Pocket Monsters Special

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Pocket Monsters Special 56 (ポケットモンスターSPECIAL 56) is the 56th volume of Pocket Monsters Special. It continues the XY Chapter.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Chapter	Title	Debut
553	"Nymphia, Captivate" (ニンフィア、魅せる)	Pokémon Fan Issue 34
554	"Garura, Try" (ガルーラ、試す)	CoroCoro Ichiban! March 2014 Issue
555	"Gilguard, Deceive" (ギルガルド、惑わす)	CoroCoro Ichiban! April 2014 Issue
556	"Lucario, Help" (ルカリオ、助ける)	CoroCoro Ichiban! May 2014 Issue
557	"Onbat, Prevent" (オンバット、妨げる)	Pokémon Fan Issue 33
558	"Hitokage, Slumber" (ヒトカゲ、まどろむ)	CoroCoro Ichiban! June 2014 Issue
559	"Harimaron, Stand" (ハリマロン、起つ)	CoroCoro Ichiban! July 2014 Issue

Volume Information

Release Date: September 2nd, 2020	Published By: Shogakukan under the "Tentou-Mushi Comics Special" brand
Price: 600 yen	Page Count: 183
Size: 18 x 12.6	ISBN: ISBN 978-4-09-143234-6

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Chapter 553 "Nymphia, Captivate"
Pokémon Fan Issue 34

Release Date: February 20th, 2014

24 pages

Y is doing her best to become close friends with the Eevee she caught the day before but the pokemon keeps running away! She asks Keromatsu to use its Kero Mousse to help stop this but Eevee puts an end to the attack simply by staring at its opponent! Later, Eevee runs off again and finds its way to a carnival where a number of mini games are being played. Y decides to play Head It, Tile Puzzle, and Berry Picker with her Eevee to help the two of them bond even more. During all this, X calls Trova over and tells him that the staring move Eevee used earlier was most likely Baby-Doll Eyes, one of the newly discovered Fairy-Type techniques. Suddenly, a Numail belonging to two Flare-Dan grunts jumps out from the tree where the Berry Picker game is being played and attacks Y! Eevee jumps forward to save its Trainer, evolves into Nymphia along the way, and uses its ribbons to send the Flare-Dan grunts flying. It then finishes off its Dragon-Type opponent with a kiss move. With their attackers taken care of, Y and the rest of our heroes resume their journey with their new friend.

Notes

Y's Eevee / Nymphia is nicknamed Bui-Bui (ぶいぶい). It is revealed to be a female.

The kiss move that Nymphia uses at the end of the chapter is never named but is most likely meant to be Drain Kiss.

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Chapter 554 "Garura, Try"
CoroCoro Ichiban! March 2014 Issue

Originally published in the March 2014 issue of CoroCoro Ichiban! (on-sale January 21st, 2014)

25 pages

Fleur-de-Lys notices that Yveltal has the power to steal life and Xerneas has the power to give it and requests a copy of the video be made so he can study it further. Meanwhile, our heroes have arrived in Hakudan City. There, Y presents everyone with a set of precautions she wants everyone to start taking: don't go off with strangers, don't give out your real name, don't use any telephones, etc. Later, our heroes leave the city and try to recreate the series of events that enabled X's pokemon to Mega Evolve, hoping to find a way to trigger the transformation at will. Suddenly, the group is approached by Viola, the camerawoman they saw back in Asame Town! She reveals that she's the Hakudan City Gym Leader and invites everyone back to her Gym to look at the recordings she made of the attack on Asame Town. Sana protests, however, saying that this exactly the sort of thing Y was warning them about! She later meets a Trimmien Trainer and is given an impromptu lesson in pokemon grooming, unaware that the whole thing is a set-up to allow a Gilguard owned by the Flare-Dan to take over her mind.

Notes

N/A

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Chapter 555 "Gilguard, Deceive"
CoroCoro Ichiban! April 2014 Issue

Originally published in the April 2014 issue of CoroCoro Ichiban! (on-sale February 21st, 2014)

25 pages

X and the others have arrived in Hakudan City! X battles with Viola, who turns out to be the local Gym Leader, while the others look through the photos she took of the Asame Town incident. Y, meanwhile, goes back out into the city to look for Sana. She eventually finds her friend but notices that she doesn't seem to be herself. Later, X defeats Viola and reveals that he developed a strategy to counter a pokemon's Supersonic attack during the Junior Tournament he won years earlier. He then segues into the story of how he received his Mega Ring from a mysterious stranger. That night, our heroes are sleeping at the Gym when Y and Viola catch Sana stealing the Key Stone inside Garura's pocket! Sana turns toward her friends and uses the strange sword she had been carrying around with her to strike down Viola! Just then Correa of the Flare-Dan shows up and reveals that the sword Sana's carrying is really a Hitotsuki and that they've been using a Gilguard to control Sana's mind! X and the others eventually manage to move the battle outside where an unknown woman and her Mega Lucario come to their aid.

Notes

N/A

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Chapter 556 "Lucario, Help"
CoroCoro Ichiban! May 2014 Issue

Originally published in the May 2014 issue of CoroCoro Ichiban! (on-sale March 21st, 2014)

25 pages

Mega Lucario's Trainer, the Shala City Gym Leader Corni, jumps onto the scene and orders her pokemon to attack Correa's Gilguard. She soon notices that none of its attacks are having any effect on her Ghost-Type opponent and so she decides to help X retrieve Garura's Key Stone. Corni distracts Correa with some fancy rollerskating moves while X tries to sneak up behind her and grab the stone. His attempt fails but -does- force Correa to jump backwards, landing her right into a web that Viola's Ametama had been creating in the meantime! Kogaru is able to retrieve the Key Stone from the immobilized Correa, allowing it to transform into Mega Garura! During the battle that ensues, Corni finds out that X didn't go through the "successor ceremony" in order to obtain his Mega Ring and instead received it from her grandfather Concombre! Correa eventually retreats, realizing that she's no match for two Mega Evolved pokemon. Later, Sana comes to and apologizes to everyone for all that she's done. Corni then approaches X and tells him that she has no idea why her grandfather gave him the Mega Ring but that she refuses to recognize him as a true "successor."

Notes

N/A

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Chapter 557 "Onbat, Prevent"
Pokémon Fan Issue 33

Release Date: November 20th, 2013

24 pages

Our heroes are walking along one day when they are attacked by a wild Onbat. X and his Garura jump out from under their blanket, make quick work of their attacker, and then return to their cart. Soon after the five of them are approached by a man whose job it is to invite Trainers to a newly completed "Super Training" facility. Once inside the stadium-like dome our heroes listen to an explanation of the various types of Super Training their pokemon can undergo. Meanwhile, Y glides through the sky up above on patrol. She soon discovers that two members of the Flare-Dan have been following them and that the Onbat from before was one of theirs! The red-suited grunts have their Onbat use supersonic waves to mask everyone's sense of hearing, preventing them from issuing any commands to their pokemon. X, meanwhile, sees a large Whaleko balloon and motions for his Harimaron to pop it with the spikes on its head. Soon after the large balloon robot is sent flying through the air, sending the Flare-Dan agents blasting off in the process. Now that their pursuers have been taken care of our heroes resume their journey to Miare City.

Notes

Y's Yayakoma's nickname is revealed to be "Yako-chan" (ヤコちゃん).

Sana's Eneko is nicknamed "Neko-P" (ネコＰ).

There's a Japanese saying, Kabe ni mimi ari shouji ni me ari (かべに耳あり障子に目あり), which is equivalent to "the walls have ears." There's also a bit in there about "and the sliding doors have eyes," but we English speakers don't really say that part. In this chapter of Pocket Monsters Special, Y misquotes this well-known saying as Kabe ni mimi ari shouji ni fearii (かべに耳あり障子にフェアリー), sticking the word "Fairy" (as in "Fairy-Type") in place of me ari, producing something like "The walls have ears and the sliding doors have Fairy." X's first line of dialogue in this chapter is to correct her.

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Chapter 558 "Hitokage, Slumber"
CoroCoro Ichiban! June 2014 Issue

Release Date: April 21st, 2014

25 pages

Our heroes are back on the road to Miare City when Trova decides to try something out; what if X gives Garura's Mega Stone to other pokemon? Will they Mega Evolve too? After a failed attempt to Mega Evolve Harimaron, our heroes come across a Hitokage out in the field. They quickly befriend the Fire-Type and take it with them into the bustling metropolis that is Miare City. Once inside, Trova tells the story of how he became acquainted with Platane-Hakase but later admits that he doesn't actually know where his lab is. The gang is suddenly approached by Dexio and Sina, a duo of Masked Heroes who accuse our heroes of kidnapping Hitokage! After clearing up the misunderstanding X and the others are taken to Platane-Hakase's laboratory where the professor notices that X doesn't trust him and challenges him to a pokemon battle. Trova and the others, meanwhile, are sent to the professor's friend Fleur-de-Lys to get their Holocasters fixed. Is this be the mysterious man our heroes noticed in one of the photos Viola took in Asame Town? Elsewhere, Xerocisy discovers that the legendary pokemon Xerneas had disguised itself as a tree in the middle of a forest.

Notes

The report Trova looks up during the flashback is the "90% of all pokemon are related through evolution" (ポケモンの９０％は進化に関係している) report that was written by Nanakamado-Hakase, a reference to the fact that Platane-Hakase supposedly trained under Nanakamado-Hakase.

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Chapter 559 "Harimaron, Stand"
CoroCoro Ichiban! July 2014 Issue

Release Date: May 21st, 2014

25 pages

As Fleur-de-Lys repairs our heroes' Holocasters, Trova finds himself feeling uneasy around the devices' inventor. Meanwhile, Platane-Hakase notices that X isn't giving their battle everything he's got. Harimaron, on the other hand, refuses to back down and earns X's respect even though it ends up losing the battle after all. X announces that he's decided to officially make Harimaron his pokemon and then expresses interest in training the professor's Hitokage as well. Back at the lab, the Kalos League Champion Carnet shows up with her Mega Sirnight to let Fleur-de-Lys know that she's keeping her eyes on him. He says he understands and adds that he only wants to preserve the beauty that's in the world before it withers away. He then excuses himself from the room after receiving a call from Xerocisy asking permission to bring the hibernating Xerneas back to their headquarters. As he rides his Gyarados through the sky, Fleur-de-Lys tells his pokemon that it'll soon be able to Mega Evolve just like Carnet's can. Back in Miare City, Carnet bids our heroes farewell right as Trova passes out from a fever! At that moment X and Platane-Hakase arrive on the scene riding a couple of Gogoat.

Notes

X's Harimaron's nickname is "Mariso" (マリソ), which seems to come from its species' French name "Marisson."

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This concludes Pocket Monsters Special Volume 56

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