In a book translated from Japanese, my son has found a character that look like Pikachu :
- yellow
- red cheeks
- black tips
- electricity power
- Japanese

But the French book has been translated in 1989 from a 1983 Japanese version !

I am pretty much convinced that there is necessarily a link between the first yellow character that looks like Pikachu and the real Pikachu

Can you help me :

- did the creator of the Pokémon work for the Japanese publisher "Gakken"?

- or did he simply sell drawings?

- what is the original Japanese edition of the book? is there certainly the name of the authors?

- or could the creator of the Pokémon have been inspired by this book???