Electric Tale of Pikachu volume 1

Volume 1: The Electric Tale of Pikachu! is the first of four volumes of the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga series created by 小野敏洋 Toshihiro Ono.

First published in Japan by Shōgakukan: October 28, 1997
- ISBN 4091493416
First published in US/Canada by VIZ Media: September 28, 1999
- ISBN 1569313784
First published in Singapore by Chuang Yi:

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VIZ Media cover artwork

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Japanese cover artwork

Chapters

Chapter 1: Pikachu, I See You!
Chapter 2: Play Misty For Me
Chapter 3: Clefairy Tale
Chapter 4: Haunting My Dreams

Important events

Ash begins his Pokémon journey.
Ash earns his first two Gym Badges.
Ash captures his first five Pokémon.

Party changes

Additions

Pikachu (ET01)
Fearow (ET01)
Caterpie (ET01)
Pidgeotto (Capture not shown, first appears in ET02)
Mankey (ET03)

Evolutions

Metapod (evolves in ET02)
Butterfree (evolves in ET02)

Trades

Ash trades away his Mankey for a map of Mt. Moon in ET03.

Gym battles

Ash battles the following Gym Leaders in this volume:

Brock in ET02 (win)
Misty in ET02 (win)
Sabrina in ET04 (loss)

Translation edits

In the VIZ Media translation, Clefairy Tale is published as chapter two and Play Misty For Me is published as chapter three. This creates a continuity error, as Ash uses his Butterfree in Clefairy Tale, which supposedly hasn't evolved yet as it evolves in Play Misty For Me. The reason for this is because before the graphic novel was released, each chapter was published as an American-style comic book issue. After controversy from the first issue/chapter being released relatively uncut, the second chapter was pushed back to the third issue so that more editing could be done.

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.