History YMMV / PokemonAdventures

* FanartAtFirstSight: Scarlet quickly became a hit with fans once her full design was revealed along with her fierce no-nonsense personality, she quickly gained more fanart than Violet, who had already been introduced several months before.

* FirstInstallmentWins: An official poll conducted in 2005 saw Red, the first protagonist, voted as the most popular character in the series. In second was Yellow, the second protagonist, who at the time of the poll had not made an appearance in ''years''. A later human and Pokémon poll shows Red topping yet ''again'' (with Gold, Ruby, and Yellow ranking 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, respectively) , while Pika tops the poll for the Pokémon.

** The ''[=FireRed & LeafGreen chapter=]'' introduced Sird as a GreaterScopeVillain, having played a large hand in the plans of Team Rocket, Team Magma, Team Aqua, and Team Galactic. Her motives for working with all these unrelated teams and where her true loyalties lie have never been fully established however, excluding flashbacks, her final appearance to date was in the ''Platinum'' chapter, which saw her [[KarmaHoudini escape without suffering any consequences for her actions]]. Given the manga is now restricted to only making chapters based on the first set of games in each Pokémon Generation, with the games tending to only prominently feature older characters in subsequent versions and remakes, [[AbortedArc it's unlikely that this plotline will ever be resolved]].

** The ''[=FireRed & LeafGreen chapter=]'' introduced Sird as a GreaterScopeVillain, having played a large hand in the plans of Team Rocket, Team Magma, Team Aqua, and Team Galactic. Her motives for working with all these unrelated teams and where her true loyalties lie have never been fully established however and (excluding flashbacks) her final appearance to date was in the ''Platinum'' chapter, which saw her [[KarmaHoudini escape without suffering any consequences for her actions]]. Given the manga is now restricted to only making chapters based on the first set of games in each Pokémon Generation, with the games tending to only prominently feature older characters in subsequent versions and remakes, [[AbortedArc it's unlikely that this plotline will ever be resolved]].

** The ''[=FireRed & LeafGreen chapter=]'' introduced Sird as a GreaterScopeVillain, having played a large hand in the plans of Team Rocket, Team Magma, Team Aqua, and Team Galactic. Her motives for working with all these unrelated teams and where her true loyalties lie have never been fully established however and (excluding flashbacks) her final appearance to date was in the ''Platinum'' chapter, which saw her [[KarmaHoudini escape without suffering any consequences for her actions]]. Given the manga is now restricted to only making chapters based on the first set of games in each Pokémon Generation, with the games tending to only prominently feature older characters in subsequent versions and remakes, it's unlikely that this plotline will ever be resolved.

** [[spoiler:Pryce]], aka the Masked Man. The reader is clearly supposed to find him sympathetic since he [[spoiler:lost his two Lapras to a freak accident]], and it's made obvious that he truly cares about his Pokémon in general. That doesn't really justify kidnapping children to be forced to work for him, brainwashing a group of criminals, funding a program that forces evolution (which is implied to be painful), and attempting to murder 2 minors. He can easily come across as a huge {{jerkass}} because of all the things he did just to reunite with them instead of just accepting a loss that wasn't really his (or anyone else's) fault, or even trying to go about it in a less extreme manner. The only mitigating factors are that [[spoiler: one chapter shows that he ''does'' care about the children he captured but due to his frigid emotional state he can't express this except in ice sculptures, and that he seems to feel guilty about all that he's done, as he attempts to strangle himself after it appears to have all been for nothing.]]
** There are fans who feel this way about Norman as well, feeling that [[spoiler: his way of protecting Ruby from the fallout of Rayquaza's escape did far more harm to his son's mental and emotional state than good, that him looking down on Ruby for wanting to pursue contests over battles felt too much like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a bigoted father not accepting his gay son for comfort]], and that him [[AbusiveParents physically striking his son]] out of anger for him running away makes it way too hard to like or sympathize with him afterward.]]

** The ''[=FireRed & LeafGreen chapter=]'' introduced Sird as a GreaterScopeVillian having played a large hand in the plans of Team Rocket, Team Magma, Team Aqua, and Team Galactic. Her motives for working with all these unrelated teams and where her true loyalties lie have never been fully established however and, excluding flashbacks, her final appearance was in the ''Platinum'' chapter which saw her [[KarmaHoundini escape without consequence]]. Given the manga is now restricted to only making chapters based on the first set of games in each Pokémon Generation, with the games tending to only prominetly feature older characters in subsequent versions and remakes, it's highly unlikely that this plotline will ever be resolved.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The manga based on the first two ''Pokémon Ranger'' games are made canon with the ''Diamond, Pearl and Platinum'' story line. ''Pokémon Colosseum'', despite having a manga, has not been given this treatment. Funnily enough, it was revealed around May 2020 that Kusaka did want to make an arc based on Orre in the early 2000s.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Throughout the events of the ''Ruby and Sapphire'' arc, Wally was heavily foreshadowed to become the next Dex holder for ''Emerald''. Unfortunately, when the ''Emerald'' arc finally came around, [[CanonForeigner a new character was created]], and Wally was quietly pushed to the side, [[EnsembleDarkhorse to the disappointment of many a fan]].

** A good chunk of the reader base, especially in the West, considers this to be happening to the manga from the [=B2W2=] arc onwards. It has been speculated that Kusaka is actually pacing the manga to the game releases and his own personal playing experience, as inferred from the infamous 4+ year hiatus in the official volumes when it was around the [=B2W2=] arc while the author skipped ahead to write Generation VI instead of using the chance to flesh out the [=B2W2=] arc. This attempt to play catch-up with the mainline games has resulted in the pacing of the story and character arcs afterwards to be very rushed in comparison.

** The ''Ruby and Sapphire'' arc is THE most popular arc from the manga in Japan. While certainly not ''hated'' in the US, it's more divisive based on the AssPull resolution.

** When the Gym Leaders are introduced during the Pokémon League, Lt. Surge is referred as "The Lightning Soldier" rather than his official game title, "The Lightning American".

** In the Viz release, the main characters of ''Black 2 and White 2'' are named Blake and Whitley, rather than the Japanese names of ''Lack-Two'' and ''Whi-Two'', which work fine for Japanese...not so much for English.
** A fan translation has taken to spelling Sword and Shieldmilia's names as ''Soudo and Schildemilia'', due to the [[SpellMyNameWithAnS unique way they were spelt in Japanese]].[[note]]Sword's name was written in full kanji (a series first) as ''Soudo'' Tsurugi, as opposed to the usual ''Sōdo''. The ''Shield'' in Shieldmilia's name meanwhile lacks the usual elongation, bringing her name closer to being pronounced as ''Shildmilia''.[[/note]]

* CrackPairing: ''Many'' ships [[http://shipping.bulbagarden.net/side/special.html in this fandom]] are between humans who've never even met and/or humans who in all probability would ''not'' get along if they did meet up, to say nothing of the ones [[InterspeciesRomance between humans and Pokémon]].