Pokémon Academy (book): Difference between revisions

After receiving an invitation from [[Professor Rowan]], {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} rush over to the [[Pokémon Summer Academy]] near [[Mt. Coronet]] for a one-week training camp. After being separated into one of three teams {Red, Blue, and Green}, the Trainer's first task is to choose a random {{i|Poké Ball}}, handed out by Professor Rowan's assistant [[Yuzo]], containing a new Pokémon which they will train with. Ash and friends are all on the Red Team along with the newly met [[Angie]], a competitive tomboy who quickly becomes Ash's rival. Ash receives a skittish {{p|Raichu}}, Angie selects an energetic {{p|Monferno}}, {{an|Dawn}} receives a {{p|Grimer}}, while {{an|Brock}} is happy with his {{p|Magnemite}}. Old acquaintance [[Conway]] is also in attendance and on the Blue Team. {{TRT}} remain totally off the radar, with [[Jessie]], [[List of Team Rocket's disguises|disguised as Jessilinda]], on the Green Team, gushing over her {{p|Smoochum}}, while [[James]] and {{MTR}} bide their time by working as janitors for the school, exasperated by Jessie's antics.

* The book describes the ghost girl as possessing blue eyes with "an eerie gleam in them". This may or may not be true, as the ghost girl's eyes, if she possesses any, were not actually visible or discernible in her appearances in the episode. It may be noteworthy that the description of the ghost girl's eyes is detailed at a behind-the-scenes point in the book, preceding to the anime scene of Conway being found to be following the ghost girl, so it may be possible that the ghost girl possesses blue eyes only in the "canonity" of that moment in the book specifically.   

* The book also describes the [[ghost girl]] as having bare feet; however, in the episode the book is based on, the ghost girl wore sandals. Since the wording was "bare feet" instead of "barefoot", however, this could merely mean she did not wear socks, etc., thus leaving her foot exposed, which it was in the sandal.

* The book states that after the Summit Ruins event, the Blue Team has 260 points, the Green Team has 220 points, and the Red Team has 180 points. However, in the anime, it is the Red Team that has 220 points, and the Green Team that has 180 points. This error has the curious side effect of meaning that, according to the book's account, the Red Team could not even hope to win at this point. While Yuzo tells the Red Team before the Triathlon that "your overall point total will be calculated using the points earned by all the Red Team players," the only placements that are stated to give points are 1st, awarding 50 points, and 2nd, awarding 30 points. While in the anime, it is also stated that 3rd place earns 20 points and all other contestants who finish the race earn 10 points, the fact that this detail is omitted in the book implies that the 80 points from 1st and 2nd are the only points that can be scored in this event. This means that the best the Red Team could do was to tie the Blue Team at 260 points. They couldn't even hope to tie if the 20 points for 3rd and the 10 points for everyone else that are stated in the anime but not the book are factored in; the best the Red Team could do in that case is to get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd to earn a total of 170 points (it is stated in both the anime and the book that each team has 10 students, meaning that there would be 7 members of the Red Team scoring 10 points each for 70 total in addition to the top 3 earning 100 points between them) to bring them to 350 points, which still wouldn't beat the Blue Team, since they would get 100 points to get to 360 points unless for some reason at least one member of the Blue Team does not score 10 points. And in the anime, the Blue Team has 370 points at the end because one of them got 3rd place, which in this situation would leave the Red Team with only 340 points. Despite this, however, at the end, when Ash finishes in 1st and Angie in 2nd, thus earning all 80 of the points the book states are given for the Red Team, the book then goes on to say that the Red Team was the sole winner, despite the fact that, according to the book's reckoning, they should have at best tied with the Blue Team. And in fact, in the anime, just before the Triathlon begins, James and Meowth state that the Green Team (who, again, in the anime, have the 180 points that the book instead ascribes to the Red Team) has no chance of winning. The book never actually states the final point totals of each team, possibly to obscure this mistake. (In the anime, the Red Team finishes with 380 points, the Blue Team with 370 points, and the Green Team with 280 points.)