Pokemon Getto Da Ze! is a Pokémon manga released in 1999. It stars a trainer named Shuu and his adventures with his talking Pikachu.
Shuu is a young boy who can understand and communicate with Pokémon using a headset-shaped device. He is on a journey to catch many Pokémon.
Getto Da Ze is a collection of short stories depicting Shuu's adventures. It doesn't follow the plot of the games and doesn't contain either any gym leaders or Team Rocket. The manga consists of five Japanese only volumes.
This manga contains examples of:
- Anime Hair: Shuu has green anime hair mostly covered by his hat.
- Early Adaptation Weirdness: Some real world animals can be seen in early chapters of the manga (mainly insects like stag beetles and ladybugs).
- In a lesser form, this manga is one of the few adaptations of the franchise where the main character sometimes catches Pokémon offscreen between chapters (some examples include Ponyta, Gyarados, Wooper and Jynx).
- Expy: Shuu's Pikachu is one of Ash's Pikachu in early episodes of the Pokémon: The Series: a grumpy Pikachu who won't listen to his trainer.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Shuu once remembered how his father kept using him as a guinea pig for his experiments when he was younger, with examples including being forced to taste Pokémon food, taking an IQ test to see if he had better reflexes than a Slowpoke or being used as living bait for wild Pokémon.
- Mythology Gag:
- While it's not immediately visible due to being worn backwards, Shuu wears the same hat as Ash in the early seasons of the anime.
- In one early chapter, Shuu's Pikachu tries to intimidate a wild Venusaur by making the same funny face Ash's Pikachu did against Giselle's Cubone in "The School of Hard Knocks".
- Polar Opposite Twins: Recurring characters Rin and Ran are this. Rin is a cute girl that wears frilly dresses and owns mainly cute first stage Pokémon like Eevee, Jigglypuff and Clefairy, and she tries to make them fight as less as possible to avoid making them evolve. On the opposite side, Ran is a tomboyish tough girl whose team is made of aggressive-looking Pokémon like Fearow, Arbok and Scyther.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Shuu can speak with Pokémon due to his In-com. Two one-shot characters later on can do the same: Masatoshi can talk with his Meowth while wearing a hood designed after Meowth's head, while an unnamed kid in the Johto part of the manga owns an updated version of the In-com (which he got from Shuu's father) which allows for telepathical communication.
- Theme Twin Naming:
- Two of the manga's recurring characters are a pair of twins called Rin and Ran.
- Another example comes in form of the Kame Brothers, triplets named respectively Kamero, Kameo and Kameta.
