Pokémon Adventures: FireRed & LeafGreen, Vol. 25

ポケットモンスターSPECIAL #25

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrations)

Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire video games!

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

One of Team Rocket’s Three Beasts turns against their leader Giovanni and seeks to usurp his power. Silver learns a shocking secret about his family. Red and Mewtwo hazard a daring escape. And—whoa! The Team Rocket airship is about to crash-land!

Then, in a battle between powerful Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo and Mythical Pokémon Deoxys, who will triumph...?!

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

267 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2007

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

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arceus, that ending.

[RaspberryRoses]

literally criminal of them to put my girl blue (/green in this localization) on the cover when she barely does shit in this volume :sob: i still enjoyed it but CMOOON

[baillie ★ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual Rating: 3.75 🌟

[Emily Green · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to Fort Vancouver Regional Library Book Mobile for making Pokémon Adventures: FireRed and LeafGreen Vol 25 easily accessible and free to the public. We have been missing the bookmobile due to necessary repairs. Glad it is back!

In vol 25, Silver and Yellow find themselves confronted by Team Rocket and Red is in a rematch with Giovanni, former gym leader and head of Team Rocket. There are also some big reveals about Deoxys.

This is the first volume of Pokémon of any series that I have read. Though I am a big fan of graphic literature, I am not so versed in manga. My filter of what is good and what is not will be personal taste and not rooted in knowledge. That said, this book was better than I expected. I assumed that the volume would merely be a method to schill Pokémon cards, and I am sure that it is, but it’s also got some story.

I found the characters being named for colors a bit disconcerting and would have appreciated actual names for the characters. I get that it’s a trope of the game, but I don’t like when characters don’t have actual names.

What lead me to read this book? Good question. My daughter is obsessed with Pokémon GO. Pokémon is everything to her now. She battles on my phone, asks me if I caught anything new when I get home from work, and reads Pokémon guide books. All Pokémon all day. The other day, she asked me why I take pictures of my books and told me that “books aren’t everything.” Then she said, “Mommy, you should do Pokémon,” and she chose this book and took the picture for my Instagram review. It is a good imitation of my own pictures, I must say.

I took this book out so that we could read it together. She reads, but I still read to her every day. However, we did not make it very far reading it aloud. Right now, she is rebelling against any books that do not have color illustrations. Also, this is one volume out of a series and we are jumping on in the middle. I am used to reading book series out of order, but I also read books without any pictures, so I had no problem reading it by myself. For my five year old, it was DNF. In any case, she chose this book for me to review. As my daughter says, it’s a good thing I have two eyes, because she and her brother are the apples of my eyes.

Would I teach Pokémon Adventures: FireRed and LeafGreen Vol 25? That might sound like a strange question, as this is a random book from a series. I can see some scenarios in which it might be an option, for example in a fanfiction class, a manga reading club, or a class on writing book series. These possibilities, though, are a bit of a stretch; and given that it is in the middle of a series, it is doubtful. However, I can still speak to the merits of the book. For example, the characters have some personality, and while the Deoxys plot line is far-fetched, it still makes the Pokémon into a character, too. Overall, I was more impressed by this book than I expected to be.

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always wondered if the Pokémon Adventures manga would address the remake games and they did but in a creative ways by address the new content added in those games with FireRed and LeafGreen focusing on the Sevii Islands with Giovanni being the main villain again and it was kind of cool as they do focus on one of the Mystery Gift events being the Deoxys event. While I was not a big fan of how it ended as it felt really unnecessary but there was plenty to like. First they built off the Silver's story with him finally meeting Giovanni for the first time and we do learn that was the end goal of Giovanni's plan this entire time. The idea of how Deoxys was created was a bit ridiculous but still not a bad arc aside from the ending.

[Kane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intense action throughout and a great climax — however the cliffhanger was a little unexpected and I didn't really like that too much. I wonder when you we'll see the result of the cliffhanger? Hopefully it's in the Emerald saga.

[Elias Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Omg. That ending

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting, action-packed ending to the FireRed and LeafGreen arc. Excited for Emerald!

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was cool to bring back Silver and the Team Rocket plot is interesting. I'm looking forward to where this goes.

[Bob Bajek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an exciting volume.

[Jessi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phew, this was a big one. And it contained a lot more stripping than I expected. It almost reminded me of Fairy Tail for a minute. Giovanni, "Let's fight!" *Takes of shirt* Red, "Let's go!" *Also takes off shirt*

And, oh, what a fight it was! Mewtwo and Deoxys' fight was very epic!

Of course, Deoxys is Red's pokemon child. Why not?

What was all that Ultima took from the tower besides the map? Her sleeves were bursting.

This is not in order at all now since I had to talk about the stripping first, but anyway. That scene where Red, Blue, and Green worked together to free Mewtwo from Team Rocket's apparatus was really cool.

What does Carr mean he wanted to take over Team Rocket after Giovanni. That dude is clearly older than Giovanni. I mean, I guess Giovanni could have a tragic "accident," maybe the air base crashes, who knows? The chances of him taking over were already pretty slim. Trite as it was, it was still interesting to me to have him turn on the group.

Oh, it was so gripping when Silver is ready to write off Giovanni forever, and Blue talks him down.

And then the kids get turned to stone! What! I feel bad for Yellow. She's really going to be confused when she comes to, since she slept through the whole falling action.

[Miguel Vega · Rating 5 out of 5]

The conclusion to the FireRed and LeafGreen arc was epic. Five of the current nine Pokedex holders (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Silver) unite to confront Giovanni and the Three Beasts of Team Rocket. Overall it was pretty entertaining and the art is fantastic as always, but I thought that Team Rocket's overall plot was a little too dramatic (their ultimate mission was far less evil and I could sympathize with Giovanni) so it made their whole elaborate use of Deoxys seem a little over the top for me. And then there's Yellow...she was so badass in the Yellow Chapter, but ever sine, she has been really shy, weak in battles and never given a really good plot compared to the other Pokedex Holders. She managed to strike fear into Sird in this volume, but based on her importance ever since the third chapter, Yellow (I feel) is given a little too much credit there and it's disappointing as she managed to defeat Lance and the Elite Four whom were using Lugia at the time with her own wits and Pokemon.

[Flowergirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved every part of the book. My favourite character will always be Yellow, she is wonderful and sweet in every way. Fighting for what she believes in and helping others however she can.
Seeing Red, Blue, Green and Yellow all together again was really heartwarming with the addition of Silver was nice.
I think the whole story was greatly interesting, there were a few twists I wasn't expecting, however they were amazing.
I will say I wish the ending had been different, however I'm excited to find out what happens in the next stories.
Every story was well loved and I'm excited to know more.
Seeing Kanto again was nice, seeing all the old characters I had missed and all their interactions with each other were well missed.

[Austin Pettlon · Rating 4 out of 5]

In Pokemon Adventures, Volumes 23, 24, and 25, we find our protagonists Red and Blue five years later from when we last saw them. They were given a Rainbow Pass which brought them to the sevi islands. When they get there they are suddenly attacked by a mysterious creature. Red and Blue must find a way to stop this creature.
What I liked about this book is that it added the features to the book from the game.
What I didn't like about it was that there were some uneeded info in my mind for these three books.

[Elwyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a surprise ending! How will our heroes get through this?!

[Avis · Rating 5 out of 5]

WHAT