shoz999
Back when Tigers used to smoke.
So I think we can all agree that Pokemon Adventures is severely underrated, the writer, artist and anyone else behind the manga deserves way more fans that it should right now. Really wish it got more popular for more awesome discussions however... in some ways I kind of am glad it's not popular. Hearing the story how the GS Ball storyline got canned in the anime in favor of the movie, because of how popular the anime brand name is, makes me glad the manga got it's GS Ball storyline the way the writer wanted to write it down. Enough about that though.
Anyways, introduce yourselves. What made you read Pokemon Adventures in the first place? What are some fond memories you had of the series?
I suppose I'll get started. SALUUUUTATIONS! I'm shoz999! For me personally, as a little kid I honestly got tired of the anime quite easily. I thought Advance Generation was the most boring generic season at the time with the same repeated story lines in every episode, I still do actually. Heck, it probably has the worst adaptation of a villainous team to be frank. Haven't seen Black and White though so who knows, I may change my mind. Eventually came some re-airings of older episodes of Johto Journeys based on the first generation I ever played, Pokemon Gold and Silver. As much as I liked the Johto Pokemon featured there, I came to a realization that there was very little progression and wanted something more closer to the more focused storyline of the games. So what did I do? Did I discovered Pokemon Adventures? Nope. I begun making my own pen and paper Pokemon RPGs, not based on the anime but inspired by the games itself. I loved to draw my own regional maps, my own fakemon, come up with tons of OP abilities and moves as a kid. I always thought there was some kind of progression in the Pokemon games, some kind of hidden lore within the Pokedex entries and the stories the NPCs spoke of, that there were fictional worlds beyond the current regions of Hoenn, Johto and Kanto at the time.
Eventually I just started getting bored of Pokemon until one day I found out that there were actually three big Pokemon story mediums through the discovery of the internet. Pokemon the games, Pokemon the anime and Pokemon Adventures the manga. I checked it out, I was shocked how good this was! It not only had me hooked but there were times I just had to read certain story arcs twice in a row. In fact you could say that Pokemon Adventures was my first real introduction to the Pokemon world seen in the games. Some of you may have noticed that I kept mentioning how Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, said Pokemon Adventures was the closest in capturing his vision of the Pokemon world right. I honestly do believe that because it was the manga, not the anime, that opened the door to me to a much bigger Pokemon world full of game lore that the anime just never explored, including believe it or not competitive Pokemon.
In fact, I recognized Red and Green (Rival) but I had no clue who Blue was! This peaked my curiosity. Eventually I later found out, months before the remakes featuring Leaf came out, that there was apparently plans for an unused female protagonist in the original RGB games featured in the promotional artwork. I was surprised on this revelation that Blue wasn't some made-up character, that she was based on the first female playable character (never said officially lol so technically it's kind of true). Then later I read the adventures of Yellow and I thought she was a naive yet sweet character that fits well with Red's personality and love for Pokemon. Yup, even back than I ship the two. Honestly though I thought Yellow was also based off of a character from the games. I mean look at her! Her clothes, the way she's shaped and styled, her hat and fishing rod. She looks like an actual legit video game character from the Pokemon video games! I was surprised to find out that she was an original character. Honestly I hope one day they include Yellow in the actual games. If they can do it with Jessie and James, they can do it with Yellow. Eventually the GSC story arc arrived with a sheer amount of research and care you will almost never see in the Pokemon anime, I mean literally any season, even XY and SM is quite small compared to any story arc in Pokemon Adventures, personally anyways. I was also surprised to see that the GS Ball actually had a far more satisfying explanation but it turns out in the end. That was quite small compared to the journey of our Pokedex holders and the friends and Pokemon they've meet. That was the real treasure, far more amazingly crafted than anything from the anime or even the games itself. Yup. This is the story of how I not only read Pokemon Adventures for the first time but also how it got me more interested in the WORLD OF POKEMON MORE THAN ANY OTHER ADAPTATION IN EXISTENCE! Well anyways, that's me. What about you guys?
Anyways, introduce yourselves. What made you read Pokemon Adventures in the first place? What are some fond memories you had of the series?
I suppose I'll get started. SALUUUUTATIONS! I'm shoz999! For me personally, as a little kid I honestly got tired of the anime quite easily. I thought Advance Generation was the most boring generic season at the time with the same repeated story lines in every episode, I still do actually. Heck, it probably has the worst adaptation of a villainous team to be frank. Haven't seen Black and White though so who knows, I may change my mind. Eventually came some re-airings of older episodes of Johto Journeys based on the first generation I ever played, Pokemon Gold and Silver. As much as I liked the Johto Pokemon featured there, I came to a realization that there was very little progression and wanted something more closer to the more focused storyline of the games. So what did I do? Did I discovered Pokemon Adventures? Nope. I begun making my own pen and paper Pokemon RPGs, not based on the anime but inspired by the games itself. I loved to draw my own regional maps, my own fakemon, come up with tons of OP abilities and moves as a kid. I always thought there was some kind of progression in the Pokemon games, some kind of hidden lore within the Pokedex entries and the stories the NPCs spoke of, that there were fictional worlds beyond the current regions of Hoenn, Johto and Kanto at the time.
Eventually I just started getting bored of Pokemon until one day I found out that there were actually three big Pokemon story mediums through the discovery of the internet. Pokemon the games, Pokemon the anime and Pokemon Adventures the manga. I checked it out, I was shocked how good this was! It not only had me hooked but there were times I just had to read certain story arcs twice in a row. In fact you could say that Pokemon Adventures was my first real introduction to the Pokemon world seen in the games. Some of you may have noticed that I kept mentioning how Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, said Pokemon Adventures was the closest in capturing his vision of the Pokemon world right. I honestly do believe that because it was the manga, not the anime, that opened the door to me to a much bigger Pokemon world full of game lore that the anime just never explored, including believe it or not competitive Pokemon.
In fact, I recognized Red and Green (Rival) but I had no clue who Blue was! This peaked my curiosity. Eventually I later found out, months before the remakes featuring Leaf came out, that there was apparently plans for an unused female protagonist in the original RGB games featured in the promotional artwork. I was surprised on this revelation that Blue wasn't some made-up character, that she was based on the first female playable character (never said officially lol so technically it's kind of true). Then later I read the adventures of Yellow and I thought she was a naive yet sweet character that fits well with Red's personality and love for Pokemon. Yup, even back than I ship the two. Honestly though I thought Yellow was also based off of a character from the games. I mean look at her! Her clothes, the way she's shaped and styled, her hat and fishing rod. She looks like an actual legit video game character from the Pokemon video games! I was surprised to find out that she was an original character. Honestly I hope one day they include Yellow in the actual games. If they can do it with Jessie and James, they can do it with Yellow. Eventually the GSC story arc arrived with a sheer amount of research and care you will almost never see in the Pokemon anime, I mean literally any season, even XY and SM is quite small compared to any story arc in Pokemon Adventures, personally anyways. I was also surprised to see that the GS Ball actually had a far more satisfying explanation but it turns out in the end. That was quite small compared to the journey of our Pokedex holders and the friends and Pokemon they've meet. That was the real treasure, far more amazingly crafted than anything from the anime or even the games itself. Yup. This is the story of how I not only read Pokemon Adventures for the first time but also how it got me more interested in the WORLD OF POKEMON MORE THAN ANY OTHER ADAPTATION IN EXISTENCE! Well anyways, that's me. What about you guys?
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). I loved the games almost as much as the manga (still believe Spe is the best Pokemon media out there), and thought that playing as a main character from Spe was the coolest thing ever. (Ironically enough, my character, Diamond, started with Chimler the Chimchar and caught a Shinx nicknamed Rayler and a Buizel nicknamed Zeller- three Pokemon belonging to Pearl, not Diamond in Spe.) I still nickname a Pokemon like a Dex holder does when I catch one that they do (no matter which game, every single Bulbasaur I have caught is nicknamed Saur, for example). Playing the game just made me love Spe even more, since I understood all of the subtle references in it (the level of care and details to make such a connection to the games is unbelievable)
