Pokémon Pocket Monsters
Pokémon Pocket Monsters, known in Japan as simply Pocket Monsters, is one of the first Pokémon manga to come out in Japan and ran for 13 volumes. In Singapore, it was published by Chuang Yi in English in 2005 and retitled Pokémon Pocket Monsters. The first series is set in Kanto and Johto, while the new series were based on Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos and Alola. The manga is written.
On October 11, 2019, it was announced that Pocket Monsters manga ended its regular publication in Bessatsu CoroCoro after 23 years, being replaced by Machito Gomi's manga adaptation of the then-current series of the Pokémon television series. However, Kosaku Anakubo continues to write and illustrate new, shorter chapters, first for the quarterly CoroCoro Aniki and CoroCoro Online under the moniker Pocket Monsters Aniki.
Plot
The manga follows Red, a young boy competing with a rival, Green, to complete the Pokédex and become the master of Pokémon. In this manga, Pokémon are capable of human speech. It is thought that a Clefairy is the main character, albeit just a follower of Red. It is obnoxious but lovable, whose big mouth sometimes gets it into trouble. Surprisingly enough, it comes up with clever ideas to help Red and Pikachu.In the first few manga books, Red's team consists of Pikachu and Clefairy only. However, later on, Red gains a valuable companion in Tyrogue as well. Pikachu himself cannot talk.
The story also goes to the Johto region, where Red gets introduced to trainers Gold and Silver, supposedly based on the video game characters. It goes to Hoenn in the last volume, where Red thinks of receiving a Torchic and abandoning Clefairy. The manga continues under the name of Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire, starting the volume number from 1.
Characters
- Red : Charged with completing the Pokémon Zukan, he is Green's rival.
- Clefairy : Red's first Pokémon ally. It is very vulgar and likes to do 'sick' things to attract attention.
- Pikachu: Clefairy's younger cousin who joins Red and Clefairy. He is unable to talk.
- Green : Red's rival.