How did we go from this...

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>>27660468
...to this?

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>>27660468
To this

>>27660478
Did you mean: How did we go from this to the outright Genocide in XY?

>>27660468
These are guidelines for external writers and companies when referencing the anime. Death and blood relationships have been referenced in the games since RBY

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>>27660468
... to this?

>>27660478
pikachu got spooked,the end

>>27660569
Its lifeforce got drained. It's DEAD. It died painfully yet casually and in a lighthearted manner.

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>>27660468
>the siblings Latios and Latias

Just as planned.

what is the OP's image from?

>>27660468
how Lugia gets pregnant?

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>>27660525
>These are guidelines for external writers and companies when referencing the anime
American ones at that. They're a lot more lenient with other nips

The guidelines say to not show meat products, but here's an externally produced promo picture from last week showing Ash eating a hot dog.

>>27663339
>Peoples that are making pokemon references/products/whatever never watched anime so instead they get illustrated colorful books.
>professionalism

>>27663339
It's a tofu dog.

They aren't supposed to show explicit meat products.

>>27660468
Dont try and include latios and latias into Glorious Gen 1 dont try and be like us, A Blue and Red Plane are S**t designs from Gen 3 meant for newborns. gen 2 is fine but gen 3? Nah. Your not apart of genwon. Stop trying.

>>27661297
It's a guide for third-party advertisers about what they should and shouldn't do when making Pokemon merchandise and advertisements. Some anon's roommate worked at an advertising company that was throwing out a bunch of old shit, so he happened to grab the thing before they trashed it.

It has all sorts of interesting guidelines, like "don't mix TCG, Anime, and game-specific art, but you can mix any of them with generic Pokemon art" and "don't show Pokemon floating around in space, unless it's one of the ones that's supposed to be in space".

>"Even though Kangaskhan is a 'Parent Pokemon', the blood relation between it and the Pokemon in its pouch is kept ambiguous"
So it carries it's wife's son?
Kangaskhan more like Kangaskuck lmao

>>27663681
Is there a full PDF of this? I want to check it out.

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>>27663681
i need this

>>27660481
IWTFTC

>>27660468
because North American third party companies that put pokemon shit on hats are far away from the epicenter of important decisions regarding pokemon, and they need to be kept in check.

>>27660569

>Sunabaa is a grudge that dwells inside a pile of sand turns into a Pokemon.

>Shirodesuna steals the life force from other Pokemon. Those Pokemon's grudges turn into a new Sunaba.

The sand castle kills other Pokemon, and turns them into its pre-evolution.

>>27660468
Jesus fucking christ. The new people behind Pokémon are such faggots.

No wonder the games are such shitm it's like it's run by christian soccer moms.

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>>27664449 it would be a cool idea to read evey post before posting retard

>>27664449
Reminder that the last game's antagonist was literally Hitler

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>>27663797
I don't have the full PDF but I can upload a few scans.

>>27663797
>>27664155
Literally just google "Pokémon Product Approval Guide"

It also proves real animals don't exist in the Pokémon world.

>>27664449

This stuff only applies to the anime, and even then, it's really old and probably outdated.

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>>27663797
>>27664588

>>27664603
It has nothing to do with the anime, it applies to American companies making merchandise.

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>>27663797
>>27664588
3

>>27664646
Real-animalfags BTFO

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>>27663797
>>27664588
4

>>27664601
No, it doesn't. This isn't some canon bible laying down the ironset laws of the pokemon world, it's a style guide. Aka guidelines for people involved with the pokemon brand, like product makers and graphic designers, to make sure they're representing the brand appropriately. That's why it starts with how you can and can't display the pokemon logo.

>>27664722
And it states that real animals shouldn't be shown because they don't exist. We didn't even NEED more proof, the fact that only old as fuck anime episodes and dex entries show them is enough.

>>27660478
That's just a move no worse than Fissure

>>27664719
It's called Earth all the fucking time in the anime.

>>27660478
what's happening in there?

>>27664758
But you continue to misunderstand what this is. It's not stating things like that to clarify for fans like us. It's stating things clearly so 3rd parties do not misuse the pokemon license. No merchandise maker could read that and think it's maybe okay to put a real animal on a pokemon product.

>>27664804
Pikachu is getting brutally eaten by a sand castle.

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>>27664719
>Pokemon are to be considered living things, so they should never be described as data of any sort

Oops

>>27665023
These are not the rules of canon and are not the rules TCPi, Nintendo, and Game Freak follow. They just don't want a 3rd party referring to a pokemon as data, I have a feeling it might be because they don't want the brand confused with Digimon.

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What is this pokemon then?

>>27665087
whoops, wrong thread

>>27664719
What about Pokemon with a specific gender though?
Nidorina/Nidoqueen, Nidorino/Nidoking, Jynx, Miltank, Kangaskhan

>>27665087
Personally, I like leprechauns.

>>27665518
whoops, wrong thread

>>27663339
>pikachu dreaming of a date with him
Hnnnng

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>>27664719
>Never refer to Pokemon as "monsters" or "animals".
>never refer to Pocket Monsters as monsters

>>27664901
Oh thank goodness.
I thought it was getting molested for a second.

>>27664719

wasn't there a time when ash said "that's a regular cow?" and one time a regular fish?

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>>27665741
Holy shit, I never thought of that.

>>27660468
Nice to see the images I uploaded a couple years ago are still floating around

>>27665821
Or on the ss Ann the food they see or the fish the kabutops fossil eats. Or when misty lectures ash on how birds eat worms.

>>27664719
>the world of pokemon is distinctly different
then why does the mew pokedex in FRLG reference south america you CUNT

>>27665661
Aw Pika is so cute :3

>>27660481
That artwork came about an hour after the sand castle Pokémon and it were revealed.

>>27660468

I always thought that Kangashkan's baby was actually a twin that never developed properly.

>>27660468

is that fake or just retarded? Cubone's mother was killed by the rockets.

>>27664719
I wonder how they going to pull of the Detective Pikachu movie correctly considering this kind of stuff

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Fainting is called Near Death in Japanese.

In short, westerners don't know shit.

>>27664719

you know, I have always wondered why we can't have an actual ranch to store pokemon and get randominzed goodies from them, assuming that they would pull it off like Dragon Quest Monsters and only show a couple of random critters from your collection every time you visit them.

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>>27666018

It's for merchandise, not the games or anime

>>27666071
No.
It doesn't matter what the japanese call it, they don't want a 3rd party using death in reference to pokemon. This a manual providing guidelines on how to treat the brand for 3rd parties, like graphic designers and product makers. That's all it is.

>>27666085
Why the fuck is Mewtwo handling that pizza like a god damn barbarian

>>27666071

"Near death" is a just a hyperbole for how tired the Pokemon is.

NPCs explain that "fainted" just means that the Pokemon is too tired to continue battling, not that it's unconscious, hence why "fainted" Pokemon can still use HM moves.

>>27666023
They don't have to follow these rules because they aren't a 3rd party producer of merchandise.

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Some more pics. Sorry for quality on my phone right now

These are all from gen 5 btw

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>>27666085
>jelly donut

>>27665821
The first 26 or so episodes of the anime didn't really have the rules down yet. They still slip up from time to time and draw generic fish, though.

>>27665143
Link to thread?

>>27666071
>Croagunk
>meanie
Who the fuck wrote this? Croagunk's one of the few poison types that's usually not portrayed as mean.

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>>27666301

>>27663673
I hope your life improves, hang in there.

>>27666438
Hey, can you post the full page that talks about the difference between legendary and mythical Pokemon? Thanks

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>>27666438

>>27666438
>Consult your Pokemon representative

God, I want that fucking job title.

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>>27666529

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>>27666595

>>27660468
>>27664588
>>27664613
>>27664646
>>27664719
>>27666438
>>27666529
Reminder that this is from a marketing guide. These rules have no bearing on the games or anime, but are given to companies that receive permission to produce a licensed Pokémon product. These rules have everything to do with branding and nothing to do with canon, even if there are correlations between the two.

>>27665087
That's Fox McCloud

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>>27666654
True, but it has interesting info none the less

>>27666704
yeah, but it seems people in this thread aren't taking it as an interesting insight into how the brand is marketed and assuming this is some canon bible that cannot be violated.

>>27666529
Have they ever said what's the difference between legendary and mythic?

Do they have criteria for what makes it mythic?

>>27666757
Well, if you just look, legendaries can be obtained in-game and mythics are the ones that can only be legitimately obtained through distributions (remember, this is for gen 5, so Deoxys is not yet catchable in ORAS).

>>27666757
"Mythic" is just the official term for Event Legendaries. That's all.

We're not entirely sure whether they still officially count Deoxys as one or not, though.

>>27666757
Only when marketing Pokemon but nothing in actual canon

>>27666753

No one is doing that at all. They're questioning it, saving the animal thing for trolling reasons, and pointing out contradictions but that's about it.

>>27666820
>No one is doing that at all
Have you ever seen one of these threads before? They're always full of retards treating it like that.

>>27666798

I assume we got Deoxys because he didn't really fit into the event schedule and because they wanted to do something special in the post-game.

I assume they still do constant Jirachi giveaways so that one didn't matter much.

>>27666820
It's not a contradiction, though, is my point. If TCPi, or Nintendo or Game Freak made it, those guidelines have no bearing and are totally irrelevant. Unless someone can post gen 5 merchandise produced by a US maker, there's no contradiction.

>>27666797
>>27666798
I thought I could remember manaphy being available, but apparently you got it through pokemon ranger?

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>>27666867
deoxys tied into Ray so it made sense to put him in the Delta Episode

>>27660514
Yeah, o Yungoos' story about being an invasive species.

>>27664901
oh cool that's my fetish

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>>27666900

>>27660694
E621 fag.

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>>27667002

>>27664719
Lt. Surge the interdimensional traveler.

Nice.

>>27667111
i wish the mega kyogre plushie was better made

its actually lower quality than the normal kyogre plushie

>>27665087
a miserable pile of secrets

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>>27667115

Prof. Oak says in Gen 4 that Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh are all part of the same country. I.E. different regions of Japan.

So Unova is just a state in Pokemon!America, and Lt. Surge could be from a different state.

>>27666071
>Croagun
kek'd at this
>Shinx
lost my shit.

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>>27660478
"Shirodesuna steals the life force from other Pokemon. Those Pokemon's grudges turn into a new Sunaba"

Fucking brutal. I need this dude on my team

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>>27666301
>Pokemon cannot be shown doing intricate human actions, such as playing sports or wearing clothing.
I'll just leave this here.

>>27666174
No idea, but it NEEDS to be made into a reaction image

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>>27668101
Mewtwo itself

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>>27668170
Just its head.

>>27668170
Thanks! It works best with the pizza in the image, though.

What kinds of situations would it work best in?

>>27668214
You're welcome.
Though I don't know where it would work, I just crop images.
>>27668183
Might? work when you like something that someone posted.

>>27664646
>riceballs OR sandwiches

Bullshit, we all know they're the same thing

>>27660478
>X eyes
H-he's just fainted, right?

One is an anime guidelines book and the other is official art concerning the games

>>27668306
He's ded jim, that's how Sunobaa breed.

So when you're masudaing the sand castle, remember each egg means killing one pokemon

>>27666174
people who eat pizza with a fork and knife are pieces of shit

>>27666082
we did. It was for wii and I thought it was pretty cool.

It was just like pkmn bank but ALL the mons were on screen and they played around

God TPCI is cancer.

I just want that slight edge that the series used to have back.

>>27663727
The joey is the male.
See: anglerfish, blanket octopus

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Who's that Pokemon?
Not the Koffing

>>27666627
>Typhlosion

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>>27668785
Dunno. Don't care.

Would like to see a Pokegirl wearing that gas-mask though

>>27668785
Gastly.

>>27664588
>Pokemon can not give orders to other pokemon

And yet the concept of pokemon having underlings was present as far back as the second gen (Honchkrow comes to mind) or maybe even the first gen.

>>27665023
but they are data

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>>27660468

>>27668433
I eat pizza with a fork and knife, mainly because I also order food that requires utensils

the only thing wrong is that he's using a plate, but he's not sharing the pizza with anyone.

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>>27666071
>The only one they got right was Piplup

>>27665741
See, that was my first thought too. It's weird, right? Why would they do that?

>>27666071
I took that photo in 2010 and posted it to my sad little livejournal. I had no idea the pic had traveled.

>>27668989

I was gonna point that out. How do you fuck up an official style guide?

I actually appreciate the darker tones the game has taken the past few gens. I really liked the themes of the 5th gen's story, and it was interesting to see literal-genocide in 6th gen. I'm curious what they'll come up with in SM, and if it'll continue to use relatively serious themes.

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>>27666085
That's not a fucking donut THATS TOFU
>4Kidz flashbacks ensue

>>27668785
>Concentration camps in a nutshell

>>27672224
>that's tofu
how are you even more retarded than late 1990s 4Kids.

>>27666085
>There's paint on the kana in
>Jelly Doughnut was edited

>>27662722
Arceus impregnated Lugia. Like the bible says duh.

>>27671134
bbbbbut anon, honchkrow isn't 2nd gen you cuck

>>27664719
>no real animals in the pokemon world
What about the Indian Elephants?

>>27664722
>>27664819
You are trying to explain business to a middle schooler. Appreciate your efforts- but the kid doesn't understand that Pokémon franchise is a business, not a lifestyle/art.

>>27666301
>>27666438
>>27666529
>>27666595
>>27666627
>>27666704
>>27666900
Rotate in windows before posting, please

>>27660468
The anime is a cartoon. The games are the true anime.

There, I fixed the canon.

>>27662722
By breeding with another Lugia.

>>27668424
Well for each egg i hatch there is a hundred dead eevees.

>>27663339
>pikachu with the ketchup bottle
Funny how this picture remembers the anime better than the anime does.

>>27663339

Pokemon world confirmed vegan?

>>27663636

>>27674274
wtf i hate pokemon now

>>27660468
Is that a Lugia and a baby Lugia?

>>27665897
That originated from Red and Blue which predates the establishment of brand rules.

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>>27660481

>>27666627
TYPHLOSION

>>27660468
>Pokemon Never Die
The following people would like to talk to you.

>Marowak
>Alder's Pokemon
>Groudon
>Latios
>Lucario

>>27660468
games and anime are not the same, pokemon do die in the games.
the animes are for babies

>>27664794
The guide says that the anime can and does avoid these limitations.

>>27665741
It`s understandable, japs like insisting on a franchise`s terminology. If you`re gonna use "monster" then you might as well add "pocket" which is what differentiates pokémon from other monsters.

>"Well, this is it. We're all gonna die."

- Archie, Pokemon Omega Ruby Version

>>27674313
to be fair relationships with pokemon are really ingrained in the society/world, I'm not surprised

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>>27666627
>typhlosion

>>27666085
Wait a second scizor doesnt have a mouth, how would it eat that hot dog?

This is literally the most interesting thread in /vp/ history. Good job OP, where did you get this?

>>27676478
OP got them from the one who was dumping the sideways pics

>>27672376
Why though?

>>27668170
At least he's not using a fork and knife. Fuck those people.

>>27676577
People use a fork and knife to eat pizza with?
Why? It is literally made for you to hold.

>>27666627
How do they expect other companies to get the names and likenesses right if they can't even remember Cyndaquils name?

>>27672238
Do poke mon have zyklon b?

>>27666927
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the fucking trump pokemon is a dirty immigrant

>>27676642
Because there are some degenerates out there.

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>As such,Pokemon cannot give orders to other Pokemon or command one another during battles.

LOL.

>>27677179
Two situations

1) Sun and Moon is when the series breaks a lot of traditions. The decree is to make sure whatever "new" or "different" thing is gonna be done OR set as a standard, a mainline game has to do it first.

or

2) The boss Gumshoos does NOT issue commands. He summons his wild buddies and he attacks alongside them.

>>27676478
From one of the other 20 or so iterations of this thread, you retarded newfag

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>>27664646
>They eat plants when there are plant pokemon
>there are obviously carnivorous Pokemon, even ignoring Pokedex entries

It's like they don't understand the food chain is a necessity.

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>>27668785

>>27664588
Again, how does the fucking masterball being a cluster or not relate to anything POKEMON?

>>27677728
It's like you don't understand what this guide is for.

>>27674846
>Groudon
Are you talking about the abomination Groudon from the Jirachi movie? Or was there a legitimate Groudon death?
>Latios
Technically the Soul Dew IS Latios.

>>27677810
Are you retarded? It just says "don't draw a pile of master balls because those things are supposed to be rare as fuck".

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>>27660468
>>27660478

>>27677890
What's wrong with Pikachu eating a hotdog with ketchup on products?

>>27678061
They just place blanket bans on broad shit because that's easier than detailed lists of what is and isn't appropriate.

>>27668183
now it just looks like cropped lewd

I remember there being a lot more pages, anyone saved the rest?

>>27665939
Who cares? It not even good

>>27677892
>Are you talking about the abomination Groudon from the Jirachi movie?
This