Coronis has posted up some summaries and stuff for the HG/SS arc and the B/W arc
Well, it has alot of content from the month before...
-Gold visiting the Kimono girls.
-He meets up with Morty sometime after Aitaro evolves, and Morty shows him an image of the Ruins of Alph.
-Silver meets up with Gold, and Gold looks happy to see him (ewe the pic is kinda funny)
-Crystal apparently threw the Level Ball first to test out Arceus' power, then she ALMOST catches him in a Heavy Ball (good call Crys), but it breaks out. (Stupid cheap Level balls. ono )
-Crystal notices that Arceus looks sad or something. (Someone has upset god or something)
-The authors decide to really rush a bunch of stuff by making Silver find the other plates in less than 2 pages by having Weavile leave scratch marks on trees to make other Sneasel and Weavile find the plates.
-Lance is in the ruins of Alph, all injured and says that to connect to arceus, someone must have a good heart, and he doesn't think that Gold has one since Togepi has not evolved. He gives Togetaro a Shiny Stone.
-Something happens, but the plot seems to be so inconsistent at this point. Somehow, Gold is able to make Togetaro evolve and it evolves straight into Togekiss after wards.
-Gold, Silver, Crys, and the 4 Team Rocket people are teleported to the Sinjoh ruins.
-Team Rocket captures Arceus and forces it to make a Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina.
BW Arc.
-Ok, this is kinda weird. Prof. Aragi is just talking to the starters and is hoping that the trainers that will come by the next day will like them.
-The starters get into a fight, and Prof. Aragi wonders if the trainers will be able to handle them.
-It skips to a future chapter where the male Protagonist (no name given yet, so I guess I'll just call him Black for now, like everyone else) is in a city with Pokabu.
-He meets and lost boy and lets Pokabu take care of him while he gets help. Turns out that the boy is a Zoura and Pokabu chases after it.
...yeah.
Anyway, with this, something is seriously troubling me about all this plot stuff this month. And I'm sure most of you already noticed.
It seems like Kusaka and Yamamoto seem VERY stressed out about catching up with the BW hype. Here is something that Coronis posted up about the topic:
"Ok, so the BW series is commencing, not only in Pokemon Fan, but will be in the next Grade 4 and Ichiban as well. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling disgruntled that the writers are creating such a big mess in their manga. It seems to me that Kusaka is losing his grip in controlling the pace of his series. DP was a prime example of how things were severely dragged out in the beginning, and severely rushed at the end (the same can actually be said about the Emerald series). We still don't know how complete the magazine version of DP is, and I seriously hope that the Platinum series isn't going to finish in an extra 2-3 Chapters in the volume version. Heck we haven't even seen Giratina yet, let alone Darkrai, Shaymin, Manaphy, a proper debut of Regigigas, and a myriad of human characters including the Elite 4 and Bebe.
This issue's Ichiban (where Togetaro evolves) is actually labelled as the final chapter of the HGSS serializing in this magazine. I haven't gotten Grade 4's November issue, but I'm sure it's the last one there too. So much for all the hypothesis and expectations, it just feels like an inconsequential 'showcase all the new characters and places' series to me. Lance's ambush by Petrel was played down, Silver collecting the 13 Plates was minimized to 2 pages, and we don't know why the God of Creation was easily chained down by some ordinary Pokemon who couldn't stand up against Rhyperior's Earth Power.
Did I mention the stupid branch off end in Ichiban at the Ruins of Alph where Arceus just flies off and Gold just goes home? Confusing enough that Gold's quest at the Pokeathlon couldn't really be pieced together since he's shown to be with the Elite 4 the whole time in one magazine and yet in another magazine he was with DJ Mary and won all 5 medals. (for this reason, forgive me that I am still unable to write the summary for these chapters since they make no sense chronologically)
Anyway, I'm just feeling a rapid decline in quality of PokeSpecial after having followed it loyally for so many years. The writers are trying too hard, too much at one time. Aspiring too much, but not having the capacity to complete what they have started. Putting up too much suspense, but not living up to the expectation. I admit that as fans, our expectations are getting higher and higher, especially when the games have become more 'Special' like over the years, if you know what I mean. I'm not looking for unexpected twists in Special anymore, just hoping for proper ends to each series."
It seems that Coronis has finally said something that alot of fans were afraid of: the decline of Pokemon Special. (; A ; )
What do you guys think?
(I still love this manga to bits, but I worry about the future of this manga. D: )