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- ↓ 18.00
- ꩜ 21.24
- ↑ 47.99
Each player shuffles his or her hand into his or her deck. Then, each player counts his or her Prize cards left and draws up to that many cards. (You draw your cards first.)
· Supporter rule: You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card.
illus. Ken Sugimori
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Holky
N :D
Otaku
TPC seems to like gender bending with its not-quite-reprints. Other examples are how Bianca is a renamed Professor Birch, Professor Oak’s Research is functionally identically to Shauna, and they didn’t even wait long before releasing Professor Juniper under a new name as Professor Sycamore (and Juniper is basically the original Professor Oak as a Supporter). @_@
Blob Takeshi
So what you’re saying is that 3/4 men copied women?
DaneeBound
The titular Rocket’s Admin seen here served as a loose inspiration for the Character Sird from the Pokémon Adventures manga.
Ambassador
For some reason, I remember the old conventional wisdom being the reverse, but for my lack of ability to figure out when Pokémon Special chapter 267 was first published, it’s easy to say and harder to prove. Nonetheless, with the precedent set by Imposter Professor Oak and other incidentals in both these media, I feel like in either case you can’t dismiss the idea that both could actually be inspired from a rejected character concept art or otherwise, vs. a case of the manga being derivative of the TCG or vice versa.
DaneeBound
We know this, because the illustrator of the manga—Satoshi Yamamoto—has said so himself on the manga’s official blog back in 2007:
Quote: 「サキは、ポケモンカードゲームのロケット団幹部(かんぶ)がベースですが、オウカとチャクラは、まったくのオリジナルキャラ。」
Translated: “[Sird] is based on the [Rocket’s Admin.] from the Pokémon card game, but [Orm] and [Carr] are completely original characters.”
Ambassador
this mogs
eureka
Why is it that in every print of this card there’s a period at the end of Rocket’s Admin? Is this an error?
OfficeMan
If I had to guess, it’s because admin is an abbreviation (could be for administrator) and it’s grammatically correct to put a period at the end of an abbreviation
Bill
It’s short for administration
Twylis
Admin is short for administrator, so they’re likely just signifying that it’s an abbreviation (similar to Prof. Oak’s Research)
However, the main series foregoes the period, likely because despite being an abbreviation, “admin” is also commonly used as a complete word in practice. Not sure why the TCG went a different route.
eureka
Idk guys I feel like admin might be short for administrator, not too sure.
All jokes aside, thanks for the info. I questioned this in the first place bc of the games using admin without the period like you said.