Rocket’s Admin. · Team Rocket Returns (TR) #86

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   Holky

   (8 years ago)

   N :D

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     OtakuHolky

     (8 years ago)

     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). @_@

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       Blob TakeshiOtaku

       (7 years ago)

       So what you’re saying is that 3/4 men copied women?

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   DaneeBound

   (1 year ago)

   The titular Rocket’s Admin seen here served as a loose inspiration for the Character Sird from the Pokémon Adventures manga.

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     AmbassadorDaneeBound

     (1 year ago)

     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.

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   DaneeBound

   (1 year ago)

   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.”

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     AmbassadorDaneeBound

     (1 year ago)

     this mogs

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