Mangas Other Than Special

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Special gets a disproportionate amount of coverage compared to the other series. I mean in articles about pokémon species and about characters who appear in other places. Sure sometimes the role is larger (compare Giovanni in Special to How I Became A Pokemon Card, but even then one blurb, crammed in at the bottom, about the PokeWake story hardly seems fair), but sometimes it's larger elsewhere (compare the Special information under Pikachu to the Magical Pokemon Journey information for the same species--the articles are about the same size, but the Special one covers plots while the MPJ one doesn't, even though Pikachu has a much larger role in them in that series).

And in cases like Evil Teams, it seems only the anime and Special count. Mask of Ice is listed as a Team Rocket leader, but not Grey, and characers like Kaede, Hitoshi, and Yurika don't seem to exist at all (although yes, Hitoshi doesn't join TR until after his story, so he may not count anyway, but the other two do).

Some manga-only abilities don't seem to be represented at all, such as Articuno's apparent ability to grant wishes in Magical Pokemon Journey (and that it owns a snow cone store), or how Slowpoke have the ability to pacify people in Dengenki Pikachu.

And character changes in anime-based manga aren't covered much at all either, such as Drew looking like a human Roselia in (OK, I don't know the name but it follows the rough plot from Johto to Hoenn), or Ono's two drastically different versions of Giovanni (or how there's TWO GIOVANNIS in Pocket Monsters).

So yeah, this is just a sampling of things. Please remember there's other mangas out there.

 

[FabuVinny]

Thanks for pointing out what is already apparent. Now are you going to help us fix it?

The problem is simply that knowledge of the different manga series is not very widespread in the English-speaking fandom. Special is at least more well known and has a larger number of fans who are familiar with its contents. But, to be frank, even our coverage of that is still somewhat lacking.

We simply don't have contributors editing in the manga information right now.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Oh geez. This is a forum for people to suggest things, is it not? I didn't think "now put it up on the site" was going to be a part of it. Not everyone knows how to use wikis, you know.

I can supply information for the English volumes I have, as well as scans from the Japanese volumes.

But my point is that it's not fair how Special's elevated above all other mangas, with full sections on the pages and then everything else is shuffled off with trivia and is lucky to even get a mention.

 

[Sketch]

Blame Serebii for making Special so well known.

When I get more of Pokemon 7 done you can be sure that series will get detail added.