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{{AnimePokémonInfobox|
nickname=Chuchu |
jnickname=チュチュ|
tmnickname=Chuchu |
image=[[File:Chuchu.png|200px]]‎ |
caption=Chuchu |
location=[[Viridian Forest]] |
gender=Female |
nature=Mild |
ability={{a|Static}} |
type1=Electric |
media=special |
prevonum=025 |
pokemonname=Pikachu |
epnum=PS112 |
epname=Raise The Red Gyarados |
current=[[Party|With Yellow]]|
va=no|
}}

'''Chuchu''' (Japanese: '''チュチュ''' ''Chuchu'') is one of the [[Pokémon]] that {{adv|Yellow}} has in the [[Pokémon Adventures]] {{pkmn|manga}}. 

Chuchu is {{adv|Yellow}}'s {{p|Pikachu}}, and considered to be her [[starter Pokémon]], despite the fact that her first Pokémon was a {{p|Rattata}}. Some consider her the counterpart to {{adv|Red}}'s male Pikachu, [[Pika]].

==History==
[[File:Pika and Chuchu Egg.png|thumb|left|Chuchu with Pika and their Egg]]
Chuchu was captured about three years after Yellow's first appearance in the {{adv|Red, Green & Blue chapter}}. Yellow took it in after she found the rat injured the [[Viridian Forest]], and it was seen by her side first in ''[[PS111|VS. Tyranitar]]'' when she introduced it to her uncle [[Wilton]]. After noting that it had grown quite attached to her, he expounded on his real objective, which was to ask Yellow to go to the [[Johto]] region with him to investigate on {{p|Lugia}}. Because the sheer magnitude of a monster that they're dealing with doesn't leave him with many options alone, he needed someone to go with him, and Yellow came up with the idea to ask {{Adv|Red}}. After Yellow found him training near the Viridian Forest, Chuchu seemed to take a liking to [[Pika]] soon after they met. However, with Red's wrists and ankles still weak from the damage that [[Lorelei]]'s ice cuffs left on them, he needed to recover at the hot springs of [[Mt. Silver]], and left Pika behind.

Alongside Pika and Yellow, Chuchu flew to Johto on [[Kitty]] with Wilton's own {{p|Butterfree}}, where they soon encountered {{adv|Crystal}} after the latter mistook Pika for a wild Pokémon. Soon, however, the two trainers got involved in {{p|Lugia}}'s rampage and lost consciousness in the shipwreck. 

Following the incident, Chuchu and Pika produced an {{pkmn|Egg}} when Pika spent time with it in the Johto [[Daycare Center]]. When the [[Masked Man]] took the three hostage near [[Ilex Forest]], {{adv|Gold}} embraced their Egg and took a number of blows to guard it, hatching the [[Gold (Adventures)#Pichu|Pichu]] that the Egg contained. With Pichu's assistance, the boy eventually succeeded in defeating the villain, and Chuchu's offspring was left in his care.

Much later, in the {{chap|FireRed & LeafGreen}}, Chuchu was seen with a teenaged (albeit short) Yellow as they visited the [[Viridian Gym]] together. On its own will, it challenged the gym and found itself overwhelmed and defeated at the hands of {{adv|Blue}}'s {{p|Alakazam}}, and after recovering with Yellow's mystical healing power, met up with {{adv|Silver}}, who was searching for his roots nearby. Through a chain of events, it then found itself in Red's hands after Yellow spent the last of her energy informing him of {{adv|Deoxys}}'s message, and assisted in defeating [[Carr]]'s ten {{p|Forretress}}. 

Two months later, it and Pika, who were thankfully able to escape the beam that left their trainers petrified, traveled with Gold and Crystal to the [[Hoenn]] region to help save {{p|Jirachi}}. Soon, Gold also revealed that the two and his own Pichu had learned {{m|Volt Tackle}} to help out, and after the remaining five of the [[Pokédex Holder]]s succeeded in freeing their comrades, the three dealt the finishing blow to [[Guile Hideout]]'s giant {{p|Kyogre}} monster.

===Moves used===
{{anmov/h|Electric||Pika Chuchu Pichu Volt Tackle.png|Using Volt Tackle}}
{{anmov|Flying|Fly|PS173|The Last Battle VII}}
{{anmov|Electric|ThunderShock|PS179|The Last Battle XIII}}
{{anmov|Electric|Volt Tackle|PS336|The Final Battle IX}}
{{anmov/f|Electric}}

==Trivia==
*Although Chuchu is female, the only Pikachu in Generation IV that can legitimately know {{m|Fly}} are all male, coming from {{pw|Yellow Forest}} in the [[Pokéwalker]]. Conversely, the only Pikachu that can have {{m|Surf}}, like [[Pika]] does, are all female.
*In ''[[PS039|Just a Spearow Carrier]]'' a Pikachu with a flower on its head is seen among the crowd in the [[Indigo Plateau]].
*Chuchu is the only Pokémon belonging to Yellow that has not reached its final form.

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