Publisher Description

Awesome Pokémon adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon X and Y video games!
-Releases 3 times a year for 9+ volumes. Series is ongoing.
-The Pokémon Adventures Special Edition Black and White series in this same special slim miniature format has sold over 175,000 over 20 volumes in the U.S. (BookScan 2/16).
-Pokémon is one of the most successful franchises of all time with over 275 million video games sold worldwide.
-Pokémon X and Pokémon Y launched worldwide on October 12, 2013, and have sold nearly 14.5 million copies globally, making them the number one selling software for the Nintendo 3DS™ family of systems (Nintendo, February 2016) and third best-selling games overall in 2013.
-The Pokémon animation series airs on Cartoon Network.
-21.5 billion trading cards have been sold in over 73 countries.
-TOMY International is the master toy licensor outside of Asia.
-Pokémon GO, a new mobile collaboration between Pokémon, Nintendo and Niantic Inc., will launch in 2016.
-The Pokémon Adventures manga series has sold over 484,000 units over 29 volumes in the U.S. (Bookscan 2/16).
-The Pokémon Adventures Special Edition XY series has sold over 19,000 units over 5 volumes in the U.S. (BookScan 2/16).

Rated: A – for All Ages (Recommended for any age group. No swearing or nudity. Fantasy violence only.

Author Biography

Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Media's Pokémon Adventures. Running continuously for over 20 years, 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 14th story arc, Pokémon: Sun & Moon. 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.

Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for VIZ Media's Pokémon Adventures, which he began working on in 2001, starting with volume 10. Yamamoto launched his manga career in 1993 with the horror-action title Kimen Senshi, which ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, followed by the series Kaze no Denshosha. He is currently working on the 14th story arc in the Pokémon series, Pokémon: Sun & Moon. Yamamoto's favorite manga creators/artists include Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon), Yukinobu Hoshino (2001 Nights) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). He loves films, monsters, mysteries, punk rock music and livin' the good life. He uses the Pokémon Swalot as his artist portrait.

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