PS478

Big City Battles
Leavanny

VSハハコモリ

VS Hahakomori

Info

VIZ Media mini-volume	Adventure 18 in Vol. 6
Kurokawa mini-volume	Chapter 18 in Vol. 3
Shogakukan full volume	Chapter 478 in Vol. 45
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 18 in Vol. 3
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Castelia City Studio Castelia Castelia Gym

Big City Battles (Japanese: VS ハハコモリ VS Leavanny), titled VS Leavanny in the Shogakukan Asia translation, is the 478th chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the 18th chapter of the Black & White arc.

It is subtitled Leavanny (Japanese: 芸術 Art) in the VIZ Media translation and Art in the Shogakukan Asia translation.

Plot

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Major events

• Tep begins evolving, but White forcefully stops it.
• Black begins his battle against Burgh at the Castelia Gym.
• Bianca is attacked by a Team Plasma Grunt, who steals her Litwick.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the history page.

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

• Iris

Pokémon debuts

• Leavanny
• Gothorita
• Duosion
• Vanillite
• Karrablast
• Amoonguss
• Tynamo
• Elgyem
• Litwick
• Fraxure (Iris's)
• Mienshao

Characters

Humans

• Black
• White
• Cheren (flashback)
• Bianca
• Burgh
• Iris
• Team Plasma Grunt
• Castelia City citizens

Pokémon

• Braviary (Brav; Black's)
• Tepig (Tep; Black's)
• Galvantula (Tula; Black's)
• Tepig (Gigi; White's)
• Litwick (Bianca's)
• Venipede (Burgh's)
• Whirlipede (Burgh's)
• Dwebble (Burgh's)
• Leavanny (Burgh's)
• Fraxure (Iris's)
• Amoonguss (Bronius's)
• Karrablast (Trainer's)
• Tynamo (Trainer's)
• Duosion (Trainer's)
• Elgyem (Trainer's)
• Vanillite (Trainer's)
• Mienshao (Trainer's)
• Cinccino (Trainer's)
• Gothorita (Trainer's)

Trivia

Errors

• In the Japanese version of Volume 45, this chapter is mistakenly numbered as 477.
• In the Japanese version, the furigana for the female symbol says オス (male) instead of メス (female).

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 保母蟲 - 藝術
European French		L'art de ne pas évoluer
German		VS. Matrifol - Die schönen Künste
Italian		VS Leavanny - Arte
Korean		VS 모아머
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Leavanny - Arte
Spanish	Latin America	VS. Leavanny - Arte
	Spain	Contra Leavanny
Vietnamese		VS Hahakomori - Nghệ thuật

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