Pocket Monsters Film Comic
Pocket Monsters Film Comic (Japanese: ポケットモンスター アニメ版 Pocket Monster Animation Version) is a series of manga based on the Pokémon anime. Each volume of Pocket Monsters Film Comic adapts about several episodes of the anime into comic form, with each episode corresponding to a single chapter. The volumes also include extra content such as maps, Pokédex entries and character biographies.
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Distribution
In Japan, the manga was published in volumes by Tentoumushi Comics, a Shogakukan imprint.
In English, the first subseries of this manga was serialized in English in the six-issue Pokémon Power magazine. The six chapters serialized in the magazine were collected in the English volume Pokémon TV Animation Comic - I Choose You!, published by VIZ Media. The Gold and Silver subseries was serialized in Nintendo Power starting in the November 2000 issue, although unlike the first subseries, these translations have not been published in volumes.
The series was translated to Cantonese in Hong Kong by Viz Communications China (H.K.) Ltd.
The series was also translated and released in South Korea, titled 애니코믹스 포켓몬스터, published by 대원씨아이 Daewon C.I.. All volumes of the original and Orange Islands series, and at least the first 23 volumes of the Gold & Silver volumes were released.
Pocket Monsters Film Comic volume 6 in Cantonese
Pocket Monsters Film Comic volume 20 in Korean
List of volumes
List of Pocket Monsters Film Comic volumes
List of Pocket Monsters Film Comic Episode: Orange Islands volumes
The volumes featuring Ash's adventures in the Orange Islands are numbered separately from the original series of volumes. However, on the back covers, volumes 5-9 continue an overall numbering based on the original Pocket Monsters Film Comic. For example, Orange Islands volume 6 is overall the 26th volume of Pocket Monsters Film Comic.
List of Pocket Monsters Film Comic Episode: Gold & Silver volumes
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The volumes featuring Ash's adventures in Johto are numbered separately from the original series of volumes. However, on the back covers, they continue an overall numbering based on the previous Pocket Monsters Film Comics. For example, Gold & Silver volume 25 is overall the 54th volume of Pocket Monsters Film Comic.
Trivia
- Although a chapter for EP038 was skipped, the missing episode is acknowledged by the numbering of the other chapters (the numbered chapters skip from 37 to 39). EP038 was given the same treatment in TV Anime Pocket Monsters Big Bite Book.
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