PS488

Growing Pains (Japanese: VSシキジカ VS Shikijika or 別離 Parting) is the 488th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

• White learns how to battle.
• The Servine N gave White is revealed to obey White's orders.
• With the help of Black, White captures a Deerling.
• Black captures a Tirtouga, which Marshal reveals used to belong to him before he released it.
• Black and White meet Alder, the Unova Champion.
• White leaves Black to go and train on the Battle Subway.
• Black lends White Brav so that she will have three Pokémon on her team.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Black
• White
• Marshal
• Alder
• Chris
• Mayor of Nimbasa City
• Ingo
• Emmet

Pokémon

• Servine (White's)
• Tepig (Gigi; N's; fantasy)
• Deerling (White's; newly captured)
• Galvantula (Tula; Black's)
• Tirtouga (Black's; newly captured)
• Braviary (Brav; Black's; lent to White)
• Mienshao (Marshal's)
• Accelgor (Alder's)
• Bouffalant (Alder's)
• Shelmet (Chris's)
• Minccino (BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Lillipup (Terry; BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Sandile (Roco-chan; BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Pidove (Mamenori; BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Patrat (BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Woobat (BW Agency's; fantasy)
• Solosis
• Darumaka
• Garbodor
• Frillish
• Sigilyph
• Gothita
• Ducklett

Trivia

• In the Japanese version of volume 46, the Pokémon listed on White's laptop are given nicknames.
• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Black & White arc, this round was collected in Volume 8.

In other languages

Language		Title
European French		Nouveau départ

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