Toshihiro Ono

The Pokémon Graphic Novel, more commonly known as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toshihiro Ono. It was serialized in the children's manga magazine Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special and CoroCoro Comic from April 1997 to December 1999. Individual chapters were collected into four tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on October 28, 1997, and the fourth volume on January 28, 2000. The characters and storylines are all loosely based on the Pokémon anime series, so, some events and depictions of characters diverge slightly from the anime, and the world itself has a visibly higher level of technology.