Heres a game whose world is a metaphor for a kid in a coma struggling to wake up after a car crash, the villain is trying to keep him asleep so that the cartoonish idillic dream world can continue in perpetuity, while the protagonist is trying to return color to the world so that the kid can wake up. Ultimately it's your decision whether he will wake up to a sad reality where his parents are dead or lie back down into a comforting lie and potentially die himself. The ending song is about someone steeling themselves to reject a comforting lie and face a harsh reality, playing over a series of semi-realistic drawings depicting the events before and after the game, eventually ending with the kid waking up in the hospital and choosing to be drawn back into life (get it that's the title)

The game then received too many complaints that this ending for children was too sad so they had to change it in later prints of the game to a scene of a kid playing with his sister in a cartoonish art style, simply being knocked out for a minute when he fell down and that's why there's a dream world.

Chapter 11 of Pokémon Kaleidoscope is here!

This chapter is a lot shorter than normal to balance out the previous super long chapter. And also for pacing reasons.

I got this idea for a cover and I kinda went all in haha. I'm very happy with how it looks! Look back at it after the chapter ends and see if you can catch some symbolism : )

Btw those weeds aren’t just random, one of the reasons I traveled all the way to Long Island was to research its flora as well, so those are all plants that can be found over there growing among rocks along seashores :) I just don’t know what they’re called haha.

Anyway, this is also the end of Volume 1, so like I said before we're gonna have a little break now so that I can catch up with buffers. Chapter 12 is about halfway done at this point, so I think a three month break will be enough. So Chapter 12 will release on August 29th at 9 P.M. UTC +3! See you then!

Also, starting with Chapter 12 in August, there will be a change with the release pace on ComicFury: chapters will be released page by page twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at least for the time being. Webtoon and tumblr will remain unchanged and ahead of ComicFury.

Read below the cut or at one of the links below:

https://pkmnkaleidoscope.thecomicseries.com/comics/197

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pok%C3%A9mon-kaleidoscope/ch-11-water/viewer?title_no=975926&episode_no=12

i've been meaning to draw my wol, elbiene, pre ARR... so here she is!