Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team | |
Mudkip | |
ポケモン不思議のダンジョンギンジの救助隊 (Pokémon Fushigi no Danjon Ginji no Kyūjotai) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Makoto Mizobuchi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
English magazine | |
Demographic | Children, Shōnen |
Original run | December 2005 – October 2006 |
Volumes | 1 |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team (ポケモン不思議のダンジョンギンジの救助隊, Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon: Ginji no Kyūjotai) is a 6-part manga based on the video games Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team that first appeared in Japan's CoroCoro Comic in the fall of 2005. Its English language translation was released in Nintendo Power from the September 2006 issue to the February 2007 issue, presented in the same right-to-left format. After the manga's last volume, Viz Media released the entire English translation of the serial in one book.
Story
The comic tells the adventures of a young, impatient, human boy named Ginji, who transforms into a
As they set off to meet Xatu, they are joined by the Pokémon
When the team returns to the village, Gengar tells the other Pokémon that Ginji is the cause of the many natural disasters that have been occurring. Gengar claims that years ago, a human touched a tail of Ninetales just for fun. Normally, this would have resulted in a thousand-year curse, however before the human could be cursed, his friend Gardevoir came forward and took the curse instead. Ninetales asked the human if he would save Gardevoir, however the human chose to run away. Ninetales made the prophecy that in one thousand years the reincarnated form of the human would be transformed into a Pokémon and destroy the world.
To find out if he really is that human, Ginji sets out, along with Mudkip. Their journey is interrupted by
The team continues through the Frosty Forest, where they meet
Meanwhile, Gengar uses a Gravelerock to break open the earth and awaken
Differences from source material
Despite being based on the Blue and Red Rescue Team video games, there are noticeable differences between the manga and the video games.
- Gengar is not part of any rescue team. In fact, Team Meanies does not exist in the manga; neither does Ekans. He also wants to destroy the Pokémon world for making him a Pokémon as a result of "The Curse of Ninetales".
- Ginji does not remain a Pokémon after he saves the Pokémon world, unlike the protagonist (the player) of the video games.
- Ginji remembers what it was like when he was a human, also unlike the games' protagonist.
- In the games, the protagonist is just simply awakened by his/her partner. In the manga, Ginji is awakened by a small earthquake and Mudkip's cry for help.
- Ginji seems to have already become an experienced Pokémon right from the beginning; the video games' protagonist isn't anywhere near experienced upon starting his/her life as a Pokémon.
- In the games, the strange frequency of Rayquaza. In the manga, the disasters are caused by the awakening of Groudon, who is defeated by the manga's characters.
- In the games, Gengar rescues Gardevoir and makes amends for his cold behavior. In the manga, he is possibly killed while battling Groudon.[1]
- As a result of the change in the cause of the natural disasters, the final journey to Rayquaza is excised. The battle with Groudon is made the climax instead.
Reception
On Manga-news.com, the staff gave it a rating of 13 out of 20.[2]
References
- OCLC 85847774.
- ^ "Pokémon Donjon Mystère - Les Secouristes de Ginji". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved October 11, 2014.
External links
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia