Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum, Vol. 2

ポケットモンスターSPECIAL #31

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrator)

All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!

Pearl, Diamond and Lady Berlitz finally reach the base of Mt. Coronet. They’re all set to scale its cloudy peak...but first, there are dancing Contests to win, badges to compete for and enemies to evade!

Speaking of enemies, are those shadowy figures members of...Team Galactic?!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics, Adventure, Graphic Novels Manga

216 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2009

About the author

Created the Pokemon Adventures series.

Also made a Pokemon Rangers/ Almia manga. It is based on the game Pokemon Rangers, Shadows of Almia

Also known as : 日下秀憲

Reviews

[Gabríel Ísarr Travagini]

The "Pokémon" anime and manga are notorious for their inaccuracies, but, speaking as someone who has played both "Platinum" and "Diamond" with Piplup as their starter, Lady (as the female main character is currently referred to) defeating Gardenia on her first try is probably the most ridiculous.

That being said, this was another fun little volume. Again, the story feels a little rushed, but nothing I can't get past.

[Mira]

I read stuff like this manga and I wonder to myself "Why do I still like this ridiculous crap I am sixteen." Then I remember I don't care and Pokémon is life.

[Ahmed Hossam]

This series is very amusing.

[Jessi]

This volume starts off with my girl, Cynthia, giving the kids a short training session leading up to Lady wining a badge from Gardenia. Cynthia also vigilante style saves a kidnapped bike shop owner who mistakes the kids for his rescuers and gives them all bikes.

Even though they're confused they still take the bikes. Ha! But actually Lady doesn't know how to ride, so they have to take a quick break from their journey to teach her. That ends in disaster with an attack from from a wild Stunky, an out of control bike, and a trip to the bathhouse. All that leads to a just missed meeting between the kids, Cyrus, the boss of Team Galactic, and Lady's actual bodyguards, Uji and Paka, who are still looking for her.

The kids do however end up in a confrontation with Cyrus soon after on the cave route to Mt. Coronet. Cyrus is evolving his pokemon and causes a cave in leaving Diamond, Pearl, Lady, along with some of their pokemon separated amongst the rubble. The wild Luxray Pearl previously helped just happened to be there as well, and helped Diamond find his friends with x-ray vision. I loved seeing that little Luxio return all grown-up. Also, Diamond read the map and guidebook and was a champion guide for them (that is until the cave in) which was nice to see because he had previously taken a back seat in most of the action thus far.

The kids break out of the cave and end up n Hearthome City where Lady wants to compete in the contests there. So, the kids break up the work for the contest with Diamond tackling cooking the poffins (yay, the poffin case!), Pearl handled I don't know but he was furiously writing something, and Lady handled the organization of the costumes. And, oh sweet baby Arceus, do her pokemon look hilarious in those costumes. Lady gets discouraged because she's being sabotaged, but a pick-me-up from Diamond has her back in the game and having fun which catches the eye of Fantina who will become a huge help to them.

The kids take a trip to the Lost Tower and then the Solaceon Ruins where the D and P Unown (ha!) befriend Diamond and Pearl, and the kids save all their little Unown friends who will also become a huge help to them later.

Meanwhile, Team Galactic is trying to kidnap Lady for a ransom to build their bomb, but are foiled by Uji and Paka behind the scenes. The kids have no idea what's going on heightening this strong sense that all this is a big misunderstanding.

[Rhys Causon]

So far these Diamond and Pearl volumes haven’t really grabbed me. That’s probably because they just seem to be plodding along more than following any sort of story. Possibly because the game they are based on had very little plot to follow in the first two main games.

Hopefully it picks up in the next volume but there’s only one way to find out.

[Angel Guerrero]

Nada extraordinario, sigue bastante regular la serie a mi parecer aunque mejoró un poco la comedia en este tomo. Se pueden ver más las conexiones con la franquicia en general pero el conflicto serie presenta de forma muy casual a mi ver.

Me agradan los personajes pero siento que en momentos importantes no les dejan brillar como deberían, me gusta su dibujo y el diseño de los Pokémon, es entretenido pero hasta ahí, cumple con su función de darle continuidad a la historia.

[Teige Seiden]

It’s so addictive and funnier than the first one but the best one of them is number two.I love the series but my favorite book is Timmy failure 5. I don’t know if you will like it but I recommend this book if you love Pokémon. I just want you to know that I love pokémon and I hope that you liked my review of
Pokémon adventures diamond and pearl platinum book 2!

[David Doel]

This is much better than I expected! It is full of intriguing situations and I can easily imagine it stirring the desire to learn in children. Volume 2 includes a section where one of the characters speaks pigeon French. I can't help wondering how they do that with kanji.

[Pauly Thomas]

Love it sooo much

[Matt Farley]

love it

very good would suggest it to anyone who loves pokemon. Good story and very funny can't wait to read more

[Ashley]

good

[Serena]

Tampoco le voy a poner estrellas pero mmmmm

[Liam]

Its good

[Ronin Reader]

A big step in the right direction. Funnier, more charming, and more character development and plot!

[Raye Porter]

3.5
The "comedy" aspects are starting to grate on me and hoping for a bit more plot.

[Luru]

2.5 stars

[Amanda]

i love Dia

[Nick]

Kinda miffed by these characters and their character interactions. Hopefully they get better.

[Marty Himmel]

Really good book

[Miguel Vega]

Really enjoying this chapter. The characters of Diamond, Pearl and the "Lady" are really enjoyable and different from the previous characters of Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. I am looking forward to a reunion of sorts with all the Pokedex Holders, as these three are more "goofy" than the previous 10. All in all, this was a good volume and I think it was nicely done how the group are in-danger of Team Galactic throughout the entire volume even though they themselves never confronted them in this volume or knew that they were targets; drives the point home that everything is a big misunderstanding.

[Patty]

Finally, Team Galactic has revealed itself to the trio of travellers in the Sinnoh region. Some of the action is slowed, for development of the characters personalities...but you can tell that the author and artist have major things coming down the pipeline soon. (Of course, I'm up to volume 37 in the Japanese editions...which will be volume 7 of this series...so I already know a bit of what's going to happen!)

[Jeffrey]

Having had their pokemon evolve at the end of the volume, Lady, Diamond, and Pearl (suddenly reminded of a Prince song) venture to Hearthome City and enter a, for all intents and purposes, pokemon beauty pageant. Diamond is apparently fond of cooking in addition to eating so I suppose that's a small development? Again, it's only okay, so while it's not painful to read, I wouldn't read this unless your child asks you to.

[Saif]

One word: Fantina <3

[Robert Hudder]

So, this one seemed to still follow the formula with just a few touches. There is an emerging large story arc that is slowly taking shape. Like a lot of those story based games in the 90s, these books have a certain flow with repetition and a few laughs thrown in. They still remind me of Lil Archie without reference to real world sites but rather the tour guide to the region.

[Tristan]

laz

[Mamatufy]

Yay! I read 2 & now I'm done.

[Flowergirl]

I loved this book. If it is possible this book was funnier than the last. I love reading the pokemon Adventures books and can't wait to read the next one.

[R1 Ireland]

it is really good the art is absolutely astonishing!

[Sakura]

Still getting better! really enjoying it!

[Parker Neff]

To be honest I didn't like this one as much as I did the other ones. It just was not to good.