The latest edition of Japanese comic magazine CoroCoro has been leaked and we are currently translating it for any new information 🙂
- Bear is called Kiteruguma. It is described as cute yet deadly. It is classified as the powerful-arms Pokémon. It’s hug is dangerously strong and people in the Alola region regularly put warning signs out. It is Normal/Fighting with abilities Fluffy/Klutz. It’s name is possibly a play on words for “to wear” and “it’s here!”
- Deflated Pikachu-esque Pokémon is Mimikkyu. It is a Ghost/Fairy type with the ability Disguise and is said to lurk in the darkness. It is classified as the bakenokawa (a veil hiding a monster) Pokémon. The body is black and the Pikachu-looking part is actually cloth-like and covers it from the sun. The article warns people about looking under its veil. It’s name seems to come from ears, mimic and ~kkyu (cute/timid sounding),
UPD1: A clearer scan of a section with Mimikkyu’s information has surfaced: “The reason that Mimikkyu resembles Pikachu…!? It modelled itself after Pikachu goods that were all the rage 20 years ago?! It seems it wants to make friends with humans just like Pikachu“.<3 PJ
FEATURED DISCUSSION: Pokémon GO!
i feel bad for being so negative about these pokemon earlier
It’s okay, some pokemon designs grow on you. Some pokemon have meh artwork but look cool when rendered in 3D, or have cool concepts but meh execution. I for one, love red pandas, so part of me like this guy, but also I think it could’ve been better. Mimikkyu is alright, I like the typing and concept, but it’s not really something that I have to have on my team. I’ll have to see what they evolve/don’t evolve into and their stat spread before I make any final decisions about whether or not I really like them.
I don’t
Because of them I got to wait even longer for Pokemon I can get excited about
Es alright, initial reactions can be like that. I used to though Drampa was super weird, but it’s grown on me as well. That’s why I don’t take too much stock into my initial reaction until I see more
The panda just doesn’t feel like a Pokemon to me.
Maybe it’s because it’s bipedal and looks sort of strange. Also the coloring/patterning is sort of bland, hence to why I think it must evolve again. I also kind of wonder why it’s so tall, that is a very distinct departure from the size of a Red Panda
Simple designs man. Gamefreak can’t win. Its not the simple design for me or the colors scheme, although the pink is odd as fairy has kind of adopted that for the most part when it comes to normal types that were adapted to fairy. But oh well.
Pink is definitely weird…Red Pandas are beloved for their scarlet fur. It’s a defining feature.
I still don’t like the panda. It looks like it’s wearing cat ears which brings back… Embarrassing memories for me.
I think it might be based on a red panda knowing bear like Ring tail white things like a Pink red panda
Still around til leaks are confirmed, I’m curious from a design perspective how you would be able to draw those scribbly eyes on mimikkyu in the 3D or in the anime and make them look identical every frame.
well they could do the eyes similar to spinda ingame
These are much more complicated swirlies and scribbles tho.
Maybe since it’s haunted, the eyes move. If they drew differently each frame, it would look like they’re moving unsteadily.
mimmikay true form! inkay line is shook
The ears are actually it’s legs
I can’t wait to see the trailer for these guys on Friday. Should be interesting to see their 3D in-game models. You can only see so much from the Official Artwork and a low quality scan. And besides, I’d love for them to show Mimikkyu to appear in the cemetery with the Japanese town and lighthouse on the smaller island connecting to the Volcano island. I have a feeling it will appear there. I have to admit that it took a while, but I’m accepting Kiteruguma and Mimikkyu as part of the Alola family. We have 21 new ones introduced, bringing the grand total of known species to 742!
Is there a trailer coming on friday?
Yes let’s hope to get past 800 this region
I can’t see there being less than 79 pokemon this gen. Given how many they’ve already revealed and how many evos they’ll have, that wouldn’t leave too many left.
Ok and I wonder this is stupid but what is next
Well we’ve yet to see any ground, ice, or dark types so hopefully those.
Have we seen a Grass type other than Rowlet I feel we need some more fire, Grass, and some others
I don’t believe so. I’ll take some more grass type, hopefully as dual types. Not a fan of pure grass
Fair Fair I think they need to show evos. For some instead of more Pokemon
Like Pikipek I think it should be Flying/Grass or Flying/Ground
I’m still holding out for steel/flying, but I’ll take whatever.
They would NEVER become those types
Pikipek throws seeds in its description which might be a signal and Ground for it might give up its tree pecking for drilling in the Ground
How does it ballistically zipping seeds from trees it bored at the opponent make it a plant
And though it could turn into a drill it just seems very unlikely
Mabey the seeds would grow off its body to make it that
*Shakes head no*
It’d be cool if the beak turns more drill-like and can spin independent of the body. All depends how they draw it though.
I had an idea somewhat like that.
That’s pretty sweet, did you draw those??
yep
we need ground types or someone will be angry lol
He’s always angry. (Not a hulk reference)
Well at least Kiteruguma is a more acceptable Red Panda than that drunken bear Spinda. Although I will admit its in game movements are cute
Spinda’s a regular panda
We have lots of pandas Pancham, Spinda, this thing pandas everywhere
Just keep in mind, Red Pandas aren’t actually really Pandas. Heck, they’re not even bears.
Nope. They have their own family. They’re closer to raccoons than bears, which makes sense
Yeah.
Yeah which means since they are closely related to Racoons I got my Racoon yet it wasn’t a Grass type or a starter like my first Idea which was
Grass Racoon with grass blade boomerangs
Fire Koala it was just orange and red
Water Platypus pretty awesome
Mabey they will come as regulars
Actually the panda it self is not a bear …it’s more like Raccoon.
It is classified as a bear though but it is more related to raccoons yes
Right ….Actually American ppl knows much about animal ….I wonder y my ppl not.
Is it? It’s still ugly
omg wow sweet cinnamon roll Mimikkyu is seriously becoming one of my favorites.
You’re definitely not the only one <3
It’s losing its creepiness for its cute for me
I find it creepy and cute <3
Which is something I thought I would never say about anything really xD
It's a top contender for a spot on one of my playthrough teams, although I dunno where to put it for now
Right up your arse
Wow that’s a very rude thing to say to a lady 😛
I haven’t said anything bad to you 🙂
But that’s how Earthen rolls
True, which is why I added the smiles and stuff at the end of my statements.
I’m totally not serious in any way xD
Like’a Boulder crushing everything in its path
Rollout, yo.
Favorite move
http://pa1.narvii.com/5770/9b3a3956ae2baa53c1aa935f36e7c1def38facf4_hq.gif
Donphan is definitely the rollout king. Other than maybe Golem of course
You said you needed a place to put it
Oh. It’s still creepy to me. But that’s why I like it.
It’s made it top my top 5!
While the official artwork is meh, I do think Kiteruguma is pretty adorable when hugging that tree to death. It’s got that steadfast and dopey look on its face. All it wants to do is hug something and not have it be crushed. Kinda like Jigglypuff almost, except with singing.
Is this for sure the official artwork? Sometimes they show a different one on the website right?
Idk, corocoro used official artwork for Komala and Rockruff
That’s true. But I think there have been instances of other artwork being shown for other pokemon…
It’s entirely possible, although I kinda doubt it
Any body wanna a hug ? http://img09.deviantart.net/76bf/i/2016/194/0/b/kiteruguma_by_pizzasupper-da9ugmo.png
Hmm no hug murdered by it
Hug Crushed
I’ll go with hug!
I’m good. I wanna live a few more years. And if I wanted to die, I’d eat Tide Pods.
ok that has won me over it’s too cute 🙂
If I can make it out alive after it, sure 🙂
It’d kind of depressing, really. They can’t even hug their own kind since they’re weak to fighting type.
Wow, you’re actually right…. D:
I just want to hug it. Let it know that it’s not that ugly. I would just put on some steel body armor to do so, but steel is also weak to fighting. The poor little thing can’t win ;(
I was thinking of becoming a ghost, but it’ll just pass right through.
There’s no way for this to be possible now is there?
knock it out then hug and use a revive after
I feel there will be some sort of anime episode revolving around this
You should let it hug you
I fed it a bunch of Proteins so it’s ready to go
Well I actually guess I COULD hug it, considering Adamantium is an unbreakable metal. Maybe I’ll have a team of 6 and use them as body guards
Until a Gengar completely walls you
Although unless it knows psychic it aint doin much either. It might learn a dark move or something
Dazzling Gleam
Aw shuckles.
Yep that’s the world we live in
Which is why this thing will be outclassed
Being threatened by nearly anything
I really do hate normal type
It’s like Pangoro
It was given a badass Fighting/Dark type to fit it’s cantankerous demeanor just to have it run and turn tail when a Mega Loppuny or Keldeo shows up
And now it gots to worry even more for Fairies
At least it looks like a badass though. Sometimes that’s all you need
No, all that matters is getting on the list
Otherwise EVERYTHING walks all over it
Well that’s only if stats are super important to you. Sometimes I can overlook weaknesses and like a pokemon for other reasons.
And if not it gets abused by everything
Everyone has their niche. Well except for some pokemon that GF has left by the wayside.
Like nearly every legendary
Well that’s because you made the decision that you hated using legendaries and don’t wanna use them.
Because Legends are naturally OP
And shouldn’t be used so frivolously
Well I meant more like Dunsparce and Qwilfish that really just suck and could use something to help them along.
Well they’re not getting anything anytime soon
Unfortunately that’s probably true
Using monotype in a non-monotype category (e.g. OU) just makes your team immediately outclassed, right? What’s new?
Also, did you know that “Normal and Fighting” is an awesome STAB combo? Only ghosts resist that combo, so you only need three moves to cover the entire cast: Normal, Fighting and Ghost or Dark, leaving the last move to be anything the trainer wants.
I just realize it’s 2.1m long it’s look like those monsters from fairy tales …..and ppl ask me y I think he should be fairy.
Interviewer: Tell me, why are you suffering from depression?
Kiteruguma: I try to hug people to comfort them….. but then they fall on the ground and act dead so I go away ;~;
Interviewer: Aww…. Come here….
Kiteruguma: Thank you *Hugs Interviewer*
Interviewer: (Pain sounds) *Falls on the ground*
Kiteruguma: *Cries*
It must leave a pile of severed bodies in its wake.
Just got on to see these…. They’re certainly…. Unique…. The bear looks like a little kid drawing to me and the other one is fine… I guess :/
they grow on you after a while 🙂
Yeah, they probably will 🙂
Bruxish has grown on me so I guess anything is possible…
I heard the word Bruxish so I’m checking in… <3
I’m glad they gave a backstory to Mimikkyu because otherwise it’d be as stupid and gimmicky as Foongus and Amoonguss’ pokeball tops
Not sure if there’s been a comment on this, but what do we think the english names will be?
Timbear?
Bearhug? XD
Spirichu?
Idk, that’s all I got…
The common guess for the ghost is Pikaboo, though. <3
I came up with the stupid name Graspanda, since it’s based on a red panda. I really like your name for Pikaboo!
I like Pikaboo too! Whoever came up with that is a genius.
That’s not bad, although I think of grass panda when I say it
Mimichu for the pika ghost.
I thought of that one but didnt put it. Great minds!
@BigGuyI:disqus name them, oh god of naming pokemon
Bearhug is too much…timbear is kinda cute. I was trying to figure out a way to fit panda in the name and couldn’t do it.
Timbear sounds too similar to timburr but fits him well and spirichu sounds good aswell but i will call it spooxie for now XD (spooky+pixie)
Sorry for posting so much but does anyone know where the name Kiteraguma comes from? Idk how much is lost in translation but I see “Kit” which is used to describe young baby animals (which could point to it not being fully evolved, although baby red pandas are called cubs, not kits, which is interesting) and guma, perhaps referring to gummy bears or just that guma means bear in Japanese..
I know, from taking Japanese, that the first part is definitely ‘to be wearing (something above the waist, like a shirt)’ like you use it for ‘that person is wearing/wears a red shirt’ although I dunno what the last part could be (although the gummy or gum part might be a possibility)
Oh and kiteru is also for ‘it is coming’ :3
so…basically what PJ said in the article xD
Interesting. Thanks 🙂
It me
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1468363679395.png
For me it’s the other way around tbh. 🙂
OH really?
You’ve seen me. It’s troo
sure
I somehow managed to run across three new species (Exeggcute, Rhyhorn, Growlithe) on the way home from a five-minute car ride! I wasn’t the one driving, don’t worry.
This aint twitter tho
Savage
I’m pretty sure Twitter wouldn’t care either 😛 I should really get around to using that though…
I still haven’t caught anything good.
Hey! That’s like what I did. I didn’t have any Pokeballs tho, so I couldn’t catch a Jynx, an Exeggcute, a Pidgeot, a Marowak and a Raichu
Now that sucks big-time. Haven’t seen most of the Pokemon you just listed.
And there were NO Pokestops on the way either…
I was going to draw a new icon for myself, but after seeing all of these Pokemon from Sun and Moon, I think I might find a new favorite Pokemon in this Gen.
I found a new favorite, you
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}:(
Jk breh
You’re not being loyal to the Aqua Flygon
Look tho, it says I am
I heard my name what does he mean?
oh. It’s supposed to say “Being Loyal to”. Also he said you were his favorite Pokemon from Sun and Moon.
Hmmm Ok
Your pic looks like baby lapras so cute! What is it though?
It’s Kurusu, his scratched Johto Water Starter friend
Oh nice! Didnt knew gamefreak had shown any scrapped pokes
There was also a similar looking fire starter
Sounds interesting, where can i read more about them?
It was the original Gen.2 Water starter in place of Totodile but only was in the Alpha demo of them
Also a Fire Bear was going to exist but was scrapped with this their names are Kurusu and The other Honoguma https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b529bf5164ba251213178e1d8f1cb7f85c32750c3e9f09905426a2638a360bc0.png
Haha your profile pic is perfect for this
Everyone’s favorite/mascot Pokemon
Camerupt FTW!
Serperior B)
That spazoid Tyranitartube deducted that Fluffy would increase flinching…..
But interestingly though, he said that they’re classified as “The Strong Armed” and “Costume” Pokemon
Who cares what TT says?
Brain dead gullibles
I found it funny how everyother youtuber playing pokemon go blur the places they live but he doesnt and just made himself in danger of fanboys/girls(if he even has any) invading him and getting robbed or kidnapped is also a possibility i wouldnt mind
New trailer on the Pokemon Japanese YouTube channel. Shows Kiteruguma in-game and whatever Synergy will be.
What….link it now
https://youtu.be/TyIkvadJU1Q
What’s the weird gang sign the trainer flashes at us?
IT seems to be how it activates
But yeah, it does resemble that xD
It seems to just be a super attack…..at least it’s not asinine fusion
Thank goodness.
And it looks like it’s generalized by typing, but it’s too soon to tell
I do love this trailer tho <3 es so cute
This look amazing, oh my god!
OMG A PORYGON HAIRDRYER YES PLS (so Amie is returning, as expected!, is this even new info?)
Loving the new locations showcased, and that stream battle background. A nice sailboat shot too!
Also loads more riding confirmed (it looks awesome too!) (+sailing!) and thankfully it seems the new synergy mechanic is indeed nothing but a super attack with power-ranger choreography attached (interesting to see those in-game type icons).
Also a quick look at both the new pokés! Mimmikyu’s model is great, and Kiteruguma looks more grey than garishly pink…
I just noticed the hairdryer omg it looks gorgeous <3
Rumors confirmed?!?!?!?!?!
And also shows Mimikyuu in the trade <3
I don’t see that, where/when?
When they are doing the trade around 1:27
WHOA, I thought that was Pikachu! It’s yellow!
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is the synergy that scene with the protags dancing and the three starters have their type showed on them??
Yep, that’s it!
oh ok thank you, i somehow didnt catch it the first time so i replayed and i didnt notice mimikkyu in the trade either, looks soo much better in game than on cororoco pics. i dont care what anyone says mimikkyu is freakin adorable, and the fact that it wants to be like pikachu is cute. please make this little guy a co-mascot!
So does this confirm the guy on 4Chan?!?!?! I mean he did say a trailer featuring the new mechanic would be shown this week!!!! I’m so pumped!!!!
Hold your anus
I’m not letting some rando leaker get all this right
Which guy was this
Georilla guy or somebody else
Here’s the guy:
http://boards.4chan.org/vp/thread/26998711/leaks
Fake lel stop being so gullible i mean yeah the video shows awesome things but we dont have any details yet so like earthen said just hold your anus 😉
If there was going to be a new mechanic shown in a trailer this week they probably would have had it in Corocoro. The more reconfirms than confirms
The trailer shows some stuff happening…..what are you talking about?
Oh my god, I didn’t see the trailer, just did, so hyped!!!
I don’t have the picture for it, but there’s also a grooming feature that’s gonna be added (with Pikachu, before the trade with Mimikyuu and Pancham)
I think that’s actually kind of cool and I hope that it’ll be implemented with more Pokemon than just Pikachu
Yeah that looks like improved pkmn amie!!! HYPEEE
Looking back on it, it definitely looks that way <3
Looks looks like grooming
Will I finally be able to polish Excadrill’s claws
Are you going to paint them too? :3 I think it’ll make it look super cute if you do 🙂
No, but you will be able to paint them with glittery, fairy pink nail polish 😉
I rather paint the with the blood of fallen victims
But that would rust them, remember blood has oxygen in it so probably not healthy for his steel nails
If it’s surgical stainless steel, it should not be a problem.
Then just polish
Fairy pink polish*
How bout I just tell Ex that you can be his scratching post
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Wow, iPad skrub. Get a PC m8… jk
Wowowowowowowow its looking beautiful!
Thanks Earthen 🙂
Look at all those Pokemon we can ride <3
And the boat thing with Hau and the player, is that us going to a different island? :O
Just doing my job
It’s definitely us going to a different island.
I can’t wait till I ride Stoutland haha.
OK OK OK lets take a minute to check some stuff off. Not only did the one guy get the new mechanic being shown correct, but the trailer also confirms more Pokemon that can be ridden. I think with this we can confirm that at least some of the leaks are reral!!!
Wait for details first dude just focus on being hyped now ok? HYPEEEE
Oh I’m more than hyped right now hahaha
SYNCHRO CONFIRMED
I knew the rumors couldn’t be completely fake. There might be some differences, but at this point I’d say we’re good to go on believing them! lol
For right now, I’ll still be on neutral. Just to be safe.
Until I see the Pokemon he mentioned that were going to be in the video, then I’ll start to believe them more
Yeah….I suppose that’s more reasonable hahaha
It is, but it’s still interesting that one aspect seems to be aligning with it, so it gives it some credibility.
I like being on the safe side tho 🙂
I’m so happy that there’s no form change. I’d be surprised if Megas returned with such a feature included. Things are looking up!
My sentiments exactly 🙂
As happy as I am this is not some new form change mechanic, not bringing back megas would negate any happiness derived thereof for me. I may not have been a fan of them at first but you just can’t introduce a feature like that and remove it.