With Yellow continuing his quest to save Red, he joins Green, not only to help look for Red, but to also train. Due to Yellow’s inexperience in the Pokemon world, training with Green is one of the best things he can do. Green is a very powerful trainer, one of the few people who can take on the Elite Four and get away with it. Green’s personal training regimen includes activities such as destroying large boulders, but Yellow starts with something simpler. The first of Yellow’s tasks is to catch a Caterpie. Fortunately or unfortunately for Yellow, the pokemon he uses to battle the Caterpie, his Rattata, evolves during the battle. Unaware of the process of Pokemon evolution, Yellow freaks out, and fails his training. Then the “kind”hearted Green catches the Caterpie for Yellow. Although the main goal of the training fails, it isn’t for nothing, Yellow does learn about the basics of battle, how to use the Pokedex, Pokemon evolution and how to prevent a pokemon from evolving.
Yellow isn’t the only one who is working on saving Red; a young girl with a colorful name, Green, works on locating the whereabouts of Red. Green, in the dead of night, infiltrates Bill’s house, in hopes of looking through the Pokemon storage system database. The reason for looking through the database is to see if Red has replaced his open Pokemon slot, because Pika is with Yellow. After “persuading” Bill to use the database, it is revealed that Red has recently withdrawn his Evee. This bit of information is reassuring, because they now know that Red is alive, but before the whereabouts of the withdrawn Pokemon can be discovered, the computer and half of Bill’s house are destroyed by a single kick from Bruno’s Hitmonlee. The Hitmonlee was sent to apprehend and possibly eliminate Green. Now the only option for Green is to make her escape, and poor Bill will be dragged along with her because he knows too much.
Overall
One of my favorite things about Pokemon Adventures are the references to the video games. This time my favorite one of those is based on the 1998 game, Hey You Pikachu. In the game you communicate to Pikachu with a special microphone that would send bubbles to Pikachu with your message enclosed in the bubble. When Green was battling the Hitmonlee, she used a similar microphone to send secret messages to her Pokemon. There is another reference to Hey You Pikachu, after Yellow catches his Caterpie, Pika “babysits” Caterpie, and gets it some flowers to eat. Something very similar is a side quest in Hey You Pikachu.
One thing that is starting to annoy me is that this story is moving further away from the games and becoming its own story. On the back of the manga it says that it’s about all of the video game characters, but the current main character is never in a game, he’s just named after a game. Although this is no longer about the game, it is still one of the best versions of the Pokemon world. It is nice to have some one other than the “Ash” character as the main, and Yellow does the job nicely.
ComicsOnline gives Pokemon Adventures Volume 5, 3 out of 5 of Yellow’s pokemon
