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Capsule Monsters Manga Value?

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http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/manga/pocket_monsters/volume_one_01.html

<del>What exactly is this manga, Vol. 1 worth? I heard it's still in print, and I also heard its the most rare item. But that was probably just nonsense. Let me know ^_^ This will be good to be informed about, and also highly interesting.</del>

Edit: Thanks so much! Now I know the manga is not so rare, still in print, and obtainable. Also, had the title wrong.
 
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Lol why did you call it capsule monsters?

anyway, this manga is a gag manga with Red, Pikachu, and Clefairy as main characters.
It's essentially the longest running Pocket Monster manga, because its still running today.

as far as its worth, check out nipponexport.com and benippon.com to see if you can find it new, and ebay for used (it might be slightly more expensive used)
 
Or Ebay for English versions. Chuang Yi published about 20 volumes of the series.

Be warned that it seems to be annoyingly rare, though. Most English Pokemon manga is pretty easy to get ahold of, but this one is strangely elusive.

The Japanese version is incredibly common, though. "Most rare item" is indeed nonsense.
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Given the subject line, I think you have Pocket Monsters (which is rather common) confused with Capsule Monsters (which is extremely rare). Pocket monsters is the comic with the weird Clefairy, while Capsule Monsters is the prototype comic that later led to Pokemon itself.
 
Iron Mask Marauder said:
Given the subject line, I think you have Pocket Monsters (which is rather common) confused with Capsule Monsters (which is extremely rare). Pocket monsters is the comic with the weird Clefairy, while Capsule Monsters is the prototype comic that later led to Pokemon itself.
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Ooooh! that makes sense! Thank you so much!!! ^_^ I'm guessing the prototype is standard papers and was not copied and sold out as a mas produced product- which is why it has a huge value? =D
 
Adamant said:
Or Ebay for English versions. Chuang Yi published about 20 volumes of the series.

Be warned that it seems to be annoyingly rare, though. Most English Pokemon manga is pretty easy to get ahold of, but this one is strangely elusive.

The Japanese version is incredibly common, though. "Most rare item" is indeed nonsense.
PIC_0013-3.jpg

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:O Lovely photo! That's awesome :D!!!! Is that all yours? :0 brilliant.
I hope to read someday, i'm very grateful for this knowledge you've brought here ^.^ Gosh, wow, manga explosion @.*
 
Yeah, that's part of my collection. I got 69 volumes of various English-translated Pokemon manga in total.
 
Iron Mask Marauder said:
Given the subject line, I think you have Pocket Monsters (which is rather common) confused with Capsule Monsters (which is extremely rare). Pocket monsters is the comic with the weird Clefairy, while Capsule Monsters is the prototype comic that later led to Pokemon itself.
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When I saw capsule monsters my mind automatically went to Yu - Gi - Oh vol. 3, because it was the name of the game Mokuba plays when he is first introduced. lol

also, question, is the english version of "Pocket Monsters" flipped like Special was from singapore?
 
No. The Singaporean Special release is only flipped because their 7 first volumes are rereleases of the Viz ones (though with the bonus content Viz ignored until the recent reissues included), and they wanted consistency for the entire series. All their completely self-handled releases are unflipped.

(same reason the Norwegian Ranma releases are flipped, too. Damn flip-happy Americans)
 
Adamant said:
No. The Singaporean Special release is only flipped because their 7 first volumes are rereleases of the Viz ones (though with the bonus content Viz ignored until the recent reissues included), and they wanted consistency for the entire series. All their completely self-handled releases are unflipped.

(same reason the Norwegian Ranma releases are flipped, too. Damn flip-happy Americans)
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The reason I ask is because I bought the Love Hina manga in english and they were flipped as well, reversely the Tokyo Pop releases for Love Hina were unflipped, so I just assumed that all Chuang Yi manga were flipped
 
Huh, that's odd. But yeah, no, they're unflipped.
Here's a random example of the English release:
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Why do you guys call these Capsule monsters? They are pocket monsters. Capsule monsters is something of Kazuki Takahashi's creation.
 
pokeslob said:
already said that a little bit ago, haha
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I noticed. But still, a man took a long hard time creating manga with Capsule Monsters in them, I think it should not be credited as Pokemon material, becuase Pokemon is Pocket Monsters, and was only Capsule monsters as prototype.
 
cohenmarioman said:
I noticed. But still, a man took a long hard time creating manga with Capsule Monsters in them, I think it should not be credited as Pokemon material, becuase Pokemon is Pocket Monsters, and was only Capsule monsters as prototype.
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lol I agree that we should change the title, I'm still not sure how it got confused in the first place lol

also, i don't think it was "long hard work" to make a few chapters with Capmon in it, legit like 3-4 chapters tops lol
although the Capsule Monster Game Boy game is sweet
 
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pokeslob said:
lol I agree that we should change the title, I'm still not sure how it got confused in the first place lol

also, i don't think it was "long hard work" to make a few chapters with Capmon in it, legit like 3-4 chapters tops lol
although the Capsule Monster Game Boy game is sweet
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No, Kaz (Yugioh creator) had a game in his original manga he created himself (just like with Duel Monsgter's the popular card game) which was the main focus of 2 chapters of the manga. The hard work was the creation of mechanics really. 13 anime episodes too.
 
cohenmarioman said:
No, Kaz (Yugioh creator) had a game in his original manga he created himself (just like with Duel Monsgter's the popular card game) which was the main focus of 2 chapters of the manga. The hard work was the creation of mechanics really. 13 anime episodes too.
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again 2-4 chapters tops (if you include Mokuba's Death-T chapters)
and those 13 anime episodes had nothing to do Takahashi-sensei, that was all 4Kids.

as far as mechanics, I think he put more time into M&W, than Capmon and the other various games he created lol
 
pokeslob said:
again 2-4 chapters tops (if you include Mokuba's Death-T chapters)
and those 13 anime episodes had nothing to do Takahashi-sensei, that was all 4Kids.

as far as mechanics, I think he put more time into M&W, than Capmon and the other various games he created lol
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Actually, they used original animated sequences from Kaz. It just never made it to Japanese TV. Compared to the POL movie, it looks much more like the actual anime drawings.
 
cohenmarioman said:
Actually, they used original animated sequences from Kaz. It just never made it to Japanese TV. Compared to the POL movie, it looks much more like the actual anime drawings.
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regardless, the show was directed, produced, and edited by 4Kids
Takahashi has little to do with it at all... (if at all, I have not heard of this usage of Takahashi's sequences before now)

but enough yugioh talk, this thread is about Pocket Monsters :smokin:
 
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