New Beta Pokémon Art

[prog rocker]

Apparently, this showed up in a NHK broadcast, does somebody know Japanese here?


View: https://twitter.com/benisboy/status/1075154504792731648

 

[Poneto]

Apparently, this showed up in a NHK broadcast, does somebody know Japanese here?


View: https://twitter.com/benisboy/status/1075154504792731648

None of this looks new to me tbh, just a bunch of rehash--OH MY ARCEUS WTF IS BETWEEN STARYU AND ARCANINE?!

 

[Icy Wind]

None of this looks new to me tbh, just a bunch of rehash--OH MY ARCEUS WTF IS BETWEEN STARYU AND ARCANINE?!

It’s supposed to be Gyarados, i think.

 

[prog rocker]

I thought it looked more like a Final Fantasy Sandworm.

EDIT: Also, what's that thing next to Blastoise?

 

[Patrick Haines]

I thought it looked more like a Final Fantasy Sandworm.

EDIT: Also, what's that thing next to Blastoise?

I think it is Kanghaskan.

 

[prog rocker]

I think it is Kanghaskan.

Thanks, I can see the resemblance now. Although it also kinda looked like Manga Ryu-Ran from Yu-Gi-Oh!, which is weird since this art is from way before Yu-Gi-Oh! existed. Weird minds think alike, possibly.

 

[Patrick Haines]

Thanks, I can see the resemblance now. Although it also kinda looked like Manga Ryu-Ran from Yu-Gi-Oh!, which is weird since this art is from way before Yu-Gi-Oh! existed. Weird minds think alike, possibly.

With all the monster summoning games in the world, they had to get/steal their ideas from somewhere. Or maybe Magna Ryu-Ran is Kanghaskan's long-lost evolution.

 

[Rocket Zigzagoon]

I thought it looked more like a Final Fantasy Sandworm.

EDIT: Also, what's that thing next to Blastoise?

I can also see resemblance to Slowbro.

 

[prog rocker]

I can also see resemblance to Slowbro.

Maybe Slowbro and Kangaskhan are like Blaziken and Latias: Originally one Pokémon that got divided in the middle of development. Could also apply to beta Spearow, which got divided into final Spearow, Pidgeot and Farfetch'd.

 

[Nicolas721]

Beta Scyther looks very funny, now it's very clear where his reptile look came from.
Tentacool looks kinda cute.
Arcanine has hooves, confirming that it was partly based on the Qirin.
Gyarados started as a giant worm without eyes. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
The mysterious "O" Helix Chamber has been so fussy about is Omega (#20 in the image), which...doesn't look like anything. (We've seen Kangaskhan and Slowbro's sprites for this era already). The snout resembles Dragonite a bit, but overall I'm clueless.