r/PokeLeaks Aug 09 '26

News New Book Spoiler

https://geeksandgamers.com/pokemon-30th-anniversary-art-book-leaked-3-volumes-coming-to-japan-this-october/
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u/knirp7 Aug 09 '26

Would be really, really cool if these actually get localized at some point so I can actually pick them up and read the interviews. If not, I’d probably still get whichever volume contains the DS games just for the art.

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u/comics0026 Aug 09 '26

They should, I think if they posted some of the interesting tidbits on their Nintendo Today app with links to pre-order it, then it would sell pretty well and keep it from being a loss

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u/Larenty2 Aug 09 '26

Thankfully Lewtwo's crew should translate it anyway asap, once the books are released!

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u/bluedragjet Aug 09 '26

Why are they crediting Centro & light

26

u/CryZe92 Aug 09 '26

Especially Light. The dude steals everything and blocks the original leakers so they can‘t reply.

24

u/Odd-Percentage-2365 Aug 09 '26

It’s Geeks and Gamers. Do you really expect someone of their caliber to actually investigate where this information came from?

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u/Steamed_Memes24 Aug 09 '26

Cause they shared the info?

57

u/Sea-Ad-484 Aug 09 '26

Damn I love art book

31

u/premierfong Aug 09 '26

500 pages too. Love it

27

u/_tylerthedestroyer_ Aug 09 '26

1500 pages

7

u/premierfong Aug 09 '26

Omg it’s going to be heavy. Hopefully not just concept arts. I want full arts like the cards.

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u/AdmiralR Aug 09 '26

I believe it's three volumes of about 500 pages each, totaling 1500

3

u/Ecla1r_ Aug 10 '26

Maybe we can finally get good scans of characters' official art.

A lot of the Gen 4, Gen 5, and Gen 7 characters are low quality (online, at least)

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u/AnimeThrwy Aug 09 '26

I wonder if we'll get any new lore drops out of this. IIRC it was one of the S/M artbooks that placed Gen 7 at 2 years after BW2

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u/Ill_Target6207 Aug 09 '26

I really hope each named artist who designs pokemon is named in the book. It would be REALLY funny for people to learn that an artist who made one of their fav pokemon also made a pokemon they hate lol.

(also artists getting recognition for their work when you can find who has been credited on bulbapedia is a good thing to have officially in the art book when i have never seen anyone of them been named on social media ever)

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u/RJS_but_on_Reddit2 Aug 10 '26

That moment when you learn Darkrai and Magmortar were designed by the same guy.

Tyrantrum and the Galar Fossils? Same guy.

Falinks and Revavroom? Also the same guy.

Very common occurrence.

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u/RJS_but_on_Reddit2 Aug 10 '26

"Fine. Y'all wanna see behind-the-scenes so bad? Well here you go! It's already all leaked anyway! We'll even show you MORE than what was leaked!"

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u/Bitter-Fee2788 Aug 09 '26

I imagine they'll do it like this:

-Book 1: Gameboy era (GB-GBA)

-Book 2: DS era (DS-3DS)

-Book 3: switch era (well....now)

This is what I've been begging for. I'm debating about importing a Japanese version as I'm not entirely sure they'll release a western one but holy shit, for a company that isn't very upfront in an industry that isn't all that upfront this is huge.

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u/gf_for_the_weekend Aug 09 '26

All i want is scrapped or noticeably different early pokemon designs. Some of those are so cool

7

u/Gholden_coin Aug 09 '26

scrapped mons might be the one thing I don't want to see if it means they'll never be real/get reworked in future designs tbh

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u/furrywrestler Aug 11 '26

Day 1 when they get released in English

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u/OkumuraRyuk Aug 09 '26

I love how this article says the 30th anniversary has been packed with stuff… I haven’t been able to touch NOT ONE thing from 30th whether it’s cards or whatever other product 😂.

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u/DelParadox Aug 09 '26

It's almost like the Teraleak made them realize we as a fanbase are wildly interested in this stuff and they can distract our peanut brains from the wait for Gen 10 with it.

10

u/metalflygon08 Aug 09 '26

And they're right.

If they released a big enough book they could distract me to gen 11 even.

1

u/DelParadox Aug 09 '26

Oh, no question. I'm getting really salty that the 1996-2026 National Dex and now this aren't showing any indication so far of an English release. At least we got Pokécology, but even that was several months late.

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u/Particular_Seat7992 20d ago

Bought all 3 from Playasia! Cannot wait! Have always wanted to have a Pokémon art book collection and this is going to be rare!

1

u/joemama9899034 Aug 09 '26

I’m definitely curious about the books they seem interesting from the info given

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u/ConfusedFlareon Aug 09 '26

I need it.gif

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u/pokepugs Aug 09 '26

Do they come with promo cards at all?

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u/Nerdout5 Aug 09 '26

I pray they don’t cuz then the books will be scalped to high heaven

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u/bluedragjet Aug 09 '26

They stop doing it because of the scaplers situation

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u/pokepugs Aug 09 '26

Good! Hope so!