

Thank you for the side-by-side comparison and translation of the two different versions I’ve been looking for just this thing for some time. So this man was probably the same backpacker we see transforming into a Zoroak in Black/White 2 in the Lostlorn Forest. Just like Sinnoh myths make people arrived to different conclusions.Īlso I made a mistake: it wasn’t a hiker but a backpacker. I think the fact they let some part of the game vague is deliberate.
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Neither that N is a full human, a pokemon or even a hybrid. So why he said such thing? He probably didn’t precise that for nothing. Some people think Ghetsis could still be his real father – probably because they look like each other.īut the N being “born from Pokemon” thing is a quote from by Masuda himself. Some people even think that N could be a Zorua or Zoroak. Nobody have clue concerning who could be his real parents and what really happened to them. It’s hard to know what really happened to N before Ghetsis found him. “WTF?! If (even in different games and anime) human can actually speak pokemon language and if some pokemon can speak human language… Why anybody tries to communicate properly in this fuck**g world? Learn human language! Learn pokemon language!” Which one? I don’t even really know except human use pokeball to capture pokemon. One thing is clearly: there is a difference between a human being and a pokemon. If a Gurdurr can be in love with Viridium and everybody think it’s normal (Gate of Infinite), in what it would be strange that a human and pokemon in love married each other? So why (considering this world and not ours) why not marring each other? So unless physically, we aren’t that different. They have school, make studies, work, etc. In Mystery Dungeon we see that pokemon have a great culture. And there is N…Īccording to Masuda, N who speaks pokemon language could be born from Pokemon (two pokemon? A human –even Ghetsis?- and a pokemon? Or just a rumor?). Even Ash generally understands what his pokemon are saying.

In anime, as in the game they are some example of pokemon who speaks human language: Meowth speaks fluently English. Even if it could be just physically (and here implied Darwinist evolution) or it could also represent a point of view which have change- since some people seeing pokemon as inferiors. And in Mystery Dungeon Pokemon have also village anyway.Īfter it’s hard to know the meaning of “being the same”. Personality I don’t see it as Darwinist evolution.īecause if there are village, there are civilization anyway. In the forest, the Pokémon shed its hide to sleep as a human.Īwakened, the human dons the Pokémon hide to roam villages.” The first tale is about eating pokemon – which is confirmed in X&Y. If I remember well in Black and White, there is a hiker who said he’s in love with the girl who live in the van. The story of a the emperor who fall in love with a beautiful woman who was in really… a fox ! I think the « kitsune » story is Tamamo no Mae’s. I’m not nearly as knowledgeable about Pokemon as a lot of other people, so I can’t really speculate on this much – but if you have any thoughts or extra insight though, please let me know in the comments!Īlso, if there are any specific lines in other games you’d like me to take a look at sometime, let me know in the comments too or contact me! I suppose that’s possible, but since evolution is such a major aspect of the Pokemon franchise I’m not sure about that part so much. Some fans think this may have been changed so as not to conflict with conservative views in America concerning marriage and human evolution and all that. The last line of the translation also sort of deflects the idea that it was a normal occurence because they used to be the same. So there was definitely a localization change there – the English version takes out the idea that Pokemon and humans used to marry each other. It was a time when there existed no differences to distinguish the two. This was a normal thing because long ago people and Pokémon were the same. There once were humans and Pokémon that ate together at the same table. There once were people who married Pokémon. There once were Pokémon that became very close to humans. There once were Pokémon that married people. Well, here’s a look at the text side-by-side! Japanese Text So the question I was asked was: Is that what the original Japanese version says? People say it was changed in the English localization… was it? A reader by the name of Ed brought up an interesting topic recently – there are some old folk tales you can read about in the Canalave Library in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl & Platinum, and one touches briefly on humans and the origin of Pokemon:
