Quick Update, Big News

Hey guys, as always I wanna start by thanking y'all so much for the support. It really makes a world of difference. Okay first a quick update, then the reason I'm actually making this post.

My apologies it's been kind of a slow month as far as Patreon translations. A lot of my energy's been sucked up into that 1996 Pokedex book translation, and also I've been moving and renovating my new apartment the past 5 weeks, which just finally got finished earlier today. Part 2 of that video series is posting to YouTube in about 24 hours btw, then part 3 about a week later, with part 3 being the best one. Here's a link to part 1 in case you missed it: youtube.com/watch?v=McB4lCnAips

I've had quite a few translations completed over the past month but haven't had time to write commentary for them just yet -- all the Pokemon material from Sugimori's 2014 art book, two super-long developer interviews from Japanese magazines, and one important chapter of a Japanese book. You'll be seeing them sooner rather than later. But the big news I wanna touch on real quick is that a big project I've been working on for several months just finally had a major breakthrough. Much bigger, in my opinion, than the 1996 Pokedex book translation. I don't wanna reveal too many details quite yet, but I will say there are quite a few Lost Pokemon designs involved -- previously only seen by former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi, a few other top-level insiders, and the artists who made them. I've been speaking to those artists, and they said they'd be willing to share them. And there's some really interesting stories that go along with them as well, dating back to the 1990's. I've been told that about a third of artwork is essentially lost, but they're also "99 percent" sure they have the rest in personal storage.

I don't wanna count my chickens before they've hatched, but I'm so excited I just had to blab about it to somebody, so I figured I'd blab about it here lol. At the very least, I've secured the stories. But of course, the concept art is of the utmost importance. That's all I really wanna say for now until things are farther along. Thanks guys :)