User:LaprasBoi/Pokémon Adventures VIZ edition differences: Difference between revisions

When I get the chance, it might also be interesting to compare them to the larger slimmer comic-book-style releases, containing a few chapters each, which preceded the first couple volumes. Maybe when I get my hands on my collection( currently stored at my parents’ house).

====[[Pokémon Adventures volume 1|Volume 1 (One)[: Desperado Pikachu<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]====

The cover is very different, and frankly strikes me as rather bland and less friendly in appearance. The basic color is still blue, but rather darker and with a pattern. The spine is an even darker blue with a different pattern. The front cover art of the new is the back cover art or the first version, but larger and using more subdued colors( inferior in my opinion to the vibrant colors used before), and occupies a much smaller percentage of the cover, leaving much more room for the background pattern, title logo, and huge box containing the Story/Art credits, which, like the pattern, features a sort of digital theme that doesn’t mesh well with the art or the nature of the book. The back cover art is apparently an uncropped version of the Japanese cover art, and looks decent for what it is, despite similar bland coloring. The teaser summary on the back has been reduced from a couple paragraphs to just a few sentences.<br>

They have also re-done all the sound-effects and background text( they would have to, given that the previous version was flipped); unfortunately all this text now has a lot less character, being of a small, simpler font pool, instead of the old text which was often hand-written/drawn( or at least looked like it) where appropriate, and more artistic; again this is probably due to budgetary reasons and/or the title being afforded less attention. Or maybe the new touch-up/lettering guy is just lazy. It’s a shame he couldn’t simply cut out all the old background/SFX text and paste it back on the unflipped version, though. I won’t be listing most of these changes because they are in just about every panel.<br>

The new letterer( or maybe the editor) also seems to favor using smaller text instead of hyphenating long words, despite how ugly the empty space in many word bubbles is. Narration is now set in italics. Again, I won’t be listing most of these changes because they are pervasive.

[[Round (Special)|Round]]s, which had been renamed CHAPTERs in the earlier edition( and rightfully so, as “round” only really makes sense in the context of their Japanese titles, which painted each as a fight/battle with a title in the style of “VS. _______”), are named “ADVENTURE”s here( suggesting perhaps that they will introduce the Yellow Saga as “The Second Chapter” and so on afterward, like in Japan/Singapore?), but still keep the same numbers and English titles( though no longer in all caps) they had before.

The extras are included at the end here: The “Coming Soon” page with preview panels from the next volume( even though VIZ ''also'' has {{tt|its own|even-blander-than-in-the-previous-edition}} Coming Soon page after all the extras), the Adventure Route Map (I don’t have [[Chuang Yi]] volume 1 to compare, but volumes in later sagas included these, so I assume it was there, but, as with everything, they were flipped in Singapore, which could be confusing to players of the games because east and west got swapped. {{tt|The original VIZ release took special care to unflip panels or graphics with maps most of the time|unnecessary with this unflipped release, of course}}, Chuang Yi does not seem to do so), the [[Pokédex]] and [[party|team]] list<!--s--> for the protagonist<!--s-->, and finally the message from the Author, [[Hidenori Kusaka]] (in the Chuang Yi versions these are on the inside front flap of the dust jacket, along with a message from the Artist – not sure if VIZ left this out or if [[Mato]] just didn’t write one for the first volume).<br>

*New credits for: “Miscellaneous Text Adaptation”, “Editor, VIZKIDS Edition”( apparently they have forgotten that the old version was under the VIZkids imprint too, at least internally, judging from the VIZkids logo and URL near the bottom of this page in the first edition), various VPs.

Old: After the next volume teaser description, there are several pages of ads for other VIZ publications & videos, then the last page is the same as page i. New: After the lame Coming Soon page (VIZ’s) for the next volume, a single page advertising another VIZ Kids ''Pokémon'' manga (''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji’s Rescue Team]]'').<br>

The interesting thing here will be whether they restart round/chapter/adventure numbering from [[PS041|1]] as they did in the first release (I’m guessing no), and whether they split [[PS045|round 45]] into two distinctly named/numbered chapters/adventures as before( probably not if they preserve the Japanese numbering, but what will the new title of “ADVENTURE 45” be, then?).