It is very vulgar and likes to do 'sick' things to attract attention. Clefairy ( Pippi in the Japanese version): Red's first Pokémon ally.Red ( レッド, Reddo) ( Isamu Akai ( 赤井勇, Akai Isamu)): Charged with completing the Pokémon Zukan, he is Green's rival.

It is after this that the story continues under the name of Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire, starting the volume number from 1. The story then goes to Hoenn in the last volume, where Red thinks of receiving a Achamo/Torchic and abandoning Pippi/Clefairy. The story also goes to the Johto region, where Red gets introduced to trainers Gold and Silver, supposedly based on the video game characters. However, later on, Red gains a valuable companion in Tyrogue, as well. In the first few manga books, Red's team consists of Pikachu and Pippi/Clefairy only. Surprisingly enough, it comes up with clever ideas to help Red and Pikachu. It is obnoxious but lovable, whose big mouth sometimes gets it into trouble. It is thought that a Pippi/Clefairy is the main character, although it is just a follower of Red. In this manga, Pokémon are capable of human speech.

The manga follows Red, a young boy competing with a rival, Green, to complete the Illustrated Pokémon Encyclopedia/Pokédex and become the master of Pokémon. Though, Kosaku Anakubo continues to write and illustrate new, shorter chapters, first for the quarterly CoroCoro Aniki (discontinued in early 2021) and then for CoroCoro Online under the moniker Pocket Monsters Aniki. On October 11, 2019, it was announced that Pocket Monsters manga would end its regular publication in Bessatsu CoroCoro after 23 years, being replaced by Machito Gomi’s manga-adaptation of the then-current series of the Pokémon television series. While the first series is set in Kanto, and then Johto, new series were released based on Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos and Alola.

In Singapore it was published by Chuang Yi in English in 2005 and it was retitled Pokémon Pocket Monsters.

Pokémon Pocket Monsters, known in Japan and South Korea as simply Pocket Monsters ( ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā), is one of the first Pokémon manga to come out in Japan and ran for 13 volumes.

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