Pokemon ReBURST

[johno1995]

This looks really interesting, I'm a big fan of its style, it looks a lot different from other Pokemon manga. I'm excited to see how it turns out...

[Darkxninga]

Wow this manga looks odd imo. It's looks to "harsh" for pokemon o_o (and yes I read the "it's aimed for teens" post). I would have never guessed it was pokemon if I never saw the pokeball thing. I'll stick to the other pokemon mangas, but to be honest it reminds me of some.. violent looking comic I saw before but I can't put my finger on it.

[Mr. Joker]

When I went on Pokebeach this morning, I saw this and I immediately got excited! It kinda shocked me that they are making a Manga for the Older/Matured audience.

I can't wait for this <3 I hope that we get some fan dubs for it though...

[Ciccone]

I like that new image that was posted. I think it makes the main character guy look cooler than he looks on the colored image we got before. It looks like we're also going to get an interesting cast of characters in this manga. I like the look of the girl who is next to the protagonist; she has this sort of surprised look on her face. The guy on the protagonist's other side appears to have his eyes closed/slanted, which automatically makes me like him

[GalladeX]

This actually looks really interesting.
The entire concept of a Pokemon manga aimed at teens is just awesome (and hopefully if this is awesome enough, it'll draw some of the attention away from Special and make people see that there are different manga. Alas, that is a different tirade for a different time).

Any idea what that black monster is behind the main guy? Zekrom? Sazandora?

Also, I love his headband. *O*


I'm also liking that every character seems to be an original character so far. I like it when a Pokemon mangaka makes up characters instead of stealing a game design.

The guy on the protagonist's other side appears to have his eyes closed/slanted, which automatically makes me like him

Five bucks he's The Rival.

[legend_hunter-x0]

i figured thhat they'd make a mature manga eventually, especially since they made that mature clothing brand for pokemon fans

[Dreamingflower]

Cool I would want to read that. First shounen pokemon manga I'll get to read.

[Tabby Catty]

I really cannot wait for this... I wish I knew more about what it was about... I mean... come on! I mean, the first generation pokemon fans are growing up! It's about time! Though, as long as they suddenly don't make almost everything else mature, then it would be great, for then there would still be stuff that would be alright for kids so that they could get into the series too, but still keeping the veteran fans who have been playing since the 90s interested with manga like this...

I mean, most fans have been resorting to writing up mature pokemon fanfiction so it is about time something is official...

I'm excited... I mean, I just got done collecting the volumes of Diamond and Pearl Adventures and yeah... it's kind of embarassing going to the "kids" manga section... Hopefully, this will come out in English...

Like, will this be a fifth gen. manga or are they going for the whole nostaligia craze for those older fans? I want to say fifth gen... I also want to know how they deal with things like say... the villains... will the be from the game directly? Will they be made up?

Who knows!

[Korobooshi Kojiro]

I mean, the first generation pokemon fans are growing up! It's about time!

Even though it's for "older audiences", it's still Shonen i.e. young teens. So, this is to Pokemon as SNICK was to Nickelodeon. We haven't reached Nick at Nite levels yet.

So, it's not going for the guys who've been here since RBY. Most of them are in their twenties. More like those who came in around Gen 2 or 3 I'd say are likely the ones in the target audience.

[00poke_maniac]

It seems kind of cool, but I think I'll stick to the other mangas :/ looks a little too violent for my tastes ^^;. I don't really care for the artwork either...

[MidnightMelody]

Hopefully it spans into an anime for us older fans.

[lolipiece]

How can you call it violent?

You haven't even seen any of it

Hopefully it spans into an anime for us older fans.

Never going to happen..

If Adventures or Pocket Monsters hasn't

Nothing will...

[00poke_maniac]

How can you call it violent?

You haven't even seen any of it

It's just the vibe (Yup! I'm judging a book by it's cover!~ ) I might it a try though lol.

[MidnightMelody]

How can you call it violent?

You haven't even seen any of it



Never going to happen..

If Adventures or Pocket Monsters hasn't

Nothing will...

Dude thats not proof lol. Just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it never will. Should not be so narrow minded.

[lolipiece]

Dude thats not proof lol. Just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it never will. Should not be so narrow minded.

I'm not being narrow minded

Why would some random new manga get an adaptation when the two longest running series haven't gotten more than a cameo appearance and reference

I mean look at Digimon, all the manga it has and none haven been mentioned...

[Ciccone]

Five bucks he's The Rival.

I really hope so, either that or some sort of antagonist. I'm hoping he'll be the main rival, but I wouldn't mind if he was just a sneaky character.

Hopefully it spans into an anime for us older fans.

I doubt it. I don't even think it'll contain too many mature references to be honest, so I don't see an anime adapation of this manga being anything that special or different from what we have now anyway. We really should at least read the first few chapters before we get any other ideas. For all we know, the manga could be terrible. I think it's best not to jump to conclusions, otherwise we could get our hopes up for nothing :s

[Rentaline99]

I'll give it a whurl...

[legend_hunter-x0]

The main reason that those mangas didnt get anime adapted is because they followed almost the same storyline as the anime that already exists. (kid in region travels around region collecting the eight badges and stopping the villanous team.) The major differences between the current anime and the special mangas is that they use playable chatacters in the RPGs and major NPC's* in lieu of Ash Ketchum, the main characters of the older incarnations do interact with characters of newer generations, and that characters and other plot devices are tweaked to make the plot interesting,(gym badges used to algamate the bird trio or characters being agents to the villans). If they made a manga that was comepletely original and didnt care about the gym battles and had a different outlook to pokemon (in the way the world revolves around them and not about how people treat them) its likely that this new manga could be adapted to an anime, its why pokemon mystery dungeon and ranger got specials as they showed pokemon differently to just fighters contained in baseballs.

*exceptions to the rule are yellow and emerald who are original characters(blue/green (the girl) qualifies from her debut as it was originally planned in the generation 1 games for players to choose their gender although later scrapped)

[mitchman_93]

To be honest, I believe the way that mon is designed, I can see the art design destorting Pokemon to get a certain edge to them, cause can you see some of the Pokemon actually being in something like this, next to that shadow?

[lolipiece]

That Mon is Zekrom

It's the only one that resembles it...