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| Welcome to Dogasu's Backpack, a fansite for the Japanese franchise Pocket Monsters! For 24 years this website has been your guide for the Japanese version of Pokémon and contains content you can't find anywhere else. Stuff like detailed comparisons between the Japanese version and the English version of the animated series, interview translations, information on Japan-only manga, a lyrics database, a home video guide, and much more! So whether you're a seasoned veteran or a newbie just getting into Pocket Monsters this site has something for every fan to enjoy. | ||
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Episode Comparison: "Pokémon Food Fight!"
January 12th, 2025
Dogasu @ 10:06 JST -- One of my goals for 2025 is to finally, finally finish up the rest of the episode comparisons for the Orange Islands arc (so, ten episodes in twelve months) and so here's the first step toward that -- the comparison for "Pokémon Food Fight!" is now up on the site!
The episode has an unusually high number of rewrites as well as the first in a new series of digital paint edits and so there's actually quite a lot to talk about in this deceptively low-key episode.
As always, let me know what you think via the links below!
Look Back - Predictions 2024
January 5th, 2024
Dogasu @ 22:35 JST -- Every year, as a sort of fun little game, I make a list of predictions of what I think will happen in the World of Pokémon during the next twelve months and then post them on this website. Part of that game is to then check back in a year later to see how many of those predictions came true. And so, let's take a look at the stuff I thought would happen in 2024 in my 2024 Predictions Check-In!
How many of these did I guess right? And how many of them did I completely bomb? Let's find out together!
Manga Guide: December 2024 Updates
December 31st, 2024
Dogasu @ 12:53 JST -- I've been a bit under the weather lately so these are coming out later than I had wanted, but here are the Manga Guide updates for this month!
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Pocket Monsters Special, aka "Pokémon Adventures" in the West. In this month's chapter Violet goes up against Meloco and her super speedy Starmobile. Can his Achigator find a way to defeat her?
Pokémon Card Game Yarouze~!, the "Pokémon tries its hand at a Yu-Gi-Oh! type manga" series. In this month's chapter Retto faces off against a player using the recently released High Class Pack: Terestal Fest ex set. Can Retto's Eevee ex evolutions stand up to his opponent's barrage of Terastal Pokémon?
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Pokémon 4-Koma Gakuen, one of the current series of Pokémon related comic strips. In this month's collection the Pokémon students stage a talent show.
Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters, the longest running Pocket Monsters manga in existence. In this month's entry Pippi appears to be an uncharacteristically generous tipper?
Rumor Guide: "Ash's starter was originally going to be Clefairy, not Pikachu"
December 7th, 2024
Dogasu @ 00:39 JST -- There's this idea that's been floating around that in the Pocket Monsters animated series, Satoshi's starter Pokémon was going to be Pippi, not Pikachu. It's one of those things people just kind of accept without really thinking too much about, but is there any truth to this? A topic like this is perfect for this site's Rumor Guide and so for today's update I've got a new entry "Ash's starter was originally going to be Clefairy, not Pikachu."
I pull in research from all over the place -- books, magazine articles, interviews, etc. -- a lot of which has never been published in English before and so I know you'll learn something new here. It's actually probably one of the most well researched pages in the Rumor Guide thus far, so be sure to check it out!
Manga Guide: Kousaku Anakubuo's Pocket Monsters, Pokémon 4-Koma Daihyakka
December 2nd, 2024
Dogasu @ 09:39 JST -- I've got two more manga chapter summaries to wrap up this site's coverage of all the Pocket Monsters related manga that came out in November 2024.
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Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters is back after an unannounced two month hiatus with a new two page chapter. Can Pippi get in shape with its exercise waist trainer belt?
Pokémon 4-Koma Daihyakka, that other collection of four panel gag comics, had its newest chapter printed in the issue of Pokémon Fan that went on sale last Friday. In this issue's chapter the Pokémon all play a game of dodgeball with mixed results.
The next chapter of Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters is due to come out December 29th while the next chapter of Pokémon 4-Koma Daihyakka is scheduled to come out in the next issue of Pokémon Fan when that goes on sale February 28th, 2025.
Manga Guide: CoroCoro Ichiban! January 2025 Issue
November 26th, 2024
Dogasu @ 23:39 JST -- A new issue of CoroCoro Ichiban! came out last week and so with it comes four new manga chapters to talk about!
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Pocket Monsters Special, aka "Pokémon Adventures" in the West. In this month's chapter, Scarlet and Peper decide to team up to find the next Secret Spice so they can restore Miraidon's powers. Meanwhile Violet, Nemo, and Nelke all face off against Team Schedar!
Pokémon Card Game Yarouze~!, the "Pokémon tries its hand at a Yu-Gi-Oh! type manga" series. In this month's chapter, Retto faces off against a player using the recently released Super Electric Breaker expansion pack. Can Retto's Scovillain ex find a way to get past Pikachu ex's "Resolute Heart" Ability and Zebraika's "Top Speed" attack?
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Pokémon 4-Koma Gakuen, one of the current series of Pokémon related comic strips. In this month's collection the Pokémon students run a marathon race.
Pokémon Frienda Oshiete! Friender-Man, the bi-monthly comic based on the current Pokémon arcade game Pokémon Frienda. In this month's chapter, Renda learns how to use the Pokémon Support Ticket "Tetsunokoube" that came with this month's issue of CoroCoro Ichiban!
Detailed summaries of all four of these manga chapters can be found via the links above.
Translation: Interview with Manga Creator Mr. Kousaku Anakubo
November 23rd, 2024
Dogasu @ 23:47 JST -- Back in 2017 an interview was conducted with Mr. Kousaku Anakubo, the manga creator whose Pocket Monsters series has been running since 1996. In the interview Mr. Anakubo discusses how he was chosen to work on the series, what materials he had to work when he first started out, how he chose Pippi as the mascot of the series, and more! And so for today's update I've translated that interview into English for the Features section of the site.
The short-ish interview offers a great deal of insight into how his Mr. Anakubo's series ended up straying so far from the video game series on which it's based and so I definitely recommend checking it out!
In other Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters news, the next chapter's release date has finally been revealed after nearly two months of unannounced radio silence. The newest chapter is set to come out tomorrow, November 24th, and so once it's made available I'll be sure to add a summary of it to the series' story synopsis page.
Episode Comparison: Pokémon The First Movie "Mewtwo Strikes Back" & "The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin"
November 12th, 2024
Dogasu @ 23:23 JST -- Twenty-five years ago a little film by the name of Pokémon The First "Mewtwo Strikes Back" hit theaters in the U.S. Now I've already covered that film so, so, so many times on this website, but since today is one of the bigger anniversaries for the film I decided to brush off the comparison I redid back in *checks notes* 2013 and basically redo it from the ground up.
With the new comparison, I've separated out "The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin" from the rest of "Mewtwo Strikes Back" to hopefully make things flow a bit better.
In doing this, I've brought this comparison up to the standards set by the more modern write-ups I've done for the site. It turns out I missed a LOT of the dialogue edits the last time around but that should all be fixed now. This redone comparison is about as complete as it can possibly get; I don't see myself ever having to revisit the English dub of this movie ever again.
I didn't do "Pikachu's Vacation" because, well, I ran out of time.
Anyway, the "Mewtwo Strikes Back" comparison is very, very long and so if you need a much shorter version I've also compiled a very general list of changes here.
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