New Translation: Professor Oak's Lecture (1996)

Hey y'all -- as always I wanna start off by saying thanks so much for your continued Patreon support. These kinds of translations literally wouldn't be possible without you guys. Further down in this post I'll have links to all previous Patreon articles, but first I'll let you know what's new.

So I've been talking about this 1996 book called Pokedex quite a bit in recent months. It was never released outside Japan, but with this post, the project to unofficially localize the full book is now pretty much finished. Here's the section of the book based on Professor Oak's lecture at Celadon University (a location not found in the games but mentioned from time to time in other official media). Like all the Patreon articles, the password to access the page is "Pokemon History Club". Here's the link: http://lavacutcontent.com/professor-oak-lecture-1996/

All that remains of this book is the 46 page Pokedex. It's already been translated by Nob Ogasawara, and I wrote a one hour video about it which has already been recorded and is now in the editing process. It'll be on YouTube in a few weeks, although it was so long that it'll be divided into twohalf-hour videos. It'll be on Did You Know Gaming's channel, which means DYKG's owner Shane Gill shortened it a bit in the editing process. He's probably right to do so, but after the video's finished, I'll make the full text of the script available here on Patreon for anyone who wants to read the longer, unedited version. Or maybe you prefer to consume 46 pages of translation (plus commentary) in text form rather than video.

The 8 page Tajiri interview, captioned diagrams, and watercolor maps sections I've already posted here on Patreon (links below). So after this Lecture section and the upcoming Pokedex section, the book's all finished. Mission complete. The only stuff that's left are type-matchup charts and stuff like that -- nothing we haven't seen a thousand times before. So I sincerely wanna say thank you to here on Patreon for funding this project.

Now that this book's localization is complete, I'm already working on other translations. Next up is the full text of everything Pokemon-related from Ken Sugimori's 2014 art book. Okay, here's all the Patreon article links, and remember the password for all of them is "Pokemon History Club":

1. Tajiri development interview from this 1996 Pokedex book: http://lavacutcontent.com/satoshi-tajiri-pokedex-interview

2. Tajiri and Ishihara interview translation about Game Freak and Pokemon's early days (2000):

  a. Part 1 is freely and publicly available on my website: http://lavacutcontent.com/satoshi-tajiri-ishihara-interview/

  b. Part 2 is only on Patreon: http://lavacutcontent.com/tajiri-tsunekazu-ishihara-interview/

3. Sugimori and Masuda interview translation about the Tao Trio's development, taken from two Japanese magazines (2011-2012): http://lavacutcontent.com/sugimori-masuda-tao-trio/

4. Two Morimoto video interview translations about Mew's development (2019): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qq4COx9KoazUvL-bqOMNOMWSyeTQzMSM?usp=sharing

5. Sugimori and Masuda interview about Diamond & Pearl's development (2007): http://lavacutcontent.com/diamond-pearl-masuda-sugimori/

6. Artwork preservations and caption translations from the Japanese art book "Pokedex" (1996): http://lavacutcontent.com/kanto-pokedex-extra-entries/

I'll let y'all know when the next project's finished. Cheers :)

-Dr Lava