Pokémon Legends: Z-A Leak Hints at New Legendary, More Megas, But is it Real?
Another Pokémon Legends: Z-A leak has arrived but trainers are skeptical.
Pokémon fans are desperate for more information on Z-A, which was given no love in the latest Nintendo Direct streams. Not much is known about this game aside from a very cryptic trailer, leading many fans to dig up leaks. The latest leak hints at a possible new Pokémon but trainers are trying to debunk it already.
On 4Chan, a leaked image appeared with some text that pointed to Fujiwara Maiko being involved in the game. Maiko is a graphic designer for Pokémon that has recently done a lot of art for Scarlet and Violet as well as some of the cards.
The next portion reads: Legendary Pocket Monster squirrel Grass/Kaminari. This essentially hinted that the Z-A design was meant to represent a Legendary Pokémon that was Grass and Lightning (the translation of "kaminari"). But this had trainers skeptical. One translator created a YouTube video debunking this image.
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They said: "The correct Japanese for Electric type is 'denki (でんき).' It’s also odd that grass is written in English."
It seems OP was trying to imply a Grass/Lightning type 'mon but the wording and translation left trainers shaking their heads. This also made the rest of the leak seem doubtful, which is unfortunate since a river traveling under the city seems like a very cool feature.
4Chan “Leak”
— PokeSuutamie (@PokeSuutamie) September 4, 2024
Quick translation
The title
藤原麻衣子
Pocket Monster Z-A
The Japanese kanji read Fujiwara Maiko.
Fujiwara Maiko is a graphic designer/artist for Pokemon.
Her first contributions was for the HGSS games, and her most recent was as 3D graphics section director for… pic.twitter.com/n384TzQr8c
Here are some other leaks related to Z-A that have fans a bit more convinced.
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