The gym leaders of Pokémon commuting “Petty Warcrimes” is one of the funniest things I’ve heard all day, this manga is so insane and I love it to death, highly recommend
"This are a few plot points in the Pokémon Manga" is CRIMINALLY underselling it. All of that happens just in the FIRST TWO ARCS. And yes, it only gets more unhinged from there with Ruby and Saphire's last battle being one of the darkest I've seen in Manga, PERIOD.
@@adumbass5752 I don’t think game freak was involved since they’re just the game devs, but both the creator and producer of the Pokémon franchise have said great things about the series.
@@adumbass5752 And Steven just flat out dying along with Cortney getting literally crushed to death. It's honestly wild how dark it could get but I LOVE IT.
@@regitriotrio5656 Then again they were all brought back by Celebi though. I think that there are no permanent deaths in the manga, though its been years since I read it.
According to Bulbapedia: Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri has endorsed the series, stating "This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey."
I started reading the manga when I was 10 and used to run around the playground screaming THE ELITE FOUR IS EVIL and people would just look at me concerned.
SAME I had one of the Yellow books well before I was 10 and I used to always tell people Lance was evil and Lorelei froze people alive. Probably a bit intense to be sold with the other Pokemon books at the Barnes & Noble but I enjoyed it a lot
The XY arc really was something else. Team Flare was somehow written into the most genuinely menacing and utterly vile villains in the franchise, the main heroine spends most of it wearing a skintight bodysuit that leaves nothing to the imagination, and this official Pokemon story ends with its protagonists questioning whether the world was even worth saving. Definitely deserves a read.
There's also the other protag who's clinically depressed and can sense Pokemon? (I only have the first two volumes idk something about mega bonds I think)
It's insane to think that Lance hyper beaming a person at point blank for non violently GUARDING a secret staircase.... Is CHILD'S PLAY to the Eren Yeager Jr. They have in the manga.
That good bit of storytelling. Giovanni is still evil and ruthless but still cares. If he didn't care, he would have tossed away that Beedrill long ago and replaced it.
the fact that the continuity is consistent throughout the entire series is insane to me, hell pokemon emerald is the perfect accumulation of the first 3 generations and they even gave a mini series for HGSS that goes more in depth with the sinjoh ruins.
Bro imagine if someone wished for a an adaptation of Adventures using a monkey paw and they had Jessie, James, and Domino take Surge, Sabrina, and Koga’s roles.
I’ve read the manga up until black & white 2, can’t find the remaining books in that gen, but I can confirm that the manga is very good. Also something I noticed while reading the very first one, there’s an article about a woman in a newspaper at some point, titled something along the lines of: ”That’s the last time I’m taking a bath with a Tentacool” _They knew what they were doing_
The Pokémon Adventures manga is pretty hype and really puts into perspective just what the 11 year olds go through each game, and honestly it just gets even more insane as the manga progresses
I remember reading it and the fact that Green used a Blastoise with a hydro pump aimed at the ground to fly? Blew my mind. Not to mention when a certain team leader just straight up mercs another for loot.
@@Qaiou what's ironic/ great development is that later on, she goes on and catches all 3 of the legendary birds and gives articuno to red and zapdos to blue And then even stands up against hooh and lugia
I remember reading a few of these and thinking it was awsome, no other piece of pokemon related media has made me look at poliwrath and think "He's badass"
The pokemon manga is just so amazing. And even with the years going by they kept it pretty brutal. In the ORAS manga Zinnia quite literally gets impaled in the stomach by Rayquaza and then point blank hit with hyper beam
I've been waiting for years for someone to finally talk about Pokespe, it's an addiction that will literally not go away. I would watch a video about you discussing it, we need a Pokespe book club rn.
PLEASE make a full video. The Pokémon manga is so dope for no reason. The first 14 volumes are such an amazing, complete story on their own, not even as a tie-in
Spoilers Does that include the Emerald arc and Red and the gang being brought to Hoenn to get unstoned? Cuz if so yeah that was a great sendoff for all the legacy characters. And I just love the reputation of dex wielders being legendary Pokemon trainers But also, I adore Gen 4. Haven't read all of Gen 5, 6 or 7 tho
@@Junya01gen 5 is my favourite, it’s rough at the start but improves a bunch by Nimbasa and even more so around the last gym. it has great theming and is exactly what adaptation bw needed to truly express it’s story imo
@@waterworks_yes The only issue with the Gen 5 manga is that I literally cannot find it anywhere for a decent price. It also doesnt seem to come in a complete set either like the others, so you'd have to buy them individually.
@@MoonstruckMelody yeah, i had to buy the volumes individually myself, but it would make sense profit wise for them to eventually make a box set considering they did for the larger XY volumes despite there already being an XY box set with the smaller volumes
Keep reading past Red and Blue if you want to get to the really crazy stuff. Ruby and Sapphire’s ending is insane and the entire final act has ridiculously high stakes and Emerald is a fever dream
Same here! I was really lucky that my school library had the first few volumes, I read those everyday during elementary school and eventually my parents got me full boxsets of what series were available at the time. (Generations 1-4 I think)
@@aniasthompson6 I just like XYZ more than adventures XY, both are peak imo As for why I like all other gens' manga more than games and anime, it just has a better story line and structure
@kannan07 Ah, that's reasonably fair. And, IMO, I honestly love (and even prefer) the slice of life tone of the SM series over Adventures, and I also prefer the way some Pokémon acted (Ash's Pokémon, and the others). I feel like the Pokémon themselves have more personality in the anime in comparison. But, like i said, I respect your opinion, and I also prefer the manga in some aspects and such.
you have no idea how happy i am that jacob discovered pokemon adventures. I've been reading it for years and i LOVE IT. the Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow arc is just the tip of the iceberg man. It's so fucking good.
@@thewolface2339 Definitely GSC. Gold is my favorite of the main trainers, and the final battle was sooo cool to read. Especially in the physical manga
@@BadAtGamesss Fair, I also love the final battle in x and y when X mega-evolves every pokemon on his team that could mega-evolve to fight Lysander. Also X is also just an extremely well written traumatized character.
@@kurtmorales7644 Technically, Agatha never reappears, and Bruno was under mind control, but for Lance and Lorelei, yeah. And the same also applies to many other villain characters in Adventures. Hardly logical, if you ask me.
@@wikiuser92 I just chalked it to early Gen jank. It was still the formative years of the series. Most villains didn't get to be forgiven, sure the writers gave Archie and Maxie some redemption in ORAS but they weren't forgiven per se. Giovanni is still a wanted man, same with Cyrus. But the forgiveness that I find odd and disagree with was Pryce! The man kidnapped Children and indoctrinated them, caused havoc across Johto, when he was fished out of time and space void, and after the Arceus incident was pardoned and given his old job back?! I understand if Silver and Green(or Blue if you would prefer) forgave Pryce for what he did, but authorities just let him go and gave him his Gym leader position back!
As a person who owns the full Kanto series and partway into Johto, it's amazing how surprisingly good this manga series is. Slight spoiler below I also love how Blue makes his appearance in Kalos as well(as the same Blue), ages later and even after the story writer and artist changed.
It gets even wilder later. A running theme of part 3 is child abuse/corporal punishment, and certain major villains die in very violent fashion. Oh and Kyogre drowns an entire city.
The Lance of Pokémon Adventures is a pretty compelling antagonist. He really echos what would be the character N many years later in Pokémon Black & White/2. Just like N, Lance makes the audience question the status que of capturing Pokémon and the blind between them and trainers. Glad to see more and more people discovering this wonderful manga. It was my childhood growing up as much as the games were.
The difference is Adventures Lance thinks humans don't deserve Poekmon's friendship, due to seeing man destroy Poekmon's natural habitats as a child. While N was tricked by Ghetsis.
And you only talked about Red and Yellow, which is Kanto. The manga is still ongoing and is currently on Sword and Shield, I believe. Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos were also nuts. Haven't gotten to Alola yet.
I've read pokespe like 3-4 times man... I remember how i always used to say that the pokemon anime needs to be replaced by the pokespe anime or something. But I realized that the dream wont come true and I stopped talking and caring about it. It feels refreshing seeing you talking about the manga
Finally some recognition for an insaine series. I've read this a couple years back and only finished up to the end of kanto but no one talked about it. I definitely recommend it.
Alpha rad doing Pokémon Special/Adventures content??? You love to see it. This manga is by far the best adaptation of the franchise. Every character grows and learns over he course of it, old events aren’t just forgotten about but built upon instead, the stakes are actually real but don’t feel unrealistically crazy like they often do in the games, and there is such a HEART to the main characters. If anything, you have to at least read from the beginning of the Red chapter through the end of Gold, Silver and Crystal (Vol. 1-14), that’s generally one big arc and then another one begins with Vol. 15 in the Hoenn region. Also Yellow is my all-time favorite fictional character, she’s so fucking badass but also adorable at the same time 😭
Pokémon adventures is definitely a gem, and its more than just the kanto adventures! The manga is still running and has been through every region except paldea. I highly recommend a read through the whole thing!
They are worth reading in my opinion, each generation getting their manga counterparts. Pretty enjoyable at minimum but pretty wild at best. Gen 3 and 4 being by far my favorites.
One bizarre plot point in the manga is when it was revealed that Deoxys is Red in a way. In an incident, Red’s blood got on Deoxys and it absorbed that blood.
Everyone pokemon fan has to admit that Pokemon adventures is quite spectacular! So far my favourite is the diamond, pearl and platinum run! Haven’t gotten to gen 5 or soul silver and heart gold yet as of writing but I’m looking forward for the next chapters!
@@MrHerbertbauer however it is related to Pokémon, and therefore children will watch it, and children reading it in the manga, as quite different then seeing it actively happen
I have like... 14 volumes, I think? And I fucking LOOOOVE IT. That specific part with the Rocket squadron dudes shown in the Fusions video... man, I've returned to that part solely for the serotonin.
We also have the best pokemon protag ever, Yellow, and their tendency to never evolve their pokemon. Somebody get them a Mudkip and call them one of us!
Holy shit i've been waiting for people to mention poké spec. I love this series so much. I would totally watch a video of you talk about it. This is just the first 2 arcs but there are some many good ones later on.
The Pokemon Manga is basically a proof that Pokemon can have awesome and beatifull stories but for some reason they dont use thek on their mainline games
@@wikiuser92 That's a terrible take. Yes, Celebi being used was a deus ex machina, but it was handled about as well as is possible to handle that particular trope and was very obviously planned from the beginning. We knew, for most of the arc, that Ruby had some powerful pokemon whose identity was for some reason being kept secret, and there was plenty of foreshadowing that it was Celebi specifically: Ruby talks a lot about his pokemon never changing from "the effects of time" during contests(and Celebi is quite literally unaffected by time), indicating that Ruby has some connection with time, and it's stated that there was something f*cking with time on Mirage Island. It being a Johto pokemon also helps, since Ruby is from Johto.
PLEASE make a video on this! I read the manga all the time as a kid and let me tell you, you are not READY for gold/silver/crystal. Like... my god. Please continue reading it!
@Gamma Games dude I read those ages ago and you are so right. I don't think the library I went to had the finale because I never saw what happened to Norman. Also yes, holy crap it was CRAZY! I read all the way until halfway through B/W and it went PLACES
A video on Pokémon Adventures? Fuck yeah!! Even though I’m 100% sure you’re gonna talk about only red, blue and yellow, I really wish you’d mention how it goes as far as sword&shield so that people go read all of the parts (my absolute favorite is Ruby and Sapphire). Some are better than others but I have never felt as much hype reading the climaxes as anything present in the video games. Yes, even your favorite parts like giratina’s first appearance in platinum or the yin Yang dragons meeting for a final battle at the end of the elite four in BW.
The character devolpment in the manga is also really stellar! Especially when it comes to Red, Blue and Green since they all learn and grows from each other, and that Pokémon League finals match between Red and Blue OMG! IT WAS TERRIFIC!
So, I know another crazy thing that happens in the manga. Apparently, Zinnia gets stabbed through the stomach by Rayquaza, and then hit with a point blank hyper beam. Dont worry, she's fine.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO LIGHT. I’ve been reading these for years and I have the full collection up to XY. Diamond Pearl Platinum is still my favorite, with emerald as a close second. This thing needs more popularity
Crazy thing is that the main characters actually grow up
WUH- HUH?! HERESY!
Wait what the fu-
ruined tbh
I did not notice that they actually age in the manga
@@muzuchama What do mean by that? 🤨
FINALLY, SOMEONE MENTIONED THIS! Koga literally tried murdering two 10 year olds.
Weak numbers
The manga was a lot darker than I remembered as a kid. But it’s a great manga to read regardless.
I loved this I read the first eight, from my schools library
@@settwig6157 I have the first 7 books.
@@razu6081 Well yea it is quite dark at the start but then most of the insanely evil characters get redeemed later on and that's reeeeally weird lmao.
The manga seriously goes so hard.
And I love what they did with Silver in the manga. He's _such_ a good character, I'm obsessed.
Same! His character and story are handled so well. It's the reason he's one of my favorite Pokemon characters of all time!
He's probably the most rounded characters because all the 3 main antagonists we're his father figure at some point (Giovanni, Lance, Masked Man)
@@pikapower_kirbywjat is the name of the comic
@@koitouso9930 Oh, the manga we're talking about? It's Pokemon Adventures
@@pikapower_kirby thank you very much for the information 🙏🙏🙏
Never thought I’d see a Pokémon Champion attempt to cause World War III.
Attempt?
Only once?
*3?*
The elite four and the league are two completely separate entities in the manga
The gym leaders of Pokémon commuting “Petty Warcrimes” is one of the funniest things I’ve heard all day, this manga is so insane and I love it to death, highly recommend
Where can I find it?
@@taylorama2572 online, your local public school probably has it,
"This are a few plot points in the Pokémon Manga" is CRIMINALLY underselling it. All of that happens just in the FIRST TWO ARCS. And yes, it only gets more unhinged from there with Ruby and Saphire's last battle being one of the darkest I've seen in Manga, PERIOD.
Ah yes. How game freak was cool with showing a son watching his dead fathers body be scoched by a pokemon using flamethrower is beyond me.
@@adumbass5752 I don’t think game freak was involved since they’re just the game devs, but both the creator and producer of the Pokémon franchise have said great things about the series.
Dude, I forgot about that! I found out about that again literally yesterday!
@@adumbass5752 And Steven just flat out dying along with Cortney getting literally crushed to death. It's honestly wild how dark it could get but I LOVE IT.
@@regitriotrio5656 Then again they were all brought back by Celebi though. I think that there are no permanent deaths in the manga, though its been years since I read it.
The Deoxys arc and Ruby & Saphire portions go HARD
No but Red and Mewtwo vs Giovanni and Deoxys is not real that fight is fire!!💀💀💀💀
According to Bulbapedia: Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri has endorsed the series, stating "This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey."
I started reading the manga when I was 10 and used to run around the playground screaming THE ELITE FOUR IS EVIL and people would just look at me concerned.
LMAO those kids most likely didn't know what you meant lmao
YOU KNEW THE TRUTH.
YOU KNEW THE TRUTH AND THEY TRIED TO SILENCE YOU!
@@yoyohayli THE ELITE SILENCE THE CHILDREN FOR THEY ARE PURE OF HEART, AND WITH THEIR INNOCENCE THEY FIND THE TRUTH
SAME I had one of the Yellow books well before I was 10 and I used to always tell people Lance was evil and Lorelei froze people alive. Probably a bit intense to be sold with the other Pokemon books at the Barnes & Noble but I enjoyed it a lot
@@WildWeavile you have no idea how popular pokemon was back in the day though lol
I really liked Blaine's story about how he created Mewtwo from his own DNA. It was told very well in this manga.
I prefer the game canon where Mr. Fuji created Mewtwo.
@@wikiuser92 That is animecanon retroactively made Game Canon
@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 No. I think it was always the game canon, it just wasn't made clear enough until Gen III.
@@wikiuser92 mr fuji didn't use his dna to make mewtwo
@@demothiguillermo2059 I know. But he is its creator in the games, regardless.
Meanwhile, basically, what the anime is” you’re my friend now we’re having soft tacos later”
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO OF THIS! i read the manga as a kid and to this day still lament over the fact that NO ONE knows about this masterpiece
It's awesome. I think Pokemon Adventures officially ended with XY, but hopefully not.
@nevaansbooks2078 Good news, it didn’t. Sun and Moon, Sword and Shield, and currently Scarlet and Violet all exist as arcs in the adventures
The XY arc really was something else. Team Flare was somehow written into the most genuinely menacing and utterly vile villains in the franchise, the main heroine spends most of it wearing a skintight bodysuit that leaves nothing to the imagination, and this official Pokemon story ends with its protagonists questioning whether the world was even worth saving. Definitely deserves a read.
Pardon me what, I’ve read gens 1-3 but you’re telling me it goes *that* far? God I need to read more of it I guess
@@Blaze-nm1uh yea it reached all the way to sword and shield
@@josephochoa9861 no, I knew that, I was surprised it got so dark that the protagonists question if the world was worth saving
Why is _that_ the main thing you focused on when describing the XY arc 🤨
There's also the other protag who's clinically depressed and can sense Pokemon? (I only have the first two volumes idk something about mega bonds I think)
"petty warcrimes" is such a good statement my god.
I like how in th manga Rosa, everyones favorite female player character in this series is a team plasma grunt and N loyalist.
Blue also gets a ridiculously good outfit about halfway through, rocking a whole cape. Hope to see a full video about the manga someday!
Having Alpharad as a Pokémon Special fan will give us immense power
So this is why the subreddit's been more active...
i thought it was pokémon adventure
@@taylorfilm Same thing. It has two names
Hello megapig from touhou
Truly the kkhta of Pokémon
It's insane to think that Lance hyper beaming a person at point blank for non violently GUARDING a secret staircase.... Is CHILD'S PLAY to the Eren Yeager Jr. They have in the manga.
Who?
@@HiLillika Eren Yeager, main character of Attack on Titan.
@@HiLillika manga lance
not jr, Sr. This man came first
@@Etercohe means less murdery
And we haven't even talked about the Jhoto arcs yet. There's now 9 whole generations of Pokemon Manga PEAK that few people are reading
They made lance as a psychopath global terrorist... just imagine ghetsis 💀
Spoilers:
He almost killed N after he tried to save his life
When Giovanni squared up against Lance and busted out the Goated Beedrill, I couldn’t believe my eyes.
That good bit of storytelling. Giovanni is still evil and ruthless but still cares. If he didn't care, he would have tossed away that Beedrill long ago and replaced it.
Even more unbelievable, Giovanni was a good father
@@usrnmntavlibl2666 Yeah, fantastic character.
@@thewolface2339 indeed he is
You mean you couldn't...𝗕𝗲𝗲lieve it?
the fact that the continuity is consistent throughout the entire series is insane to me, hell pokemon emerald is the perfect accumulation of the first 3 generations and they even gave a mini series for HGSS that goes more in depth with the sinjoh ruins.
Ah yes, the HG/SS spinoff, or as I like to call it, "Gold has become [C A T H O L I C]"
The Rayquaza Incident
Bro imagine if someone wished for a an adaptation of Adventures using a monkey paw and they had Jessie, James, and Domino take Surge, Sabrina, and Koga’s roles.
I’ve read the manga up until black & white 2, can’t find the remaining books in that gen, but I can confirm that the manga is very good.
Also something I noticed while reading the very first one, there’s an article about a woman in a newspaper at some point, titled something along the lines of: ”That’s the last time I’m taking a bath with a Tentacool”
_They knew what they were doing_
The Pokémon Adventures manga is pretty hype and really puts into perspective just what the 11 year olds go through each game, and honestly it just gets even more insane as the manga progresses
I remember reading it and the fact that Green used a Blastoise with a hydro pump aimed at the ground to fly? Blew my mind. Not to mention when a certain team leader just straight up mercs another for loot.
blastoise actually does this in new pokemon snap as a rare occurrence!
That sweet sweet time manipulation armor
Green got some wacky modes of transportation
Using wigglytuff as a balloon,blastoise as a surfboard and a jetpack
@@kannan07she would use anything but a bird pokemon
@@Qaiou what's ironic/ great development is that later on, she goes on and catches all 3 of the legendary birds and gives articuno to red and zapdos to blue
And then even stands up against hooh and lugia
I remember reading a few of these and thinking it was awsome, no other piece of pokemon related media has made me look at poliwrath and think "He's badass"
Bruno actually isn't evil he just got brainwashed and mind controlled by Agatha
YES! THIS MANGA IS GODLIKE!!! I loved this take on Pokémon as a kid
The Ruby and Sapphire manga still remain as my favorite arc, Ruby himself is the best and I wish they would fully animate it all
Yea that and diamond and pearl are just so great.
The earlier "arcs" are darker but I feel like gen 3 and 4 are just the best.
@@cptKamina yeah they're more well paced, I can't help but say gen 4's mcs are pretty mid though
@@Gspoink hm idk the mcs may have been less good overall but their dynamic and their unique relationship really pushed them to the top for me.
@@cptKamina the scene of their first morning separated from each other will always get me. Those few pages are so good.
@@6dm978 Yea they're really well done!
The pokemon manga is just so amazing. And even with the years going by they kept it pretty brutal. In the ORAS manga Zinnia quite literally gets impaled in the stomach by Rayquaza and then point blank hit with hyper beam
I’m so glad Alpha got into the manga. If there’s a video in our future I can die happy
I've been waiting for years for someone to finally talk about Pokespe, it's an addiction that will literally not go away. I would watch a video about you discussing it, we need a Pokespe book club rn.
Agreed
Not enough people know and have enjoyed pokespe
So, I've only just recently seen people calling it "Pokespe." Why is that the term everyone uses?
@@KrakatonMain the Japanese name for it is "Pocket Monsters Special". So people just shortened it to "PokeSpe".
PLEASE make a full video. The Pokémon manga is so dope for no reason. The first 14 volumes are such an amazing, complete story on their own, not even as a tie-in
Spoilers
Does that include the Emerald arc and Red and the gang being brought to Hoenn to get unstoned? Cuz if so yeah that was a great sendoff for all the legacy characters. And I just love the reputation of dex wielders being legendary Pokemon trainers
But also, I adore Gen 4. Haven't read all of Gen 5, 6 or 7 tho
@@Junya01 Sadly past that point they are moreso separate, but they're still pretty damn good
@@Junya01gen 5 is my favourite, it’s rough at the start but improves a bunch by Nimbasa and even more so around the last gym. it has great theming and is exactly what adaptation bw needed to truly express it’s story imo
@@waterworks_yes The only issue with the Gen 5 manga is that I literally cannot find it anywhere for a decent price.
It also doesnt seem to come in a complete set either like the others, so you'd have to buy them individually.
@@MoonstruckMelody yeah, i had to buy the volumes individually myself, but it would make sense profit wise for them to eventually make a box set considering they did for the larger XY volumes despite there already being an XY box set with the smaller volumes
I really want to see a apocalyptic-styled Pokémon game after this short.
I would love to see more videos on the Pokemon Special manga and how the creator of Pokemon praised the author.
The Pokémon Manga is what happens when the Pokémon IP is handed over to a competent person.
Fr. Make pokemon adventures as a pokemon game with the same story and characters and as long as the design the game itself well then its perfect.
@@regitriotrio5656 you would probably like Pokemon adventures red
But among us
@MUHAMMET EMİR AYDIN Oh I do. I've played it.
Pokémon but the rating hit E10
Keep reading past Red and Blue if you want to get to the really crazy stuff. Ruby and Sapphire’s ending is insane and the entire final act has ridiculously high stakes and Emerald is a fever dream
this was my introduction to pokemon and it practically made my childhood
Same here! I was really lucky that my school library had the first few volumes, I read those everyday during elementary school and eventually my parents got me full boxsets of what series were available at the time. (Generations 1-4 I think)
The Pokémon manga is the only medium on this franchise we can feel like they hired actual writers💀💀💀(aside from the XYZ anime arc)
XYZ is the only part of the Pokemon franchise where I prefer anything over the manga
Why? Im just curious. (i haven't really read much of the manga myself, but I'm planning on continuing it.)
@kannan07
@@aniasthompson6 I just like XYZ more than adventures XY, both are peak imo
As for why I like all other gens' manga more than games and anime, it just has a better story line and structure
@kannan07 Ah, that's reasonably fair. And, IMO, I honestly love (and even prefer) the slice of life tone of the SM series over Adventures, and I also prefer the way some Pokémon acted (Ash's Pokémon, and the others). I feel like the Pokémon themselves have more personality in the anime in comparison. But, like i said, I respect your opinion, and I also prefer the manga in some aspects and such.
@@aniasthompson6 bro it's 100% worth reading it as a pokemon fan you'll love every page
The manga is amazing especially Blaine. No spoilers, the main characters have funny characteristics and personalities. 10/10
Mr. Fuji got done dirty when Blaine took over all the roles that were actually his and was reduced to a very minor role.
Blaine is probably the best character for reasons
I remember reading the manga and then seeing Lance in the anime and being confused because he wasn’t evil in it
The crazy part is that there is SO much more this is literally just the original “Pokémon adventures” in kanto, but it continues through all the games
Anime: safety mode :D
Manga: I wanna recreate William aft on to Pokémon
you have no idea how happy i am that jacob discovered pokemon adventures. I've been reading it for years and i LOVE IT. the Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow arc is just the tip of the iceberg man. It's so fucking good.
Indeed, so dang good. What's your favorite arc by the way? Mine is X and Y.
@@thewolface2339 Definitely GSC. Gold is my favorite of the main trainers, and the final battle was sooo cool to read. Especially in the physical manga
@@BadAtGamesss Fair, I also love the final battle in x and y when X mega-evolves every pokemon on his team that could mega-evolve to fight Lysander. Also X is also just an extremely well written traumatized character.
Just how I want my childhood manga to be like.
bro those books are so UNDERRATED. finally, it's getting the recognition it deserves. (also pokemon mystery dungeon, ginji's rescue team is amazing)
Funny loop. I'd really enjoy a full video summarizing it! I read it a few years ago, but I only remember bits and pieces.
Lance is basically the Joker of Pokemon.
More intense N!
*Was.* He reforms later.
@@wikiuser92 Yeah... People just kinda forgive him and the rest of the E4 for the attempted genocide...
@@kurtmorales7644 Technically, Agatha never reappears, and Bruno was under mind control, but for Lance and Lorelei, yeah. And the same also applies to many other villain characters in Adventures. Hardly logical, if you ask me.
@@wikiuser92 I just chalked it to early Gen jank. It was still the formative years of the series. Most villains didn't get to be forgiven, sure the writers gave Archie and Maxie some redemption in ORAS but they weren't forgiven per se. Giovanni is still a wanted man, same with Cyrus. But the forgiveness that I find odd and disagree with was Pryce! The man kidnapped Children and indoctrinated them, caused havoc across Johto, when he was fished out of time and space void, and after the Arceus incident was pardoned and given his old job back?! I understand if Silver and Green(or Blue if you would prefer) forgave Pryce for what he did, but authorities just let him go and gave him his Gym leader position back!
As a person who owns the full Kanto series and partway into Johto, it's amazing how surprisingly good this manga series is.
Slight spoiler below
I also love how Blue makes his appearance in Kalos as well(as the same Blue), ages later and even after the story writer and artist changed.
The Pokemon adventures manga was so fire. I read it years ago, and i still read it to this day! Im glad its getting more attention
It gets even wilder later. A running theme of part 3 is child abuse/corporal punishment, and certain major villains die in very violent fashion. Oh and Kyogre drowns an entire city.
The Lance of Pokémon Adventures is a pretty compelling antagonist. He really echos what would be the character N many years later in Pokémon Black & White/2. Just like N, Lance makes the audience question the status que of capturing Pokémon and the blind between them and trainers. Glad to see more and more people discovering this wonderful manga. It was my childhood growing up as much as the games were.
The difference is Adventures Lance thinks humans don't deserve Poekmon's friendship, due to seeing man destroy Poekmon's natural habitats as a child. While N was tricked by Ghetsis.
And you only talked about Red and Yellow, which is Kanto. The manga is still ongoing and is currently on Sword and Shield, I believe. Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos were also nuts. Haven't gotten to Alola yet.
Recreating the entirety of Pokemon Manga in Real Life is gonna be a banger of a video
I've read pokespe like 3-4 times man... I remember how i always used to say that the pokemon anime needs to be replaced by the pokespe anime or something. But I realized that the dream wont come true and I stopped talking and caring about it. It feels refreshing seeing you talking about the manga
really hoping he covers more than just the kanto arcs because the later stuff keeps up the insanity and is even better
I'm glad the Pokemon manga is getting the recognition it deserves
Unbelievably happy you may be covering this, I love this series
I await the day we see Yellow show up as a character in honestly any game. Even Pokémon Masters
the thicc team galaxy member in the diamond and pearl manga is amazing.
OH GOD lmao I forgot about them. Honestly they were killing it.
You're talking abt a whole different manga lol 😭
@C True but Hareta is goated.
The manga is what the TV series could’ve been, that would’ve been amazing
Finally some recognition for an insaine series. I've read this a couple years back and only finished up to the end of kanto but no one talked about it. I definitely recommend it.
Alpha rad doing Pokémon Special/Adventures content??? You love to see it.
This manga is by far the best adaptation of the franchise. Every character grows and learns over he course of it, old events aren’t just forgotten about but built upon instead, the stakes are actually real but don’t feel unrealistically crazy like they often do in the games, and there is such a HEART to the main characters. If anything, you have to at least read from the beginning of the Red chapter through the end of Gold, Silver and Crystal (Vol. 1-14), that’s generally one big arc and then another one begins with Vol. 15 in the Hoenn region.
Also Yellow is my all-time favorite fictional character, she’s so fucking badass but also adorable at the same time 😭
And that's only the first arc, hehe. Every Pokémon game has a corresponding arc in the Adventure Comics.
Pokémon adventures is definitely a gem, and its more than just the kanto adventures! The manga is still running and has been through every region except paldea. I highly recommend a read through the whole thing!
is it all worth reading? i had the first three volumes as a kid and remember loving it
They are worth reading in my opinion, each generation getting their manga counterparts. Pretty enjoyable at minimum but pretty wild at best. Gen 3 and 4 being by far my favorites.
@@acetamerragna2852fellow gen 4 chapter enjoyer
One bizarre plot point in the manga is when it was revealed that Deoxys is Red in a way. In an incident, Red’s blood got on Deoxys and it absorbed that blood.
I heard the manga was dark, but dang! I wasn’t expecting this!!
I really need this as a full video
Love that you are talking about the manga! It's soooo good and its a shame no one seems to read it. Hope it catches on the public.
I read the pokemon manga religiously as like an 8 year old and now i feel so incredibly happy when i see people talk about it
I want a video on it sure, but don't stop with just the first set, cause it just never stops giving.
I loved this manga. Please make a full video on it, Alpharad.
Now this is my kind of Elite Four!
JACOB, PLEASE! I never knew I needed to know about this more than now
Everyone pokemon fan has to admit that Pokemon adventures is quite spectacular! So far my favourite is the diamond, pearl and platinum run! Haven’t gotten to gen 5 or soul silver and heart gold yet as of writing but I’m looking forward for the next chapters!
The mangas pretty nice remember reading through ruby and sapphire long while back good times
the manga needs an anime adaptation
No, as a massive fan of it, it does not, children don’t need to see Polywhirl getting impaled
@@usrnmntavlibl2666 it would very obviously be made for the mature part of the fanbase not for the children
@@MrHerbertbauer however it is related to Pokémon, and therefore children will watch it, and children reading it in the manga, as quite different then seeing it actively happen
Pokémon Adventures is one of, if not the *best* way to experience Pokémon as a media form. It’s incredible! Glad to see it get some love.
I have like... 14 volumes, I think? And I fucking LOOOOVE IT. That specific part with the Rocket squadron dudes shown in the Fusions video... man, I've returned to that part solely for the serotonin.
Watching my friends commit the worst war crimes because I said no balls 💀
We also have the best pokemon protag ever, Yellow, and their tendency to never evolve their pokemon. Somebody get them a Mudkip and call them one of us!
You haven't even started to get into the lore without volume 7 - 14
Holy shit i've been waiting for people to mention poké spec. I love this series so much. I would totally watch a video of you talk about it. This is just the first 2 arcs but there are some many good ones later on.
How has there never been a pokemon manga rom hack?
There have been several attempts, yes. You can probably find a few demos online if you search hard enough
there's pokemon adventure red
I remember Giovanni being a great father in the manga to the point where he sacrifices for Silver
Im glad this Manga was brought up because, i never played the pokemon games and this was my introduction to the series, so I was... very shocked.
so glad someone else loves the manga like i do, tbh this is in my top three pieces of pokemon media, ever, its just that freakin good
The Pokemon Manga is basically a proof that Pokemon can have awesome and beatifull stories but for some reason they dont use thek on their mainline games
It is much easier to market a simple and non violent story to children and more importantly their parents.
It's too violent for the mainline games. I mean, just look at the end of the Hoenn arc, everyone died there.
@@Missingno_Miner Yeah. And then got revived by a Deus ex Machina, making the drama of their deaths completely worthless.
@@wikiuser92 That's a terrible take. Yes, Celebi being used was a deus ex machina, but it was handled about as well as is possible to handle that particular trope and was very obviously planned from the beginning. We knew, for most of the arc, that Ruby had some powerful pokemon whose identity was for some reason being kept secret, and there was plenty of foreshadowing that it was Celebi specifically: Ruby talks a lot about his pokemon never changing from "the effects of time" during contests(and Celebi is quite literally unaffected by time), indicating that Ruby has some connection with time, and it's stated that there was something f*cking with time on Mirage Island. It being a Johto pokemon also helps, since Ruby is from Johto.
@@Missingno_Miner I know all that foreshadowing, but it doesn't change the fact that it cheapens those deaths.
PLEASE make a video on this! I read the manga all the time as a kid and let me tell you, you are not READY for gold/silver/crystal. Like... my god. Please continue reading it!
100% agree Pokemon adventures was and still is my favorite pokemon series.
If you only read up to GSC then you should definotely read RSE because those go even crazier.
@Gamma Games dude I read those ages ago and you are so right. I don't think the library I went to had the finale because I never saw what happened to Norman. Also yes, holy crap it was CRAZY! I read all the way until halfway through B/W and it went PLACES
A video on Pokémon Adventures? Fuck yeah!!
Even though I’m 100% sure you’re gonna talk about only red, blue and yellow, I really wish you’d mention how it goes as far as sword&shield so that people go read all of the parts (my absolute favorite is Ruby and Sapphire). Some are better than others but I have never felt as much hype reading the climaxes as anything present in the video games. Yes, even your favorite parts like giratina’s first appearance in platinum or the yin Yang dragons meeting for a final battle at the end of the elite four in BW.
The character devolpment in the manga is also really stellar! Especially when it comes to Red, Blue and Green since they all learn and grows from each other, and that Pokémon League finals match between Red and Blue OMG! IT WAS TERRIFIC!
We should campaign for a Pokemon Adventures anime adaptation
Sadly this wouldn’t continue to later generations
True, I still immensely enjoye them but they do become much safer around Gen 3.
@@eropandasennin13 Bro they ate trying to fucking murder the main characters in like every gen
@@letsgetfluffy3138 Kinda but tone-wise it does feel more safer when compared to the adaptation of Gen 1.
This manga series was my childhood, wonderfully done 👌👌
finally seeing people recognize the manga makes me so happy
So, I know another crazy thing that happens in the manga.
Apparently, Zinnia gets stabbed through the stomach by Rayquaza, and then hit with a point blank hyper beam. Dont worry, she's fine.
And that's one of the less crazier things in the manga surprisingly
Zinnia's motivation was reduced to be more about vengeance than saving the world. Even the manga itself acknowledges this.
As for myself, I am definitely interested in the pokemanga now, but I'm not gonna read it so a video by you would be awesome as hell
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO LIGHT. I’ve been reading these for years and I have the full collection up to XY. Diamond Pearl Platinum is still my favorite, with emerald as a close second. This thing needs more popularity
A full-blown Pokemon war is what I always wanted... and the manga delivered.