Pocket Monsters Zensho is a very faithful adaptation of the original games of the franchise, Pocket Monster: Red/Green, probably the most faithful thinking about manga. In this manga our main character is called Satoshi and the story follows his journey from Masara Town to the Pokemon League. Each chapter is named after a town (except the last one), showing one of the main events of the games. Chapter one shows the introduction of Satoshi and his Rival, named Shigeru. Chapter two to nine, all the gyms leaders and other side event like the St. Annu, the Safari Zone and the Sylph Company. Chapter 10 shows theconclusion in the Pokemon League, which is extremely rushed.

This manga is competent enough to remind the reader of the order of progression of the games and also manages to be creative at some moments, but everything here is very robotic and weak. There is nothing really exciting to read. The characters are very bland, without any charisma or development, even about the Pokemon. There are not many battles, everything is easily and quickly resolved, in the case of battles, they are like one-hit KO’s. It is pretty short, so there is not much how to expect much build up. It’s not really recommendable, because it’s nothing that someone who already is familiar to the franchise hasn’t seen before and better in other titles of the franchise and for someone who don’t know the franchise, is not really a good first impression.