Here’s some quick shots of some new stuff for my Magma/Aqua collection–my first settei! I’ll be framing these babies later in the week.

“Settei” are reference sheets that animators use to make sure that characters are drawn consistently between episodes/teams/individual artists. These settei have the generic male and female team grunt designs, but also the individual “background grunts” for Team Magma that pop up throughout the Hoenn saga, as well as Team Aqua’s submarine. It’s pretty neat to see these designs make it all the way to final animation!

Another cool thing to notice is the dates. See how the grunt designs were finalized at the end of September 2002? The Ruby and Sapphire games weren’t released until late November of that year. The anime has to get info about new games from GameFreak ahead of time, so that Ash can arrive in a new region right when the new versions hit shelves. That’s also why you’ll see the next gen’s Pokémon start to pop up in the anime months before new games are released.

Ahhh, I’m so excited to own these settei! My goal is to have as many Team Aqua and Magma animation references as possible, so if you ever see or hear of any for sale, let me know right away! I’m willing to pay very handsomely for this sort of thing.

solos1s:

フ口ン

solos1s:

428

solos1s:

428

悪！！

croagunkscorner:

フ口ン＠ついったー

solos1s:

かはえ

ｷﾐﾄﾞﾘ

Found this on my computer, forgot I had it, might as well share in case someone else is just as insane as I am. Under the cut is a transcription of every single piece of dialog said by any Aqua or Magma character in Pokémon Emerald, including stationary grunts who are only there at certain points in the game to provide roadblocks, and including all dialog by all grunts spoken after you fight them. (Later games stopped doing this at some point, but in RSE at least, all grunts have three pieces of dialog–what they say when they challenge you to fight, what they say when they lose, and what they say if you choose to speak to them again after you’ve beaten them; you won’t ever see that last piece of dialog unless you walk up to them after the fight and press A.)

Basically, I just wanted a reference of all of this, but couldn’t find the game’s script online (and certainly couldn’t find any of the “optional” grunt dialog) soooo I just played the whole game through and wrote down every single thing.

Grunts say some hilarious shit, you guys.

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Ahh I remember the translation for this one…the top is pointing out all the sexy features of the uniforms (bare midriff, miniskirt, zettai ryōiki etc.), and then May is like, “who friggin’ designed these things??” and the bosses are like “why IT WAS US, of course~~”

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[Manly chest of manliness]