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I totally blew it with the Halloween special this year. To excuse myself, I can say that Halloween is not that a big thing where I live, after.
But, well... here is Grimsley from “Pocket Monsters” manga. Anakubo sure made him look like Dracula. I know that the scan quality is far from good but that’s the best I have. I wish I had better access to Pocket Monsters BW and beyond. I’m relying only on partial scans posted on various sources, that isn’t very good...
Continuing our PM appreciation series, Here’s Driftveil City Gym Leader Clay in his “Pocket Monsters BW” incarnation. Unfortunately, I don’t have any access to PM manga from BW on and my collection on these relies solely on what was posted on fansites (such as Karubii’s Twitter or Bulbapedia). So, I’m pretty sure there are a few game characters that appeared in Anakubo’s BW, XY or SM volumes that I simply don’t have in my collection. If someone could help me with it, it would be greatly appreciated. By the way, can this segment pass as a “Halloween Special”? I mean, PM is now discontinued. Discontinued is like dead. And death = Halloween, right? Eh... I guess that’s not what people expect from a Halloween special...
Continuing our special Pocket Monsters series, tying in with our “Trainer Class Tuesday” tradition... Here is a Youngster from the PM manga. Since he appears early into the Johto arc of the manga, at New Bark Town, it is possible that he was inspired by the (in)famous Joey. However, not only is he left nameless (treating his Trainer title as his name) but also his partner Pokemon is Donphan, rather than Joey’s even more infamous Rattata. So, the connection between him and Joey remains purely speculative. Also, turns out that PM is not as dead as we thought. It is only its monthly CoroCoro run that has ended. The future chapters of the manga will now be serialized in CoroCoro Aniki and CoroCoro Special that have less frequent releases. So, the manga isn’t completely discontinued but will release much rarer than it used to, which may be seen as sign of phasing it out... I guess time will tell. Also, this wasn’t a mistranslation or anything. It was really Anakubo trolling the fans. He’s truly the jester of the Pokemon franchise!
Fishing Guru, as seen in the “Pocket Monsters” manga by Kosaku Anakubo. While not explicitly named so, this character is doubtlessly intended to represent that game NPC. He appears in Vermillion, where he runs a Pokemon fishing facility. There he borrows Red and co. a fishing rod (in this manga, he does it for money). He also wears a similar hat to his overworld sprite... It may be strange but back in Kanto days, PM was a pretty faithful game adaptation (despite all the comic relief and oddities like “mutated” Pokemon [to the point of unrecognizability] drawn solely based on sprites, which doesn’t really happen from Volume 2 on). It featured Red visiting game locations, meeting game characters, beating the League... Since Hoenn, however, game elements and characters became rarer and the manga just went pure comic relief, with little connection to anything. I guess that’s the point when Anakubo stopped paying attention to the games.
