I think they're pushing it with characters like White and Lacktwo.

If you want to get technical, Lack-Two is 12, while Bulbpedia also says White was 14 for the original BW run.

Even with that, it's a very much case of Improbable Age for me.

Yes, of course I know that we had many ten year olds who single-handedly brings down crime organizations and become the strongest trainer in the world in this franchise. But for the most parts, they are either just a trainer or a champion, not holding actual occupation.

Speaking of ten year olds, Blake approaches Whitley because he knew that whoever received the USB on Team Plasma was a ten year old...how did he figured that out? Also, it's not like Unova is a small region, there's gotta be hundreds of 12 year olds all over, so how did Blake figure out that his suspect was in the exact school that Whitley enrolled in?

I'm actually just curious, because either because of mistranslation or misreading I might have just missed that.

Started to read DP arc.

Oh man, Platinum is my favorite pokemon game and now this arc is turning out to among my favorites.

If nothing else, I find it the funniest.

Lusamine is even worse than in Sun/Moon, with thinking about her forced clothing being enough to give Lillie PTSD and a Heroic BSoD.

Yeah that's from Chapter 14. The flashback seems pretty nasty◊. The falling on the floor and feeling ill after the mention of clothing by her mom probably counts as minor Heroic BSOD and a bit of a Traumatic event.

Why can there be a sliding scale of awfulness in regards to Lusamine's character.

There's her manga portrayal, SM character, USUM character, and then finally anime Lusamine in terms of nastiness to niceness.

Reminds me of N's portrayal. Manga to games to anime from evil to nice.

I've read a lot of fanfics where Lillie has PTSD but I didn't think an adaptation would use. Then again this is Pokespe. They were probably super happy to have a canonically emotionally abusive mother to work with.

edited 14th Apr '18 11:51:19 AM by Pichu-kun

Had a chance to read a few chapters of the X and Y chapters.

Wow, Y is a lot more temperamental than her anime counterpart...I guess.

I admit, there's a lot of Serena's tenure that I never really saw.

Serena in the anime is pretty tame. Her having a bit more pep or temper would have been a good thing. Personally, I always write my interpretation of Serena as very laid-back, but I think she works best energetic but not to Plucky Girl levels.

I haven't been following the manga much since Sinnoh, but has it adapted the multiverse from the games or does it skip it like the anime? I imagine it wouldn't work in the manga because it doesn't use the same timeline as the games.

Okay so which arcs are actually complete now? Last time I remember there being like 3 different arcs all running at the same time or something. I remember finishing either Platinum or HG last time, either way it was gen 4.

Is gen 5 actually finished now?

Its weird really. Black/White was finished up just fine, but Black 2/White 2's been on and off updating throughout the last few years.

...Meanwhile they finished X/Y AND ORAS, and Sun/Moon's more than halfway through.

Though I don't read Poke!Spe, I gathered that the difference between Y and Anime!Serena is the difference between Zero and Roll.

EDIT: And from the little that I gathered, Poke!Spe all happens in a single continuity.

I'm rather surprised that nobody has mentioned that Viz has taken Poke!Spe digital.

Edited by DonaldthePotholer on Jul 28th 2018 at 8:02:20 AM