Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are new Pokémon games to be released for the Nintendo DS. Not much is known about them. The games have been officially announced by Nintendo. Pokémon (Japanese: ポケモン Pokemon, pronounced Poh-Kay-Mon) is a video game franchise, created by Satoshi Tajiri and published by Nintendo for several of their systems, most importantly the Game Boy. ... Third generation Pokémon This article deals with the Pokémon video games. ... First color of Nintendo DS Electric Blue Nintendo DS, the newest color released in America New Mew themed DS for Japan The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen portable handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories. ...

Coro Coro magazine has currently only confirmed five new 4th generation Pokémon:

• Munchlax, the pre-evolution of Snorlax
• Rukario, a legendary Pokémon
• Bonsly, the pre-evolution of Sudowoodo
• Manene, the pre-evolution of Mr. Mime
• Manyula, the evolved form of Sneasel

All appear in the 8th movie, Mew and the Wave Guiding Hero - Rukario, and Munchlax also appears in the 7th movie, Destiny Deoxys, and in the main Pokémon anime series, where one is captured by May, one of the main characters. Munchlax was the first of the 4th generation Pokémon to be revealed. ... Snorlax, known as Kabigon (カビゴン) in Japan, is listed as Pokémon #143 in the Pokédex. ... Rukario is the second-known Pokémon of the fourth-generation series. ... Bonsly, (known in Japan as Usohachi) is the pre-evolution of Sudowoodo. ... Sudowoodo, a fictional character, is a basic Rock-type Pokémon that first appeared in the Pokemon Gold and Silver video games, and is also available in Crystal, and Ruby and Sapphire. ... Manene is the pre-evolution of Mr. ... Mr. ... Manyula is the evolved form of Sneasel being stronger and faster. ... This Pokémon-related article is a stub. ... Mew and the Wave Guiding Hero - Rukario is an animated movie currently in postproduction. ... The main characters of the Advanced Generation: Brock, Ash, May, Max, along with Mudkip, Treecko, Pikachu, and Torchic. ...

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are currently set to be released in Japan in November 2005.

Pokémon Diamond was also the name of an unauthorized bootleg version of the Japanese Game Boy Color game Telefang. This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The Game Boy Color (also referred to as GBC) was Nintendos successor to the Game Boy. ...

External links

Coro Coro magazine scans

• Munchlax in Destiny Deoxys (http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/n04_0514_corocoro_lg.jpg)
• Munchlax in movie 8 and Rukario in shadow (http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/n05_0212_corocoro_lg.jpg)
• Rukario (http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/n05_0318_page01_lg.jpg)
• Rukario (http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/n05_0318_page02_lg.jpg)
• Manyula, Bonsly, and Manene (http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/n05_0413_corocoropg01_lg.jpg)

Useful Websites

• The new Pokémon (http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/pokemon.shtml)