Pokemon XY, Vol. 1

Hidenori Kusaka is the writer for VIZ Media’ s Poké mon Adventures. Running continuously for over  20 years, Poké mon Adventures is the only manga series to completely cover all the Poké mon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. Kusaka is currently working on the 14th story arc, Poké mon: Sun & Moon. In addition to writing manga, he also edits children’ s books and plans mixed-media projects for Shogakukan’ s children’ s magazines. He uses the Poké mon Electrode as his author portrait.

Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for VIZ Media’ s Poké mon Adventures, which he began working on in 2001, starting with volume 10. Yamamoto launched his manga career in 1993 with the horror-action title Kimen Senshi, which ran in Shogakukan’ s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, followed by the series Kaze no Denshosha. He is currently working on the 14th story arc in the Poké mon series, Poké mon: Sun & Moon. Yamamoto’ s favorite manga creators/artists include Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon), Yukinobu Hoshino (2001 Nights) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). He loves films, monsters, mysteries, punk rock music and livin’ the good life. He uses the Poké mon Swalot as his artist portrait.