Hey everyone!

I've been a pokespe fan for a very long time (started reading in 2016 when Red Green Blue were first published here in my country), but I kept my distance from the series and online discussion, just reading whenever a new volume released here (like I discovered that the fans called the series pokespe somewhere in the last 4 years).

Recently the publisher released the sixth and final volume of the XY arc (for some reason Panini is condensing some arc to be published in fewer volumes than in the US) and I was wondering when they would start ORAS arc.

Normally they publish a new volume and immediately announce the release date of the next one, but this time the ORAS arc was nowhere to be seen. So i went digging and, to my surprise (even though I've been a fan of the series for almost 10 year now), the final volume of ORAS is yet to be released in Japan and they're REALLY behind on the story arcs (volume wise).

I genuinely thought that Panini had given up on pokespe and I was getting really bummed about it, but no, guess it's kind of a global thing.

Another thing that I caught on to was that the B2W2 arc lived through XY, ORAS and SMUSUM. Like, where they releasing chapters for both B2W2 and XY/ORAS/SMUSUM simultaneously during that period or I'm misunderstanding something?

I'm genuinely flabbergasted that I've loved this series for so so long and never knew the crazy shenanigans happening with its serialization.