PS502

The Beginning (Japanese: VSワシボン VS Washibon or 邂逅 Encounter) is the 502nd round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

• Black has a flashback of when he met Musha and Brav nine years prior.
• Black manages to convince Bianca's father to let him study Pokémon so that he and Cheren will be allowed to play with Bianca.
• Black learns about the Pokémon League and tries to find a way to get a Pokédex.
• Bianca decides to help Black capture a Pokémon, only to disturb a wild Rufflet.
• A wild Munna is attracted to Black's dreams and eats them for the first time.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the history page.

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Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Black
• White (fantasy)
• Cheren (flashback)
• Bianca (flashback)
• Iris
• Cedric Juniper (flashback)
• Bianca's father (flashback)
• Doctor Logan

Pokémon

• Braviary (Brav; Black's; fantasy)
• Munna (Musha; Black's)
• Stoutland (Bianca's father's; flashback)
• Unfezant (Bianca's father's; flashback)
• Rufflet (later Black's; flashback)

Trivia

• When this round was collected into Volume 48, Iris and Doctor Logan were added walking with Black and Musha.
• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Black & White arc, this round was collected in Volume 13.
• In the Kurokawa translation from France, this round was released in Pokémon Black and White volume 6.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 毛頭小鷹 - 邂逅
European French		La jeunesse des héros 1
German		VS. Geronimatz - Schicksalhafte Begegnung
Korean		VS 수리둥보
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Rufflet - Encontro
European Spanish		Contra Rufflet

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