Pokémon Adventures: Ruby & Sapphire, Vol. 18

Pokémon Adventures #18

by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrations)

Adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokemon video games!

All your favorite Pokemon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!

Ruby arrives in Verdanturf Town ready to participate in his first Hoenn region Pokemon Contest. It looks like his dream of becoming the Pokemon Contest Champion is finally back on track! But soon he gets sidetracked yet again when he is asked to rescue a Trainer from a Rusturf Tunnel collapse. Could Team Magma be behind this latest unnatural disaster...?

Then, both Ruby and Sapphire begin a losing streak...

Meanwhile, the Hoenn Gym Leaders can't agree... Which group is evil? Team Magma or Team Aqua...or both?!

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for all ages.

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Adventure, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2004

About the author

Created the Pokemon Adventures series.

Also made a Pokemon Rangers/ Almia manga. It is based on the game Pokemon Rangers, Shadows of Almia

Also known as : 日下秀憲

Reviews

[Raphael Souza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cada volume tem sua particularidade, melhora o enredo, traz novos personagens e evolui os já existentes.

Novos sub-tramas que se iniciam outras que observamos apenas um vislumbre o vol finaliza co um cliffhanger pra lá de bom.

[Jessi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think Absol as the bringer of calamity was a very interesting little spice added to this volume.

A naked gym battle for Sapphire.... hmmm. *facepalm*

I honestly can't believe the gym leaders are split on who the bad guys are (both Magma and Aqua obviously). Lavaridge can't function as a society as a result of Team Aqua's interference with Mt. Chimney, and some of the gym leaders are like, "Oh, Team Aqua can't be that bad." Really? Really?

It's pretty cool that Ruby and Sapphire now both have mentors from amongst the gym leaders.

[Fernando Medeiros santos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vou dar três estrelas porque pela primeira vez em todos os mangás, começamos a ter um pouco mais de profundidade em vilões que não sejam os chefões principais e essa dinâmica de Team Aqua e Team Magma traz umas coisas legais pra trama (não só a rivalidade entre os grupos, mas também o mistério e a necessidade de “escolher um lado” por parte dos personagens).

Sigo achando a parte da Sapphire muuuuito mais legal e amei que Wallace apareceu: não só é um líder de ginásio do tipo água F*DA, mas também tem uma certa queerness sobre ele que eu estou amando.

[Santiago Bueno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me viene gustando mucho este arco. Me gusta como se estan integrando todos los elementos de la historia. La trama de la competencia entre Ruby y Saphire, con sus caminos tan distintos, se entrelaza bastante bien con la trama de los equipos malvados. La intervención de los lideres de gimnasio como protectores de la región no es algo nuevo para este manga, pero en este arco toma un camino bastante interesante en mi opinión. Por lo menos en primera instancia. Tengo muchas ganas de saber como sigue esto.

[Chelsea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Much like previous volumes of this series it just kind of goes through the motions. The dual narrations is what really drags it down to an almost halt plot wise. I really only care about Norman and I don't think we're even supposed to like him. Maybe if this wasn't aimed for children and the stakes were raised a bit I'd like it better. But it just sort of chugs along with too many plot points that aren't very interesting.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This manga really sets up the stakes between the protagonists and the two evil teams in a deeply enticing way, portraying those GBA sprites in a way that I really didn't appreciate. It's a lot darker and gripping in these chapters.

[Aidan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read this book bad

[! · Rating 5 out of 5]

ruby’s hero-worship crush on wallace is so cute

[baillie ★ · Rating 3 out of 5]

actual rating: 3.5

[Flowergirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a good book. I'm not quite sure why all the gym leaders have to decide which organization is evil or not, otherwise I loved it. Ruby is finally getting headway in his goal.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Things get a little complex here with some dramatic irony!

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

While the last volume was a little meh at the end (idk, the Mt. Chimney storyline was always a little boring to me), I love how this picked everything up. The Gym Leaders all meeting and debating, Ruby up in Fallarbor with Wallace, Sapphire making her way into Fortree. It all had great momentum that never really slowed down.

[Alberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of my favorites.This book is about a boy Ruby age 11,and a girl Sapphire age 10 who don't meet until towards the end of the book.They both have different goals.Sapphire wants to defeat all 8 gym leaders an Ruby wants to win every pokemon beauty contest.When I started I flipped the goals the other way until I saw what was happening in the pictures.in this story two legendary pokemon are about to awaken and cause mass destruction which is the reason the volcanoes are cooling down and the sea level is rising so the gym leaders are trying to (when they awaken) find a way to protect the hoenn region. To read this book you have to read it right to left to keep it in the original japanese format.It is a graphic noval what and what I call a long comic book.

[Miguel Vega · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume was very fun and I really am liking the Horn region a lot more this time around. I am however, not a fan of Ruby as a main character and think he needs a little more development.

[Minerva · Rating 4 out of 5]

**** 4 stars ****