DYKG: Nob Ogasawara (original Pokemon NOA localizer) has translated a 1996 PokeDex book worked on by Tajiri and Sugimori
- Thread starter Birdie
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Part 2 is out:
To iterate a few reasons of why this is incredibly important:
To iterate a few reasons of why this is incredibly important:
- This is one of the first Pokémon products ever, released in 1996, created directly by Game Freak and published by Creatures.
- The official artworks for Pokémon of the first generation (some of which were likely simply sprites prior) were created for this very book.
- It was intended to be complemental material to Pokémon Red and Green and content included were presented as canonical, down to the fact that the encyclopedia had a Pokémon world character as a pseudo-author.
- Some details have been altered today, but many more still apply, including things that had been puzzling fans for decades, such as the Nidorina thing Birdie mentions above. Even some weird seemingly anime-created lore (such as Scyther's and Electabuzz's fascination for the colour red) originates from this book.
- The production quality behind this whole project is incredible. Nob Ogasawara (the Pokémon translator) localising is just so incredibly wholesome and perfect. I couldn't pick a better person for this job even if I could freely choose from the entire planet. Attaching Nekkra (narrator of the Legends Arceus trailer) to do the narration is also incredible. HiResPokemon has also been bringing A-grade scans of the book itself, consistent in quality with all of their previous work.
Kid me would have been obsessed with this. I like that it seems to confirm the more ridiculous bits of Pokedex entries are in fact true and not exaggerations by children lol.
