Pokemon Anime & Manga Discussion

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It's really not bad nowadays. I just watch their reruns in the morning. If Ash and pals would stop giving away all the good Pokemon.

 

[kirbyraeg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfg0aBE19Y

this is all I have to contribute and this shows that the pokemon anime is full of win.

 

[UberMario]

I've watched virtually every episode since the first one (that were english-dubbed anyway, haven't seen Dratini or Electric Soldier Porygon obviously), there's just something about the show I still enjoy, though I can't put my thumb on what it is about it.

 

[Firus]

I do still enjoy the early anime. Meaning, the Indigo League. I need to get it on DVD at some point.

I'm not sure if I actually still enjoy it or it's just nostalgia, but either way I like watching it.

 

[Mic_128]

Wow, found this after following a few related videos from kirby raeg's link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUB1Fx4Qm48&feature=related

 

[UberMario]

I was about to post that. lol

I understand the 4Kids part, but what does Leo have to do with Pokemon?

 

[Fuelbi]

Well, 4Kids ARE the devil. Have you seen how they literally obliterate anything cool and awesome about any anime?

 

[Wave⁂]

Well, 4Kids IS the devil.

FTFY

Have you heard how much people complain about their adaptations of any anime?

FTFY

You remind me of those "there are only 150 REAL Pokémon" people.

 

[Gates]

Yo Ash, i'm real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Pokemon Special is the best non-game piece of pokemon media of all time! The best non-game piece of pokemon media of all time!

 

[Platypus]

Of all time! Where can it be found online in English?

On a separate note, the anime will one day be spun off or canceled.

 

[Fuelbi]

Of all time! Where can it be found online in English?

On a separate note, the anime will one day be spun off or canceled.

I'm hoping it's the latter, I really hate where the anime's gone and I hope it's fixed in this new season.

 

[Gates]

Of all time! Where can it be found online in English?

On a separate note, the anime will one day be spun off or canceled.

Onemanga has all the chapters up to the early GS arc. Other than that I don't know.

 

[jigglyppuff8]

All of them used to be on MangaFox, but THE MAN is cracking down, so good luck trying to find the past chapters. /a/non scanlations is handling the more recent chapters though.

 

[Wrath`]

I think I have the first 4 American Pokemon comics somewhere in a box. I do remember ti having Red getting his trainer acceptance or something or other and pikachu totally disobeying him.

 

[UberMario]

All of the first 7 issues are available on Amazon, both old print and new (2009-).

 

[Charmander]

Lucky for you guys, I just got into Manga and found it online

http://www.onemanga.com/Pokemon_Special/

enjoi

 

[Wave⁂]

Holy crap, people know how to Google?

I got two chapter 13 or so.

 

[jigglyppuff8]

Onemanga has all the chapters up to the early GS arc. Other than that I don't know.

Lucky for you guys, I just got into Manga and found it online

http://www.onemanga.com/Pokemon_Special/

enjoi

Hurr.

I need to start the D/P arc eventually.

 

[Charmander]

"your done for" is used so often in the manga it makes me cry. The manga is epic though, very epic.

 

[0RLY]

All of them used to be on MangaFox, but THE MAN is cracking down, so good luck trying to find the past chapters. /a/non scanlations is handling the more recent chapters though.

WAT! WARE!? I... must... have... more... Pokesupe...! Like, is it on the internet or available for download anywhere? Sorry, can't torrent.

 

[UberMario]

Why does everyone act like it's not available to purchase anywhere? >_<

Unless everyone is referring to issue 8 onward . . . .

 

[Charmander]

Why does everyone act like it's not available to purchase anywhere? >_<

Unless everyone is referring to issue 8 onward . . . .

for me Its because

A)I get issues 8-onward
b)its faster
c)I have no money
d)free is fun
e)I dont know where to buy them
f)even if I did, I cant drive
g)because I can


Pick one of the above

 

[0RLY]

Yeah, I'm looking for the latest chapters. If I could buy it, I would, but nobody sells anything but drugs where I live.

 

[Mr. Johan]

I'm still waiting for the day someone takes the time to make a duplicate of the gym theme in the anime that plays when some amazing **** is about to go down. Charmeleon evolving, Victor riding that enormous wave, etc.

Or the ones in charge could release it in a CD. If they did, I'd get it in a heartbeat.

 

[Fuelbi]

I'm still waiting for the day someone takes the time to make a duplicate of the gym theme in the anime that plays when some amazing **** is about to go down. Charmeleon evolving, Victor riding that enormous wave, etc.

Or the ones in charge could release it in a CD. If they did, I'd get it in a heartbeat.

Mind sharing the song with us if they released it on Youtube?

 

[Mr. Johan]

The song has never been released on CD before, that's the problem. I think it's the only song from the original soundtrack from the first season that has never been released. The closest I can provide of the song have scenes from the anime playing alongside it, so those voice and sound effects get in the way.

The song was used once again in the recent DP anime Summer School Arc, after I think about 10 years since it's last usage, in the Orange Islands, so the ones in charge still know it exists, lol.

 

[Fuelbi]

Would it be this?

Also, I always wondered how Charmander evolved, I never saw the episode to know XD

 

[Mr. Johan]

Nope, this.

Other versions to this include a guitar solo of sorts that plays after the main part.

 

[Fuelbi]

Oh...

Funny how Ash's Charizard has been able to hold on it's own against legendaries, but oh wait, all of them have been NU

 

[Mr. Johan]

Charizard has only battled one legendary (a real, legitimate one), Articuno. And in that battle, he won it.

Tiers don't really apply in the show - in the anime, legendary Pokemon, some of them at least, are portrayed to be very powerful, versatile, and necessary to keep the environment stable. And the writers essentially dictate who wins what - Pikachu beat a Dragonite in the Orange Islands, but then lost to a Magikarp in Sinnoh. It's up to them, in the end.

 

[Fuelbi]

Well, so just because Entei was imagined, he doesn't count?

And the only reason why Pikachu beat a Dragonite, but lost to a Magikarp is because you forget that the writers of the show decide to lay a curse upon Pikachu and make him weak as hell at the beginning of the next saga.

What level IS Pikachu canonically btw?

 

[UberMario]

He doesn't have one. lol He ends each saga around 60 and gets back to 10 so that he's slightly above even with whoever is Ash's new "starter" pokemon.

Also these two = My favorite two songs of the anime all-time. (Imagines them playing as Giovanni's theme in a 3DS remake of Yellow for the 1st one and the second for facing Jessie & James):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFC3mYlxC5E&feature=related&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMF6BzGge8&feature=related&fmt=18

I love this one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsh2p_Ku6-w&fmt=18

 

[Fuelbi]

The last one almost makes me tear up all the time

 

[Mr. Johan]

Well, so just because Entei was imagined, he doesn't count?

Yes, because it wasn't a real Entei, and so it had some powers provided by the Unown. And Molly was assisting it in the battle by mentally providing the crystal spikes for Entei to use as stepping stones, whereas Charizard avoided them by a hairsbreadth.

And the only reason why Pikachu beat a Dragonite, but lost to a Magikarp is because you forget that the writers of the show decide to lay a curse upon Pikachu and make him weak as hell at the beginning of the next saga.

Then here's a another comparison: Bulbasaur beats a Scyther in the Indigo League. He loses to a Bellsprout in the same episode.


Tears After the Cloudy Weather is on of my favorite songs from the show. Ranks right behind the Gym Theme, and Faunsu E.

 

[Moozle]

Then here's a another comparison: Bulbasaur beats a Scyther in the Indigo League. He loses to a Bellsprout in the same episode.

But that wasn't just any old Bellsprout. Ninja bellsprout is a whole different story.

 

[Fuelbi]

Nobody disses dat Bellsprout

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Didn't James have a Victreebell? Lol I recall it failing pretty hard too. What ever happens to the Pokemon they never use anymore?

 

[RuNNing Riot]

I believe he traded that Victreebel away for a Weepinbell being sold by that con-artist Magikarp Salesman. It evolved in the same episode and then ran off with James' old Pokemon because they'd fallen in love.

I really miss that Arbok and Weezing though. You could tell they loved their owners so much. I'd pay the anime writers just to have an episode where we'd see what happened to them afterwards. Sigh...

If only James had kept his Gyarados.

 

[Fuelbi]

Didn't James have a Victreebell? Lol I recall it failing pretty hard too. What ever happens to the Pokemon they never use anymore?

Let's see, Weepinbell happened exactly as RR said, his Wheezing and Jesse's Arbok stayed behind to take care of a pack of it's species, similar to Pidgeot staying to help a flock of pidgey/pidgeotto, Jesse left her Dustox for the same reason Ash left his Butterfree, Jame's Chimeco stayed behind to get cured of some sickness or something, Jesse's Lickitung got traded for her Wobb, Cacnea is training with Gardenia, James's Magikarp evolved into a Gyara after he kicked it into the water and got pwned by Gyara afterwards, and James's Growlie is still at his mansion... he should bring his Growlie back tbh

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened to all their pokemon I believe

 

[UberMario]

The reason he didn't was addessed in a Hoenn episode where he told Growlithe he did not want it to go through the pain of blastoffs every day. (As it was his childhood friend and he couldn't bear the thought of it in pain)