Description
A collection of beautiful full-color art from the Pokemon Adventures graphic novel series! In addition to full-color illustrations of your favorite Pokemon, this vibrant volume also includes exclusive sketches and storyboards, four pull-out posters and a brand-new manga side story published in English for the first time!
* Pokemon is one of the most successful franchises of all time with over 279 million video games sold worldwide.
* 21.5 billion Pokemon trading cards have been sold in over 74 countries.
* Pokemon Go, a mobile collaboration between Pokemon, Nintendo, and Niantic Inc., launched in July 2016 and has been downloaded more than 500 million times worldwide.
* An all-new Pokemon animated series of shorts launched in September 2016 on the official Pokemon YouTube channel.
* Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon launched October 2016.
* Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire were the top selling video games across all platforms in 2014 and are the fifth top selling games in the world for the Nintendo 3DS with more than 10.2 million units sold worldwide (The Pokemon Company, through June 2015).
About the Author
Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Media's Pokemon Adventures. Running continuously for over 20 years, Pokemon Adventures is the only manga series to completely cover all the Pokemon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. Kusaka is currently working on the 14th story arc, Pokemon: 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 Pokemon Electrode as his author portrait.
Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for VIZ Media'sPokemon 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 Pokemon series, Pokemon: 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 Pokemon Swalot as his artist portrait.
Book Information
ISBN 9781421594514
Author Hidenori Kusaka
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Publisher Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Weight(grams) 866g
Dimensions(mm) 295mm * 210mm * 15mm