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Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Pokémon Platinum video games!

Pokémon Trainer Black meets White, a Pokémon Trainer who runs a growing talent agency for performing Pokémon. Will Black catch show biz fever too? Meanwhile, mysterious Team Plasma is urging everyone to release their beloved Pokémon into the wild! What are they thinking?!

All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!

Meet Pokémon Trainer Black! His entire life Black has dreamed of winning the Pokémon League... Now he embarks on a journey to explore the Unova region and fill a Pokédex  for Professor Juniper. Time for Black's first Pokémon Trainer battle ever!

Meet Pokémon Trainer White! Her entire life White has dreamed of making it in show biz. Now she runs a thriving talent agency for performing Pokémon. Will she make her favorite Pokémon, Tepig Gigi, into a star?

What will happen when Black and White cross paths with each other...and then with mysterious Team Plasma?

Author Biography

Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Media's POKÉMON ADVENTURES. Running continuously for over twenty years now, POKÉMON ADVENTURES is the only manga series to completely cover all the Pokémon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. Kusaka is currently working on the 12th and 13th story arcs, POKÉMON XY and POKÉMON ΩRUBY αSAPPHIRE. In addition to writing manga, he also edits children's books and plans mixed-media projects for Shogakukan's children's magazines. He uses the Pokémon Electrode as his author portrait.

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