>>46222270Out of all the Pokemon mangas, yes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021215144736/www.vizkids.com/pokemon/adventures/characters.htmlHis exact words were "This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey."
He's talked about in the anime in the past too though, he refers to Red and Ash both as "Satoshi" and considers them to be the same character. Both of them are his self-inserts that represent him when he was a kid