Pokémon Adventures: Yellow, Vols. 4–7

Two years later, Red heads off to answer a mysterious challenge and vanishes. Only his Pikachu makes it back, hurt, to Professor Oak's lab. Yellow, a kid from Viridian Forest with a gift for sensing and healing Pokémon, takes the Pikachu and searches Kanto for Red. The hunt runs straight into the Elite Four, led by Lance, who want a paradise for Pokémon by wiping out most of humanity. Blue, Green, Bill and several former rival Gym Leaders band together to fight back. The showdown comes on Cerise Island: the Elite Four fall, Yellow defeats Lance, Red reunites with his Pikachu, and a mysterious Pokémon appears and flies west.

1. Behind the scenesAhead of its own game

   It's the only arc published before the game it's named after: it started in May 1998, and Pokémon Yellow didn't come out in Japan until that September.

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2. Behind the scenesThe Yellow Caballero

   VIZ's first English translation called the arc "The Yellow Caballero," a name dropped in the 2009 re-release.

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3. ReferenceNamed after the fact

   In Japan the game was called Pocket Monsters Pikachu, and Kusaka only labeled the arc "Yellow" years later, in a note in volume 14.

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4. SetupHeading west

   Near the end, a mysterious Pokémon shows up and flies west. It isn't explained here, and it comes back later.

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