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Pokémon Unite fan comic. The current Unite battle pass is Pokébuki! Everyone’s traditional Japanese clothes are so cute~ Some of my followers on Twitter wanted to see a comic about this battle pass, so here goes!
Comic
Published on 21 May 2022 and completed on 23 June 2022.
36 pages / K / Friendship, Drama, Adventure
Read from left to right.
- 中文 (translated by Miles “Dillus” Dixon)
- Italiano (translated by ItalNapoleon)
Synopsis
In the Land of the East, there’s a beautiful theater called Aeos-za, famous for its traditional Pokébuki plays. The ever-blooming sakura around the theater, raised using the Blastoise clan’s sacred water and the Charizard clan’s sacred ash, withered when the two clan heads got into a fight and Charizard left. Will Blastoise be able to make friends with Charizard again and revive Aeos-za’s beauty? Best friends Zeraora and Lucario are here to help him!
- This story is a oneshot and an AU. It’s not connected to and is not a continuation of any other work that I’ve created outside this title.
Artist's Notes
I love experimenting with art styles to fit the theme and world, so I aimed to give this comic a more traditional feel with the lines and colouring. This is the first time I used this watercolour brush in Clip Studio for the colours, but I found it really fun!
Making this comic was quite challenging for me since there are lots of Pokémon that I don’t usually draw. At the start, I wanted to keep the cast small and the story simple, but it turned a lot more complicated than expected ^^;! (Not to mention that I ran into a huge art block somewhere in the middle!)
But thanks to my readers’ support on Twitter, I was able to continue writing this till the end. This time, I really couldn’t have done it without you guys! Thank you so much!!
I’ll reflect on the parts I got stuck in and hopefully make the process smoother in future. Thank you so much for reading and see you in my next works!
Trivia
- During this battle pass, there was an in-game event where you water a sakura tree sprout until it blooms. The idea for this comic came from there!
- The sacred ash is based on the ash from the Japanese folklore Hanasaka-jiisan (花咲爺 / old man who made flowers bloom), where an old man used a special ash to make sakura blossoms bloom on a dead tree.
- The red pail Blastoise is holding in page 2 and 3 appeared in Unite’s sakura tree-watering event.
- Unite’s official English Twitter account introduced this battle pass with a 5-7-5 syllable haiku (“The next battle pass, / Pokébuki, has arrived! / Let’s start the battle!”). So I wrote Blastoise & Charizard’s entire performance script in page 33~36 all in 5-7-5 syllable haiku!
- Someone asked how I drew the sakura on the cover page, so I made a small tutorial for it below.
