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Pokemon: Dengeki Pikachuu is the first Pokemon manga to be published in America, and the third to be published in Japan (after the original Pokemon and Pokemon Special). It is the closest to the anime series than any of the other manga. However, there are differences. Satoshi finds Pikachu under a floorboard (instead of getting it from Ookido-Hakase) and Takeshi and Kasumi join him on his journey. The manga takes various episodes, re-writes them (most of the time for the better--like the Ivui one), and draws them in his own unique style (I like his art style). Not all the gym leaders are present. The series ends at the end of the Orange League (the last 1 and 1/4 tankobon).
Creator: Toshihiro Ono
Gym Leaders: A few (Takeshi, Kasumi, and Natsume)
Rocket-Dan: Musashi and Kojirou first appear in the seventh
issue (or volume 2)
Dengeki Pikachuu is published in America by Viz Comics under the title "Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu," "Pokemon: Pikachu Shocks Back," "Pokemon: Electric Pikachu Boogaloo," "Pokemon: Surf's Up Pikachu." The manga has been completely translated. There will be no synopsis written, but instead I'll talk about something that you can only see in the Japanese version:
Some may call Toshihiro Ono artistic. Others would call him a visionary. And still, others would call him a 30-year old pervert. Why is that?
Basically, Viz Comics had to go in to just about every chapter of his manga and significantly alter the artwork because Mr. Ono liked to draw his women...well-endowed. To put it bluntly, just about every woman had large, pointy breasts and wore tight shirts to show them off. Even people who shouldn't have large pointy breasts, like Kasumi. So Viz had to go in and flatten the breasts, many times altering a character's entire outfit. In addition, there were a number of sexually suggestive illustrations that had to be altered, cropped, or taken out completely in order to make the comic suitable for small American children. There's a website, Pokemon Den-Geki Pikachu Uncensored, that lists the edits (with pictures) made to the first and final volumes of the manga (thanks to nick falzarano for giving me the URL).
The four American graphic novels
Pocket Monsters was not created by me. It was created by Satoshi Tajiri and the crew at TV-Tokyo. Pokemon is (c) Game Freak, Nintendo, 4Kids Productions, Hasbro, Bandai, and a ton of other companies. When you have a popular anime like Pokemon, lots of people own it so it's impossible to list every company who owns a piece of Pokemon. No infringement of copyrights is meant by the creation of the web site. All images were gotten from official websites (Nintendo, TV-Tokyo, etc.) unless otherwise noted (I don't steal images from other sites!).