Popular Pokemon manga-style fan artist returns with one of Gen 1's most mysterious relationships

pokeyagumi via Twitter
(Image credit: pokeyagumi via Twitter)

A popular Pokemon fan artist has returned to reflect on one of the original ga💛me's most mysterious relationships. 

That would be the relationship between the famed Professor Oak, and the powerful Kanto Elite Four member Agatha. The manga-style recreation just below shows the two characters in the prime of their youth, and meeting each other for the first time back w🌃hen they were supposedly close friends and rivals.

Agatha and Oak were originally in the first Pokemon games, where Agatha revealed a few hints about their relationship to one another, telling the player that while Oak was once "tough and handsome," the intervening decades had softened him. In FireRed and LeafGreen, she 🧸even goes as far as to suggest that Oak is "a shadow of his former self." Later on, in Pokemon Masters EX, we found out more about their true relationship. Agatha reveals their relationships sadly became strained when Agatha deemed Oak to be too weak to compete at a professional level of Pokemon batt🤡ling, souring their relationship forever.

It's a bit of a sad story really, but we've never actu⭕ally seen the events play out in person. Twitter user pokeyug𒆙ami, the creator of the impressive manga-style gameplay demo just below, remedies that with their brilliant new creation, imagining what it would be like if we were playing as Professor Oak himself, and there to witness the beginning of his and Agatha's friendship.

Around this time last year, pokeyagumi first caught attention for their manga-like reimagining of the original Pokemon game, showing us what a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:chonky manga Pikachu would lꦏook like. They've sort of become known as one of the more intriguing and talented Pokemon🍎 fans out there ever since, and we'd highly r💮ecommend keeping an eye on their Twitter to see what else they create down the line.

It's a pity we'll likely never see these scenes in a mainline Pokemon game, but there's no reason to expect we couldn't one day see the events unfold in one of the many Pokemon anime adaptations. Speaking of, since Ash and Pikachu have now departed the Pokemon anime, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we now know who will be ♔replacing them, as our next dynamic duo step into the fold.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet review to see what we made of the most recent entries in Nintendo's long-standing series. 

Hirun Cryer is🐻 a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, in🀅die games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.