Pocket Monster Manga Chapter 1
Manga by Machito Gomi
Summary by Crt @strawhatcrt
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Notes: Character names will be in Japanese (sorry!)
Pokemon names will be in English. Cities are not decided yet.
The story follows with Satoshi being driven in a car by Professor Ookido. He asks where they're going, and the Professor says that his peer opened up a laboratory.
They arrive at Sakuragi's lab where he describes about seeing Pokemon nearly everywhere and that people and pokemon live in the world by being connected, and so that's what his lab hopes to achieve and he wants to make the world better.
Satoshi sees a Pokemon behind him that he's never seen before. It screams and Satoshi runs up to it petting it on the head before getting zapped.
Koharu picks up Wanpachi asking what it's doing, and Satoshi is surprisingly fine and eager to learn more about Yamper, but Koharu runs away thinking he's suspicious much to Satoshi's disappointment. Koharu looks around and says to herself that she told Gou to come today, but he's nowhere to be found.
Elsewhere at Kuchiba City (Vermillion), Gou's calculated where "it" will appear. Satoshi, in the general vicinity dashes toward where a gust of wind appears and everyone joins in.
To everyone's shock, it's Lugia and everyone battles it in hopes of capturing it. It doesn't work and their Pokemon are all knocked out.
Satoshi is the only one left and challenges Lugia to a one-on-one with Pikachu. Pikachu manages to injure it with Thunderbolt. Lugia fights and tries to run away and Satoshi tries to chase after it, but runs into Gou. They butt heads and ride on Lugia's back.
Lugia takes them underwater and sightseeing and Gou finds Satoshi interesting saying that he accepts Satoshi. Satoshi asks accepts what, and Gou says that Satoshi's now his friend and offers him a handshake.
He introduces himself as Gou from Kuchiba (Vermillion) City and Satoshi introduces himself as someone from Masara (Pallet) Town and introduces his partner Pikachu to him.
Lugia smiles and throws them off afterward as they land on Vileplumes. They panic after thanking Lugia because they're completely lost but somehow make it back to Sakuragi's laboratory. They show him closeups of Lugia, exciting the Professor and he has them join him as his assistants and asks them to meet and interact with various Pokemon.