Electric Tale of Pikachu volume 2

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VIZ Media cover artwork

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Japanese cover artwork

Volume 2: Pikachu Shocks Back is the second of four volumes of the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga series created by 小野 敏洋 Toshihiro Ono.

• First published in Japan by Shōgakukan: June 27, 1998
  • ISBN 4091493424
• First published in US/Canada by VIZ Media: December 28, 1999
  • ISBN 156931411X
• First published in Singapore by Chuang Yi:
  • ISBN

Chapters

• Chapter 1: The Human Race and the Pokémon Race
• Chapter 2: To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question!
• Chapter 3: Pikachu's Excellent Adventure
• Chapter 4: You Gotta Have Friends

Important events

• Misty rejoins the group.
• Ash wins the Pokémon free-for-all race on behalf of Lara Laramie.
• Ash helps Mikey get accepted into the fellowship The Knights of the E Stone.
• Ash and company are separated from Pikachu, but are reunited in the Hidden Village.
• Ash's Pikachu meets a herd of wild Pikachu and befriends them.

Party changes

• Ash's Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Oddish appear for the first time in You Gotta Have Friends. Their capture is not shown, instead, there is a notice at the bottom of the panel saying that "Ash has been busy since the last comic!".

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