1.9 HeartGold & SoulSilver chapter (Volume 41~43).1.7 Diamond & Pearl chapter (Volume 30~38).

1.5 FireRed & LeafGreen chapter (Volume 22~26).

1.4 Ruby & Sapphire chapter (Volume 15~22).1.3 Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter (Volume 8~15).1.1 Red, Green & Blue chapter (Volume 1~3).Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri has endorsed the series, stating 'This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey.' Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president and CEO of The Pokémon Company and Pokémon producer, has also praised the series, saying, 'I want every Pokémon fan to read this comic!' Publication continued in CoroCoro Ichiban! and Pokémon Fan magazine. In February 2012, Shogaku Yonensei-which was serializing the Black & White chapter at the time-also ceased publication.

On October 26, 2009, it was announced that the magazines Shogaku Gonensei and Shogaku Rokunensei (at the time serializing the Diamond & Pearl chapter) would cease publication at the end of the fiscal year. Pokémon Adventures also contains darker elements than other media, including depictions of certain characters and some Pokémon dying. Also unlike the anime, which has gone to great lengths to indicate the danger of a Legendary or Mythical Pokémon being captured, the main characters of Pokémon Adventures have captured and sometimes use their own legends, much as the player can in the games. Unlike the anime-which, though drawing much inspiration from the games, does not follow them exactly-Pokémon Adventures is a mostly game-based manga, with the twenty-three main characters taking their names from the core series games and their various adventures tending to stay restricted to their home region. It is popularly known as Pokémon Special even outside of Japan, and is often shortened as PokéSpe (Japanese: ポケスペ / ポケSP PokeSupe).

It is published by Shogakukan under the Ladybird Comics Special series. It was illustrated by 真斗 Mato for the first nine volumes and starting from Volume 10 it has been illustrated by 山本サトシ Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures (Japanese: ポケットモンスターSPECIAL Pocket Monsters SPECIAL) is a manga series authored by 日下秀憲 Hidenori Kusaka.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining PearlĬhuang Yi logo, later used by Shogakukan Asia.

Pokémon Adventures by Yuuki Iinuma