Hello everyone! Sorry for the very long absence, things have been a little hectic the past few years, and I'm afraid I only have bad news. With Eclipse having rolled out fully back in 2019, the team here (as I'm sure it's been in other groups) is struggling to keep up with notifications for the group. We don't get any sort of notice when there's comments left, submissions made, anything. The group pages also look exactly the same prior to Eclipse rolling out and I don't know if they'll ever get updated to match the rest of the site. A lot of features are still pretty broken.
So for the time being, I would like to formally put this group on hiatus until further notice. It's been a long journey and a lot of fun, but until DA fixes group functionality there's not much we can do. :(
I do hope that for those that have gotten the Diamond and Pearl remakes are enjoying them! I'm probably going with Pearl but have to wait until after the holidays. I'm also very much looking forward to Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
For those of you that still play Pokemon Go, feel free to add me! 0970 7174 7541 I hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday season!
Hello all!  It's been quite a long time since I've addressed the group, and I figured it was high time to do so!

First things first, some bad news.

Since we periodically go through and remove images that have been put into storage, it has come to the staff's attention that some users seem to be using the group for the sole purpose to advertise their adoptables, then are either storing/deleting or pulling the images from the group once they're sold.
We staff have decided that this is no longer going to be allowed.  Advertising is okay if it's kept to our comment section on the main page, but to use the group for something like that isn't a very nice thing to do.
From now on, if you want to submit adoptables to the group, we ask that the artwork not be removed after all are sold off so that others can still enjoy the artwork.  If we catch users doing this from here on out, we'll issue a verbal warning.  If it continues to happen, removal from the group is the only option.
We apologize that it had to come to this, but it's been happening far too frequently as of recent for us to ignore it any longer.

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Now, onto the good news.
It seems there's a new Mystery Dungeon game coming out later this month: Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon!
I've always been a fan of the PMD spin-off series, and while I personally wasn't as impressed with the previous title (Gates to Infinity) as I was with the others, I have high hopes for this new entry in the series.  c:

Some more good news, I'm toying with the idea of bringing contests to the group.  I'll have to discuss it with the other staff first, but I think it might bring back some life to this group.  I'll hopefully be able to have details ironed out at a later date.

Hope everyone had a good Halloween!
~ Burichu
Hello everyone!  It's been a couple months so another update is in order.  c:

Since this seems to be a growing problem lately, I would just like to take a moment to remind everyone that we do not accept submissions of regular Pokemon unless a Gijinka is pictured with them.
We've been getting a surge of submissions with normal Pokemon in them and we cannot accept them here.  We are strictly a Gijinka group, and there are plenty of other Pokemon groups around DeviantART that will take them.
If you're new to this group, please please please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our Rules widget located on our profile page!



Now that that's out of the way, there has been another reveal for Generation 6: four new Pokemon have been released to the public!

- Helioptile, a dual Electric/Normal-type lizard
- Fletchling, a dual Normal/Flying-type robin (bird)
- Pancham, a Fighting-type panda
- Gogoat, a Grass-type goat with an added feature: you can ride it around in one of the cities

What are your thoughts on the new Pokemon?  Personally I'm looking forward to Pancham, I know a lot of Pokemon fans have been waiting for a Panda to finally make its' way into the game.

That's it for now!
Hello everyone!
I'm sure most of you have heard the news, but for those who haven't, Generation 6 of Pokemon has been announced!  There will be two new games, Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, set to be released this October!
So far, the starters and the two main legendaries have been revealed, Xerneas & Yveltal.  Which starter will you choose: Chespin (Grass), Fennekin (Fire) or Froakie (Water)?

Also, in light of this announcement, we will start taking submissions for official Generation 6 Pokemon (this means for the time being, only the three starters and the two legendaries that have been revealed.  NO Fakemon!).  For now, they will have to be housed in the Featured folder until we can figure out if we can ever add more folders to our gallery.

I hope everyone has a good week, and is looking forward to the new games! c:
Hello everyone! It's been a long time since the last blog post.

I'd just like to take this time to post a small reminder to those of you submitting crossover images as of recent.
While we do freely affiliate with crossover groups, we do not accept crossovers into our gallery.  We made the decision awhile ago that we wanted to keep the focus of this group solely on Pokemon, and it seems we've had a lot of people recently either not reading or ignoring our submission rules.

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In other news, Black 2 & White 2 came out last month.  Those of you who got it, what did you think?
I'm still working through White 2 on and off, but I think it's really good.  It definitely fits in well as a sequel.

Also, for those of you who are fans of the Mystery Dungeon series, there is a new game coming out!  'Magnagate and the Infinite Labyrinth' is going to be released exclusively for the 3DS, and utilizes fully 3D effects in the animation.  I'm pretty excited, how about you?  c:

Quick sidenote: our group's subscription will be running out in a couple of months (February), and we'd like to keep it, so if you have any spare points to donate and would like to help, please do!
I think that's it for now!

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