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| Manga Guide | Kousaku Anakubo's
Pocket Monsters
| Story Synopsis | Characters | Pocket Monsters in the TV series | About the Author |
Posted May 28th, 2023
6 pages
Pippi has gotten a new pupil, Zenigame, and has it do things like massage his shoulders (to build upper arm strength) and carry him up a flight of stairs (to build leg strength). A sudden attack by a Ringuma provides Zenigame with the chance to show off the results of its training.
Posted June 25th, 2023
6 pages
Red and the others accidentally use an Iwapalace as a table. The disrespected Rock-Type demands a Pokémon battle, but Red's Pippi only stands there and stares out into space...
Posted July 30th, 2023
6 pages
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu try to hold in their laughter as a man's pompadour wig keeps slipping off.
Posted August 27th, 2023
6 pages
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu stop by a retro ramen shop where they soon discover the disgusting extra touch added by the old woman who runs the shop. Pippi tries out the ramen despite this revelation.
Posted October 29th, 2023
4 pages
Pippi has a funny way of pronouncing the word "candy" and so Red tries to correct him.
Posted November 26th, 2023
4 pages
Red decides to play a prank on Pippi by swapping out a VR headset he wants to try out with a pair of regular swim goggles. Pippi mistaken belief that everything around him's a hyper realistic simulation lands him in trouble.
Posted December 31st, 2023
6 pages
Pippi spends an unusual amount of time agonizing over which flavor of ramen he should pick at a neighborhood ramen stand. He hops behind the counter and mixes a bunch of different flavors together, inadvertently inventing a new type of super delicious ramen!
Posted January 28th, 2024
4 pages
A traveling clothes salesman offers to buy Red's vintage jeans for 1 million yen. Red and Pippi hatch a scheme to use the money to buy even more jeans so they can sell them as vintage items 100 years from now.
Posted March 31st, 2024
4 pages
Red reveals he continues wearing his ratty old socks because he got them as a present from Pippi. Pippi gets a part time job to earn some extra money.
Notes
Chapter 23 was originally scheduled to come out February 25th, 2024 but was pushed back a month later.
Posted April 28th, 2024
4 pages
Red gets Pippi to eat some super spicy ramen for a web series he's trying to get off the ground. An unexpected appearance by Biriridama causes filming to take an unexpected turn.
Posted May 26th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi finds a unique way to move a Kabigon blocking its path.
Posted June 30th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi finds some dropped change under a vending machine.
Posted July 28th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi buys an air conditioner for Red even though he doesn't have a house to put it in.
Posted August 25th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi tries submitting an AI-generated comic to a comic publisher.
Posted November 24th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi thinks he'll get fit with a new exercise waist trainer...that is, if he can ever manage to put the thing on!
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| Story Synopsis | Characters | Pocket Monsters in the TV series | About the Author |
| Table of Contents |
||
| Chapter |
Title |
Debut |
| Chapter 34 | Pippi
Gets a Pupil ピッピ、弟子ができるの巻 |
CoroCoro
Website May 28th, 2023 |
| Chapter 35 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website June 25th, 2023 |
| Chapter 36 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website July 20th, 2023 |
| Chapter 37 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website August 27th, 2023 |
| Chapter 38 |
N/A | CoroCoro
Website October 29th, 2023 |
| Chapter 39 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website November 26th, 2023 |
| Chapter 40 | The
Untold Story of the Birth of Pippi's New Ramen ピッピの新ラーメン誕生秘話の巻 |
CoroCoro
Website December 31st, 2023 |
| Chapter 41 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website January 28th, 2024 |
| Chapter 42 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website March 31st, 2024 |
| Chapter 43 | N/A | CoroCoro
Website April 28th, 2024 |
| Chapter 44 |
N/A | CoroCoro
Website May 26th, 2024 |
| Chapter 45 |
N/A | CoroCoro
Website June 30th, 2024 |
| Chapter 46 |
N/A | CoroCoro
Website July 28th, 2024 |
| Chapter 47 |
N/A | CoroCoro
Website August 25th, 2024 |
| Chapter 48 |
It's
Training Time Pi!! 鍛えるっピ‼ |
CoroCoro
Website November 24th, 2024 |
| Chapter 49 |
Dogohmb's
Singing Passionately ドゴーム熱唱中 |
CoroCoro
Website December 29th, 2024 |
| Special
Image |
N/A |
CoroCoro
Website January 26th, 2025 |
| Chapter 50 |
It's
Still Cold Out Pi!! まだまだ寒いっピ‼ |
CoroCoro
Website March 30th, 2025 |
| Chapter 51 |
Pippi
Gets Serious! ピッピが本気を出す！ |
CoroCoro
Website April 27th, 2025 |
| Chapter 52 |
The
Big Battle! 大バトル！ |
CoroCoro
Website May 25th, 2025 |
| Special Image |
N/A |
CoroCoro
Website June 29th, 2025 |
| Chapter 53 |
Pippi's
Come to the City Everyone's Got Their Eyes On, Miare City!! 大注目のミアレシティにピッピが来たぞ‼ |
CoroCoro
Website November 30th, 2025 |
| Chapter 54 |
Let's
Pig Out In a New Town!! 新たな街で食欲全開‼ |
CoroCoro
Website December 28th, 2025 |
| Chapter 55 |
Taking
a Break in the Middle of their Journey...!? 旅の途中で一休み中に…⁉ |
CoroCoro
Website January 25th, 2026 |
| Chapter 56 |
All
Muscled Up and Ready to Go!! ムキムキの仕上がり‼ |
CoroCoro
Website February 22nd, 2026 |
| Chapter 57 |
It's
a Battle of the Wits Pi!! 知力で勝負っピ‼ |
CoroCoro
Website April 5th, 2026 |
| Chapter 58 |
TBD |
CoroCoro
Website April 26th, 2026 |
| Chapter
034 "Pippi Gets a Pupil" |
Posted May 28th, 2023
6 pages
Pippi has gotten a new pupil, Zenigame, and has it do things like massage his shoulders (to build upper arm strength) and carry him up a flight of stairs (to build leg strength). A sudden attack by a Ringuma provides Zenigame with the chance to show off the results of its training.
| Chapter
035 |
Posted June 25th, 2023
6 pages
Red and the others accidentally use an Iwapalace as a table. The disrespected Rock-Type demands a Pokémon battle, but Red's Pippi only stands there and stares out into space...
| Chapter
036 |
Posted July 30th, 2023
6 pages
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu try to hold in their laughter as a man's pompadour wig keeps slipping off.
| Chapter
037 |
Posted August 27th, 2023
6 pages
Red, Pippi, and Pikachu stop by a retro ramen shop where they soon discover the disgusting extra touch added by the old woman who runs the shop. Pippi tries out the ramen despite this revelation.
| Chapter
038 |
Posted October 29th, 2023
4 pages
Pippi has a funny way of pronouncing the word "candy" and so Red tries to correct him.
| Chapter
039 |
Posted November 26th, 2023
4 pages
Red decides to play a prank on Pippi by swapping out a VR headset he wants to try out with a pair of regular swim goggles. Pippi mistaken belief that everything around him's a hyper realistic simulation lands him in trouble.
| Chapter
040 "The Untold Story of the Birth of Pippi's New Ramen" |
Posted December 31st, 2023
6 pages
Pippi spends an unusual amount of time agonizing over which flavor of ramen he should pick at a neighborhood ramen stand. He hops behind the counter and mixes a bunch of different flavors together, inadvertently inventing a new type of super delicious ramen!
| Chapter
041 |
Posted January 28th, 2024
4 pages
A traveling clothes salesman offers to buy Red's vintage jeans for 1 million yen. Red and Pippi hatch a scheme to use the money to buy even more jeans so they can sell them as vintage items 100 years from now.
| Chapter
042 |
Posted March 31st, 2024
4 pages
Red reveals he continues wearing his ratty old socks because he got them as a present from Pippi. Pippi gets a part time job to earn some extra money.
Notes
Chapter 23 was originally scheduled to come out February 25th, 2024 but was pushed back a month later.
| Chapter
043 |
Posted April 28th, 2024
4 pages
Red gets Pippi to eat some super spicy ramen for a web series he's trying to get off the ground. An unexpected appearance by Biriridama causes filming to take an unexpected turn.
| Chapter
044 |
Posted May 26th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi finds a unique way to move a Kabigon blocking its path.
| Chapter
045 |
Posted June 30th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi finds some dropped change under a vending machine.
| Chapter
046 |
Posted July 28th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi buys an air conditioner for Red even though he doesn't have a house to put it in.
| Chapter
047 |
Posted August 25th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi tries submitting an AI-generated comic to a comic publisher.
| Chapter
048 "It's Training Time Pi!!" |
Posted November 24th, 2024
2 pages
Pippi thinks he'll get fit with a new exercise waist trainer...that is, if he can ever manage to put the thing on!
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Notes
This chapter was originally scheduled to come ou September 29th, 2024 but was simply never uploaded that day. No announcement was made regarding the missed deadline, either. After roughly two months without any news -- during which time CoroCoro did a complete overhaul of its website -- the chapter was finally published on November 24th, 2024.
This chapter was originally scheduled to come ou September 29th, 2024 but was simply never uploaded that day. No announcement was made regarding the missed deadline, either. After roughly two months without any news -- during which time CoroCoro did a complete overhaul of its website -- the chapter was finally published on November 24th, 2024.
| Chapter
049 "Dogohmb's Singing Passionately" |
Posted December 29th, 2024
2 pages
2 pages
Dogohmb's
singing on the street for
tips. All of a sudden Pippi, a Pokémon famous for being stingy
with money, surprises the singing Pokémon when he hands over a
1,000 yen bill...!?
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| Special
Image |
Posted January 26th, 2025
Notes
On January 26th, 2025, the day Chapter 50 of Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters Aniki Series was originally scheduled to come out, the image seen above was posted instead. In the image, Pippi can be seen bowing to the readers and saying "Sorry...we're taking January and February off! We're really, really sorry Pi~!".
While a reason for the unexpected delay has not been provided, it likely has something to do with how Sauna Wars, the other manga Mr. Anakubo's been doing for the CoroCoro Comics website, has recently entered its final story arc. Sauna Wars is being updated with new chapters every single week and so it's likely the 67 year old manga artist simply doesn't have the time needed to work on new Pocket Monsters chapters as well.
Notes
On January 26th, 2025, the day Chapter 50 of Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters Aniki Series was originally scheduled to come out, the image seen above was posted instead. In the image, Pippi can be seen bowing to the readers and saying "Sorry...we're taking January and February off! We're really, really sorry Pi~!".
While a reason for the unexpected delay has not been provided, it likely has something to do with how Sauna Wars, the other manga Mr. Anakubo's been doing for the CoroCoro Comics website, has recently entered its final story arc. Sauna Wars is being updated with new chapters every single week and so it's likely the 67 year old manga artist simply doesn't have the time needed to work on new Pocket Monsters chapters as well.
| Chapter
050 "It's Still Cold Out Pi!!" |
Posted March 30th, 2025
4 pages
It's still cold out so Pippi's prepared a heating pad for everyone to hold onto. The heating pad's too hot to hold, however, and so Red, Pikachu, and Pippi take turns passing it around to each other, eventually catching the eyes of a nearby rugby team.
4 pages
It's still cold out so Pippi's prepared a heating pad for everyone to hold onto. The heating pad's too hot to hold, however, and so Red, Pikachu, and Pippi take turns passing it around to each other, eventually catching the eyes of a nearby rugby team.
| Chapter
051 "Pippi Gets Serious!" |
Posted April 27th, 2025
4 pages
4 pages
It's a battle
between Pippi and
Namakero to see who can stay still the longest...!? A crowd gathers
around the two as they stare at each other, unmoving, in a legendary
showdown that spans over 100 years!
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Top
| Chapter
052 "The Big Battle!" |
Posted May 25th, 2025
4 pages
4 pages
Pippi
and Pikachu get into a really bad argument, so bad in fact that
everyone agrees that the only solution is for them to split up and go
back home! But waitaminute...none of them actually have homes to go
back to...!?
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Notes
The gag of this chapter is that none of the main characters have homes to go back to, but both Red and Pippi have clearly established hometowns (Masara Town and Pippi Village, respectively) and so the joke only really works if you completely ignore the series' established continuity.
The gag of this chapter is that none of the main characters have homes to go back to, but both Red and Pippi have clearly established hometowns (Masara Town and Pippi Village, respectively) and so the joke only really works if you completely ignore the series' established continuity.
| Special
Image 2 |
Posted June 29th, 2025
Notes
On June 29th, 2025, the day Chapter 53 of Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters Aniki Series was originally scheduled to come out, the image seen above was posted instead. In the image, Pippi can be seen bowing to the readers and saying "We're sorry! Due to personal reasons with the author, this comic will go on hiatus for a short while. Please wait a bit for the series to return."
A more detailed reason for the unexpected delay, the second in six months, has not been provided. The website that hosts new chapters of this series, Weekly CoroCoro Comics, had the next chapter listed as coming out "TBD" (未定) so there was really no way of knowing how long this hiatus will last.
Notes
On June 29th, 2025, the day Chapter 53 of Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters Aniki Series was originally scheduled to come out, the image seen above was posted instead. In the image, Pippi can be seen bowing to the readers and saying "We're sorry! Due to personal reasons with the author, this comic will go on hiatus for a short while. Please wait a bit for the series to return."
A more detailed reason for the unexpected delay, the second in six months, has not been provided. The website that hosts new chapters of this series, Weekly CoroCoro Comics, had the next chapter listed as coming out "TBD" (未定) so there was really no way of knowing how long this hiatus will last.
Eventually, the comic
came back in November 2025.
| Chapter
053 "Pippi's Come to the City Everyone's Got Their Eyes On, Miare City!!" |
Posted November 30th, 2025
4 pages
4 pages
Pippi
and Pikachu pick a fight with each other on the streets of Miare City.
When they try to get Red to weigh in they find his attention's
elsewhere...
Notes
With the release of this chapter the series' unexpected five month hiatus comes to an end. The reason for the hiatus has never been publicly stated but Mr. Anakubo did post this on his X (Twitter) account:
He also posted this follow-up:
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Immortal Cartoonist, Kousaku Anakubo" (不死身の漫画家 穴久保幸作).
With the release of this chapter the series' unexpected five month hiatus comes to an end. The reason for the hiatus has never been publicly stated but Mr. Anakubo did post this on his X (Twitter) account:
| Thank you for
always supporting me. As I start back work on this Pokémon comic
again after so long I still can't believe so many of you read my work. いつも応援ありがとうございま す。久しぶりに描いたポケモンでしたが、まさかこんなにもたくさんの方に読んでいただけるとは夢に思いませんでした。 I have nothing but gratitude toward each and every one of you. Thank you so much everybody!! 感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです！本当にありがとう ございました！！ |
He also posted this follow-up:
| By the way I'm
still alive, somehow, so please continue to support me Pi! ちなみに私は今も何とか生きてま すので、今後とも応援よろしくお願いしますっピ！ |
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Immortal Cartoonist, Kousaku Anakubo" (不死身の漫画家 穴久保幸作).
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| Chapter
054 "Let's Pig Out In a New Town!!" |
Posted December 28th, 2025
4 pages
4 pages
Red is
challenged to a Pokémon battle with a Mega Fushigibana. At first
its massive size seems like an insurmountable obstacle for the young
Pokémon Trainer but Pippi's gluttony manages to save the day
once again.
Notes
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Cartoonist Who's Somehow Still Alive, Kousaku Anakubo" (今も 何とか生きてる漫画家 穴久保幸作).
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Cartoonist Who's Somehow Still Alive, Kousaku Anakubo" (今も 何とか生きてる漫画家 穴久保幸作).
| Chapter
055 "Taking a Break in the Middle of their Journey...!?" |
Posted January 25th, 2026
4 pages
4 pages
Pippi's sleeping outside one night when a
Sleep happens to pass by. The Hypnosis Pokémon attempts to eat
Pippi's dream but is dismayed to find it's not quite as agreeable as
it'd like.
Notes
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Cartoonist Who Sleeps Lightly, Kousaku Anakubo" (眠りは浅い漫 画家 穴久保幸作).
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "The Cartoonist Who Sleeps Lightly, Kousaku Anakubo" (眠りは浅い漫 画家 穴久保幸作).
You can read
this chapter on the official CoroCoro Comics website here
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| Chapter
056 "All Muscled Up and Ready to Go!!" |
Posted February 22nd, 2026
4 Pages
4 Pages
Pippi dreams of becoming strong and
muscular enough to be able to defeat a Mega Utsubot in a single blow.
Notes
Pocket Monsters Aniki Series Chapter 56 came out February 22nd, 2026, missing its 30th anniversary date of February 28th, 2026 by less than a week.
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "Living the Healthy Life, Going to the Sauna Everyday -- Kousaku Anakubo" (毎日サウナ健康生活‼ 穴久保幸作).
Pocket Monsters Aniki Series Chapter 56 came out February 22nd, 2026, missing its 30th anniversary date of February 28th, 2026 by less than a week.
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "Living the Healthy Life, Going to the Sauna Everyday -- Kousaku Anakubo" (毎日サウナ健康生活‼ 穴久保幸作).
| Chapter
057 "It's a Battle of the Wits Pi!!" |
Posted April 5th, 2026
4 Pages
Pippi decides the best way to defeat Mega Evolved Pokémon is through brains, not brawn, so he decides to put an AI assistant on the case. Tempers flare when the AI refuses to help Pippi figure out how to take down a Mega Kairyu.
4 Pages
Pippi decides the best way to defeat Mega Evolved Pokémon is through brains, not brawn, so he decides to put an AI assistant on the case. Tempers flare when the AI refuses to help Pippi figure out how to take down a Mega Kairyu.
Notes
This chapter was originally scheduled to be released on March 29th, 2026 but was postponed to April 5th, 2026.
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "Someone who's also studying the latest technological advances -- Kousaku Anakubo" (最新技術も研究する 穴久保幸作).
This chapter was originally scheduled to be released on March 29th, 2026 but was postponed to April 5th, 2026.
Kousaku Anakubo signs this chapter as "Someone who's also studying the latest technological advances -- Kousaku Anakubo" (最新技術も研究する 穴久保幸作).
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You can read this chapter on the official CoroCoro Comics website here
| Chapter
058 |
Posted April 26th, 2026
(scheduled)
Page Count TBD
Page Count TBD
Coming Soon!
Notes
TBD
TBD
You can read this chapter on the official CoroCoro Comics website here
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