Just because I want to update with something, here are my Ani-Manga, also known as “film comics” “animation comics”, whatever. You know, those books made from screenshots of anime movies or tv episodes. I hardly read the movie manga adaptations as it is so most of these I’ve only read once, if at all, but most of them I started collecting just because I’m hell-bent on having ~EVERY~ Pokémon manga ever licensed in English. Including these. The Japanese ones are just kinda for fun. :3
Ok so in order:
* These are my Japanese volumes of Pocket Monsters Film Comic. I have 10, 12, and GS 25 (which is like #52 overall). The tenth volume is kinda neat because it covers EP036-EP040. But obviously it skips EP038, Electric Soldier Porygon. HOWEVER the chapter numbering actually acknowledges that an episode is skipped, it literally skips from chapter 37 to chapter 39. With no mention of 38 or why it was skipped.
* These are the graphic novels licensed by VIZ Media. I was so excited to find the Mewtwo Stikes Back one at a comic book store far away just past my city’s boundaries. (I’m still missing the Pokémon the Movie 2000 one though). All That Pikachu was the first of these I bought, since I had run out of Pokémon manga to buy and I was determined to buy anything that got licensed. The Giratina one I had to search EVERYWHERE for since I guess Ani-Manga isn’t popular but omg.
* This one is Pokémon TV Animation Comic, which is published by VIZ Media as well. It is a bound volume of the “Pokémon Power” comics that were in Nintendo Power magazine, which in turn are adapted from Pocket Monsters Film Comic. This one has the first six episodes’ chapters (I’m not sure if any other volumes were ever made)
* This is the first of the monthly single issues of the Mewtwo Strikes Back Ani-Manga. I bought it at the thrift store for $1 before I had the graphic novel. Not much else exciting about it tho XD
* And last we have “The Art of Pokémon the Movie 2000” which is really more of a storybook adaptation of the movie with lots of stills. It has like narrative paragraphs explaining what is going on in the movie. There is some bonus stuff at the end, character bios and such. Not a big deal though, I was hoping for more of like concept art and that kind of stuff when I bought it.
Anyway, I’ll try to update more often! Sorry for the inactivity!
wildlyeccentricmaniac:
zesty-pokemanga:
I’m so excited!! This finally came in the mail today. This is the first volume of My First Wide: Pocket Monsters Special Ruby & Sapphire chapter. What is it? It’s an omnibus compilation, like those VIZbig volumes that are 3 in 1, but from Japan and it’s the Ruby & Sapphire chapter of Pokémon Adventures.
When these were first revealed in 2011 I thought it was kind of random that they only did the Ruby & Sapphire chapter but at the same time I thought it was nifty and hoped VIZ Media would use this as a chance to bring over the chapter to North America (they ended up bringing over the regular volumes). What I didn’t know was that apparently these would be discontinued only one month after printing!! Presumably due to the earthquake, Shogakukan gave up on these. There is a #2 and apparently a third volume known to exist, but they were all in print only for one month, and I was only able to get my hands on this first one. So I think due to the weird circumstance, this is super extra cool! I’m so excited!
Wow, you’re so lucky to have the wide ban! (Ruby and sapphire is my favourite arc) (:
I think they did the wide ban for only the Ruby and Sapphire arc because they wanted to re-release one of the older arcs into wide ban as a special anniversary kinda thing? (idk :P) so they conducted a poll among Japanese fans and it turned out that the Ruby and Sapphire was the arc that most people wanted in wide ban(:
ahh, I really wanna see how it looks on the side, wonder if they added any bits in, or if it still looks the same :P
Eeeee thank you ;P the poll thing makes a ton more sense, thanks for that info! I’ll have to compare it to my regular copy of volume 15, I’ll post if I see any differences!
I’m so excited!! This finally came in the mail today. This is the first volume of My First Wide: Pocket Monsters Special Ruby & Sapphire chapter. What is it? It’s an omnibus compilation, like those VIZbig volumes that are 3 in 1, but from Japan and it’s the Ruby & Sapphire chapter of Pokémon Adventures.
When these were first revealed in 2011 I thought it was kind of random that they only did the Ruby & Sapphire chapter but at the same time I thought it was nifty and hoped VIZ Media would use this as a chance to bring over the chapter to North America (they ended up bringing over the regular volumes). What I didn’t know was that apparently these would be discontinued only one month after printing!! Presumably due to the earthquake, Shogakukan gave up on these. There is a #2 and apparently a third volume known to exist, but they were all in print only for one month, and I was only able to get my hands on this first one. So I think due to the weird circumstance, this is super extra cool! I’m so excited!
Here is another update for today: Pokémon Zensho created by Satomi Nakamura. Pokémon Zensho is a really early Pokémon manga based on the Red, Green & Blue games - it’s a single-volume manga and each chapter is from one Pokémon Gym/city basically. It’s a very literal adaptation of the Generation I games’s storyline, more so than the anime or from any of the other manga. Despite being based on the game canon, the main characters use the “anime” names, Satoshi and Shigeru (Ash and Gary’s Japanese names), rather than Red and Green/Blue like in Pokémon Adventures or Pokémon Pocket Monsters. I think the art style in this one is really nice though :)
Hi everybody! (Hi, Dr. Nick!) sorry I didn’t update much recently, i am dealing with a broken computer so I can only occasionally use my dad’s :( anyway, here is today’s manga:
This book is kind of unusual to me XD I got it at a comics shop in downtown Toronto in like 2010, it was in a sealed bag, I asked the owner what it was and he was like “i dunno? it’s like $7 wanna buy it” so i thought what the heck and bought it. i am a HUGE fan of the Pokémon Ranger game series, and i noticed the Ranger stuff on the cover, so i thought it was a good idea. (it has Manaphy egg on the back)
turns out this book has a bunch of information on the Pokémon Ranger game (the first one) and then about half of the Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea manga adaptation created by 溝渕誠 Makoto Mizobuchi (also known for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji’s Rescue Team and the Arceus movie adaptation). I already had the Ranger movie manga by the time I bought this so it’s a little redundant but i thought it was neat and it’s unusual so i kept it in my collection. besides, like i said, i’m a big Pokémon Ranger fan :D
Got this in the mail yesterday :) it’s volume four of The Electric Tale of Pikachu by 小野 敏洋 Toshihiro Ono, also titled “Surf’s Up Pikachu”. It takes place in the Orange Islands. Anyway, I now have a complete set of Electric Tale volumes!! yeah!!
This one is usually on eBay for $60 and up. I even seen it listed for over $100 before. But this one I got from an Amazon seller for only $14.99 plus shipping!! So ya I pretty much said SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY .__.
also i’m excited because coming soon in the mail is My First Wide: Pocket Monsters Special Ruby Sapphire Chapter volume 1. Apparently these are unbelievably rare, they were only in print apparently one month and then discontinued by Shogakukan, possibly due to the Tohoku earthquake in March 2011. I always thought they were nifty but ended up procrastinating on buying them since VIZ Media is licensing the Ruby & Sapphire chapter now. But I changed my mind so I ordered the first one :V apparently there is a #2 and even a #3, but they are super hard to get. I can find ISBN online for #2 but that’s about it. So now I’m super excited to get this in the mail XD
Breaking news!! My mail came in today and these were in it :) I ordered these from CD Japan a while ago and they finally came, I’m super excited!
So here we have the latest volume of Pocket Monsters BW created by 穴久保幸作 Kosaku Anakubo. It’s the latest adventures of Red and his rude Clefairy in the Unova region. So overall this is my seventh book featuring Red and Clefairy, yay!
Also on the right is volume 43 of Pokémon Adventures, known as Pokémon Special in Japanese, created by 日下秀憲 Hidenori Kusaka and 山本サトシ Satoshi Yamamoto. This volume concludes the HeartGold & SoulSilver chapter and begins the Black & White chapter. Since I’ve been collecting the English and French volumes based on the magazine releases, I thought it would be neat to buy this one now that it’s actually in collected volume format in Japan. This makes my collection of Japanese Pokémon Adventures volumes pretty random though - I now have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 43 XD
here’s one more for today, this is the “Be a Master!! Pokémon BW” manga created by 勝見直人 Naoto Katsumi. This was the first Generation V manga to be created. It is known as a “walkthrough comic”, so basically the idea is that they are fun stories, but each chapter teaches you about a game mechanic, like capturing Pokémon, triple battles, etc. This one is really episodic, while it’s the same character Monta in each chapter, he suddenly gets random Pokémon or they evolved between chapters since that kind of stuff isn’t really the focus. There are eight chapters in total published by various CoroCoro publications and i never ever ever thought it would be collected in a volume, i figured it would eventually fall into obscurity, so man was i suprised to see it on CDJapan one day! i thought this manga was nifty and combined with my expectation that it wouldn’t get released, i decided i should buy it and add it to my collection. always support official releases!
i had to search hard for these ones too - this is the complete set of three volumes of Pokémon Chamo-Chamo ☆ Pretty ♪ created by つきりのゆみ Yumi Tsukirino, also known for Magical Pokémon Journey, to which this is a sequel. Chamo-Chamo Pretty is set in the same universe as Magical Pokémon Journey, and features Pikachu and Clefairy as returning main characters. However, it is set in Hoenn and most of the main characters are new, mainly a Torchic (Achamo, the title “Chamo-Chamo” being the sound an Achamo makes), Poochyena, and a human character named Haruka (a coordinator who shares May’s Japanese name, but not appearance)
Since I’m a big fan of Magical Pokémon Journey, i always really wanted to find these. i ended up getting them on eBay for about $15 each, with free shipping! yeah! i always wanted VIZ Media or Chuang Yi to license this series, especially since both of them did translate Magical Pokémon Journey (though VIZ Media only did first seven volumes). Back when I used to write VIZ’s survey every day I always asked them to relicense Magical Pokémon Journey and/or to license this series, but I don’t think it will happen any time soon since recently when they published Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll, also by Yumi Tsukirino, they didn’t list either series in her well-known works in the author bio!! Probably they don’t want to license it but don’t want people asking about it. Anyway I thought that was weird :V
This is really time for me to brag: these are my volumes from the manga series “How I Became a Pokémon Card” or “Pokémon Card Ni Natta Wake” created by 姫野かげまる Kagemaru Himeno. I have two of the six volumes: #1 and #3. I spent just a little over $70 USD (including about $6 for shipping) to own these. @___@
The reason why these are so damn expensive and rare is because they’re awesome and have lots of cross-collecting appeal. See, Kagemaru Himeno is also a TCG illustrator, and each chapter is a short story based on one of the Pokémon cards she illustrated. So for example, you know how in the Team Rocket expansion there’s this Grimer card? There is a chapter in the manga about this Grimer and its friend, a Gastly, living in the sewers of the city. At a point in each story, the Pokémon will be shown doing exactly what it’s doing in the card illustration, and a photo of the card itself is shown. So that’s basically why it’s called “How I Became a Pokémon Card”. Also, each book came with a sealed promotional TCG card, illustrated by Himeno, which is the other part of why they’re expensive - TCG collectors want these because of the promo cards and Himeno’s illustrations. But I just wanted them for the manga pages :( what’s weird is all the time on eBay you see the cards with no books…why no books without cards? What happened to these manga?!?! so yeah usually the books are REALLY expensive so believe it or not I got a “deal” on these. o_O I think the premise of this manga is really cool and I love Himeno’s illustrations so I am excited and proud to have these in my collection. (I carried them around for days showing them off/boring my friends with them XD)
