Manic's Final Vega

Alright then, quite a bit to cover here, so let's get right to it.

Starting off with Akio, say hello to the Psychic/Flying Blakjak! Here's the shiny:


Pokedex: The countless eyes on its wings can paralyze with a glare. The flock then surrounds the helpless victim.

It received an overhaul in a pair of follow-up hacks, Pokemon Deneb and Procyon. In that version, it became Ghost/Flying, boosted stats, a bigger movepool... and a new appearance. Here's how it looks in those hacks:


Got to admit, I prefer the new look. Don't have a shiny sprite for it though.

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As for Yuki, meet Frozaiden! Like it did before, the shiny mostly swaps out blues for greens:

Pokedex: What looks like clothing is actually another part of its body, meaning it is just as cold to the touch.

In those follow up hacks, the entire line becomes Ice/Fairy and is version exclusive to Deneb. As a result, it received a counterpart in Procyon. Not relevant here though.

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Now for Otakun, and this one's a bit interesting. To start with, his English name is Clotaku (Cloak+Otaku) and he's Poison Type. That's the basic info. Now for the odd part: It's part of a three stage line where all the stages share the same stat total: 395. Clotaku here is the speedster. 80 speed, 75 HP, everything else is 60.


Pokedex: It prefers a life of solitude. It devotes all its time and energy into mastering a single hobby.

Easily one of the nicer shinies. His evolutions are the Dark Type Ajarimus (Left) and the Ghost Type Jarmit (Right):


Ajarimus Pokedex: Unlike Clotaku, it lives in a group. The group wanders around, attacking weaker Pokémon for no good reason.
Jarmit Pokedex: It likes to hide in the shadows. It is usually asleep, but no one can stop it once it starts an uproar.

Ajarimus (a 2Chan reference, designed to look like the site's mascot) is the Attacker, but has low defenses and average speed. Jarmit (Jar+Hermit, or a NEET in the Japanese naming) is slow as molasses but is able to take a lot of punishment. The other awkward part is that it's a level based evolution. Level 16 evolves Clotaku into Ajarimus, which evolves into Jarmit at Level 32. Seems to me like it should have been something that the player had full control over, like a stone or something.

It also appears that all three have entirely distinct movesets, so there's a lot of 'Prior Evolution' moves listed. It seems like we could have easily just had these three as separate Pokemon. I'm not going to show the shinies for the evolutions because Ajarimus barely changes and I mainly brought them up because of the main gimmick that line has.

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Finally, there's Hakutakun, or Baizeast in English (Bai Ze and Beast). It's based off the Bai Ze, a mythical creature capable of predicting disasters. Absol's based of it too!


Swap the green for a blue shade, and you have his shiny!

Statwise, this Psychic Type has a whopping 115 Special Attack, and it's moveset includes Psychic, Electric, Water, Ground, Ghost and Fire moves. There's still some types I didn't touch on too, so it's a damn good attacker... once it hits Level 28 and learns Extrasensory. Until then, you're using TMs or raising it in the background.

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With the Pokemon for the update out of the way, the new Gym Leader is named Geoff, and he leads the Seafin, or Miru, City Gym. He gives you the Arneb Badge.