
Is Pokémon Adventures Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
This is what the Pokémon anime would look like if it let anyone actually get hurt.
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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.

This is what the Pokémon anime would look like if it let anyone actually get hurt.

The art alone is worth the price of admission; the story asks you to feel your way through instead of understand it, and that won't work for everyone.

Nothing about Cowa! is ambitious, and that's exactly the point — it's a cozy one-volume hangout with monsters you'll wish stuck around longer.

Short, funny, and better looking than most series ten times its length.

Two volumes about compiling a dictionary have no business being this moving, but here we are.

Arale carries the whole thing on pure chaotic charm, and that's enough even when the jokes show their age.

Nihei draws a tower like it might collapse on you personally, and that oppressive scale is doing most of the storytelling here.

One volume, one balcony, and one of the more believable slow-build romances you'll find in that little space.

The premise is a sitcom pitch, and the execution is sharp enough that the sitcom pitch never gets old across fifteen volumes.

Most racing manga treat the cars as an afterthought to the drama. Capeta treats the cars like they matter, and the drama is better for it.

Video game manga adaptations are usually padding; this one is the rare case that actually improves on its source material's character work.

Homework is what the premise sounds like. What it actually is: one of the more quietly affecting school dramas out there.