A lot of news has been revealed in the August Corocoro magazine regarding the new anime series and the games Diamond and Pearl.
First off, here's the Box art for Diamond/Pearl, which features the two new legendary Pokemon:
Their names:
Dairuga (for Diamond) and
Parukia (for Pearl)
Dairuga is known to be
Time-Ruling Pokemon, whereas
Parukia is the
Space-Ruling Pokemon
Diaruga will make its first apperance in ポケモンレンジャーと蒼海の王子 マナフィ (Pokémon Ranger to Umi no Ōji: Manaphy) which Premieres in theaters July 15th, 2006
Diamond and Pearl will be release in Japan on September 28th, 2006 and will cost 4800 Yen (~1,929.26 India Rupees)
Next up are the three new Pokemon revealed:
チェリム(Cherimu),
パチリムス(Pachirisu) and
ドラピオン(Dorapion) respectively
- チェリム (Cherimu): is a Grass Type Pokemon. It's abilitiy is Flower Gift. Chierimu has an attack called Worry Seed (なやみのタネ), which gives the opponent Insomnia.
- パチリス (Pachirisu): is a Electric type Pokemon and its species is Electricsquirrel. It knows the abilities Run Away and Pickup
- ドラピオン(Dorapion): is a Poison/Dark Type Pokemon. It's species is Monsterscorpion. It has either Battle Armor or a new ability called Snipe. Snipe increases the base value of an attack during critical hit. Dorapion can also learn Cross Poison (クロスポイズン), which has a high critical hit rate and can also induce Poisoning.
Also, some more information about the earlier revealed 4th Generation Pokemon:
- タマンタ (Tamanta): is a Water/Flying Type Pokemon. It's Abilities are Swift Swim and Water Absorb.
- ペラップ (Perap): is a Normal/Flying Type Pokemon. It's abilities are Keen Eye & a new Ability called Tottering Steps (ちどりあし), increases evasiveness when confused.
- ルカリオ (Lucario): Lucario's second ability is called Indomitable Heart (ふくつのこころ), increases speed whenever Lucario flinches. Lucario's trademark move, Aura Blast (はどうだん) is a Fighting-type move.
- ゴンベ (Gonbe): is able to learn Nature's Blessing (しぜんのめぐみ), which changes type and power depending on the berry it is carrying.
- マニューラ (Manyula): learns Seize (さしおさえ), which stops the opponent from using items.
- ブイゼル (Buoysel): learns Aqua Jet (アクアジェット), which is a Water-type attack with priority, similar to [b]Swift.
Other interesting news revealed were:
- Pokemon Pearl and Diamond will use Nintendo's online gaming service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. As with other games, you must get the Friend Code of your opponents before being able to connect. It appears that up to eight codes can be stored in the game. You can battle, trade Pokémon and use the microphone to talk over Wi-Fi in Diamond and Pearl. This functionality can be accessed via the Pokémon Wi-Fi Club, which is located in the previously revealed Pokémon Center basement. The DS Headset was also announced and comes out on September 24th for 1200 yen.
- The villainous organisation in Shinou is named Team Galaxy (ギンガ団). Among other things, they try to entice Pokémon to do their bidding, invite the professor to do research for them and steal people's Pokémon.
- The bottom touch screen on the DS has been confirmed for Menu use during battles.
- In Battle, the bag is organised as followed: HP/PP Recovery, Pokéballs, Status Recovery, Battle Use
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In the Anime section, the next series of Pokemon following Advanced Generation was revealed.
The series is known as
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl 
and will begin this Autumn in Japan, probably from the episode dated 28th September onwards. It is also known that the female trainer shown in the D/P anime poster, named Hikari, will be featured in this new series, but we yet don't have the info about the rest of the gang
(Ash, May, Max, Brock...)
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The Corocoro scans are posted below as thumbnails, click on them to enlarge:
