Originally posted by Torchickens
I know that this is likely a fake, supposedly prototype Pocket Monsters Red/Green sprites (or perhaps Pocket Monsters 2) dated "1997, 12", and found on 2ch though I am curious. Can anybody translate this image?
In the concept art for Pocket Monsters Red and Green/Capsule Monsters there were actually a handful of entirely different prototype/unused Pokémon. Some were shown in concept art for Capsule Monsters like Papyo~. More about that here.

They do not remain in the coding of Pocket Monsters Red and Green; but there are a few Missingno. (9/39) with unique cries instead of blank data filled with pitch 0 Nidorino (base cry 0) cries. http://tcrf.net/User tag019/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue_sandbox.
Stag019 thinks that one of the cries are reminiscent of Togepi. Two of these Missingno. 0x5E and 0x5F also have cries resembling Dragonair and Dragonite respectively. While 0x51 sounds a little like Pidgey/Poliwag, etc.
I found a website (see Red/Green section) with information about other unused Pokémon like a mock-up Poliwrath and Dragonair, and a family replacing Weedle/Kakuna/Butterfree (Kokana/Kosanagi/???) where the mock-up evolved into a giant beetle with four arms instead. These sketches apparently appeared on Game Freak's official website at one time, though I haven't been able to find the original page. You can find the sketches hosting on that website though, like these three (the Dragonair prototype, giant beetle Pokémon and Nyosuka, the Poliwrath/Toad? prototype):

It's not fake, I actually translated this on Reddit for lulz, but I can't find it anymore. Here you go again:
Gathered from Gamefreak's official website in Dec. 1997:
Picture 1: From left to right, we see Kokaana, Kasanagii, and Name Unknown.
Picture 2: From left to right, we see Nyoromo [Poliwag], Nyoroppi, and Nyoosuka.
PIcture 3: Hakuryuu's [Dragonaire] final form?!
"Could these be some of the new Pokémon appearing in Pokémon 2?!" ...is what the authors of this magazine exclaimed, jumping to conclusions. (Sorry about that!)
They're actually early designs for Beedle [Weedle] (the first picture), Nyoromo [Poliwag] (the second picture) and Hakuryuu [Dragonaire] (the third picture). It seems that these characters that appeared in the initial Pokémon game were once planned to look like this.
Why were they changed...?!
"We wanted Beedle's [Weedle] final evolution to be cool, so that's why we decided on Spear [Beedrill]. It was the same with Nyoromo's [Poliwag] final evolution, Nyorobon [Poliwrath]. Nyoosuka, in the second picture, doesn't look very strong, so players who did their best to evolve their Nyoromo [Poliwag] wouldn't have been too happy if we'd used him.
- Atsuko Nishida (Designer)
Dragonaire didn't undergo a large transformation, but its final design is stylish and refined. They really poured a lot of love and attention to detail into each individual Pokémon, and ended up creating the cool and much-loved characters of today!
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