Honestly no clue how much will get expanded upon. @lolipiece probably has the answer to that or at the very least a good guess. Considering how the release schedule is going, I'd recommend you take your time reading the chapters. This isn't like the anime with a fast release schedule unless of course you want to discuss about the latest chapters in the monthly discussions, then that's a different story.
I believe that's the major theme of the region that GameFreak planned about Galar that they want to explore a region where every trainer wants to be the very best. Although from the looks of it having three rivals, I'd say this manga is going to once again focus only on two main characters as opposed to the usual three. In some ways it reminds me of SM where they had Hau and Gladion, Hau's screentime being small even though he was given a spot as a major character on the calendar. I really hope SM and BW2 is finished by the time of SwSh's release.
One thing I can't wait for is the Pokemon battles that Pokemon Adventures will deliver based on the game's material, especially the match-ups. I'm curious how Marnie's Morpeko's battle style will play out. I think it's going to play out like a fast angry ball of fury lol.
There really shouldn't be a problem working on both series. I mean, back in the day they worked on Ruby/Sapphire, FR/LG, and Emerald at the same time in 3 different magazines. I could understand if they were slowing down because of age, but I haven't heard anything that indicates that. Part of me feels like they're struggling to get their chapters released than making them.
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They look in-between Black & White and Sun & Moon, so my guess is that they'll be 12. Older than SM but not in teenage years of Black & White.
Nope. Your thinking of Marley, one of the stat trainers. On a side note, struggling to release their chapters than making them... huh. That never occurred to me as a possibility. That's a worrying thought because that probably means even after SMUSUM and BW2 are finished, SwSh could still be affected by a slow release.
On another note, it just hit me. I wonder if the action in Pokemon Adventures SwSh might be different considering that the Gyms are themed around sports. I don't know but I have a feeling Pokemon battles are going to have some kind of football-feel to it where the Pokemon have to chase the "football", a giant Pokeball, and dynamax to get the advantage but in turn, they have to tackle other Pokemon, block other Pokemon, steal the ball and maybe even have a goalie somehow. Wouldn't that be certainly different but all the more fun if the battles are turned into more of a game. With that kind of action, teamwork and seeing more than one Pokemon in action would be more common in Pokemon Adventures and might even be considered in team-building. Not to mention it's a great way to show multiple newer Pokemon in quick time.
I can see that Sword & Shield could both do Gym Battles but we won't see both of them do the same Gym battle but rather if Sword already beat the Grass Gym Leader, seconds later we see that Shield has mentioned that she already beat the Grass Gym Leader off-screen and later we see Shield battling the Water Gym Leader but we also later see Sword saying he's already defeated the Water Gym Leader to save up story time. Now what's interesting is that their are multiple Gym Leaders and we could see both protagonists fight different seperate Gym Leaders, like diverging Gym Leader routes if that makes sense, rather than have both protagonists battle the same Gym Leader with one claiming they already defeated him while we see the other battling the Gym Leader on-screen. However I wouldn't be too surprised if the writer would reduce the Gym Leader's role to more like GSC where they support the characters over battling them and supporting them.