- Greetings Pokey fans, Michael here and today
I'm going to be taking you all on a bit of a nostalgia
trip by showing you, my old Pokemon handbooks. These are not guidebooks, they do not tell you how to
progress through the games. They are just general handbooks
of Pokemon information. And at times, they are wrong. These handbooks are all
published by Scholastic, and they seem to be a
kind of weird combination of information from the
games and from the show, which can make things
really confusing at times, because they're two completely
different universes, but in some cases, they have
information that's wrong into all Pokemon universes. I'm gonna be going through
these today just for fun. So if you enjoy this video, don't forget to subscribe
and let's get started. So this is the first handbook I am going to be
going over today. I'm doing this, not because
it's the first chronologically, but because it's the
first I ever owned. My first Pokemon game
ever was Pokemon Ruby. So that was when I
really got into Pokemon was Gen Three, prior to that
I'd watched the show a bit, and had some toys, but
I wasn't super into it, until I got the games. So this is the official
Pokemon advanced handbook. Now you'll notice Pokemon
advanced that was the anime. The first season of
the anime in Hoenn So immediately, it's
got an anime time. This is anime style art
and stuff like that. Published by Scholastic. I'm, like 98% sure I saw
this in one of those, Scholastic Book, catalog things and was like, "Oh my god, Pokemon, I need it." These sticky notes at
the top denote things that I wanted to remember
to mention in the video. So we'll remove those as we go. When we first open it
up here, as you can see, Pokemon advanced handbook. By Maria S. Barbo
and it's just gotten a whole lot of information about Ruby and Sapphire characters. So it mentions the games,
scrolling over here. This is the first page I wanted
to draw your attention to. And I'm going to put
on my gamer goggles to ensure I can
read it properly. Hail Yeah, so "get
this party started." This is basically
just a page of various introductions of new things
that the Hoenn region brought. So they mentioned,
double battles down here. They mentioned the new
kinds of poker balls, the abilities they
call them, yeah, special ability right there. Pokemon personality. Those are nature's
contests, new evolutions, but this part is,
this part is fun. New attacks, watch
out Pokemon trainers. The Pokemon in Hoenn
know their stuff, and some new stuff too. New Pokemon, Ruby and Pokemon
Sapphire characters have new abilities like
Sharpedo's rough skin Attack. Even after Sharpedo swims away, It's rough skin attack, continues to do damage
to its opponent. This paragraph is funny
to me because it says they have new abilities. Yeah, abilities were
introduced in Gen Three, but then it calls Sharpedo
rough skin, an attack, which it's not, it's an ability, and in addition to
calling it an attack, they say it continues
to hurt the Pokemon after they've swam away. After Sharpedo swim away. The only time that happens is
if you knock out the Sharpedo, you knock it out, it
faints or swims away. It's just pushed away I guess. And then it harms you. So that is a funny, like,
kind of amusing like, no, that's not what Rough skin is. This next page goes over
more new features of the Hoenn region like
the Swarming Pokemon, all the various new berries. The competed badges but this,
this is wrong, right here. How random Wurmple
can evolve into either Silcoon or Cascoon,
depending on what time of day it evolves. No, that has never
been the case. Wurmple evolution has never
been time of day determined. It's always been
personality values, which are secret numbers
that you can't see unless you hack the game. I'm 99% sure even in the anime, which this book talks
about, and covers, Jesse's Wurmple and May's
Wurmple evolve at the same time into the two different ones So they do not evolve
depending on the time of day, this is just
completely incorrect. Then it mentions, cast form, Hell yeah. School days just the trainer
school every game has that, Ground on and Kyogre,
diving, hiding and seeking, the rumor mill, Feebas,
Latios and Latias, and actually
references Alto mare, the location from
Pokemon heroes, but I think that's actually
spelled incorrectly, I'm pretty sure Alto Mere is
two words, Alto space Mare. Here's a page on the
various anime characters; Birch, Max, May, Brock,
Ash in his new outfit, No More Misty, RIP. Team Aqua, Team
Magma, Team Rocket, just anime information here. Now this page, this page is quite the
interesting thing here. So these are the three
different leagues, of the Pokemon
world at the time. the Indigo league, Johto
League, Pokemon league. I guess it's just they just
call it the Pokemon League. So first they've got
the name of the region, "Kanto, Johto, Hoenn." "Number of badges to
earn, at least eight. "Number or names of badges." Now here's an interesting
thing about this. The Hoenn badges
are listed in order. "Stone, Knuckle,
Dynamo, Heat, Balance, Feather, Mind, Rain." That is the order that
you earn Hoenn badges, I think, always unless you
intentionally skipped Brawly These other two are not in
order whatsoever at all. They've got Misty, then
Brock, then Koga, then Erika, then Giovanni, then
Lieutenant Surge, then Blaine, And then these are all
completely out of order. Whitney's badges the last one. I mean, these never specify
that they're in order. I just think it's
so strange that the Hoenn ones are in order
and then these two are not. But that's not the end
of the weirdness here. Next, they list all of the
Gym leaders that you do. Johto of course has the
weird part where you can go towards Chuck and Jasmine
first or towards price, but price is usually
characterized as the penultimate Gym leader
so that order is correct. The orders are correct. Notice right here,
Janine Fuchsia City, that you can see a little
bit of white smudge around her name. That is because when
I got this as a kid, I had never played
a Johto game before. I never played a
Generation Two game, had never played gold
or silver or crystal. And did not do so, until
I played SoulSilver, when it came out. So here I saw, as a
kid I saw "Janine" Who the hell is Janine,
I'd never heard of her. And if she's appeared
in the anime, I have no recollection of that. Maybe she appeared in the
episode that Koga did, but Ash fought Koga,
I'm pretty sure, so he fought the actual,
like he fought Koga. Janine was not the Gym leader. So I scratched out
her name as a kid, and then erased it later when
I learned about her existence. So that is the the
smudging around that. But then look down here. Gary, Viridian City. Because Janine is here,
the author was like, oh, let's do the generation two
most recent Johto game roster of the of the Johto or
the Kanto Gym leaders. So therefore, why is it
Gary in Viridian City, Gary has never been the
Viridian city Gym Leader, not in the anime,
not in the games. In the games the
meridian city Gym leader, is always either
Giovanni or Blue. She wrote Gary because Gary is
the anime equivalent of Blue. But it's wrong. Gary, the character
Gary in the anime, has never been the
Viridian city Gym Leader. And the only times
it's even been possible to name your in game rival Gary. He's just been the
rival and then champion, he never became the Gym
leader in those games. So this is one of those
weird quirks that's occurring because this
is combining game data, and anime information. It's it's very strange,
I don't understand. I don't understand why
they didn't just do the original Kanto roster with
Koga and Giovanni because also, we know now the
Pokemon timeline, the Gen Three events take
place at the same time as the Gen One events. So Koga would be the Gym leader. It's just a very weird chart. Over here we have all
the various starters at this point in time,
there are only nine, simpler times, but nothing of
particular significance here, here are all the Pokemon
that the older Gen Pokemon that were available in
Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. I'm pretty sure
they're all here. If there's one missing,
I did not take the time to double check that
this was 100% correct. There might be one missing maybe one of you guys wants
to look at that. Here's a page of just
screenshots from like the first season of the
anime, compelling, I guess. And now here we get
into the Pokemon data, for all of the new
Gen Three Pokemon, it's just the Gen Three Pokemon, none of the returning ones. And this this is basically
the rest of the book. However, there are
multiple instances of just blatantly incorrect
information involved in this Pokemon, Pokemon data. So let's let's just
scroll through here, turn through here. You're not scrolling,
this is not a web page. So here's the first one. Ralts, does not evolve. Are you sure about that? Ralts, it just says,
Ralts doesn't evolve. It's just Kirlia, we're
down here at the bottom, Kirlia into Gardevoir, that's
it, Ralts, no evolution. It's just a non evolving Pokemon despite being on the same
page as Kirlia into Gardevoir, and very clearly
looking related. And then just on the next page, you notice here we've got,
"Nincada, Ninjask and Shedinja." Evolution Nincada into
Ninjask into Shedinja. Which is not how that works. Ninja has never
evolved into Shedinja. It's a weird split off thing. They at the very least
could have done like a split evolution tree like
they did with Wurmple down here at the bottom
left, but they didn't, They said that Ninjask
evolves into Shedinja, which it does not. As we keep turning
through, we get here. And here's the page on
"Meditite and Medicharm," Medicharm. I guess it's, a handsomer than other ones? (laughs) Let me keep going through, note whole lot of wrong
information until, we get here (laughs) to Trapinch who, this is blacked
out with a sharpie, that young Michael did. But this also says,
evolution does not evolve. And then it was just
Vibrava into Flygon, but I corrected it as a child. I don't know why I didn't
correct Ralt's page, and did correct this one. So two instances of a
three stage evolution, and the first one
just being like, no, you're not a part of this. You don't, you don't count. So there are no more mistakes
that I personally caught, until this page
where I found two. The first is down
here at the bottom, another incorrect evolution. Prior to my incredible, editing technique. It's said that Clamperl
evolved into Huntail, which then evolved
into Gorebyss, which again, no, it's
a split evolution like they had the graphical
capabilities to do it with Wurmple and they
just didn't do it here. So I corrected it and wrote or, and then the second error
is a much smaller one. They misspelled, Rendezvous. There is a there
is a missing "z" It spelled like ren-dez-vous
but this is ren-deh-vous and then the final
mistake that I found here in this handbook is Matang, which tickles me I don't
know Matang is like, like you're saying, Instead of Metang
you're saying, MATANG! (laughs) And then there's just
a couple more pages and it finishes off with
the legendary Pokemon. If there were more mistakes, I haven't caught them. But yeah, this official
published Pokemon handbook, riddled with blatantly
incorrect information. Now here is the next Handbook, the official Pokemon Handbook, "The Deluxe
Collector's Edition." It has Mew and Togepi and
the first one did not, or as Pokemon seven
would want me to say, "Togepi" This one, I genuinely have no
memory of how I obtained it. I obtained it used. You're gonna you're gonna
see as we go through this, there's been some stuff
done to this book. And I don't remember
when I got it. I had it in college. And don't know when
I got it before that. I don't know if my
brother got it somehow and it ended up
in my possession. Or if a friend was like, "hey, I have this do you want
this" and I was like, "Sure" and then forgot about it. I don't know how I got it. (laughs) But I know I got
it substantially
after Gen I was out. Honestly, I think
substantially after like four or five and six
were out, probably. I think this might be
the former owner, Matt. So Matt, if you're watching
this thanks for the book, also by Maria S. Barbo. So Maria got to be the
Pokemon handbook person and royally screwed
up the Gen Three one. We'll see how she
does in this one. So this first page
is basically like, "Why is this the
deluxe version?" Now there's Togepi in there. There's Mew. There's a poster
that is not in here, and some extra stuff
at the end, I guess. So Professor Oak
tells you some more, This is kind of falling apart Tell's us here some
more information This is kind of funny, Apparently, my
biggest rival is Gary? Speaking to me, "My
biggest rival is Gary." Yet Ash also exists. So Gary is rivals with both me and Ash? See things get weird
if you try to combine the anime and the game. Gary is not the official
name of the end game rival. It's Blue. They're just calling him Gary 'cause that's the anime version. and Ash also exists. So this page is interesting
because they're listing the Pokemon types,
except they're not types, they're elements. Each Pokemon is
identified by an element. The element let's you know
what kind of characteristics and techniques your
Pokemon will have. water element. It's Elementary, they called it elements, which, if it's ever been officially
referred to as an element, I am not aware of it. I mean, I gotta give him props. They keep calling them elements, throughout the rest of the book. But yeah, I just
thought it was weird they didn't call them types. There's nothing
wrong with this map. I just think it's a lovely photo of a lovely map of
the Kanto region. Very cool. None of this information
is particularly riveting. It's just talking about
your Pokemon journey and stuff like that
how to catch Pokemon. Now, here's where we get
to the Pokemon information. You may be wondering,
why does it go from the, How to you use this thing, to Butterfree and
that's because, someone at some point ripped
the pages out for the starters. (laughs) Why? I don't know I told you
I got this book used and don't even
remember how I got it. I don't know what possessed
someone to rip out the starters but I only got
Butterfree onward. So on these pages, they
have pronunciation, element and then type
is like the category of the Pokemon you know how, like Arcanine is the
legendary Pokemon. Still a strange thing
that they get that, height, weight, techniques, "Each Pokemon starts off
with a set of techniques "such as scratch or tackle. "These are the
strategies or attacks "a Pokemon uses to win a battle. "That is how they fight." It's like the moves
they're gonna know when you catch him. Just a weird thing to list because those are probably
gonna get deleted anyways. But then it has
other techniques. The other ones it
learns, as it levels out. And it's just a
weird definition. Now here, right here,
good against, bad against. These are a mess. Good against are the
types that the Pokemon's type is super effective against. Bug is good, bug and grass
are good against flying. Flying is good against bug,
bugs getting in psychic, flying is good against fighting. Should be noted in
the Gen one type chart bug was also good
against poison, but it is not listed here. But then bad against, is not
what the Pokemon is weak to. It is what types
resist its moves, which is just such a
strange thing to go with, rather than just
what it's weak to. 'Cause that's why
ice isn't here. Ice doesn't resist flying
even though Butterfree is weak to ice. Fighting is here, both on
good against and bad against, because flying is super
effective against fighting, but fighting resist bug. And it's just such a
strange decision to make. And then evolution is normal. Normal just means level up. And then there's occasionally
these Pokedex pic things which are random. They're usually like tidbits
from the original series of the anime just like, "you know this
happened in the show?" that would share that with you. So then we move on
to, Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill and so forth. And then there's something
I want to bring to your attention, multiple
things on this page. First off, Pidgey is
a normal flying type. So the types that resist
it are rock and electric. Rock resists normal,
electric resists flying. However, they did
not include ghost, these bad against, never
take into account immunities. I'll show you with
an electric type. They just don't
include immunities, which is it's just so strange. And then over here, The other thing on
this page, Pidgeots Apparently it's
pronounced pid -jit? Pid-jit. Well, if it starts spinning? Is it a Pid-jit spinner? No one has ever pronounced
this Pokemon pid-jit. It has always been "Pidge- E -Ott" or maybe Pig-eot. Never, "Pid-git" How do you get it from an EO, then over here, normal
types, Rattata and Raticate Notice good against,
none good against none. And then over here Rattata and
Raticate, bad against rock. It's also bad against ghosts. Also, of course normal
is resisted by steel, but this is a Gen one book,
steel, dark, didn't exist yet. Another thing I
wanted to mention, that I didn't think
to mention quite yet, the Pokemon have evolution
level information. To my knowledge, all of
this information is correct. It's just kind of weird that
they have an evolution level information, in a book
that references the anime, despite the anime,
not having levels. Over here on this
page, we have Ekans, notice how Ekans, it says,
"it is good against bug." In generation one poison
was super effective on bug. But bug was also super
effective against poison , yet, if you go to
a bug type Pokemon, it does not say, that it is good. Oh wait, maybe it does. (laughs) Okay, I found an example.
I knew I saw it somewhere. Pinsir just a pure bug type, says, "It is good against
grass and psychic, not poison." They are inconsistent
with their type matchups. Not only is the good
against, bad against, the language weird,
but sometimes poison
is super effective against bug and the bug is
super effective against poison. Other times, It's not. There's no way I could
cover every single instance of wrong type
matchups in this book because most of them are
or at least somewhat wrong but yeah this this good
against, bad against thing just riddled with just
incorrect information. And here's Pikachu, the
first electric type, bad against electric
grass dragon, apparently not ground types. Here's another
example I found of a, wrong type matchup stuff. Nidoqueen, good against electric and fire. And apparently that's
it, not grass, not bug and not rock. Like they that's more than
half of the types that poison or ground super
effective against, that
are just not there. Okay, so this page this
page was kind of funny. Just let's blurb about Dugtrio, Dugtrio are harder
to find than Diglett, and are much more dangerous, but Dugtrio still
focus on defense. Really? Dugtrio focuses on defense, when these are its base stats Really? Oh, here's another fun,
just completely wrong, good against, apparently
Tentacruel is only good against fire and bug not grass, not rock, not ground, despite water and or poison
being good against those types. Here's the thing I
thought I'd just mention, notice a element,
electric and electric, because the steel
type didn't exist yet so it's I mean it's
technically wrong now, but it wasn't wrong at the
time just thought I mentioned and another thing I
wanted to bring up. "Never fear a trader
in Vermillion city "will give you a Farfetch'd
in exchange for a Spearow." that is an in game trade, in red and blue,
just red and blue. So this game, this book
seems to not mention This book doesn't even
mention red and blue, but they're directly
referencing something that can happen in red and blue. Not yellow, which is I, what was the publishing
date of this? Copyright '95, '96, '98, '99. So I guess I gotta
go with '99, oh yeah. First Scholastic
printing November of '99. So I'm pretty sure
yellow was out by then. This page about Seel
and Dewgong is funny because they wrote, head
butt as two separate words, which just, head butt, it's
technique is head booty. Also references the Arctic, I don't know if
any of it's like, in game decks entries
reference the Arctic, but I thought that
was interesting. So here is the page on
the ghosts of Gen one, and notice good against
psychic, grass and bug. Psychic. First off as we many of us know, in Gen one they tried to
make psychic weak to ghost and indeed psychic
was immune to ghost. So this book is going off
of the intended type chart, not the actual type chart. But an addition to that, they also didn't list Ghost. Ghost is supper
effective ghost and they just didn't list it. So, Why? Also, this is just funny. "Few Pokemon have an
advantage in a battle with, "a ghost Pokemon, what's
your best bet when you come "face to face with a spooky
Spectre try everything "you might get lucky." That's the advice. Just try everything. This is a handbook, we're not gonna tell you
what's super effective, just just try everything
and hope for the best you frickin loser. Okay, this this
page is ridiculous. "Marowak also uses the bones
to it's advantage, the bone holds it's hand and
blah blah blah." That's just various Marowak
biology information. According to legend, "An angry mother
Marowak, upset by the "cruel deaths of her children,
haunts Pokemon Tower, "if you defeat her in battle, "her spirit will
finally be at peace." That has never been
true, every instance of the Marowak ghost haunting
the Pokemon tower, was her defending her
children and then being killed by Team Rocket in the process. Not her being upset
about her dead children. That's that's
never been a thing. Oh yes. Here's another fun, It's either not being good
against poison in Gen one, When other bug types were. Clearly very consistent. Just thought it was
interesting that this book has the old design of Jynx. I don't know if you guys, I feel like a lot of you
probably know about it, but it was accused
of being racist. Fair, honestly, so they changed
it's designed to be purple, rather than this appearance. But this is an old book, so it has the old art
before they changed it. So here's the page on
Tauros and to my knowledge, maybe I missed one, but
this is the only situation, where a normal type is shown
to be bad against ghost. They finally
acknowledge an immunity, but this is the only
time that I am aware of, I've been saying that this
Pokemon is bad against this type 'Cause it cannot touch it. Why is it just Tauros and
not anyone else in the book? I don't know. Here's a wrong Lapras art. This is official art,
like the Pokemon Company, I think made this
not scholastic. They just gave the
assets to Scholastic , and this is just a
wrong Lapras art. And this art is just been
wrong from the beginning. If you go to like
Papa penny and look at like the Lapras art assets
you can find this image with the wrong, under
the mouth color. Okay This page is very funny. The Fire stone transforms
Eevee into a Flareon. This fiery Pokemon stores
thermal energy from the sun and its body, causing its
temperature to skyrocket to more than 1600 degrees. Then run for cover, Flareon's
fire powers are scorching. With blazing fire technique
that is released from an internal fire sack. Flareon may be the
strongest Eevee evolution of all. Despite having very
high physical attack, and almost no physical fire, (laughs) And even in Gen one,
high physical attack, didn't help with
its fire techniques. Flareon, not the best one. Sorry to burst your bubble. It's probably Sylveon. But even then, even
with these three, it was very popular in jolting
that was so much better, when it was just these three. I just think it's so
funny that the worst one, was listed as the strongest. Here we have the
information about Zapdos. Now of course, there might
be some weirdness over here but what stood out to me, "Make a right before
you leave the Indigo plateau power plant." (calm music) Yeah. that's not where
the power plant is. The Indigo plateau and
the power plant are on complete opposite
sides of the region. And then right on the next page, there's more trace, it says, "On Route 23 on your
way to Victory road" No, no, no, that is not
where more trace is, more trace is in the
Victory Road not on the way, it is inside of the Victory
Road which is within route 23. But it's this specifies on
your way to the Victory Road. So that's like two of
the three legendary birds have incorrect
location information. This page I thought was funny. Dragon here is a good Pokemon
to have around on a rainy day most of its dragon
abilities like wrap agility, slam and dragon rage
and make use of its long and powerful body. Yes, because wrap,
agility and slam are all dragon type of moves. So then Dragonair new too, get over here top 10 ways
to care for your Pokemon. This is just various
stuff that we all pretty much already know. But then you get over
here and it says, "Question my Pokemon
won't listen to what I say I won't stay inside and It's
Poke Ball, and when I ask it to battle It takes a nap. Pokemon wants you
to understand them and will disobey
if they think you don't have enough experience. Badges are a sign
that you know enough and I've earned your Pokemon's
respect and friendship. Here's a quick rundown. These levels are correct, in the gen one games these
are the levels at which Pokemon will always obey you. But obedience is only ever an
issue for outsider Pokemon, Pokemon with different
original trainers than yours. If a Pokemon has your
original trainer, it will always obey you,
the issue of Pokemon not obeying you, even if you
were the one who caught it is only a thing in the anime. So this is the thing
coming from the anime. But then it mentions like,
oh, you need these badges in these specific levels
we'll make it obey you. It never says anything
about the obedience only being a problem for
outsider Pokemon. So that's just another
weird anime universe plus game universe
in corrected mixing, then here on this page, okay, "Now that I know all about
being a Pokemon trainer "how to become Pokemon
master takes time, "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. "You are eligible to
enter the Pokemon League "regional championships, "there are several
different branches of the "Pokemon League such as
the Orange Islands League. (mumbles) "Each branch has its own
Gym leaders and its own "competition to enter
the Pokemon League. "The most famous
competition's held once "a year on the Indigo plateau
more than 200 trainers "compete. during the tournament, "you will test your skills
against the Elite four." No. In the anime, It's just a
tournament of various trainers, the Elite Four don't appear
to be involved ever at all. Maybe they're watching, but
they're not participating in the games, you just
fight the Elite four. You don't fight like
the other 200 trainers that are participating. This page is creating some
fantasy Pokemon League combining the
anime and the games and then it ends up
not making any sense. So then it has Secrets
of the Gym leaders. It just talks a lot
about the Gym leaders. Frog misty and then
quicker information about the ones that are not part
of the main anime cast. Then it talks about
the Elite Four, actually seems to
list their type, their types and
squads correctly. So good on them. But then you get to this
page and it talks about, the Gary and for some reason, the previous owner
scratched out, he has a total of
over 200 Pokemon. Why did they scratch that out? I don't know. It's anime Gary so they
can say whatever they want but kind of weird. Also, "Ash is Gary's
biggest rival. "Your biggest rival." (Laughs) Is Gary, Ash's biggest rival? or your biggest rival or both? Apparently, we now exist
alongside two of them? So that wraps up
all the mistakes that I caught in this book. They have a page on Togepi
and this is interesting. It's basically advertising. Gold and silver. This whole page is like yeah, "Golden and silver
coming out next year." There's gonna be more Pokemon. Togepi is one of them. And you're buy our new
handbook when it comes out. I've never seen this handbook. I'm sure it exists. But I thought that
was interesting. And then the last couple pages, are just the, wait a second. Okay, for a second I thought
that said To-jeh-pee. I was like, wait, that's not
the official pronunciation. But anyways, These last two pages
are just a checklist of the ones that you've caught, the previous owner,
apparently caught them all. So good work, Matt. So this is the final
handbook that I have. And this one I got
the most recently, I got it less than a year ago, at a community yard sale
type thing at a park. And I saw this somebody
was selling it for like, less than $5 and I was like, "hell yeah, I'm
picking that up." This one is as of Gen six. So end of Gen six
because it includes the Omega Ruby, Alpha
Sapphire magnets. And this one you may
have noticed it has
fewer sticky notes than the other ones, because
they got better at their job. I was had a tough
time finding honestly any incorrect information. Here. They also limit how much
information they put on each Pokemon because
they have like all the Gen one through six
Pokemon in here. So all they have is like
pronunciation or I guess I should say pronunciation,
height, weight possible moves. Of course, it's not
all of its moves, but it's several of them. And it has all of these little
tidbits about the Pokemon seem to be from the
end game dark centuries just like rewritten or
maybe like, you know, rephrased a bit and
includes mega evolution in the evolution markets. This is a very
minor weird thing. And Jubilee said so
herself that this was like, yeah, that's very dull and lame, but I'm bringing it up. Every single Pokemon
on this page. Its name starts with Ar, and it's pronounced
r at the beginning. Archen, Archeops, Ar...koos, But it says
"AR-key-us, terrible. and Arcanine, but in
the pronunciation, I just thought it was
strange that, "AR, AR, AR, ARE and that caught me off
guard, so I was like, what are they trying to say? Areconine? Now the word Are
is spelled A-R-E, But I just, I thought it
was weird that all of these other ones, which is AR and
then on the same page as A-R-E, I don't know. Is that mundane? Absolutely. One thing I thought was an
interesting design decision in this book is that notice
how for beautifies entry, it only shows beautifies
Silcoon in Wurmple. It seems that if there's
a split evolution, If it's a fully evolved form, they only show that
Pokemon and back? They don't show the other
branch of the evolution. So this is just the three. But if we find Wurmple, Wurmple here, shows all of them. So I just thought that
was an interesting design decision on their part. But oddly enough, all the
Hitmon's are as they say, Yeah, no, they do say Hitmon. I'm pretty sure the old, the previous handbook
said "hit-moan. Yep. Hit moan-Lee,
hit-moan-chan. Yeah, that is that is awful. It shows all of them. Maybe they just had more room. I don't know. But
yeah, I'm not gonna go through all of this book
because it's very long, and I, did go through all
of this book off camera, I'm not gonna do it on
camera because there's no there's very few
fun little tidbits. But one thing that
stood out to me on this particular page, is a
mean-foo, mean-show, mean show, not the most phonetically best pronunciation stuff, because
I'm pretty sure it's not "show" it is shao. But it also says that
"instead of meen and foo, and meen and shao, It's
meen- foo and mean shao, I've never seen that before. I don't know if I believe it. Here's another interesting bit about Nincada, to
represent the strange split off thing they just said, "Nincada evolves in
to Ninjask or Shedinja which it evolves into
both at the same time. So I guess that's how they
best represented that, but at the very least,
it's more correct than the Gen three handbook was,
and here's Toxicroak. Toxicroak cast this
weird thing in the anime. And all of this art
is like at least on, A Bulbapedia! designated as like anime style art. Toxicroak in the anime is
always colored like it's shiny, which is very weird, like
all the sprites having the same color
scheme is Kroger but here you can see very
clearly it's very different. But that's just like yeah, that's a normal Toxicroak. It just looks like that. Certain Toxicroak in the
anime had weird colors too. It's just, I don't really
know why they did that. Here's something to note
here this page about unknown, does not include the exclamation
point or question mark. Just thought that
was interesting want
to point that out that those were just
just ignored for this? Maybe they never
got anime style art? I don't know. And then the final most
egregious mistake in this book, Is this one, says, that this
Pokemon's pronunciation is "ee-VELL-Tall." Come on fam. We own know that
it's, yah-vul-tall All right guys. I hope you enjoyed that too. Through my old
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