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I think we all need to take a minute to appreciate the Kurokawa SM mini-volume covers. Not only are the backgrounds they use just gorgeous, but when you look at them all together you can see that they show the passing of a day - starting with the morning, with the sun in the east, and progressing to the afternoon, evening, and night. And when you finally get to the last volume, the sun is starting to rise again, starting the cycle all over again.
I wonder why he stayed in Alola if it really didn’t suit him.
Is the Pokémon manga going to end at SWSH or are there more gens coming? I just wished that the author would give us an another arc where ALL DEXHOLDERS unite and fight some stuff cos it’s gonna be cool and we get to see them one more time! I wonder if you have thought this too?
I can’t see Spe ending at SwSh since Kusaka did say in a recent(ish) interview that he had no intention of ending Spe anytime soon. So we can expect to see more Spe arcs in the future ^-^.
Idk about having every dexholder reunite since there’s so many and a 20ish years age gap between the newest and oldest dexholders,, but in saying that.. I did have a theory once that it could be possible to do thanks to Hoopa being the best potential ass pull:tm:.
Basically my theory was that at the end of ORAS the thing the Battle Brains wanted to talk to Emerald about was Anabel falling into Ultra Space so we get more of that in the numbered volumes, linking the ORAS and SMUSUM arcs together. This also gives the opportunity to have Emerald appear in SM due to his connection to Anabel and the Battle Brains sending him on a mission of sorts to find her and of course bringing Hoopa with him (he could be investigating the link between Hoopa’s rings and Ultraspace or something).
So that’s Em in the SM arc. When (or if..) the Rainbow Rocket arc happens Hoopa gives Emerald the power to bring any of the dexholders to help, so basically a get out of foreshadowing free card. Naturally if Em needs help due to Archie resurfacing Ruby and Sapphire will show up to help and that’s the Hoenn dexholders taken care of. Gold and Crystal (and Silver) could also be brought over by hoopa to help, being Em’s friends, so that’s the Johto dexholders taken care of.
Red and Green will be at the Battle Tree to showcase that part of the game and to investigate potential sightings of Giovanni (Red choosing to go with Green to check it out like he originally intended in ORAS). Giovanni showing up with a battaleon of other villians would be enough for Red to call upon Yellow and Blue for help. So with Em and Hoopa’s help they join the fight.
Platinum being Moon’s sister would of course have her rushing over to Alola with Diamond and Pearl to help out so that brings the Sinnoh trio into the fray to fight either Cyrus (even though he is reformed) or Sird as the Galactic bad guy stand in.
Lack-Two being confirmed as Colress brings him into the arc to fight Ghetsis of RR and maybe as a character developement moment have him actually call upon the other Unova dexholders, admitting that sometimes friends can help you out and not to do everthing on your own etc.
Sina and Dexio being in Alola gives the Kalos link so they could recommend X and Y to help in the fight due to the reappearance of Lysandre (since we got confimation that he actually somehow didn’t die).
So basically instead of having all the dexholders fight one enemy, which would be hard to spread the focus with that many characters, we would have each dexholder group assigned a bad guy to fight therefore splitting up the screentime a little better.
It would still be pretty cluttered and with the limited extra chapters added in volumes it would be rushed but,, SMUSUM already suffered from bad pacing and misdistributed focus on characters so we really don’t have much to lose.
That’s my thoughts on it sorry if it’s a bit confusing ^-^; I tend to ramble when asked about things I’m interested in hsklf. Thank you for the ask o/
I colored Gladion from the latest SM/USUM chapter.
Just got ahold of the first round of the SM chapter for the Free Comic Book Day event. Super nice that the whole round was included, unlike previously when only parts of two rounds were included back in 2015.
Major changes between original and translation:
The Litten En is now renamed Dollar (super silly in my opinion, since (1) at least with En, though it’s not in the Japanese name at all (Nyabby), at least it is with Litten, and (2) Meowth is named Dollar in the original...)
Sun’s goal is changed from gaining 100 million yen to 1 million dollars. Probably why En is changed to Dollar. Still silly.
Actually, moreso what was kept as an oversight than what should’ve changed. The Pokédex entry format didn’t change, keeping the original Japanese format (see here for comparison). The “JPN” icon should be after the “ITA” icon in the English games. But does this mean they’re technically still in Poké-Japan? Ohoho. (I kid.)
The Team Skull grunt has a specific time for Sun to be finished with his job (3-o’clock), though there’s no mention of that in the original.
I like that Kukui and Burnet send each other files while calling each other Honey and Darling. It’s cute.
Just was informed that Platinum may be Moon’s sister. I love that extra connection. I also feel like that may have been done with the assumption that the remakes would come out soon.
Bringing Platinum back to people’s minds in preparation for the remake arc that would come soon after the Sword Shield arc. Or maybe not.
Anyway, I’m so excited for the remake arc and seeing Platinum again!
Moon is good.
