List of Pokémon Adventures volumes (1–20)
Pokémon Adventures, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters Special (ポケットモンスター SPECIAL Poketto Monsutā SPECIAL), is a Japanese manga series published by Shogakukan. The story arcs of the series are based on most of the Pokémon video games released by Nintendo and, as such, the main characters of the series have the name of their video game. Since the manga is based on the video games, there are some delays with the serialization since the authors need to have seen the games in order to continue with the plot.[1]
The series is written by Hidenori Kusaka, it is illustrated by Mato during the first nine volumes, while Satoshi Yamamoto starts illustrating it since the tenth volume. The Japanese publisher Shogakukan has been releasing the individual chapters in tankōbon format with the first one being released on August 8, 1997 and currently, 52 tankōbon have been released.[2][3]
The distributing company Viz Media has licensed the series for English in the United States. Viz released the first seven volumes of the series in tankōbon format from July 6, 2000[4] to January 2003[5] as well as in magazine format.[6] During 2006 they released two volumes with the name of The Best of Pokémon Adventures which are various chapters from the first two arcs put into one book.[7][8] On June 1, 2009, Viz restarted publishing the tankōbon volumes, and are now up to volume 9 as of October 2010. Volume 10 is scheduled for December 2010, and volumes 11, 12 and volume 30 of the DP arc (known as volume 1 of Platinum in Viz's release) are all scheduled for 2011 as well. However, these releases feature both visual and dialogue edits not found in the original English release and original Japanese tankobon release.[9]
Volumes 1–20
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1 | Desperado Pikachu | August 8, 1997[2] ISBN 4-09-149331-9 | July 6, 2000[4][10] ISBN 978-1569315071 | |
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After being defeated by the Legendary Pokémon Mew in a Pokémon Battle, Trainer Red goes on a journey to improve his skills using Pokédex from Professor Oak to analyze the Pokémon. While capturing new creatures to help him, he challenges the Kanto's Gym Leaders with some of them working for the criminal organization Team Rocket who are behind a series of terrorist actions within the region. Additionally, he forms a rivalry with Blue, Oak's grandson who is a Trainer whose methods to treat the Pokémon highly differ from his, and often helps him to fight the criminal group. | ||||
2 | Legendary Pokémon | December 16, 1997[11] ISBN 4-09-149332-7 | December 6, 2000[12][13] ISBN 978-1569315088 | |
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Red meets a thief named Green who is investigating Team Rocket's action to capture Mew and finish its clone's creation, Mewtwo. The two join forces to save Mew from Team Rocket, and go on their different roads. Red rescues an Eevee that is victim of Team Rocket's experiments to manipulate its multiple evolutions. Team Rocket continues their experiments on Pokémon, this time searching for Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno. Upon returning to his home in Pallet Town, Red learns that Professor Oak has been kidnapped by Team Rocket. | ||||
3 | Saffron City Siege | May 28, 1998[14] ISBN 4-09-149333-5 | August 5, 2001[15][16] ISBN 978-1569315606 | |
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Red and Blue go to Saffron City where Team Rocket's hideout, Silph Co., is located to rescue Oak, while Green arrives to steal a Legendary Pokémon. Upon their arrival, the three are attacked by the Gym Leaders Lt. Surge, Sabrina, and Koga who are using the trio of birds captured by Team Rocket. After the three Gym Leaders are defeated, Red, Blue and Green free the birds from the group's headquarters, while Oak is saved by his grandson. Red continues his journey, helping Gym Leader Blaine to calm the Mewtwo created by Team Rocket and defeat the Gym Leader Giovanni, who is in fact Team Rocket's leader. Red, Blue and Green eventually fight in the Pokémon League Championships where Green is defeated by Oak for stealing his Squirtle, while Red becomes the champion after battling Blue. | ||||
4 | A Trainer in Yellow | December 16, 1998[17] ISBN 4-09-149334-3 | January 9, 2002[18][19] ISBN 978-1569317105 | |
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A year after his victory in the Pokémon League Championships, Red disappears after receiving a challenge from Bruno, a member from the group Elite Four, and his Pikachu, nicknamed Pika, appears in Oak's laboratory. Pika is later recruited by a young Trainer named Yellow who starts searching for Red's location after she uses her powers to heal Pika. Upon meeting a researcher named Bill, Yellow is attacked by Elite Four member Lorelei who wants to steal Pika. Yellow manages to escape but Pika is later taken by a Trainer possessed by a Ghost-type Pokémon. Blue and the Gym Leaders defeat him with the former taking Yellow on training. On the way, Blue reveals that how before the last year's tournaments, he briefly fought Elite Four's Agatha who used Ghost-type Pokémon. | ||||
5 | The Gym Leaders' Alliance | April 26, 1999[20] ISBN 4-09-149335-1 | January 9, 2002[21][22] ISBN 978-1569315637 | |
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After finishing practicing with Blue, both Yellow and Green find clues about Red, believing he is still alive. In Vermillion City, Yellow meets the Elite Four leader Lance who reveals the group's plan to eliminate all mankind except them as a result of the pollution they have caused. Surviving a battle with him, Yellow meets Gym Leaders Brock and Blaine who discovered an ice cocoon in the shape of Red, with the real one having managed to escape. Shortly afterwards, the Elite Four's Pokémon start attacking all of Kanto's cities, leaving Yellow, Blue and Blaine as the only Trainers able to go to the group's hideout in Cerise Island with the other Gym Leaders protecting their cities. | ||||
6 | The Cave Campaign | November 27, 1999[23] ISBN 4-09-149336-X | September 5, 2002[24][25] ISBN 978-1591160281 | |
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Bruno remembers his fight against Red, which was interrupted by Agatha and Lorelei who wanted Red to give them information about Giovanni's Gym Badge from Viridian City. Following Red's decision not to join them, the trio beat him up until freezing his body with Pika being ordered to escape. Later, Yellow, Green, and Bill go to Cerise Island where they join the alliance of Team Rocket's Gym leaders and Blue and Blaine to stop the Elite Four. Splitting in pairs to locate the four members, Blue and Koga find Agatha, while Green and Sabrina encounter Lorelei, and Lt. Surge and Bill fight Bruno. With the Elite Four members taking the upperhand, Red arrives to take Surge's and Bill's position in their battle. | ||||
7 | The Pokémon Elite | April 26, 2000[26] ISBN 4-09-149336-X | January 2003[5][27] ISBN 978-1421530604 | |
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Yellow and Blaine reach Lance, but Blaine faints when he is unable to keep using Mewtwo. Yellow continues fighting Lance alone, but is unable to defeat his Dragon-type Pokémon. During their fight, Yellow is revealed to be a girl from Viridian who Red once saved and following his disappearance, Green told her to save him after seeing she possessed psychic powers. Green also gave Yellow a straw hat to cover her identity. Meanwhile, Red, Blue, and Green defeat their respective opponents, leaving the Trainers to search for Yellow. Yellow is assisted by Giovanni. Lance manages to steal Earth Badge in order to use the whole set to control a Legendary Pokémon to eliminate mankind. Receiving the forces from Red, Blue and Green, Yellow manages to defeat Lance, freeing the Legendary Pokémon and ending the Elite Four's menace. | ||||
8 | — | August 8, 2001[28] ISBN 4-09-149338-6 | August 3, 2010[29] ISBN 978-1421530611 | |
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Gold, a Trainer from the Johto Region, goes on an errand with a friend to meet Professor Oak, but on the way he meets a Trainer named Silver who steals Professor Elm's Totodile. Gold encounters him, but he is knocked out by members from the Team Rocket. After Silver defeats them and escapes, Gold decides to stop Silver and receives a Pokédex from Professor Oak to analyze the Pokémons he finds. Investigating the Violet City's Bellsprout Tower, Gold manages to fight Silver but is unable to stop him. Nevertheless, Gold does not give up and continues his adventures, befriending the Johto's Gym Leaders on the way and fighting more members from Team Rocket and their new leader known as Mask of Ice. | ||||
9 | — | August 8, 2001[30] ISBN 4-09-149339-4 | October 5, 2010[31] ISBN 978-1421530628 | |
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Despite suffering defeat at Mask of Ice's hands, Gold continues travelling around Johto, participating in competitions and managing hatch a Togepi. He is sent on a mission to find Gym Leader Jasmine who disappeared after a supposed earthquake. He finds her unconscious in a lighthouse where he and Silver are ambushed by the Team Rocket. After fending off the criminals, Gold challenges Silver to a Battle to tell him about his and Team Rocket's objectives. Although Silver wins, he reveals that Team Rocket wants to find the Legendary Bird, Ho-Oh through their attacks with him opposing them as they share the same objectives. Gold allies with Silver and the two are opposed by Mask of Ice, who kidnapped Silver as a kid and wants to kill him for betrayal. Despite their efforts, Gold and Silver are defeated. Meanwhile in Kanto, Red decides to travel at Mt. Silver to heal his limbs, severely weakened by Lorelei's ice, while Yellow decides to investigate about Ho-oh. | ||||
10 | — | August 8, 2001[32] ISBN 4-09-149340-8 | December 7, 2010[33] ISBN 978-1421530635 | |
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Professor Oak gives the third Johto Pokédex to Crystal, in order gather data from all the Pokémon that exist. Crystal accepts the quest in exchange of renovating an academy where she was working. During her work, Crystal finds one of the Legendary Beasts, Suicune and decides to track it and capture it. Running around Johto, Suicune faces several Gym Leaders, but none of them are able to defeat it. Crystal later finds herself competing with a Trainer named Eusine to see who will capture Suicune and both end joining forces to stop Team Rocket members from capturing it. | ||||
11 | — | December 25, 2001[34] ISBN 4-09-149711-X | February 1, 2011[35] ISBN 978-1421535456 | |
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Crystal fights Suicune in Tin Tower, but she is defeated and Suicune escapes. Rather than continuing tracking the Legendary Pokémon, Crystal continues training to improve her skills, while other Gym Leaders face another two Legendary Beasts, Entei and Raikou, which also impossible to capture. Crystal later meets Yellow who was assigned by Professor Oak to help her capture the three Legendary Beasts that have appeared in Johto and is revealed to have been the one who awoke them from their sleep. Yellow joins Crystal in her journey and go to the Whirl Islands. | ||||
12 | — | April 6, 2002[36] ISBN 4-09-149712-8 | April 5, 2011[37] ISBN 978-1421535463 | |
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Saved by Entei from Mask of Ice, Gold and Silver awake in sea cave located at the Whirl Islands and are collected Lt. Surge. However, Lugia (Previously Yellow release from Lance control) appears and goes berserk, attacking the area. During Lugia's attack, Gold and Silver meet Crystal and use their starter Pokémons to capture Lugia. When Lugia escapes, Silver leaves to meet his comrade Lance, while Gold joins Crystal. Meanwhile, the Pokémon Association decides to arrange a tournament between Kanto's and Johto's Gym Leaders in order to promote their challenges. After learning of the competition, the Gym Leaders prepare to go the Pokémon League for the competition with Kanto's Cerulean City's leader Misty capturing Suicune on the way. Gold and Crystal get to the stadium before the tournament starts, believing Mask of Ice is one of the sixteen participants. | ||||
13 | — | August 28, 2002[38] ISBN 4-09-149713-6 | June 7, 2011[39] ISBN 978-1421535470 | |
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The tournaments begins with both Kanto and Johto reaching a tie following five battles. Meanwhile, Lance reveals to Silver that Mask of Ice wishes to control time with his underlings searching for Lugia and Ho-oh although Green, Silver's adoptive sister, already stole the wings required to controlled them. Silver then goes to the Pokémon League after learning of Gold's belief with the tournament current ongoing. Team Rocket invades and control the stadium with Mask of Ice now having Ho-oh and Lugia under his control. He goes to attack Kurt, a famous Poké Ball creator, to having create a GS Ball - to capture time. | ||||
14 | — | January 28, 2003[40] ISBN 4-09-149714-4 | August 2, 2011[41] ISBN 978-1421535487 | |
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Revealing themselves as the respective Trainers of Entei and Raikou, Lt. Surge and Blaine join Misty and Suicune fight against Lugia and Ho-oh. Mask of Ice easily escapes, but during an encounter with Gold, his mask is removed, revealing his identity as Mahogany's Gym Leader, Pryce. Green searches for Pryce but is attacked by his underlings, but the wing are actually in Yellow's straw hat. Green attacks Pryce's underlings with Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres which are later used alongside Red and Blue to fight Pryce's legendary birds. Meanwhile, Pryce completes the GS Ball and escapes after defeating Gold, who still does not give up on stopping him. With help from the Pokémon Association, Lugia and Ho-oh are released from Pryce's control, leaving him to fight all Pokédex holders with Gold's exception. | ||||
15 | — | July 28, 2003[42] ISBN 4-09-149715-2 | March 5, 2013[43] ISBN 978-1421535494 | |
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At Ilex Forest using Kurt's GS Ball, Pryce managed to capture Celebi, a Time Travel Pokémon that controls time. With the help of Rainbow Wing and Silver Wing (attahed at Yellow's straw-hat), Gold able to escape from the trap. Gold, Silver and Crystal enters the shrine with both wings - to track down Pryce as he intend to changing the past where La Glace (Lapras) can be reunited with its parents. Gold attacks Pryce alone with a newborn Pichu (hatched from Red's Pika and Yellow's Chu Chu), and the other Pokédex holders support outside the shrine, to free Celebi from GS Ball and the same time will cause Pryce to be lost in time. After Team Rocket's defeat, Crystal completes Kanto's and Johto's Pokédex, while Gold and Red train together at Mt. Silver. The story then moves to the Hoenn region. A young boy named Ruby who wishes to become the champion Pokémon Contest. Unable to handle the pressure from his father - new Hoenn Gym Leader Norman - to fight Pokémon battles, Ruby runs away from home. And thus meet a girl named Sapphire who lives in the cave, and her dream is to defeat all the Gym Leaders in Hoenn Region. The two make a deal to pursue their dreams for 80 days, then reunite where they first met. The two begin on their separate ways, Ruby helping a frail boy named Wally to capture his first Pokémon, while Sapphire heads to Rusboro City to face the Gym Leader Roxanne. | ||||
16 | From Dewford to Slateport ムロからカイナヘ | October 28, 2003[44] ISBN 4-09-149716-0 | May 7, 2013[45] ISBN 978-1421535500 | |
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Sapphire wins her first fight and proceeds to search for the Trainer Steven Stone from an errand. Both Ruby and Sapphire end up in Dewford Town where the former meets Steven during an investigation and the latter fights Gym Leader Brawly. Learning that Ruby met Steven, Sapphire forces him to join in her journey until finding him. Following an encounter with two members from the criminal organization Team Magma - Courtney and Tabitha, which managed to get Scanner from Abandoned Ship. The pair splits up again after reaching at Slateport City. Ruby is held hostage in another attack by Team Magma in an assault towards a Hoenn researcher. | ||||
17 | Battle Between Father and Son 親子の戦い | February 28, 2004[46] ISBN 4-09-149717-9 | July 2, 2013[47] ISBN 978-1421535517 | |
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Revealing himself to be a skilled fighter, Ruby fights Team Magma and escapes after the group stole Submarine Explorer 1 from the researchers. Meanwhile, Sapphire wins her third Gym Badge while helping Gym Leader Wattson to investigate an underground power plant - New Mauville. Team Magma's interactions with Ruby help Norman to track down his son who is still completing Pokémon contests. When Norman finds Ruby, he attacks Ruby for running away from home, but Ruby fights back to prove his determination. As the fight is interrupted, Norman allows Ruby to continue his journey and left. Back to Sapphire's journey, she finds that Team Aqua, another criminal organization, kidnapped Lavaridge's Gym Leader Flannery to know about her to trick a scientist with their mission. Team Aqua then proceeds to stop the volcanic activities from Mt. Chimney, starting the awakening of Legendary Pokémon. | ||||
18 | The Warriors Gather 戦士の集合 | June 19, 2004[48] ISBN 4-09-149718-7 | September 3, 2013[49] ISBN 978-1421535524 | |
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In order to achieve to awaken the Legendary Pokémon Kyogre, Team Aqua put into a cease the volcanic activity at Mt. Chimney. Sapphire and Flannery tries to stop them, but is unsuccessful. Being frustrated, Sapphire head from Lavaridge Town to Fortree City. Meanwhile, Ruby helps trapped workers when Team Magma causes Rusturf Tunnel to collapse. Then he manages to win all categories at Normal Rank Pokémon Contest. But while at Fallabour Town, Ruby meets Wallace, and decided insists to becoming Wallace's pupil. Later, Ruby and Sapphire meet at Fortree City, where all the Gym Leaders (except Norman, Tate and Liza) were gather for an emergency meeting. | ||||
19 | Fighting Against Evil 巨悪共闘 | October 28, 2004[50] ISBN 4-09-149719-5 | November 5, 2013[51] ISBN 978-1421535531 | |
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Ruby arrives to the meeting of Gym Leaders, where Sapphire discovers his abilities for Pokémon Battles. However, Ruby refuses to aid the Gym Leaders and leaves, much to Sapphire's anger. At Lilycove City, Wallace follows Ruby in secret and takes part at Hyper Rank Pokémon Contest. He scolds Ruby for his selfish behaviour and causes Ruby's Feebas lost for Beauty Category as a result. In the meantime where Maxie and Archie decide to join forces and enters to Seafloor Cavern to awake Groudon and Kyogre, which starts a natural disaster throughout Hoenn region. Soon after Sapphire discovered Relicanth, Ruby decides to join her and told its ability - which allows to travel into Seafloor Cavern where both team leaders are current located. | ||||
20 | The Third Journey 第3の旅立ち | April 26, 2005[52] ISBN 4-09-149720-9 | January 7, 2014[53] ISBN 978-1421535548 | |
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Wally prepares his training with Norman at Sky Tower. At Seafloor Cavern where Ruby and Sapphire manage to defeat Team Magma Leader Maxie and Team Aqua Leader Archie. However, the two leaders were being controlled by the Red Orb and the Blue Orb which cause berserk. Meanwhile, the Gym Leaders gather their strength to stop Ancient Pokémon - but the situation getting worst when both Admins of Team Magma and Team Aqua shows up. Finally it becomes clear as Groudon and Kyogre, together Ruby and Sapphire were drag out - were head to Sootopolis City in the process. |
References
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- 1 2 ポケットモンスタースペシャル / 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
- ↑ ポケットモンスタースペシャル / 40 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- 1 2 "Pokémon Adventures, Volume 1: Desperado Pikachu". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- 1 2 "Pokémon Adventures, Volume 7: Yellow Caballero:The Pokémon Elite". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- ↑ "POKéMON ADVENTURES". www.vizkids.com. Archived from the original on August 5, 2003. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
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- ↑ ポケットモンスタースペシャル / 18 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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- ↑ ポケットモンスタースペシャル / 19 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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