Capsule Monsters?

[d.aisuke]

So, I was reading about the history of pokemon and it seems that Tajiri published a manga called capsule monsters in 1975.

Are their any existing scans or anything? I mean essentially this is the whole idea came from.

Does anyone have anymore info?

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

I took a picture of it at the Game On! exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in 2005...but that was when I had a film camera and so thus the film hasn't been developed yet.

They had a huge glass case about the history of Pokémon with a bunch of stuff, and a copy of one of the Capsule Monsters editions as well as the Game Freak newsletter.

I'll...um...see what I can do.

 

[Piplup]

I always thought that was just a false rumour... so is it actually real? if so than it's really irritating there's almost no information at all about it in the internet (or at least not that I found)
I'd like to know everything that's known about it and scans will be nice too

 

[MangaBottle]

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8991/poke01tl0.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3839/poke02el5.jpg

Found that here:http://www.pokecommunity.com/archive/index.php/t-74146.html

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Oh! I think that's the same exhibit I saw!

Maybe someone could write to the museum and ask where they got their hands on it.

 

[moa]

to me looks like a pre-gengar versus a pre-nidorino,
is interrresting digging in the past of pokemon,
if someone has more pics of this, please post a link or something.

 

[Shinx3000]

I thought it looked like either pre-gengar or pre-muk vs pre-dragonair or garydos, but thats intresting looking into the history of pokemon. I tried digging up stuff like this bfore, but did not find much, thanks for posting.

 

[Quagbert]

Considering that Tajiri was just a 10-year-old boy back in 1975, when this Capsule Monsters manga was supposedly published, there's no way he could have published it himself.

As for the pictures that MangaBottle posted, those actually look like early concept work for the Capsule Monsters Game Boy game, rather than a manga. If you look closely at the first image, you can see that it's copyrighted 1990, no doubt a short time after Tajiri first discovered the Game Boy and link cable.

 

[DracoMan]

They did Capsule Monsters for Yu-Gi-Oh! as a miniseries.

 

[MangaBottle]

As for the pictures that MangaBottle posted, those actually look like early concept work for the Capsule Monsters Game Boy game, rather than a manga. If you look closely at the first image, you can see that it's copyrighted 1990, no doubt a short time after Tajiri first discovered the Game Boy and link cable.

Sorry, those were the only pics I could find with google. Everything else was related to Yugioh... T_T

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

They did Capsule Monsters for Yu-Gi-Oh! as a miniseries.

That's a different series though.