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VSワシボン VS Washibon

Info Chapter Black & White Collected in Vol. 48 Round number 502

Other Location Nuvema Town

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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 then-wild Brav.
• A then-wild Musha is attracted to Black's dreams and eats them for the first time.

Characters

Humans

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

Pokémon

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

Trivia

• When this round was collected into volume 48, Iris and Logan were added into walking with Black and Musha.
• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Black & White chapter, this round was collected in Volume 13.

In other languages

Language		Title
European French		La jeunesse des héros 1

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