IIRC, this was from the first pokemon manga, released alongside the first gen games
they pretty quickly decided pokemon shouldn't actually straight-up kill each other lol
Probably a smart idea. I remember PETA being pissed off that they fight. Imagine how much trouble they'd get into if they killed each other on a regular basis
I've read this page like five times and I can't make sense of any of the text bubbles.
From what I can remember, that Arbok melted a payduck zombie with its poison. Koga sent the Arbok to kill Red and Green. Green kills the Arbok. Red is impressed. Green insinuates Red isn't a real trainer for being slow to notice the Arbok.
Okay now it makes more sense lol. The punctuation in the second panel confused me, I thought it was saying Arkob was one of the dead Pokemon. I also forgot they used to call the trainers by the game colours.
It technically was not a kill. Arbok was written to have a trait that it can regenerate as long as its head was intact.
However, Giovanni merc'd three Magmar with his Cloyster.
This why I :100-com: percent prefer the anime over this. There no one really dies and somewhat safer. I'd be horrified if any creature with was even slightly hurt let alone this.
The anime is weird too, people use guns and shit sometimes lol. iirc the original Japanese text of the gameboy games showed that the world was supposed to be like modern day (1998) Japan in an alternate universe of sorts.
Isn't there also a banned episode where James grows large breasts lol
The early episodes used a lot of obnoxious flashing colours, most infamous of which was the Porygon(?) episode.
Guns only appeared in the Indigo League story arc. After that, the only firearms that appeared were bazookas and hit that shot nets which Team Rocket would use to steal Pokemon.
I need my bazooka net launcher for 39-50 feral pocket monsters in my yard.
So the weird vibe of the anime was from multiple writers trying something I think. I think as the writers got more of an understanding of the world things started making more sense. Still remember one episode was Yojimbo but gym fights.
the manga had interesting perspectives on pokemon anatomy (for example, hitmonlee's legs were springs that would shoot out). also pokeballs were weird too.
I've never read any Manga but according to a friend at the end of the Black/White Manga the main character actually dies
