Magical Pokemon Journey - English version of manga lost
Dec 3, 2021 1:00:43 GMT
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Post by pichuscute on Dec 3, 2021 1:00:43 GMT
Some information on this manga: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Magical_Pok%C3%A9mon_Journey
This was a shoujo manga from back during Gen 1's era that I always thought was really unique and cute. Been trying to find it again to actually read through most of it and I've not been able to track it down anywhere. It had gotten US releases via Viz for volumes 1-7 and then later got English releases in Singapore for volumes 8-10. It was also pretty well-known at the time, to my knowledge, and was easily found in public libraries in the US. Despite that, it seems to be mostly gone now.
The Japanese raws are available here, but this doesn't help find the English versions that are missing: jb2448.info/index.php?/category/1859
It seems it had been on the website Kissmanga at one point according to reddit, but as that site went down, I've seen claims that the manga was lost. I don't know if this is true or not, though. I've not located the full manga on that site through archive.org or anywhere else online. Any help to find more of this manga would be greatly appreciated. Very surprised a manga like this from a franchise as big as Pokemon seems to have gone under the radar to such a degree. If we can remedy that, that would be fantastic.
EDIT 2024: I've come to realize my original post had some incorrect information on it and was outdated about which manga were actually found. Sorry it took me such a long time to revisit this and update it. The following is a more detailed acount of what is currently preserved and what is still missing.
Volume 1 - Ch. 1-6, Bonus 1-3: Preserved Here
Volume 2 -Ch. 7-8: Preserved Here
-Ch. 9-10: Preserved Here
- Ch. 11-12, Bonus 4-5: *MISSING*
Volume 3 -Ch. 13-14: Preserved Here
- Ch. 15-16: *MISSING*
-Ch. 17-18: Preserved Here
- Bonus 6-7: *MISSING*
Volume 4 - Ch. 19-24: *MISSING*
-Bonus 8-9: Preserved Here
- A 1-2: *MISSING* (Tbh, not sure what these are, so someone might want to double-check me)
Volume 5 - Ch. 25-30, Bonus 10-12: Preserved Here
Volume 6 - Ch. 31-36: *MISSING*
- Bonus 13-14: *MISSING*
-Bonus 15: Preserved Here
Volume 7 - Ch. 37-43, Bonus 16-17: Preserved Here (partially - photos used, scans still needed)
Volume 8 -Ch. 44-50: Preserved Here
- Ch. 51-52: *MISSING*
Volume 9 - Ch. 53-61: *MISSING*
Volume 10 - Ch. 62-69, Bonus 18-20: *MISSING*
Worth noting that all the chapters found here so far are also found on mangadex. I have just used alternative links in the hopes of keeping as many sources in this post as I can. Hope we can get this more found in the future, because there's still a lot of these books yet to be preserved.
This was a shoujo manga from back during Gen 1's era that I always thought was really unique and cute. Been trying to find it again to actually read through most of it and I've not been able to track it down anywhere. It had gotten US releases via Viz for volumes 1-7 and then later got English releases in Singapore for volumes 8-10. It was also pretty well-known at the time, to my knowledge, and was easily found in public libraries in the US. Despite that, it seems to be mostly gone now.
The Japanese raws are available here, but this doesn't help find the English versions that are missing: jb2448.info/index.php?/category/1859
It seems it had been on the website Kissmanga at one point according to reddit, but as that site went down, I've seen claims that the manga was lost. I don't know if this is true or not, though. I've not located the full manga on that site through archive.org or anywhere else online. Any help to find more of this manga would be greatly appreciated. Very surprised a manga like this from a franchise as big as Pokemon seems to have gone under the radar to such a degree. If we can remedy that, that would be fantastic.
EDIT 2024: I've come to realize my original post had some incorrect information on it and was outdated about which manga were actually found. Sorry it took me such a long time to revisit this and update it. The following is a more detailed acount of what is currently preserved and what is still missing.
Volume 2 -
-
- Ch. 11-12, Bonus 4-5: *MISSING*
Volume 3 -
- Ch. 15-16: *MISSING*
-
- Bonus 6-7: *MISSING*
Volume 4 - Ch. 19-24: *MISSING*
-
- A 1-2: *MISSING* (Tbh, not sure what these are, so someone might want to double-check me)
Volume 6 - Ch. 31-36: *MISSING*
- Bonus 13-14: *MISSING*
-
Volume 7 - Ch. 37-43, Bonus 16-17: Preserved Here (partially - photos used, scans still needed)
Volume 8 -
- Ch. 51-52: *MISSING*
Volume 9 - Ch. 53-61: *MISSING*
Volume 10 - Ch. 62-69, Bonus 18-20: *MISSING*
Worth noting that all the chapters found here so far are also found on mangadex. I have just used alternative links in the hopes of keeping as many sources in this post as I can. Hope we can get this more found in the future, because there's still a lot of these books yet to be preserved.
