{"id":20782,"date":"2018-05-17T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga"},"modified":"2018-05-17T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:20:00","slug":"see-the-origins-of-the-pokemon-you-know-and-some-you-dont-in-a-new-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/see-the-origins-of-the-pokemon-you-know-and-some-you-dont-in-a-new-manga\/","title":{"rendered":"See The Origins Of The Pok\u00e9mon You Know (And Some You Don&#8217;t) In A New Manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news6.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news6.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a series of tweets yesterday, Game Freak employee James Turner revealed a sneak preview of a new educational manga recently released in Japan, detailing the history of Pok\u00e9mon creator Satoshi Tajiri, and information from the early days at Game Freak.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"2.41237113402\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"7.23711340206\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the Satoshi Tajiri manga&#8230;<br \/>Early designs of Pok\u00e9mon, including ones that didn\u2019t make the cut.<br \/>Interesting, huh? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Xkyzp9NIY\">pic.twitter.com\/3Xkyzp9NIY<\/a><\/span>\u2014 James Turner (@JamesTurner_42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesTurner_42\/status\/996888188319813633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The book, called &#8216;Satoshi Tajiri: The Man Who Created Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;, was written for Japanese elementary school children, and will be the first in a series of comics that introduces kids to historical figures. A photo tweeted by Turner shows a page of previously unseen Pok\u00e9mon concepts from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/pokemon_red_and_blue\">Red and Blue<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 despite claims that most of the documentation about the first two Pok\u00e9mon games either never existed, or was lost in time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the panels seen in the image contains an internal poll used during development of the games \u2013 with Exeggutor listed as the winner, claiming 23 votes. According to Resetera user ERAsaur, the unreleased Pok\u00e9mon in the image include: Deer (56), [Obscured]-ro (61), Crocky (62), Cactus (67), and Jagg (68).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/see_the_origins_of_the_pokemon_you_know_and_some_you_dont_in_a_new_manga\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news6-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Interestingly, the numbers shown on the sheet also appear to match the internal index order for Pok\u00e9mon Red and Blue: showing that every unused Pok\u00e9mon in the image turned into a \u2018MissingNo.\u2019 This suggests that these Pok\u00e9mon may have been cut in the middle of game development.<\/p>\n<p>However, we have since seen crocodile, cactus and deer-like Pok\u00e9mon in later generations of the games \u2013 so it\u2019s likely that these concepts were the inspiration behind them. For those interested in digging deeper into Pok\u00e9mon history, the manga is now available on Amazon Japan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think we\u2019ll continue to see Game Freak utilising older assets in new iterations of Pok\u00e9mon? Do you plan to get your hands on a copy of the book? Let us know in the comments below\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of tweets yesterday, Game Freak employee James Turner revealed a sneak preview of a new educational manga recently released in Japan, detailing the history of Pok\u00e9mon creator Satoshi Tajiri, and information from the early days at Game Freak. 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