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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 20:59:35 No.34264612 View View Reply Original Report

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Let's discuss the manga.

How many of them are there, for a starter? Which one is your favorite? What's the best one? Why do some covers (pic related) are so awful? What's the best manga pokéwaifu?

I've read PokéSpe up to DPPt, but dropped because the pacing gets really bad in that chapter, and I hadn't played any Gen IV game back then. I loved everything about the manga, though. However, as I just finished Platinum, should I start reading it again? I've also heard of a manga called Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure, is it good?

Feel free to call ReBURST a furry manga.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 21:00:27 No.34264618 Report

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a fuk

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 21:01:08 No.34264626 Report

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>>34264612
I liked DP and BW the most desu

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 21:38:09 No.34264952 Report

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>>34264612
pokemon manga that aren't spe hardly get translated or scanned even. How I Became a Pokemon Card is fully scanned and only has like 5 random chapters translated.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 21:53:47 No.34265074 Report

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>>34264612
I don't think anyone actually knows how many there are. There's fuck tons of them published in all kinds of magazines nobody really keeps track of, and a lot of them never get reprinted anywhere.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 22:02:08 No.34265152 Report

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>>34264612
>I've also heard of a manga called Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure, is it good?
It's definitely the best "serious" Pokemon manga I've read. It's what Special SHOULD have been like.

The English translation is a bit rewritten and censored I believe, but there's no alternative to it.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:31:52 No.34265928 Report

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I disliked D&P and B&W. Didn't really feel like the manga.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:37:16 No.34265967 Report

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>>34264612
I red one volume and it was okay, even if some of the character changes are weird (Cyrus is creepy, Dawn's counterpart is older than Lucas' counterpart, etc.). I think Ruby and Sapphire also had a manga, but it never got released in english (that I know of).
There are a few odd manga adaptations like "How I became a Pokemon Card", "Pokemon Golden Boys" (which, from what I've heard about it, can be summed up asthe one where Bugsy is gay), the anime movie adaptations, Electric Tale of Pikachu (which is also based on the anime), that one gag Manga staring Red and Clefairy.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:40:28 No.34265980 Report

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>>34264612
I enjoyed the R/B arc a lot. I found Yellow and the G/S/C arcs to be a bit weaker. I really enjoyed Ruby in Hoenn but found Sapphire a bit boring and hated Emerald. I actually really enjoyed the trio in D/P but the pacing was definitely poor. Platinum suffered from this even more. B/W were enjoyable but I thought had worse pacing still. Did not like what I read of X/Y and have not seen Sun/Moon yet. How is my taste?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:47:15 No.34266042 Report

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“Pokémon Adventures” is probably what you all are looking for. Written by Hodenori Kusaka. Artist Mato then after she got sick Satoshi Yamamoto took over. The creator of Pokémon said this manga is more what he had in mind (instead of the anime). Viz publishes (it’s common).

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:47:54 No.34266051 Report

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>>34266042
>“Pokémon Adventures” is probably what you all are looking for.
No.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Nov 2017 23:52:17 No.34266090 Report

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>>34266051
*with the exception of Yamamoto-hater-anon.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:06:15 No.34266203 Report

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>>34264612
There are a ton of Pokemon manga, but Special is the only ongoing one based on the games with a wide distribution. All the others are either a few volume long, untranslated or based on the anime or TCG.

That said, Electric Tale of Pikachu is my favorite. It makes the Pokemon world feel so fun and alive, more than any other adaptation does, more than the games do at times. A shame it's mostly remembered and talked about for the fanservice because it's a great adventure chronicle on its own.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:09:22 No.34266225 Report

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>>34266203
It also kinda suffers from the plot jumping all over the place due to being a monthly manga adaptation of a weekly anime, so it can't adapt every episode and you just have to kinda know what happens between chapters from the anime.

Ash & Pikachu has the same problem.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:16:56 No.34266284 Report

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All are shit

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:36:09 No.34266414 Report

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I like the RS chapters of the PokeSpe manga, mainly because I like Hoenn, but i'l admit to the story being all over the place

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:46:49 No.34266509 Report

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>>34266414
I thought the start was fine, but it turns into "two kids joining a giant region-encompassing battle for the safety of the world part 1-50" way too quick. The evil team plots have never been the focus of Pokemon in general.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:48:07 No.34266518 Report

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I've only read Special.

RB arc is pretty good. Relies a bit too heavily on sort of "my Pokemon is unique because it can do THIS," now the protagonists have to figure out how to work around THIS skill.
Y is shit. Yellow is a Mary Sue yadda yadda yadda.
GS is the fucking worst. It starts out sort of okay, even if Gold is the least likable character ever, and Kris is pretty cool. But everything becomes hamfisted and rushed, outrageous bullshit transpires in very short time. It feels like the writer didn't plan anything and wrote himself into a corner.
RS is okay. Having Ruby be the contest star and Sapphire the battler was refreshing, to the normal "boys fight and girls co-ordinate" trope we see a lot. But then Ruby turns out to be a genius battler so it feels a little hollow.
DPPt is also pretty good. I probably liked this one the most. Shit feels really natural, for the most part.

Haven't read past that, though I've heard good things about BW.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:50:42 No.34266530 Report

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>this was never scanned
why

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 00:52:19 No.34266544 Report

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>>34266530
Because Specialtards and their insistence in calling Special "The Manga" results in most people not being aware that there's a gorillion other Pokemon manga out there.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 01:30:26 No.34266817 Report

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>>34266530
this manga was like the gay AU where all female characters were erased from existence and it ends in a massive Magma/Aqua wedding

10/10 imagine getting paid to make your own gay pokemon fantasy

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Anonymous Fri 24 Nov 2017 01:31:51 No.34266827 Report

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>>34266817

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not a single female grunt even

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