Pokémon Adventures volume 38

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Pokémon Adventures volume 38

Info Chapters included PS413 - PS422 Manga series Pokémon Adventures

Volume 38: The Other Side of This World is the 38th volume of the Pokémon Adventures manga, the ninth and final volume in the Diamond & Pearl arc and the first for the Platinum arc. It is authored by Hidenori Kusaka and illustrated by Satoshi Yamamoto.

In VIZ Media's translation, this volume is published as volume nine of a separately numbered series, "Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum".

Blurb

Finally together again, Dia, Pearl, and Platinum must battle Legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia, who are being controlled by Cyrus, the powerful boss of Team Galactic! Then a new Legendary Pokémon leaps into the fray! Whose side is it on...?

And who will rescue Platinum’s hapless bodyguards from the mysterious Distortion World they’ve been banished to...?

Plus, hang with Lopunny and meet Porygon-Z, Gallade, and... Looker?!

Publications

	Edition	Country	Company	Date	ISBN
	First Edition	Japan	Shogakukan	February 28, 2011	ISBN 9784091412089
	First Edition	United States	VIZ Media	October 1, 2013	ISBN 9781421554051
	Digital Edition	United States	VIZ Media	November 27, 2018	ISBN 9781974705894
	First Edition	Singapore	Chuang Yi	November 24, 2011	ISBN 9789814341776
	First Edition	Germany	Panini Comics	July 27, 2021	ISBN 9783741623318
	First Edition	Hong Kong	Ching Win Publishing Group	April 1, 2013	ISBN 9789888044665
	First Edition	South Korea	Daewon C.I.	August 15, 2011	ISBN 9788925281551
	First Edition	Taiwan	Ching Win Publishing Group	November 7, 2012	ISBN 9789863104025
	First Edition	Thailand	Nation Edutainment	September 30, 2011	ISBN 9786165166003
	First Edition	Vietnam	Kim Đồng Publishing House	February 20, 2017	ISBN 9786042072236
	Second Edition	Vietnam	Kim Đồng Publishing House	June 8, 2020	ISBN 9786042173070

Chapters

• Chapter 413 - Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia III
• Chapter 414 - Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia IV
• Chapter 415 - Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia V
• Chapter 416 - Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia VI
• Chapter 417 - Leaping Past Lopunny
• Chapter 418 - Deprogramming Porygon-Z
• Chapter 419 - Getting the Drop on Gallade I
• Chapter 420 - Getting the Drop on Gallade II
• Chapter 421 - Clobbering Claydol
• Chapter 422 - Interrupting Ivysaur

Important events

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

• Sird explains her involvement in the events of the current and the previous chapter.
• Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum defeat Cyrus.
• A mysterious black hole appears over Spear Pillar. Tentacles emerge, taking Cyrus, Dialga, and Palkia with them into the hole.
• Platinum arrives at the Battle Zone and meets Looker.
• Buck ventures into Stark Mountain and finds the Magma Stone.

Party changes

Additions

• Platinum's Froslass, in PS414.
• Platinum's Cherrim, in PS414.
• Platinum's Pachirisu, in PS414.
• Diamond's Regigigas, "Reg" in PS416.

Evolutions

No Pokémon evolve in this volume.

Battle Frontier battles

• Platinum defeats Frontier Brain Darach.

Trivia

• In Brazil and Mexico, this volume was skipped, with its Diamond & Pearl arc's chapters published on Volume 37 and its Platinum arc's chapters on Volume 39.

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.