Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet; Vol. 1

Adventures inspired by the best-selling video games.

Violet Lang calls himself the Prince of Speed and races across the Paldea region in search of the Herba Mystica that will give his Pokmon the ultimate speed. Scarlet Koito is a Treasure Hunter in search of the Treasures of Ruin. Together they are Scarlet and Violet, and ready to take on new adventures and challenges!

Violet Lang and Scarlet Koito attend an academy in the Paldea region and embark on their first big assignments, finding treasures that will help them become amazing Trainers with even more powerful Pokmon!

What's in store for our next generation of Trainers?!

About the Author

Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for Pokemon Adventures. Running continuously for over 25 years, Pokemon Adventures is the only manga series to completely cover all the Pokemon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. In addition to writing manga, he also edits children's books and plans mixed-media projects for Shogakukan's children's magazines. He uses the Pokemon Electrode as his author portrait.

About the Illustrator

Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for Pokemon 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 Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, followed by the seriesKaze no Denshosha. Yamamoto's favorite manga creators/artists include FUJIKO F FUJIO (Doraemon ), Yukinobu Hoshino (2001 Nights ), and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira ). He loves films, monsters, detective novels, and punk rock music. He uses the Pokemon Swalot as his artist portrait.