Some Misty (Kasumi) garbage (AP)

[Neko KK]

Originally Posted by NinjaBunneh

...if THAT'S a 12 year old, then I'm a pedophile.

lol, she is 12 in that manga. it even says it in a little balloon XD (will scan proof in the morning) so, congrats, you're a pedo!

Originally Posted by Neko KK

lol, she is 12 in that manga. it even says it in a little balloon XD (will scan proof in the morning) so, congrats, you're a pedo!

I am pretty sure he meant that the picture makes her look quite a bit older than 12.

[Sutibaru]

A pedo would be attracted to the younger version of Misty not the ETOP version. I remember buying that when I was young and into Pokemon.

I like the manga version of her much better. The ETOP version of her. Not the TV. Her outfit is too bland in the TV.

And when it comes to manga or anime, the japanese tend to make the characters older or younger than they really are.

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I might feel compelled to draw her. Possibly the ETOP version. She seems to have much more life in her than the TV.

[NinjaBunneh]

Originally Posted by Neko KK

lol, she is 12 in that manga. it even says it in a little balloon XD (will scan proof in the morning) so, congrats, you're a pedo!

XD Well aware. Half the reason I bought the Japanese mangas was to see if she was actually 12 in the Japanese version or not. Rumor had it that she was 16 in the Japanese version, but she isn't.

It's a really crazy story how the manga turned out like that. Supposedly Mr.Ono thought the series was supposed to be aimed at teens (since at the time he had never played the games and he was just handed a script for the first episode of the TV show and told to draw it), hence the mix-up and gratuitous fanservice.

However...

Originally Posted by Vicky

I am pretty sure he meant that the picture makes her look quite a bit older than 12.

Exactly. I meant it jokingly in that "Holy crap! That manga version is hot and I don't care WHAT age they try to tell me she is. THAT is HOT."

I mean really, are we going to even argue that point? XD

Originally Posted by shadow

is it sad that the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that picture was:
"Hey, those sharpedos have twistie head-bands, I want one too!"

Surely you get the joke about Sharpedos! XD

Originally Posted by dnl

every volume? Now you have my attention.

When did I say that? I have volumes 1-3 out of 4 volumes total. Misty is only drawn like that for one and a half volumes. They changed her design half way through volume 2. Ever since then, she appeared in the manga less. Probably because Ono was really attatched to the origional design (He once said in an interview that Misty was his favorite character).

Can we really blame him? If you ask me, the series went down hill after the design change. It became too much like the TV series.

On the plus side, after Misty gets toned down, Jesse starts to show up and has absolutely MASSIVE torpedo boobs! Shame I'm not much of a Jesse fan (too much like my sister) :P