Pokémon X•Y, Vol. 7

Pokémon X•Y VIZ Media Mini-volumes (Half-edition) #7

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrator)

Awesome Pokémon adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon X and Y video games!

X was a Pokémon Trainer child prodigy. But now he’s depressed and hides in his room avoiding everyone—including his best friend Y. An attack on their hometown by Legendary Pokémon Xerneas and Yveltal, led by Team Flare, forces X outside… Now what?

After his plan fails and Korrina’s Key Stone is stolen, X retreats from the world again, this time holing up in the hollow of a tree. Can anything—or anybody— coax him out once more? Then, our ragtag band of heroes finally finds Team Flare’s secret headquarters. But is it already too late…?

Can our friends prevent Lysandre from firing the Ultimate Weapon?!

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels

96 pages, Paperback

Published July 5, 2016

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

[Jessi]

The kidnapped villagers from Vaniville Town are rescued, but a lot people were injured during the battle. X sinks into another depressive episode because he wasn't of more help to Korrina who had her key stone stolen. There's this point where X vomits and I honestly did not realize what was happening at first. He looks more surprised, and I suppose he would be surprised to be suddenly vomiting, but it just didn't really read as vomiting to me.

The other kids kick it into high gear with their training with Gurkin to get ready for the battle to come, and X figures out where Clemont has been by using the high tech glasses that he left behind. Then, he and Emma head out to Geosenge without the others (and honestly X would have gone without Emma except she happened to tag along), despite the fact that he was literally JUST lamenting that he acted overconfident in the previous battle. Does not learn, much? There's also this little bit of foreshadowing that I completely missed the first read through: Emma is talking about her new part time job and holding up the flyer for "Test Subjects Wanted." Hmmm, what's her part time job then?

Anyway, X gets into an altercation with Lysandre, which causes Xerneas to change out of tree form and halt the, uh, life force sucker outer machine, but they've already gathered enough that they can start their weapon of mass destruction!!! Will the others make it in time to stop it?!

[David Doel]

Plenty of action, but it's not always clear. This is not the best Pokemon material I have seen.

[TomintheSnow]

Finally starting to heat up and finally getting to see all the gym leaders! Unfortunately lots of talk and not much action this volume.

[Noelle]

We’re getting closer to the Ultimate Weapon! I love the XY games so much and reading this has made me want to play them again.

[Engel Dreizehn]

The show down, felt at more drama in pacing compared to the game's counterpart.

[Amber]

2.5 ⭐️

[Wesley and Fernie]

The plot is really starting to heat up! Getting kinda serious now.