A Battle Between Trainers
Title: Gousu vs. Yadon
Caption: Concept art depicting a battle scene, one of Pokémon’s unique perspectives.
Translator’s Notes
While the Japanese picture is titled Gousu (Gastly) vs. Yadon (Slowpoke), the scene depicts Gastly battling Yadoran (Slowbro). It seems that Slowbro was originally called Yadon and only later renamed Yadoran. This may be because when Slowpoke was created, it bumped Slowbro up an evolutionary notch and stole its name.
As you can see, Gastly’s trainer has a whip, perhaps indicating a more hands-on approach to participation in Pokémon battles. These whips are preserved in several trainer sprites in Red/Blue/Green, including the Cooltrainers, Rockets, Rockers, and Tamers, as well as Sabrina. Perhaps their designs are leftovers of the concept.
Sugimori: At one time, the protagonist would fight as well. But then we asked ourselves “If you can fight on your own, what’s the point of having Pokémon?”
Pokémon fist fights…? I wonder how that would have fared with the censors.
Index
| Page # | Category | Title |
| Page 01 | Intro | Life Before Pokémon |
| Page 02 | Design Doc | Tajiri’s Pokémon Vision |
| Page 03 | Concept Art | Adventuring With Pokémon |
| Page 04 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Trainers |
| Page 05 | Concept Art | A Day in the Life |
| Page 06 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Pokémon |
| Page 07 | Concept Art | Trading Pokémon |
| Page 08 | Concept Art | At the Pokémon Hotel |
| Page 09 | Concept Art | Catching Pokémon |
| Page 10 | Concept Art | At the Pokémart |
| Page 11 | Concept Art | Status Screen |
| Page 12 | Concept Art | Battle Screen |
| Page 13 | Concept Art | Opening Sequence |
| Page 14 | Concept Art | Overworld |
| Page 15 | Sprite Art | Sprites |
| Page 16 | Outro | A Brief Conclusion |
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Should mention that Gojirante is a portmanteau of “Gojira” (the japanese name for Godzilla) and “Biollante” (one of his enemies from 1989).
On Page 14 on the map, there is squares in 8 towns. I’d say these are where the gyms were located, showing that the gyms stayed pretty much the same apart from the removed city gym was moved to Cinnibar/Seafoam.
C looks like the entralink in how it isn’t connected to anything else and the fact it was in the dead center of the map, maybe a precursor to the dream world?
The term “illusory monsters” is interesting because it is an actual term in the Pokémon series. In Japan, “illusory Pokémon” is a term, distinct from “legendary Pokémon”, that refers to the Pokémon that you can only get from an event. (Mew, Celebi, etc.) This was just translated as “Legendary” until recently. For the past few years, you’ll notice that Pokémon no longer officially calls these Pokémon “Legendary”. Now they use the term “Mythical”, which is equivalent to the Japanese “illusory Pokémon”.
Just wondering if anyone else caught the teenage mutant ninja turtles reference with blastocyst being called ‘caravaggio’
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Pinky, I noticed that too. The creators must’ve been TMNT fans.
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