Pokemon: PiPiPi Adventures

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Official Magical Pokemon Journey Website

PiPiPi Adventures is a shoujo manga that doesn't follow the game at all. In fact, it's more of a shoujo (girls') manga than it is a Pokemon manga. The manga centers around Maron (Hazel), a young girl who wants a love potion to use to attract Almond, the person of her dreams. To obtain a workable kind (the first one she gets explodes before she can use it ^^;;) she must go around collecting data on as many different kinds of pokemon as she can. This manga has a lot of the Digi Charat-style randomness and insane personalities. There are rarely any gym leaders or locations from the game.

Creator: Yumi Tsukirino
Gym Leaders: Few
Rocket-Dan: No

The artwork is super-cute. Here are some of the humans/pokemon featured in the manga. These were from the English version, so they may or may not be flipped. Special thanks to Peanut Butter Mewtwo for these manga pictures.

The guy on the left is Almond, the person Maron has a crush on. He's not in the manga much, but when he does show up something bad usually happens to him. He's obsessed with catching pokemon, but never seems to succeed while Hazel's around. The guy on the right is her grandpa, the person making the love potion. Yumi Tsukirino likes the grandpa because he's easy to draw. I like him because he's really funny ^_^.

Here's the Purin family. Purin likes to help Pikachu and Pippi and can't cook, but watch out when it puffs out! It's scary! The Pikushi in the middle is an older member of the family, and the one on the far right is a maid. Purin's very rich-it lives in a mansion, has maids paint her paintings for it..it's VERY spoiled...

Pippi can be frightened VERY easily, but it's very powerful when it's provoked. Zenigame's a cute good guy who can speak human language. The Arbok/Arbo family are the closest things to villains the series has. And yep, that's a rose in that Arbok's mouth...

And of course, Maron (Hazel). She's extremely happy-go-lucky and loves cute pokemon.

PiPiPi Adventures is being published by Viz Comics under the title "Pokemon: Magical Journey." No synopses will be written-go out and buy the manga (even if you don't like shoujo manga/anime). You won't regret it.

Viz's American graphic novels

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