| http://myanimelist.net/manga/928/Pok%C3%A9mon_Special Although the official title remains Pocket Monsters Special for the entire run of the series until X & Y, they are officially divided by the creators themselves, similar to how JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is. Which is a series that was published in the same manner without breaks in chapter or volume counts until much later in the series, but when republished individual parts were retitled. Under the ポケSPの楽しみ方 section of the official website, it displays the separation of the parts. Chapter and volume counts are shown in detail here. For example it would be changed to: Pokemon Special Chapter 1: Aka Midori Ao-hen (ケットモンスターSPECIAL 第1章 赤・緑・青編) 3 volumes, 40 chapters Pokemon Special Chapter 2: Yellow-hen (ケットモンスターSPECIAL 第2章 イエロー編) 4 volumes, 50 chapters etc. Dividing them is much more logical, as there have been times that publication of different parts have interlapped with one another, making it so the dates are more accurate. |
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| Seconding this. Also while we're at this can we split Red and Green from Origins from the Red and Green from Special? Despite both duos being based in the game dudes they're different people, and seeing these two get Origins pics along everyone else having Special artwork looks weird. It's not like the database has like ten different Hitlers and other similar cases. |
| I second this. Especially since the series has sometimes different parts published at the same time. It would also facilitate users life: most have only read some periods. (+ some countries only edited a few ones separately) |
| I second this as well. Would be much more convenient to have it like that, for reasons the OP stated. |
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Goobatron said: I don't see the point of splitting a series up into parts when it's clearly meant as one continuous series with 1 volume count. at least not until gen 6 where i guess things change quite a bit. The publications of the different parts are not always continuous. And only some parts are meant as sequels to others (like the "Yellow" part who is a direct sequel of the "Red, Blue, Green" part) The Jojo's argument above makes also sense, I presume. |
| so, is this at least being considerated by the admins? the series is clearly meant to be splitted. |
Goobatron said: JoltJolteon said: the series is clearly meant to be splitted. What's so clear about it? I can't find any source that considers it separate series. It shows the divisions with their titles on the corocoro official website. At the very least there should be less inconsistencies in the DB, so no loopholes like JoJo not being done in the same way. |
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| yes please. |
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| Shogakukan Asia's official english release actually had a similar idea where they had an omnibus release for the RS arc by itself. As in, it's titled as Pokemon Adventures: Ruby & Sapphire vol 1 instead of continuing the number from the previous arc's volumes. I thought that was pretty neat so I guess it'll be nice to see that here as well. Speaking of which, the Japanese release of ORAS is also on its own like XY. And since XY gets its own entry, so should ORAS. |
NilviusSep 21, 2016 11:02 PM
| Maybe someone should try to submit separate entries. Then a regulator will notice this. @juandmarco The submission formularies are well hidden. You will find their URLs here: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=515949&show=0#msg18236805 |
Rei_IIIMar 8, 2017 2:10 AM
| I second this. |
| I second this! |
| “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” ― Saint Augustine |
| Don't worry, the clone shall be rejected. ORAS is only a case of forgetfulness or lack of time of the database moderators You could have waited for the approval then edit the picture choice. Exceptionally, I post my answer below yours at your request. But I usually don't do that. If a discussion came to be, it would prevent a thread to have a long series of two people only writing between them and to expand over several pages. It also prevents me to multiply my messages number over nothing. |
| I don't understand why your Yellow page isn't already approved. I tried out a submission this week, and it was accepted in less than five days. @juandmarco You can check easily if it is approved by trying to add it to your own list. An error message will then appear. |
Rei_IIIMar 17, 2017 9:15 AM
| Does anyone know if this request has even been considered? While I agree this manga has a similar structure like Jojo, the volumes of each arc could get jumbled up as the author ends and begins a new arc in the same volume of the manga. Aside from this request, the character database needs a serious update with the Sun and Moon arc. I want to add your boy Guzma to my favorites ASAP and it doesn't look like the anime hasn't reached that part of story yet. |
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John_2001 said: While I agree this manga has a similar structure like Jojo, the volumes of each arc could get jumbled up as the author ends and begins a new arc in the same volume of the manga. That's the same for JoJo's. Every part from (I think) 1 to 5 ends in the same volume as the next one begins (for example, Diamond is Unbreakable ends and Vento Aureo begins at vol 47), so it shouldn't be a problem. |
Goobatron said: How does that make it not a problem? If it is not a problem in case of Jojo, it shouldn't be a problem in this case either. If it is a problem in case of Jojo, why has it been divided into parts anyway? I'd say the problem here is not as much "How should this manga be divided?" but "Why should two manga franchises be treated differently if they are in a very similar situation?". |
Goobatron said: Jojo getting special treatment doesn't mean everything else should. It still makes more sense to count it as 1 manga since that's what japan does. Then Jojo shouldn't get any special treatment either. It's not even mentioned as exception in guidelines like Hellsing once was in Anime DB guidelines. If Jojo wouldn't be divided there would be no discussion. But if we make a special case it's only natural to expect all similar cases to be treated the same. And here we have the exact same problem. === But aside from that... While we can argue whether or not RGB-B2W2 should be separate entries, XY, ORAS and SM are being released simultaneously and numbered from 1 in Japan and outside of it. On top of that XY is in that case a finished series. I think everyone can agree that these should be separate entries. XY is added and approved already. ORAS seems to be submitted and not yet approved. SM was submitted by juandmarco and is waiting for approval since almost a year and we have no idea whether mods are discussing it or just forgot or had no time to approve it. It would be cool if some DB mod replied. Is there any way of getting them here? |
| Thanks for waiting patiently for a response from the moderators. I'm sorry it took so long for this reply. Let me start off by saying: Wow, is this entry ever messy. So this is what seems to have happened:
So this is a completely different case than JoJo. JoJo was broken up into separate parts with clearly distinct logos following Part 5, and then Parts 1-5 were republished with renumbered volumes beginning at "Volume 1" for each part. Here, the author fully intends to includes Chapter 12 & 13 back into the regular series, in chronological volume order. The mini-volumes will be published under the regular series logo as soon as Chapter 11 finishes. For this reason, it doesn't make sense to break up the arcs into separate entries; the author clearly intends for them to remain as one series. The XY entry will also be removed from our database, as it was approved mistakenly. You can see the author's explanation here: http://corocoro.tv/pokesp/story/0904/kokuchi.html Hopefully this entry will be fixed and back to publishing Chapter 14 as soon as possible. |
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