Pokémon Adventures: HeartGold & SoulSilver, Vol. 1

Pokémon Adventures #41

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrator)

Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon HeartGold and Pokémon SoulSilver video games! All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!

Your favorite Pokémon Trainers Gold and Silver are back! Crystal too! And so is Team Rocket...

In this two-volume thriller, troublemaker Gold and feisty Silver must team up again to find their old enemy Lance and the Legendary Pokémon Arceus.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket is on the rampage digging up, stealing and collecting 16 mysterious plates for some nefarious purpose known only to them...

What is the hidden power of the 16 plates, and what do they symbolize...?

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for all ages.

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

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2012

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

[Parker Keys_to_hades · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the book as usual, but I felt like it was a little all over the place.

[Jessi · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, we start off the story with Gold investigating Team Rocket and Arceus, but first he'll need to meet with Lance. While he's waiting he decides to take on the challenges at the Pokeathlon Dome, and delinquent Togepi is the best ever.

Well, Lance's Dragonite shows up all in a rage with no sign of Lance anywhere. Gold decides this is all a waste of time and travels on to Ecruteak City to see the lovely Eevee sisters. I know it was supposed to be a good thing that Gold trusts his pokemon without micromanaging them, but it still seems rude to them to be relaxing while they are working so hard. No wonder Togepi hasn't warmed up to him yet.

Anyway, while in Ecruteak City, Gold encounters our old friend Morty, so they decide to use Morty's psychic powers to try to find Lance using the piece of cape that was with Dragonite.

Meanwhile, Silver is trying meet with Lance by going to his cave base, but instead of Lance he meets up with Lance's cousin, Clair. After a brief misunderstanding, they discover they are both there out of concern for Lance. After a battle with some enemy Koffing in which Sneasel swipes a rectangular metal plate, Clair reveals information about a transmission she received from Lance regarding plates and the Safari Zone.

Silver, determined to stop his father and Team Rocket, flies off to the Safari Zone to investigate. It's so hilarious he runs in half-cocked and has no idea how to operate in the Safari Zone, and the Suicune fan has to jump in and help him out. But then they clash with the shapeshifting Team Rocket executive, Petrel, who spills the beans about all the plates and even gives Silver the two that he has after being intimidated by Silver's red Gyarados.

Then, who should we bump into in the Safari Zone? Crys!! But, oh, I have serious problems sometimes with the way Mr. Yamamoto draws female characters. This full page image of Crys being shocked by seeing Silver is.... I think he used a Barbie doll for reference for the waist down. But an older one where the legs are kind of just stuck onto the sides of the torso. Obviously, he was going for like a huge a$$ thigh gap for her, so *eye roll*.

Anyway, Crys is there on a trip with the kids, but decides to leave them with Suicune Fan (which is irresponsible, but they're orphans so whatever), to travel with Silver to find all the missing plates. Eusine tells them about Morty, and they are now headed to Ecruteak City as well.

On the way, they encounter Ariana, another of the Team Rocket executives, and Silver realizes the 16 plates all coincide with pokemon move types.

Dun, dun, dun! Will Morty find Lance? Will Silver and Crystal find a way to defeat Ariana? Find out next time on Pokemon Adventures!!

[David Doel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first of two volumes that comprise adventure #9 in the Pokemon manga series. It seems largely devoted to introducing the characters. I like that because I'm not reading the Pokemon series in order; I wish more authors felt the need to do the same. I next will read volume 2 which will presumably contain most of the action.

[Ida-Maria Myntti · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very pleasant surprise! I really enjoyed this manga. Somehow I imagined this to be much duller that is actually is even though I have heard that the Pokémon manga is much more mature than the anime. Loved the references to the game lore and how they involved the games with the story. Definitely going to read the other volumes when I get to them!

[Flowergirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

HeartGold and SoulSilver, the first part was great. I loved seeing Crystal, Gold and Silver again. Gold being his usual arrogant self.
The brief cameo of the elite 4 was fun. I quite liked Bruno and Gold's interaction.
Eusine was fun this time round, I wish we had seen Crystal and him together.
I greatly enjoyed this one, with the older characters here again.

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This starts off with an interesting premise then jumps back to what happens with Gold and Silver and even Crystal (not a new character). I was surprised that they didn't meet Lance or battle the gyms. I guess the writers took more liberties in the original generation than now, as they were really focused on the Pokeathalon mechanics.

[Pokemonmanga · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing better than the anime it describes the characters perfectly and gets more involved with the Pokémon battles introduces new characters and brings back old ones and they don't have a one chapter stand they stay with the story even if they added less to the story than other characters

[Lincoln · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like most other manga books this is a humorous extent of the game. I don't understand why the four executives of team rocket wear different colors. The first time I read this book I didn't realize silver was a boy. Petrel was an interesting character and the poke Athlon was very fun.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite enjoyable to say the least Johto has always been my favorite.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a good setup for a new storyline, unfocused and all over the place.

[Donavan Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I honestly didnt expect pokemon mangas to be good at all, but i loved it

[Jaden John · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was so Good!

[Steph · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a fun book to read with my eldest.

[Cooper Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book was very intense and overall it was awesome!!!

[Lucia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice comic

[Ronin Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.9 stars
Loving the fast pacing, and while it’s definitely too fast, it’s a really nice change of pace from the last couple of arcs. Besides that, it’s your standard Pokémon arc.

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too short but a banger in its own right

[Cooper Gralheer]

It was good

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating: 3/5 – For Seasoned Pokemon Trainers (and Readers!) Only

Way back when, a manga-loving colleague of mine told me one of the best manga he’d ever read was Pokemon Adventures – the original series. I scoffed. I have nothing against Pokemon in general but there’s just no way a series so deeply mired in commercialism and selling cute toys to kids (and adults) could ever be taken seriously as an actual story. I’m kind of dumb that way.

This is not to say that Pokemon Adventures: HeartGold & SoulSilver is quite on that same level. It isn’t, nor is it a solid jumping on point for newcomers to the whole Pokemon world (yes, there are still a few people out there!). If you’re not familiar with some of the stories that precede this volume involving Gold and Silver – two pokemon trainers with very different backgrounds – you’re going to be lost pretty much from the beginning, and need to go back and find those earlier works if you’re so inclined.
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[Miguel Vega · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5. I really liked this volume overall as it reminded me heavily of the third chapter that starred Gold, Silver, and Crystal. This volume takes place three years after the Emerald chapter and before the Diamond, Pearl and Platinum chapter (the first in the series to take place before the volume before it).

I really liked the character of Gold as he is the anti-Red. Whereas Red does things for people, Gold takes action for himself, but has a good heart. Silver continues on his own personal quest to take down Team Rocket and prove that he is not Giovanni and Crystal vows to aid her friends in taking the evil organization down to protect the children who live in the world.

[Patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't say enough about this short story-arc of the whole series. Technically this storyline is in volumes 40-42 of the series, but VIZ had to go and break out each and every storyline it seems. There are still flashback scenes to previous storylines they haven't covered yet, but with the pace of the short story arc, they didn't spend much time on the flashbacks...perhaps why VIZ felt it okay to break this part out.

After the Ruby/Sapphire storyline, this is probably my absolutely favorite story-arc of the entire series!

[Danielle Booey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was published a long time after the original Gold and Silver Pokemon Adventures series. I had a bit of a hard time remembering where are characters were at and what the status quo was regarding their Pokemon and relationships when this volume picked up.

[Erminio Ottone · Rating 1 out of 5]

No comment.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read volumes 1 and 2.

[Nic · Rating 4 out of 5]

My NFNT review is up here.

[James McM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome! loved seeing Gold,Silver and Crystal again

[Robert Hudder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two volume series that has an Olympic theme with side story of Team Rocket returning without Giovanni.

[Holly Letson · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with most *Pokemon* manga, I enjoyed this very much. I would like to read the other volume of this arc as well.

[itsrainingbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

A swift and very nostalgic read