Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu
| Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu |
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電撃!ピカチュウ (Dengeki! Pikachū) |
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| Genre | Action-adventure, Fantasy |
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| Written by | Toshihiro Ono |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
| Original run | April 1997 – December 1999 |
| Volumes | 4 |
The Pokémon Graphic Novel, more commonly known as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu (電撃！ピカチュウ Dengeki! Pikachū?, "Electric Shock! Pikachu") is a fantasy action-adventure manga series created by Toshihiro Ono and serialized in the Children's manga magazine CoroCoro Comic. Individual chapters were collected into four tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on October 28, 1997 and the fourth volume on January 28, 2000. The characters and storylines are all drawn from the Pokémon anime series, although some events and depictions of characters diverge slightly from the anime, and the world itself has a visibly higher level of technology.
The manga was published in English in North America by Viz Communications in a "flipped", left-to-right format. In 1998 the company released comic book issues; the collected volumes came afterwards. At the time of its release Issue #1 was the best-selling manga, and best-selling comic book of any type, in the United States. The first volume, The Electric Tale of Pikachu!, was released on September 5, 1999, and the third, Electric Pikachu Boogaloo, was released on April 5, 2000.
In Singapore, the manga is published in English by Chuang Yi and translated as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu! for all four volumes. The Traditional Chinese edition in Taiwan of the manga is published by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Chingwin Publishing.
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