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The primary difference between it and [[Pokémon (anime)|the anime]] is that instead of [[The Protagonist|the main character]] going to a new region with different companions, [[The Protagonist]] (who usually travels without any other human accompanying them) changes every time [[The Protagonist|the previous protagonist's]] story is through. It's also somewhat violent, as it is one of the few adaptations where you actually see [[Mons|Pokémon]] and people get badly wounded and even killed.
The [[Manga]] series is authored by Hidenori Kusaka. It was illustrated by Mato for the first 9 volumes, and since volume 10, has been illustrated by Satoshi Yamamoto. It is published by Shōgakukan under the Ladybird Comics Special imprint. In the United States, [[Viz Media]] released only the first two chapters (corresponding to the Generation I games) originally, though they have started publishing the series again (starting with reprints of Gen I) and in order to catch up has launched Gen IV as a second series, ''Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum''. The Generation V chapter, ''Pokémon Black and White'' (marked as a "Pokémon Adventures special edition"), is currently being published with its chapters taken directly from the magazines and released in mini-volumes. For the chapters Viz hasn't gotten to yet, the go-to official English translation is the [[Singapore|Singaporean]] version by [http://www.chuangyi.com.sg/new2/ecatalogtitle.php?title=POKÉMON+ADVENTURES Chuang Yi Comics]{{Dead link}}.
While there are multiple other ''Pokémon'' manga, this is the most well known (at least in English-speaking circles). If you see a ''Pokémon'' fan talk about "the manga", this is probably what they are referring to. (Some of the other manga are listed on the main ''[[Pokémon]]'' page.)
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** The Unova film director bears an uncanny resemblance to Kusaka himself.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Seriously, who ''wouldn't'' love to be named Gold, Silver or Platinum? Black and Diamond are also pretty cool names.
* [[Back
** {{spoiler|As well as Guile Hideout/Archie, though he was just missing and presumed dead.}}
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Played straight in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113013729/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_32/Pokemon-Adventures-v32-c358---034 page in volume 32.]
* [[Badass]]: Norman.
** Son runs away from home? Have a gorilla swing A STAIRCASE at him.
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*** Illiteracy is considered to be the inability to read at or above an eight grade level in the United States, so there is no lost in translation at all.
*** She could just have dyslexia. It makes sense with her frustration at trying to read the letters.
* [[Book Safe]]: Roxanne uses a book to hide her Pokeballs.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: At the end of the RGB Mt. Moon arc (in the original Viz release), Red carries an unconscious Misty out of the caves. She comes to, finds herself covered in dirt, and punches Red because she thinks he's groping her. The reprint instead extends the "dirty" complaint as the reason for the punch.
** They also cleaned up the Blue vs Sabrina fight; the re-release has Blue insult Sabrina's fashion sense instead of her "[[A-Cup Angst|health]]", and with the [[Clothing Damage]] edited out it looked like she pulled Jigglypuff and Clefairy [[Ass Pull|out of her rear, so to speak]] instead of from her [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]].
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** The majority of the protagonists in their introduction arcs. Red for example becomes a butt monkey to his own Pikachu.
* [[Canon Foreigner|Canon Foreigners]]: Yellow and Emerald do not have game counterparts.
** Blue was based [https://web.archive.org/web/20130306164205/http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/f/f3/Kensugiart4.png on] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130306164204/http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/6f/Sugimori_Starter_artwork.png artwork] from when the First Gen was to have a gender option. When FR/LG were released, her artwork was retooled to make her the equivalent of the female character there.
* [[Call Back]]/[[Continuity Nod]]: Quite frequently are past events brought up in the present, even if said events were hundreds of chapters ago.
** Way, way back in the RBG arc, Red was led around the Safari Zone by a mechanical Pidgey. Hundreds of chapters later, there are mechanical Starly guides in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier. It also turns out that there are mechanical Hoothoot in the Johto Safari Zone.
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** In HGSS, Bugsy looks even ''more'' feminine.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: The rival is Green. The girl is Blue. But in the published English version, this is reversed because of the way the Blue and Green version were released as one, making the default name for the first gen's rival Blue.
** [[Dub
** There's some trouble with the manga-exclusive characters who of course have no English name. Some go with Coronis's translations while others go with Chuang Yi's. Though Chuang Yi is technically the "official" version, they have given new names to characters that ''did'' actually have official English names. Many stick to Coronis's as his translations are much more faithful.
** Viz getting back in the game as a third (and second "official") translation could complicate matters.
* [[Dub
** The Sinnoh Trio started their journey on September 28th, the day the ''Diamond and Pearl'' games were released in Japan. The Viz translators caught on to the reference and changed it to April 22nd, the day the games were released in America. However, this shows that Viz doesn't read ahead, as of this point of the story winter is rapidly approaching Sinnoh, necessitating the change into the ''Platinum'' outfits. Apparently in Sinnoh, it starts snowing in May.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: ''Tons.''
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* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Crys mainly using her legs to throw PokéBalls.
* [[Fallen Angel]]: {{spoiler|Cyrus; there's even a shot of him with his Honchkrow behind him with its wings outstretched at the end of the arc.}}
* [[Fanime]]: There's a group of fans making a serious attempt at animating the series '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100330194727/http://pokespeanime.forumotion.com/forum.htm here]'''. They apparently need more animators and illustrators so support them if you can.
* [[Fan Service]]: Red's shirtlessness at the latter part of FRLG.
** What, no mentioning Blue and her fight against Sabrina?
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*** Pearl: Rash, likes to shout, but is the de-facto leader of the trio (Id)
*** Platinum: Stoic at first, but likes to experience new things and is the one who holds the trio together (Superego)
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The word "Rocket" in Team Rocket stands for '''R'''aid '''O'''n the '''C'''ity, '''K'''nock out '''E'''vil '''T'''usks. Seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112213119/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_14/14-016 here.]
* [[Funny Afro]]: The Hoenn director.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The end of the Yellow Chapter started with [[Evil Plan]], continued into some ''heroic'' [[Gambit Roulettes]], and in the end {{spoiler|Giovanni's apparent [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment}} actually turned out to be part of Lance's plan and Yellow somehow managing to outwit him. It gets crazier later on. Suffice it to say ''everyone'' gets to play [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] at some point - even <s>Guile Hideout</s>
* [[Gambit Roulette]] which Blue uses one Lorelei.
** Also {{spoiler|we're all pretty sure Sird/Storc has one. She's just so good that we ''still'' don't have much of a clue what it is.}}
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* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: Yellow surfs on lava. Potentially [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that the surfboard was made from [[Green Lantern|hard light]], but they stay in the lava a smidgen too long to have realisticly handled the heat.
* [[The Leader]]: Considering its [[Geodesic Cast]], there are several. Notably Trainers Red, Gold, and Platinum of their respective branches of the Dex holders. Also Erika is the leader of the Kanto Gym Leaders.
* [[Level Grinding]]: Directly referenced by Byron [
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Dragonite in all of its appearances. A cute, gentle-looking, cream-colored dragon who always poses a threat to the protagonists.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Most of the characters pretty much stay in the same outfits all the time with minor allterations between arcs until future games give them new threads.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The FR/LG arc opens on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfai1op9xS8 a fight between a Gengar and a Nidorino].
** Blue is also a [[Mythology Gag]] to a then unreleased female protagonist. Considering the timing of the manga, she was put into it way after she was canceled.
** Blue's bubble microphone and Pika's babysitting of Yellow's Caterpie are homages to the ''[[Hey You, Pikachu!]]'' game.
** At the Goldenrod Game Corner, someone is playing Pokemon Pinball.
** Todd is given a job to take pictures at ''[[Pokémon Snap]]'''s Pokémon Island.
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** Viz released the fourth gen chapter and the fifth with no plans on the third gen ones.
* [[Pacing Problems]]: Both the Platinum and HGSS chapters ran into this, even with being serialized in multiple magazines.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Literally shown [https://web.archive.org/web/20150223122046/http://jb2448.info/Pokemon_Adventures_35/Pokemon_Special_v35_c390/Pokemon_Special_v35_c390_117-neuquant here], where the Poketch clowns are painting the panels black for the flashback in the page.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: For some reason all the 'Dex Holders, except for Ruby and Blue, either has only one parent or none at all (and the latter two don't exactly have perfect family histories).
** Platinum also turns out to have both a mother and father.
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* [[The Rival]]: Red and Green (Blue in the US version), Gold and Silver, Crystal and Eusine, Ruby and Sapphire.
* [[Scissors Cuts Rock]]: Red's Pikachu is able to take out Brock's Onix with a well-placed Thundershock.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Bill, mainly because of [[Accent Adaptation]] and his Southern accent is a substitute for [[Kansai-ben]] - Which is similar to this trope and is intended as a subversion of [[The Idiot From Osaka]]. Or maybe not. While [[The Idiot From Osaka]] trope is that for some reason has caught up in the West, the larger Japanese Osaka stereotypes, are that they came from a merchant city and are totally sharp, witty, and moneygrubbing. Which is the actual raeson for the idiot trope. - The inhabitants of the [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|more samurai-dominated Edo]], who valued reserve and dignity, considers the Osakans as brash, loud, rude, and uncouth, therefore below themselves.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: "Team Rocket's Battleship has transformed into a mid-air battle stadium!"
* [[Rummage Fail]]: Neatly averted as the top half of the Pokéballs are transluscent so you can see the Pokémon inside. Handy!
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Blue's parents. Maybe. {{spoiler|We don't know how visible Deoxys's black holes are. Blue saw one of them clearly even without her Silph Scope, though...why didn't they see ''that?'' Or their daughter in a weird and unnatural pose? ''What were they thinking?!''}}
** Potentially justified, {{spoiler|their daughter was missing for 11 years, maybe presumed dead, to find out that she's ''right there'', the entire world may've just disappeared to them}}.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Train Station Goodbye]]: How {{spoiler|Black and White part ways at Nimbasa}}.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Red's Pikachu during the Yellow arc.
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