Ongoing
“Red and rival Green battle Team Rocket's cruel Pokémon experiments while seeking rare Mew.”
Pokémon Adventures
ポケットモンスターSPECIAL
8.11
673 rank · 55,727 readers · 4,605 favorites
Kids
Action
Adventure
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Synopsis
Red and rival Green battle Team Rocket's cruel Pokémon experiments while seeking rare Mew.
Red is just a normal kid living in the rural Pallet Town, when he decides to go out on his own adventure, along with his rival, Green. In this world of Pokémon, he makes many friends, humans and Pokémon alike. However, all is not well. Team Rocket is trying to capture Mew, a very rare Pokémon, and is performing experiments on other Pokémon, trying to increase their power. Red and his friends must battle against Team Rocket to stop their cruel experiments and unlock the secrets of Pokémon.
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Community consensus
Derived from 20 sampled reviews
8.9
/10
What 20 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.99
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.99 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.90
Running avg · May 2009 → Aug 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I gave this manga a 9 in enjoyment, but it is true only if you played pokemon games. This manga follows games plot really close, but gives you a new view of it. Pokemon users in this manga do not...”
- 9 “I still remember to this day going to the library on weekends just to read more and more of this story, it was interesting to me as a kid and I can never deny it was apart of who I was back then,...”
- 10 “I've read the entire series up to SM, and I must say as the games got stale, more and more rushed, and overall worse, the manga retained its shine. The stories go much more in-depth than the games...”
Verbosity
Short · 30%
Medium · 35%
Long · 35%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Apr 1997 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0860 catalog