Also, yes, we are aware the site has not been running the best the last week or so. Bots swarming specific pages are causing things to crash a lot. We have been looking into different hosting plans.
Do you ever think to yourself, "This task is done, but let me read through everything one more time" and then find 87 different mistakes to fix? That's me reading through and fixing the descriptions on our Abilities page... and I'm only finished editing through "I" alphabetically... 🫠
Just updated the card scans for the second year of SV (Temporal Forces through Prismatic Evolutions). The cards for the sets after (Journey Together through Perfect Order) have been added, but still working on the scans. Also working on auditing and restructuring move information in the Psydex...
Card scans for the first year of Gen 9 (SV base through Paldean Fates) are finally up on the site! At over 1,500 scans this was the biggest batch I've done at once. Might need to take a little break before starting on year 2. 🫠
Pokémon 30th Anniversary logo, featuring Missingno. Created by Johto Times
I can't believe they forgot the most important Pokémon of all :(
Psypoke was functionally in stasis for several years until Johto Times requested an interview with us in 2024. Since then, we've been working on the site regularly! And since Frost helps work on Johto Times issues, it felt correct to become affiliates! 💜 johtotimes.com
Pokémon wouldn't be where it is today without the support of its loyal fans.
Please give the fansites, projects and communities in this starter pack a follow, and be sure to share it with your friends so they can get noticed!
go.bsky.app/9ZYmKgz
Piece by piece our TCG scans and Picdex updates are still coming together. All the English sets through Gen 8 are uploaded now. Starting work on Gen 9, but all those sets are SO BIG...
Can you find your favorite Pokémon in the #Pokemon30 collage below? 🔎
All of the Gen 7-era card scans (and rescans) are complete and live on the site and in the Picdex, and started working on SWSH base set last night. Pikachu's card section is a giant mess even without SWSH and SV cards... www.psypokes.com/dex/psydex/0...
In any case, it seems the show's staff may have been limited to using only the 21 Pokémon who had been revealed up until that point for these first few episodes. Those 21 Pokémon are:
First two images:
CoroCoro Special October 1999 Issue
Last two imgages:
CoroCoro October 1999 Issue
In the mean time, we also obviously have some Z-A content on the site and in the Psydex, and we're also trying to get the Picdex updated to be more compact and display Pokemon with alt forms fully. Unown is a nightmare! www.psypokes.com/dex/psydex/2...
Been hard at work trying to get the card scans updated, but something like 12,000 new cards have released since I last did this in 2018. The rest of the Sun and Moon sets are up now. But the early Sun and Moon sets also have awful scans so I've been working on replacing those before moving to SWSH.
Site is currently down while our webhost tries to figure out why. 🫠
My intellectual superior wishes to speak with me...
The Johto Times community forum, with various boards to discuss the newsletter and the Pokémon series. We also have a community section where you can share your fanworks!
After more than 2.5 years, Johto Times now has its own community forum! If you enjoyed visiting them during the late 90s and early 2000s, or are new and curious about them, consider checking us out!
forum.johtotimes.com
Please spread the word and help us reach more people!
【DB Update】 It's Rumor Guide update time! Today I take a deep dive into the idea that "Brock left the show because the show was afraid Americans would see him as a racist stereotype."
dogasu.bulbagarden.net/learn/rumor_...
My only victory this year 🥲
Our Grand Final is off to a strong start, with 6,849 votes (from 2,283 participants)
If you haven't already, please consider voting!
johtotimes.com/posts/featur...
Website: www.johtotimes.com
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Johto Times now has a website! We've been working very hard behind the scenes for the past few months getting this ready for its launch today.
It contains everything we've done so far, and we will slowly transition over from our current home, to our permanent home
More details:🧵
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-j... JustinBasil, aka Jason, a huge Pokémon TCG community member, has passed away. You can donate to help with funeral and related expenses.
Southern Islands Collection (binder)
Southern Islands Collection (binder, inside)
Southern Islands Collection (binder, inside)
Six colourful Southern Islands Collection post cards which contain all the artwork from the trading cards
For anyone who knows me, or has seen my messages here, I have wanted a Southern Islands collection for about 23 years. Yesterday I took the first step!
I purchased the empty binder, which came with its sleeve and the post cards. It's in great condition and only cost me £30!
Now to get the cards...
While Mythicals get their own pages, the author (Frost) thinks that Mythicals ARE Legendaries. They're like how a square is a square but also a rectangle.
This was originally intended to be one long guide, but eventually got split up three different sections (Legendaries, Sub Legendaries and Mythicals) to keep the page shorter than an encyclopedia.
After much work, we have three new guides in the Psylab detailing the various Legendary Pokemon in the series.
It has now been ten years since Satoru Iwata, former President and CEO of Nintendo, passed away. Last year, I wrote this feature to highlight his contributions to Pokémon.
He will always be loved and remembered
johto.substack.com/p/what-iwata...
I only had the Nintendo Powers with the fourth, fifth and sixth Pokemon Powers, and my favorite part of those little inserts was the manga-esque adaptations of the first six episodes of the anime...
And yes I misremembered that it was actually the January 1999 issue #116 of Nintendo Power, and the 6th and final Pokemon Power that had this insert. Despite the obvious VOLUME 6 at the bottom there...