I Choose You! (manga)

Logo of the manga

Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスター キミにきめた！ Pocket Monsters the Movie: I Choose You!) is a manga of the movie of the same name. It is adapted by Ryo Takamisaki. It started serializing on July 2, 2017 in MangaONE, a Japanese manga smartphone app by Shogakukan. The English release will combine both of the original Japanese volumes into one, and will be released on December 11, 2018.

List of volumes

Cover			Shogakukan		VIZ Media
		Volume 1	ISBN 9784091424587	August 28, 2017	ISBN 978-1974703838	December 11, 2018
		Volume 2	ISBN 9784091425980	December 27, 2017

Differences between the anime and the manga

• Ash and Cross first encounter each other at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
• Cross received his Charmander from Professor Oak.
• With the exception of capturing Caterpie, the montage of Ash and Pikachu's journey before going to the Pokémon Center is skipped over entirely.
• In the movie, Ash never meets Team Rocket. In the manga, he briefly sees them at the Pokémon Center, though he never encounters them again.
• Verity and Sorrel are first seen when Ash encounters Entei instead of showing up at the Pokémon Center.
• Verity's mother is never brought up.
• Cross does not learn that Ash possesses the Rainbow Wing at the library.
• The brief battle between Ash and Pikachu against Ho-Oh is not shown.

Related articles

• M20

Movie manga adaptations M01 • M02 • M03 • M04 • M05 • M06 • M07 M08 long • M08 short (Yoshino Emiko) • M08 short (Miho Asada) • M09 long • M09 short • M10 • M11 • M12 M13 • M14 • M15 • M16 • M17 • M18 • M19 • M20 (1) • M20 (2) • M21

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