Pokemon Adventures: Black and White, Vol. 1

Description

Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and Pokemon Platinum video games! Pokemon Trainer Black meets White, a Pokemon Trainer who runs a growing talent agency for performing Pokemon. Will Black catch show biz fever too? Meanwhile, mysterious Team Plasma is urging everyone to release their beloved Pokemon into the wild! What are they thinking?! All your favorite Pokemon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! Meet Pokemon Trainer Black! His entire life Black has dreamed of winning the Pokemon League... Now he embarks on a journey to explore the Unova region and fill a Pokedex for Professor Juniper. Time for Black's first Pokemon Trainer battle ever! Meet Pokemon Trainer White! Her entire life White has dreamed of making it in show biz. Now she runs a thriving talent agency for performing Pokemon. Will she make her favorite Pokemon, Tepig Gigi, into a star? What will happen when Black and White cross paths with each other...and then with mysterious Team Plasma?

Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Media's POKEMON ADVENTURES. Running continuously for over twenty years now, 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 12th and 13th story arcs, POKEMON X Y and POKEMON RUBY SAPPHIRE. 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.