Pokemon Black and White, Vol. 4

Pokémon Black and White #4

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrator)

Meet PokÉmon Trainers Black and White! White has a burgeoning career as a Trainer of performing PokÉmon. Black is about to embark on a training journey to explore the Unova region and fill a PokÉdex for Professor Juniper.Who will Black choose as his first PokÉmon? Who would you choose?

Plus, meet feisty PokÉmon Tepig, Snivy, Oshawott and many more new PokÉmon of the unexplored Unova region!

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

80 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

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

[Andre · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is well written, for what it is of course, and it is good how Black uses his brains and the gym leaders are rather teachers than antagonists. So Black's development makes sense and how he uses his environments makes sense also.
Also while the manga gives you the answers to the crimes here of course, the artwork also provides you with clues as to what is going on, of course it would be easier if you know the game and its Pokemon. :D
However I think in this case the current mystery was a tad too easy since they, unlike before, basically showed us what happened and that took some of the thrill out of it.
Next to that I like the humor that shows that they had not forgetten Pokemon and character pecularities, e.g. when White is suddenly full of dreams you see how Black has to forcefully hold back his Munna since... well... Munnas eat dreams and of course then White would be a feast for it. :D
Now one last thing:
These anatagonists called Team Plasma are really creepy. When you see them you see the inspiriation from the templars and other Christian knights and they have this holier-than-thou attitude where they constantly act so nice but when you pay attention to what they say and how they act, you notice that they truly are the bad guys, they simply think they are the good ones and are so full of themselves that they might never see that.

[Patty · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know if it's because of these smaller editions of this arc of the "Pokemon Adventures" manga, or that I don't feel as strongly for these characters as ones like Gold and Silver or Ruby and Sapphire (yeah, thanks a lot VIZ, for giving up on the series ONCE AGAIN before translating a particular story-arc I was looking forward to!)...but I can't rate the B/W manga as highly as I have the others. But Kusaka still writes a really good storyline, even after all these years on this particular manga series...and the art captures the feel of the games really well.

[Jezz Vargas · Rating 5 out of 5]

10/10 :v

[Hilda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Masterpiece ^^

[Ronin Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars

Completely in the middle of the road. The battle near the end was ok though!

[Noelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s starting to feel formulaic, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s pretty faithful to the game which I appreciate.

[Summer · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you've already played Pokemon Black/White all the way through, you already know the storyline for this manga adaptation- almost right down to the dialogue. The Pokemon illustrations and the battle depictions are well-drawn though. No Pokemon fan should miss out :)

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[Suki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rating for French version.

[Daken Howlett · Rating 3 out of 5]

numero piuttosto breve,solo mezza lotta nella seconda palestra,ma contiene un bel colpo di scena piazzato bene.

[Parker Neff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was ok