Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, Vol. 1

Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire VIZ Media Mini-volumes (Half-edition) #1

by Hidenori Kusaka (Creator), Satoshi Yamamoto (Illustrations)

Adventures inspired by the best-selling video games!

Picking up where their saga left off, Sapphire and Emerald train in the new techniques of Mega Evolution to prepare for the next crisis of epic proportions. And they’ll need Ruby’s help too!

A giant meteor is hurtling towards the planet! Searching for a way to change its course, Ruby journeys to Sky Pillar to earn the trust of Zinnia, the True Lorekeeper of the mysterious Draconid tribe. Does Zinnia have the key to saving the world?

And what does all this have to do with Legendary Pokémon Rayquazza?

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Adventure, Childrens, Animals

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2017

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

[MyOwnBookAdventures · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, especially as a huge Pokémon fan :)

[Nancy Gabriela Montenegro · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG this book gave me the feels! I love this new story about ORAS! I am anxiously wanting to buy the rest of the books!

[Nagarj]

I love it

[Jessi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Right away, we're leaning on mega evolutions as the cool new thing. Which is okay, because it freaking is.

Steven has found an old cave panting of Kyogre and Groudon now with the alpha and omega symbols, and it's very mysterious. Not to mention, a sentient meteor is headed toward the Poke-Earth and will destroy it in ten days. I like that there's a countdown, actually. It's a call back to Ruby and Sapphire's competition in their previous series.

Ruby has run off without telling Sapphire where he's going. Again. Not that she's his keeper or anything, but he told freaking Emerald. He does what he says will be his last contest which worries everyone because they don't know what's going on, then he heads to Sky Pillar to get information from Zinnia, who is at odds with Steven and his father's company. This rivalry for who's going to save the Poke-Earth is a pretty interesting plot point, I think.

And, of course, I have to point out the shameless straight pre-teen boy wish fulfillment that is Ruby straddling Zinnia. Sweet baby Arceus! Why! Ya know, it's not right to just cater to one demographic. Where's the wish fulfillment for the gay boys? And the girls, straight and gay? Do it all or none! Ya hear me?

[Elsbeth Magilton]

Read with my mister buddy!

[Tommy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vary good! Just thought that not a lot of stuff happened in the book

[Rayquaza Mega · Rating 5 out of 5]

best

[Ethan Dobbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super fun read and I can’t wait to see where the story goes from here! Anyone who is a Gen 3 Pokémon fan will love this story

[David Doel · Rating 2 out of 5]

My sense is that the author is trying to introduce too many characters (people and pokemon) in too few pages. The occasional text blurbs are not enough. I have five pf the six volumes.

[R1 Ireland · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good start to the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire series. #Sapphire has a crush!~

[Ted Atchley · Rating 3 out of 5]

My son and I read these together. This one was okay.

[Holly Letson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the newer additions to the officially English-translated Pokemon manga family. It is one of the smaller and wider series that only has around 100 pages. It is fast-paced and enjoyable. I liked this very well.

The idea of a meteor hitting the Earth in a small amount of days felt very familiar to me, since I recently watched the *Crane Game Girls* anime series. But, this is different.

[Nic · Rating 3 out of 5]

My full review is posted on No Flying No Tights.

Update: I reread this after I got the second and third volumes. I think it made a bit more sense to me this time around! Still, there is a LOT going on for such a short book.

[Parker Neff · Rating 4 out of 5]

To be honest this book was ok in my opinion. It was a ok start to this mini series. But it was just not my favorite. It was pretty good don't get me wrong. But I just didn't like this 1st volume as much as the X and Y series did.

[Vivek Rawat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awesome

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this 4 stars even though I really like Pokemon because I thought Latios and Lotios shouldn't talk like Pokemon in the movie. -- henry