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03/10/07 Even more English names
Yes, even more of them. v.v According to Serebii.net:
- Hayashigame is Grotle.
- Dodaitosu is Torterra.
- Moukazaru is Monferno.
- Goukazaru is Infernape.
- Pottaishi is Prinplup.
- Mukubaado is Staravia (one of my favorite English D/P names so far).
- Mukuhooku is Staraptor (which I rather like too).
- Biidaru is Bibarel.
- Korotokku is Kricketune.
- Bunyatto is Purugly. Subjective, anyone?
- Sukanpuu is Stunky.
- Sukatanku is Skuntank.
- Fuwaraido isn't actually Driftblim but Drifblim.
And that's it.
08/03/07 English PBR release date and more
Long time without updates, I know.
A brief recap of the news I've neglected to post: More names were revealed at the Toy Fair and on Pokémon.com. Unfortunately this includes a few contradictions of what had previously been reported (see why I keep telling you not to take these news as the holy truth?). To start with those, Pinpuku is not Happini but Happiny (is it just me, or does that sound a little weird?), Guregguru is Croagunk rather than Croalurk (aww, I was kind of taking a liking to Croalurk), and Pocchama is Piplup and not than the previously reported Pochama.
Korinku being Spinx and Karanakushi being Snelios or Shelios were reported as well, but in fact their names are Shinx and Shellos, respectively. I must say I'm a great deal more fond of Shinx than Spinx, although Snelios had a fun ring to it.
It was previously reported that it was thought Bippa was Beappa, which I did not like so I'm fairly happy it finally turned out to be Bidoof instead.
Other names revealed are Budew for Subomii, Roserade for Rozureido, Cherrim for Cherimu, Driftblim for Fuwaraido and Skorupi for Sukorupi.
Now, for the current news, they mostly come from the Game Developers Conference. There was a demo of the English Diamond and Pearle which revealed some stuff - PokémonElite2000 has a news article describing it. Serebii reports, to summarize, that Kotobuki City has been named Jubilife City and the attacks Coronis had translated as Anticipate and Force Exert have been given the names Me First and Force Palm. The animé seems to have confirmed Masago Town, the second town in D/P, to be called Sandgem Town.
The most major news is that the English release date of Pokémon Battle Revolution has been confirmed to be June 25th 2007! Two months after D/P. Not too bad.
EDIT: Serebii reports that the Game Developers Conference revealed one more thing: Enperuto's English name is Empoleon, which is my personal very favorite fourth-generation English name revealed so far. Dunno, it just strikes a chord. It's clearly a portmanteau of "Emperor" (as in emperor penguin) and "Napoleon", while also hinting at an association with the South Pole. Aside from that it just sounds good. Yay for good names. :3
02/12/07 English Names
The New York Toy Fair has apparently revealed some more English Pokémon names, according to Serebii.net.
- The names Serebii previously posted as almost-definite-but-not-quite-official have been confirmed: Mantyke, Buizel and Electivire are then clearly the final names of those Pokémon.
- Naetoru and Hikozaru's names have been confirmed as Turtwig and Chimchar, respectively. Interestingly, every Fire starter so far has had a C in its name somewhere.
- Although the names appear to be hard to make out from the pictures they have, they think that Bippa is Beappa (personally, I think that sounds rather awkward), Mukkuru is Staris, Pinpuku is Happini, Furoozeru is Floatsel and Pachirisu is still just Pachirisu.
We'll hopefully get more stuff very soon when they get clearer pictures. And now I'd better go update my list generator and sprite generator.
EDIT: More already, it seems; Serebii now says that Mimiroru's name is Buneary, Nyarumaa's is Glameow and Masukippa's is Carnivine. It seems to imply these are all definite.
EDIT (2): Pochama is confirmed.
EDIT (3): More from Serebii, with it noted that they may be off by a couple of letters although I'm still updating the Sprite Generator and List Generator with them:
- Mukkuru is Starly.
- Korobooshi is Kricketot.
- Pachirisu still being Pachirisu is confirmed.
- Contrary to earlier reports, Furoozeru's name is Floatzel, not Floatsel.
- Pinpuku being Happini is confirmed.
- Guregguru is Croalurk.
- Korinku is listed as Spinx although it's apparently not 100% confirmed.
- Karanakushi is either Snelios or Shelios. Keeping its Japanese name in the Sprite and List Generators until we have a definite English name.
EDIT (4): Tatetopusu is Shieldon.
02/05/07 Erekiburu's English Name, first English screenshot
And yet again, Serebii has revealed a mysteriously unofficial English name for a fourth-generation Pokémon: Erekiburu is apparently called Electivire, with the stress on the second syllable. It's a somewhat similar concept to my guess of Elecable.
Oh, and we have the first English screenshots of Diamond and Pearl. See for example here and, courtesy of foxsundance from my forums as I had difficulties finding better pictures, here. The latter image is especially interesting because it shows "Galactic Grunt" being written in lowercase (rather than the traditional GALACTIC GRUNT). Makes one wonder if this is being changed or if this is just a matter of it being a beta shot of the translation.
And according to this, D/P will be released in June or July in Europe.
01/28/07 ...and another name
Okay, so now Serebii says Buizeru's English name is Buizel. The interesting thing is that it's a romanization, but closer to the Japanese name than the commonly-used Buoysel.
However, he does appear to be a little less certain on this one than on Mantyke and Chatot, so take it with a grain of salt.