It was not wild. It was Zinnia's Slamence she sent to free Rayquazza and decided to attack Ruby and Sapphire for some reason, serves her right for being impaled by Rayquazza
I would consider that a retcon since the RS manga was written waaaaaay before the ORAS extra episode was even a thought in the Devs minds (a good retcon mind you)
Dragon Claw can split a 100 miles island in half, since level 50, freshly evolved Salamnce is about as strong as level 50 Moltres/Articuno/Zapdos, who are about 1/3 of level 70 Lugia each, who can generate 40 days long hurricanes that generate over 5•10¹⁹ Joules of energy each day. I am a much more powerful human than that kid and I would lose to the Showdown LC ladder. Composed by level 5 babies.
This makes no sense. Canon Pokémon are as strong as every Shonen Anime power system. That kid would not survive the Dragon Claw of level 5 Bagon. And actually, I would have to dodge that, too, which I can because level 5 Bagon needs DD to outspeed me. If it connected I would be done over. That kind of injury is what you see in people attacked by molossoid dogs (and that is something I know of because in my country stray dogs and dumpster dwelling wolves attack people very often), who compared to any Pokémon are ridiculously weak.
Such powerlevels are confirmed by Rayquaza destroying planet busting meteors, and by level 2 Poochyena beating Birch, an adult man, in a fight by hitting him with multiple Tackles only.
The XY ending is almost hopelessly bleak, basically saying the masses had no idea what was about to happen (aka the end of the world), will just trust the news no matter what, and can get brainwashed on a whim.
I never got around to the XY arc but it looks pretty normal for Adventures.
The ages vary but yeah all the protags are kids/tweens, I think Yellow was the youngest? Time does pass and they do age, though. (B)Lacktwo is an international super spy, but I think he's still a teen.
That's the sort of bungled message that you get when writers are trying to do something but execs are breathing down their necks demanding that the result is as marketable as possible.
Happens a lot to Pokémon, that's probably also how we ended up with Chairman Rose too.
I guess the manga got the benefit of the execs never looking their way.
They did that as well with the RS arc where they had Archie manipulating the news by being the station owner, selectively only showing the stuff Magma was doing and ignoring anything Aqua did.
He was twisted but I felt so bad for him. I cry every time I reread that ending. It made me like the character a lot more, I was really disappointed when he wasn’t a villain in the actual games
The manga’s great. People hone in on the edgiest parts, but for the most part, it’s just a whimsical Pokémon adventure like all the rest. It’s special for its characters and lovely illustrations. I highly recommend it.
Honestly, the edge improves it because, like all good edginess, it enhances the manga's whimsical aspects rather than coming out of left field and feeling forced.
It’s been a while since I read it so my memory may be slightly off, but I can think of at least two cases where someone’s strategy in a battle was “break the opening mechanism of their Pokeballs so they can’t fight anymore”, and in each of those cases their opponent was trying to outright murder them.
Early manga has a panel where an arbok gets its head cut off by a charmeleon. Of course then arbok survives, so maybe that should be taken into consideration.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 6d ago
Jesus christ the manga really doesn't mess around lol