Adventures is cited by Satoshi Ken as being the closest adaptation to how he imagined Pokémon when he first came up with them. At the end of the Kanto arc, the OG Elite 4 try to take over the region with armies of their type Pokémon, and the gym leaders spearhead the resistance while Red and Blue (Ash and Gary, respectively) fight Lance.
It's fucking intense! During the Fire Red/Leaf Green arcs, Red (Ash) uses Mewtwo in a showdown against Giovanni and Deoxis. I think I stopped reading around the end of the Diamond/Pearl arc, and Diamond (the boy I think) teaches his Torterra how to use Razor Leaf to shoot a single leaf as accurate as a sniper!
And in the Lavender Town ghost tower, they fight actual zombified dead Pokémon. Or maybe it was an illusion? Been a while, guess it's time for a reread.
The article introduced by OP overlooks a crucial fact regarding the description of the event held at Yasukuni Shrine.
According to an official statement from The Pokémon Company, the event in question was organized by "an individual certified for the Pokémon Trading Card Game," and the company stated that this was mistakenly posted on its official website due to insufficient verification.
This was therefore a prank perpetrated by a malicious individual. It is incorrect to assume this event was officially organized by The Pokémon Company.
The article referenced recent controversies around the popular anime series Pokemon, Detective Conan and My Hero Academia, saying that “the evil influence of Japanese militarism lives on in sports and culture.”
Last month, a Pokemon card game event that was scheduled at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo for Jan. 31 was canceled after Chinese backlash.
The shrine commemorates the 2.5 million Japanese soldiers who died in war, including 30,304 Taiwanese.
Countries that were targets of Japanese aggression, especially China and the Koreas, see visits to the shrine as a lack of remorse about Japan’s wartime past.
China condemned the Pokemon Co for holding an event at a shrine, with the People’s Daily saying that enterprises “must not make light of the heavy weight of history in the name of entertainment.”
The article also condemned table tennis player Tomokazu Harimoto for praying at the Togo Shrine, which is dedicated to Togo Heihachiro, an admiral in the First Sino-Japanese War who China sees as a pioneer of Japanese militarist expansionism.
It also referenced the Japanese boy band Rampage, whose choreography was previously criticized for resembling the Nazi salute.
They didn't really have to. Germany got split in half, completely lost it's civilian leadership, and got occupied by two of us adversaries and had a pretty robust war crimes tribunal.
Japan didn't have anything like that scale of post war disruption.
Would be great if there was actual context in this lede. The yasuguni shrine houses the remains of actual war criminals, generals that ordered the mass rape and murder in Nanjing. The far right in Japan go to that shrine to pray. It's like the Hitler did nothing wrong meme. So to host a pokemon event there is just using good pop culture to normalize extremely fascist ideas.
China has no ground to stand on when it comes to aggressive nationalism. They are trying to claim a whole ocean. Their fishing vessels attack florigen fishing vessels that are near their homes. What a load of manure.
No but they are getting scared of North Korea and a bit of China and they are talking about expanding their defensive military to be less defensive and they're learning that the US is a useless ally for that.
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homes@piefed.world · 29 pts · 200d
I want a Pokémon army
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 200d
Pokémon Adventures manga, Kanto arc.
Adventures is cited by Satoshi Ken as being the closest adaptation to how he imagined Pokémon when he first came up with them. At the end of the Kanto arc, the OG Elite 4 try to take over the region with armies of their type Pokémon, and the gym leaders spearhead the resistance while Red and Blue (Ash and Gary, respectively) fight Lance.
cannedtuna@piefed.world · 3 pts · 200d
That sounds bad ass. Why couldn’t we’ve gotten a tv adaptation of that? I want a dark Pokémon cartoon
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 200d
It's fucking intense! During the Fire Red/Leaf Green arcs, Red (Ash) uses Mewtwo in a showdown against Giovanni and Deoxis. I think I stopped reading around the end of the Diamond/Pearl arc, and Diamond (the boy I think) teaches his Torterra how to use Razor Leaf to shoot a single leaf as accurate as a sniper!
And in the Lavender Town ghost tower, they fight actual zombified dead Pokémon. Or maybe it was an illusion? Been a while, guess it's time for a reread.
cannedtuna@piefed.world · 3 pts · 200d
Yup. Just ordered the set for the first 7. I’m stoked for this.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 199d
It's less kid-friendly and less profitable. Pokemon has been printing money for Nintendo for decades.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 200d
That's awesome!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
My Spinda breeding continues apace.
hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 200d
The article introduced by OP overlooks a crucial fact regarding the description of the event held at Yasukuni Shrine.
According to an official statement from The Pokémon Company, the event in question was organized by "an individual certified for the Pokémon Trading Card Game," and the company stated that this was mistakenly posted on its official website due to insufficient verification.
イベント告知に関するお詫び｜株式会社ポケモン｜The Pokémon Company
This was therefore a prank perpetrated by a malicious individual. It is incorrect to assume this event was officially organized by The Pokémon Company.
skrlet13@feddit.cl · 14 pts · 200d
Incidents mentioned:
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 19 pts · 200d
It's odd that Japan never came to terms with "being the bad guys" in the way Germany did
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 13 pts · 200d
They didn't really have to. Germany got split in half, completely lost it's civilian leadership, and got occupied by two of us adversaries and had a pretty robust war crimes tribunal.
Japan didn't have anything like that scale of post war disruption.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
You’re right, but American occupation wasn’t great
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
They did get 2 suns dropped on them. Not that I’m excusing the bombs or Japanese imperialism, Just saying
remon@ani.social · 13 pts · 200d
Nobody tell them about GATE then ...
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 200d
China, and China simps, are the most laughably sensitive authoritarians I’ve ever seen.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
The butthurt does flow heavily from their mouths.
Edit: Thanks for the laugh. I got two downvotes immediately. Its even funnier when you realize they are shilling for china for free.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 199d
Right? Can’t even get fifty cents.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 200d
Detective Conan? I think Team Coco is taking the whole "branching out" thing TOO far now!
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
I would no lie watch the fuck out of that concept
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
He's too tall for that.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 200d
AKA "Case Closed," here in the US.
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 199d
Would be great if there was actual context in this lede. The yasuguni shrine houses the remains of actual war criminals, generals that ordered the mass rape and murder in Nanjing. The far right in Japan go to that shrine to pray. It's like the Hitler did nothing wrong meme. So to host a pokemon event there is just using good pop culture to normalize extremely fascist ideas.
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
… so chimpokomon from southpark?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d
Tell me you haven't watched all 1186 episodes of Detective Conan without telling me you haven't watched all 1186 episodes of Detective Conan.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
China has no ground to stand on when it comes to aggressive nationalism. They are trying to claim a whole ocean. Their fishing vessels attack florigen fishing vessels that are near their homes. What a load of manure.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Pikachu_konga_line_marching_to_Klepacki_hellmarch.avi
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 2 pts · 200d
Is modern Japan militaristic at at least some tiny extent?
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 200d
Have you seen the Gundam they been printing
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 200d
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
No but they are getting scared of North Korea and a bit of China and they are talking about expanding their defensive military to be less defensive and they're learning that the US is a useless ally for that.
So yes they're voting full far right now.
Attacker94@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 200d
lolwat
Niether of those even have militaristic... Anything.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 200d
South Park made an episode about this called Chinpokomon.