Blake (Adventures)

(Japanese: ラクツ Rakutsu) is a main character in the manga series Pokémon Adventures. He is a high-ranking member of the International Police. His rank is superintendent and his codename is Black 2 (Japanese: 黒の２号).

Character

Despite his young age, Rakutsu is a member of the International Police with an S rank in the organization. He is tasked with searching for any remaining members of the villainous group, Team Plasma. When on the job, he acts like a womanizer by constantly flirting with the girls around him. When he is not on the job, he takes on a more serious and professional persona.

Like Looker, Rakutsu also uses the International Police Arms, but is more successful in using them. The jumpsuit he wears underneath his regular clothing doubles as a set of armor that can protect him from attacks.

History

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Rakutsu makes his first appearance breaking up with a teary Yancy, as they both feel that their relationship is interfering with her career as an idol. Afterward, he travels to the Aspertia Gym with Petashi to start their class at the Trainer's School. Upon arriving, Hugh gets angry at Rakutsu and exclaims that he needs to focus more on making himself stronger instead of flirting with girls.

Annoyed by their disrupting the class, the new teacher, Cheren, forces the three to sit outside in the seiza position while the class is still in session. Soon after, the three encounter a new classmate named Faitsu. While she informs the class about herself, Rakutsu takes the time to write down what she is saying in his notebook, much to Hugh's annoyance. The three get into another argument, leading Cheren to decide that it would be best for the entire class to battle each other.

Rakutsu and Faitsu both manage to win, which earns them two Pokédexes from Bianca. Although reluctant at first, Faitsu is coaxed into taking her Pokédex after Rakutsu sweet-talks her into it. Later, Rakutsu reveals that he is searching for Team Plasma members and crosses out Yancy and his classmates because he has considered all of them as having no connection to the team. He is approached by Looker, who had been searching for him. After defeating a Scolipede that attacked Looker, Rakutsu reveals that he is actually Looker's superior in the International Police.

The two then travel to Aspertia's alleyways where Rakutsu meets up with his gadget and health maintenance man, the Magician. Rakutsu has the Magician perform a scan of him so that he can created a special Poké Ball cover to help make using Poké Balls easier. After he makes Looker take a training test and sees him fail, Rakutsu tells Looker to get better at handling hard conditions. Soon after, a loud explosion rings outside. They head out to investigate, and find that the culprit is a Genesect.

Rakutsu immediately leaps into attacking the Paleozoic Pokémon, but it shrugs off Dewott's attacks easily. Rakutsu reveals that when he started his investigation on Team Plasma, he found slightly-destroyed information on Genesect at the P2 Laboratory. After distracting Genesect into revealing its cannon, Rakutsu discovers that it's being controlled by someone close by. He uncovers the culprit, the scientist currently at large for his illegal crimes for conducting unauthorized crimes on Pokémon, Colress.

Colress commends Rakutsu for discovering him and has Genesect attack directly with Techno Blast. Rakutsu survives due to his armor and Dewott's assistance. He deduces that since Colress is using a machine to control it, Genesect must technically be a wild Pokémon. After having the Magician send him the custom Poké Balls, Rakutsu prepares to capture Genesect.

Pokémon

On hand

Trivia

• Rather than simply being named after the games, Rakutsu and Faitsu's names are corruptions of how the titles Black 2 and White 2 are pronounced in Japanese.

Names

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