Pokémon Mansion journals

An ancient engraving of Mew from the jungles where it was discovered

The Pokémon Mansion journals are a series of diary entries written by a Pokémon researcher (possibly Dr. Fuji) chronicling the events that led up to the creation and escape of Mewtwo. They are scattered around the Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island, the only remnants of the research that went into Mewtwo's creation.

Journal entries

A young Mewtwo growing in its test tube on New Island in the anime. The events of the opening segments of Mewtwo Strikes Back and The Birth of Mewtwo are heavily based on the Cinnabar journals.

July 5

Guyana, South America. A new Pokémon was discovered deep in the jungle.

July 10

We christened the newly discovered Pokémon Mew.

February 6

Mew gave birth. We named the newborn Mewtwo.

September 1

Mewtwo is far too powerful. We have failed to curb its vicious tendencies...

Trivia

• The Mansion journals can only be viewed in Generation I and Generation III as somewhere in between the time that these games and the Generation II and Generation IV games took place, the volcano on Cinnabar Island erupted, destroying everything on the island (apart from the Pokémon Center).