>>38545584The sexy adaptation of the anime ended over a decade ago and its current contender is based on toilet humor, so take your pick.
Obligatory shitposting aside, if you have any experience with long-running manga then this suffers from pretty much the same problems as they have; way too much shit has occurred for any expectation of this to be a close following of the game. At the risk of sounding "old good new bad" IMO the original RBG arc is still the best simply because they managed to achieve a perfect balance of original plot content and game-derived content. The Yellow arc that follows, although almost all OC after puts an interesting spin on the E4 in a role other than simply sitting in a themed room atop Indigo Plateau, but it might not be for you if you don't really like original content much. Personally speaking up to Platinum, every other arc after the first 7 volumes is some degree of following in the footsteps of those 7, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
The series does feature Pokemon deaths in a more explicit manner than any Pokemon material produced (although some of it is pretty amazingly, or ludicrously depending on personal perspective, bullshitted out of, such as Koga's Arbok which was able to fucking regenerate from what should have been a near-instant fatal injury, makes Z-Recover look like chump shit) and people getting attacked by Pokemon, wild or trained, but overall it's about as edgy as a well-worn eraser.
Hidenori Kusaka has about as many hits as misses as the writer, although not for lack of trying mostly, and the same can be spoken of Satoshi Yamamoto as its current artist, who, putting sameface aside, sometimes goes off-model for more dynamic choreography, with mixed results. Former artist Mato had a cleaner but less emphasis-heavy art style than Yamamoto in the early volumes, but you could almost see the physical toll of her illness in volumes 8 and 9 when the art got even simpler.
