Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Red (front) and Pikachu (back)
ポケットモンスター SPECIAL
(Poketto Monsutā Supesharu)
GenreAdventure, fantasy[1]
Manga
Written byHidenori Kusaka
Illustrated by
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
  • NA: Viz Media
  • SG: Shogakukan Asia
ImprintTentōmushi Comics
Magazine
  • CoroCoro Ichiban!
  • Pokémon Fan
  • Club Sunday (web) (former)
  • Sunday Webry (web)
  • Shogakukan's Separate Grade Learning Magazines (former)
Original runMarch 1997 – present
Volumes64
Manga parts
  1. R/G/B – OR/AS (64 volumes)
  2. OR/AS (3 volumes)
  3. S/M/US/UM (6 volumes)
  4. Sw/Sh (7 volumes)
  5. S/V

Pokémon Adventures (Japanese: ポケットモンスター SPECIAL, Hepburn: Poketto Monsutā Supesharu; lit. Pocket Monsters Special, commonly Pokespe (ポケスペ / ポケSP) for short) is a Japanese manga series based on the Pokémon media franchise. The series is written by Hidenori Kusaka. Mato was the illustrator for the first nine volumes. When Mato became ill and was unable to continue illustrating the series, Satoshi Yamamoto took over as the illustrator and still continues as the series' artist.

Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon media franchise, once stated that the series is closest to how he imagined the universe of Pokémon to be.[2]

Pokémon Adventures is translated into English in North America by Viz Media. As of May 2024, 63 volumes have been released, along with mini-volumes collecting arcs from "Black and White" onwards. In Southeast Asia, Singapore publisher Chuang Yi was translating Pokémon Adventures into English, and continued to translate new volumes up to volume 41. The company, however, entered voluntary liquidation in early 2014 and translation stopped. Shogakukan Asia now handles the series in Singapore.[3]

  1. ^ "Pokémon Adventures Collector's Edition Volume 1 Review". Anime UK News. April 26, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Pokémon Adventures Characters". Viz Media. Archived from the original on June 22, 2000.
  3. ^ "Products." Shogakukan Asia. Retrieved on June 2, 2015.
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