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is a fantasy action-adventure manga series created by Toshihiro Ono and serialized in the Children's manga magazine ''CoroCoro Comic''. Individual chapters were collected into four ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on October 28, 1997 and the fourth volume on January 28, 2000. The characters and storylines are all drawn from the ''Pokémon'' anime series, although some events and depictions of characters diverge slightly from the anime, and the world itself has a visibly higher level of technology. The manga was published in English in North America by Viz Communications in a "flipped", left-to-right format. In 1998 the company released comic book issues; the collected volumes came afterwards. At the time of its release Issue #1 was the best-selling manga, and best-selling comic book of any type, in the United States.〔Yadao, Jason S. ''The Rough Guide to Manga'' (Rough Guides reference guides). Penguin Books, October 1, 2009. ISBN 1405384239, 9781405384230. p. (48 ).〕 The first volume, ''The Electric Tale of Pikachu!'', was released on September 5, 1999, and the third, ''Electric Pikachu Boogaloo'', was released on April 5, 2000. In Singapore, the manga is published in English by Chuang Yi and translated as ''Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu!'' for all four volumes.〔"(Available Issues for THE ELECTRIC TALE OF PIKACHU )." ''Chuang Yi''. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.〕 The Traditional Chinese edition in Taiwan of the manga is published by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Chingwin Publishing. ==Development== Toshihiro Ono, the author of the series, said that he began drawing the series after Mr. Saito, Ono's editor, asked Ono to draw a manga to go along with the anime. During the production of the manga, Ono received scripts of the anime series. The author then altered the stories to fit the desired amount of pages used per storyline.〔"(Animerica Interview Toshihiro Ono )" ((Archive )). VIZ Media. May 10, 2000. Retrieved on May 31, 2009. (An interview was published in ''Animerica'' in Volume 8, Issue 1 ) ((Archive )) (2000)〕 Ono said that his favorite manga chapter was "Clefairy Tale" from the first volume and that he was "embarrassed that I can't say why." According to Ono he did not find any particular chapter to be more difficult than any other chapter. He said that when the episode "Clefairy in Space" ("Subway no Pipi") was going in manga form, Ono had to redraw many of the pages, a time-consuming process. Ono encountered difficulty in drawing Dragonite in the final chapter, as he struggled to "get a face that cute to look powerful." His favorite human characters to work with were Ash Ketchum and Jessie and James. In particular he liked Jessie and James because they are minor characters and "have much more freedom" than main characters. Therefore minor characters are "more fun to draw." Ono's favorite characters to draw were Ash Ketchum, Ditto, Nurse Joy, and Oddish.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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