Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu
manga series
The Pokémon Graphic Novel, more commonly known as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu (Japanese: 電撃！ピカチュウ, Hepburn: Dengeki! Pikachū; lit.'Electric Shock! Pikachu'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toshihiro Ono. It was serialized in the children's manga magazine Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special and CoroCoro Comic from April 1997 to December 1999. Individual chapters were collected into four tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on October 28, 1997, and the fourth volume on January 28, 2000. The characters and storylines are all loosely based on the Pokémon anime series, so, some events and depictions of characters diverge slightly from the anime, and the world itself has a visibly higher level of technology.
The manga was published in English in North America by Viz Communications in a "flipped", left-to-right format. The Electric Tale of Pikachu marked the first time that any of the Pokémon manga series were translated to English. Viz first released the series as individual comic book issues in November 1998, then later collected into trade paperback volumes in August 1999.
“Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu” enters the record as manga series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pokémon, Electric and Tale can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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