Pokémon Adventures: Black 2 & White 2, Vol. 2

ポケットモンスターSPECIAL #52

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrations)

Two years have passed since Team Plasma was defeated and Trainer Black was sucked into the Light Stone along with Legendary Pokémon Reshiram… Now Team Plasma is back to its wicked ways, controlling other people’s Pokémon and even wild Pokémon with technology. Luckily, a new young hero and Looker of the International Police are on their trail…

Whitley is beginning to have feelings for Inspector Blake, but it seems all he cares about is figuring out if she is a Team Plasma spy planted at their school. A chorus tournament in Castelia City strikes some sour notes when the Seven Sages crash the event. And then, who will save Legendary Pokémon Kyurem from Team Plasma…?

Genres: Manga, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Japanese Literature, Young Adult, Comics Manga

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2017

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, Blake is continuing to harass Whitley in this volume, and she's starting to, ugh, gag, develop feelings for him. Oh, how quickly she's tossed N aside (which is not super age appropriate for her, but since I've read ahead, I know it doesn't go anywhere weird, thank goodness)! And what a profound lesson for the youngsters. Just be persistent. They'll give in at some point.

Anyway, Blake and Looker are still investigating Team Plasma and trying to arrest the seven sages and Colress is still being Colress. He's a great villain, really. He's charming but so sinister. Is it weird that he and Ghetsis keep calling each other "my friend?" They go on like that for the entire series. If feels like thinly veiled hatred. Or maybe they really are great friends and just love to say it at every single possible opportunity. Who knows?

Colress manages to snatch Kyurem form Zinzolin, and starts freezing all the cities along with the people inside them. How cold! Heh. I'm not sure what the goal is here. Attention, maybe. Colress might just be playing around with Kyurem's powers because he thinks they're fun, I guess. They also reveal the plan for Kyurem to absorb Zekrom and Reshiram for some unholy purposes as well.

Hugh's story line is still the most interesting to me. He finds Whitley's locket and opens up Team Plasma's secret files, so he knows one of the girls is a Team Plasma member. Over the course of the volume, he confronts Whitley and her testimony helps him begin to see that it's not all as black and white (ha!) as it seems.

Some honorable mentions in this volume are:
Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus get their Therian forms which were teased in Black and White. Very cool.

The bowl cut triplets got an upgrade. How did they grow that much hair in two years? They must be taking their B vitamins.

Hugh thinks the Toxicroak is speaking to him. Ha!

All the scenes with Kruyem are super epic looking. Especially that moment where he looms over Colress. Ooh, chills.

I love the teaser of the white orb and N flying on Zekrom, so you know they're going to be in next volume finally. Yay!

[Flowergirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this one. We get to see Team Plasma from a different point of view, and I can see not all of them are that bad. They remind me of N, and I was beginning to like him too.
I love Whitley so much, she's so sweet and cares so much about others.
Blake is getting on my nerves, I don't like him too much, but he's a good kid.

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

The pacing is good and they're really taking the story in its own direction. I found Black having a bunch of random Pokemon a bit odd, particularly Kabutops, without a real backstory. And he caught Keldeo? It all seems kinda OP.

[Freddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this is a great read

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting storyline on this one, I've missed a bit though.

[Jaden John · Rating 5 out of 5]

really good

[ReadingFrog · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars.

[David Doel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume jumped around a bit much for my taste but I like the rom-com element that is not present in other Pokemon stories I have read. I remember having a crush when I was 12-years-old.

[Eli]

I still love this Colress guy!

Hate Blake tho

[寿理 宮本]

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Read it, classic Pokémon, book 2 of a series. Mostly noting when I read it, need to find a new copy since this one was donated to a free library YEARS ago.