Pokmon Adventures (Ruby and Sapphire), Vol. 18
By (Author) Hidenori Kusaka
By (artist) Satoshi Yamamoto
18
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
VIZ Media - Children's
3rd September 2013
United States
General
Fiction
741.5
Paperback
192
Width 127mm, Height 191mm, Spine 18mm
181g
Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokmon Ruby and Sapphire video games!
All your favorite Pokmon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!
Ruby arrives in Verdanturf Town ready to participate in his first Hoenn region Pokmon Contest. It looks like his dream of becoming the Pokmon Contest Champion is finally back on track! But soon he gets sidetracked yet again when he is asked to rescue a Trainer from a Rusturf Tunnel collapse. Could Team Magma be behind this latest unnatural disaster...
Then, both Ruby and Sapphire begin a losing streak...
Meanwhile, the Hoenn Gym Leaders cant agree... Which group is evil Team Magma or Team Aqua...or both!
Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Medias Pokmon Adventures. Running continuously for over20 years, Pokmon Adventures is the only manga series to completely cover all the Pokmon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. Kusaka is currently working on the 14th story arc, Pokmon: Sun & Moon. In addition to writing manga, he also edits childrens books and plans mixed-media projects for Shogakukans childrens magazines. He uses the Pokmon Electrode as his author portrait.
Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for VIZ Medias Pokmon Adventures, which he began working on in 2001, starting with volume 10. Yamamoto launched his manga career in 1993 with the horror-action title Kimen Senshi, which ran in Shogakukans Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, followed by the series Kaze no Denshosha. He is currently working on the 14th story arc in the Pokmon series, Pokmon: Sun & Moon. Yamamotos favorite manga creators/artists include Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon), Yukinobu Hoshino (2001 Nights) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). He loves films, monsters, mysteries, punk rock music and livin the good life. He uses the Pokmon Swalot as his artist portrait.