Electric Tale of Pikachu volume 2

Volume 2: Pikachu Shocks Back is the second of four volumes of the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga series created by 小野 敏洋 Toshihiro Ono.

Publications

Chapters

• Chapter 1: The Human Race and the Pokémon Race
• Chapter 2: To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question!
• Chapter 3: Pikachu's Excellent Adventure
• Chapter 4: You Gotta Have Friends

Important events

• Misty rejoins the group.
• Ash wins the Pokémon free-for-all race on behalf of Lara Laramie.
• Ash helps Mikey get accepted into the fellowship The Knights of the E Stone.
• Ash and company are separated from Pikachu, but are reunited in the Hidden Village.
• Ash's Pikachu meets a herd of wild Pikachu and befriends them.

Party changes

• Ash's Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Oddish appear for the first time in You Gotta Have Friends. Their capture is not depicted in the manga. Instead, there is a notice at the bottom of the panel saying that "Ash has been busy since the last comic!".

Gym battles

• Jessie and James are shown battling Koga in a montage sequence in ET07, though it is not stated if they win or lose.

Translation edits

Much like in the first volume, much of the large busts and revealing clothing, such as the Nurses in ET06, was edited out and re-drawn for VIZ Media's translation. Unlike the first volume, however, Chuang Yi's translation does not contain these edits, as Chuang Yi's translation of the second volume was based on the original Japanese and not VIZ Media's version.

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