History Manga / HowIBecameAPokemonCard

** [[spoiler:Giovanni]] has a Persian like in the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime]]. Team Rocket is also shown in a similar way to the anime.

* {{Transgender}}: Akari is a trans boy example. He has unofficially been living as a boy from a young age but is forced to wear a skirt when he enters secondary school.
* TransTribulations: Akari's mother forces him to wear a skirt, and demands he act more feminine and [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns use "watashi" instead of "ore"]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Giovanni]] is shown as a little kid, meeting his [[spoiler:Persian]], in one chapter. He nurtures him after he finds him injured and saves him from being captured.

* TransTribulations: Akari's mother forces him to wear a skirt, and demands he act more feminine and [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns use "watashi" instead of "ore"]].

* {{Transgender}}: Akari is a trans boy example. He has unofficially been living as a boy from a young age but is forced to wear a skirt when he enters secondary school.

* ABoyAndHisX: An unnamed boy (who turned out to be Bill) and his Dratini in the first chapter, which centers around Pokémon first meeting humans.

* NonindicativeName: No chapter revolves around becoming Pokémon cards. Instead the title refers to the backstory of the cards.

* {{Transsexual}}: Akari is a trans boy example. He has unofficially been living as a boy from a young age but is forced to wear a skirt when he enters secondary school.

''How I Became A Pokémon Card'' is a SliceOfLife-type ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' manga where every chapter is a different story. Each volume contained a ''Pokémon'' [[TableTopGame/{{Pokemon}} trading card]]. The chapters were drawn by an artist for the trading card game, Kagemaru Himeno.

A SliceOfLife type ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' manga where each chapter is a different story. Each volume contained a ''Pokémon'' [[TableTopGame/{{Pokemon}} trading card]]. The chapters were drawn by Kagemaru Himeno (who is an artist for the trading card game).

!!This manga provides examples of:

* {{Bifauxnen}}: Kaede, in some panels, seems to be a rather cute young man.

** [[spoiler:Giovanni]] has a Persian, and Team Rocket is shown in a similar way to the anime.
** The ending to [[spoiler:Giovanni's]] chapter resembles the part of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' where [[spoiler:Red comes and beats him]].

A SliceOfLife type ''{{Manga/Pokemon}}'' manga. Each volume contained a ''Pokémon'' [[TableTopGame/{{Pokemon}} trading card]], and the chapters were drawn by Kagemaru Himeno who is an artist for the trading card game.

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Giovanni]] has a Persian, and Team Rocket is shown in a similar way to the Anime. The ending to [[spoiler:Giovanni's]] chapter also resembles when in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' [[spoiler:Red comes and beats him]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Giovanni is shown as a little kid, meeting his Persian]], in one chapter. He nurtures him after he finds him injured, and saves him from being captured.

* {{Transsexual}}: Akari is a male example.

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* {{Transsexual}}: Akari is a female-to-male example.

* NoExportForYou: Due to the trading cards involved, don't expect the series to come out outside of Japan ever.

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Pokémon Card Ni Natta Wake'' becomes "Pokewake".

* NonindicativeName: No chapter revolves around becoming Pokémon cards.

* FoeYay: Played with in the case of Erika and Kaede, as Erika doesn't even realize that Kaede is evil.

* BadassLongHair: Giovanni in his young adulthood.

* CuteShotaroBoy: Most boys in the series.

* HarmlessVillain: Hiroshi is a CuteShotaroBoy who wishes to be a member of [[{{Yakuza}} Team Rocket]]. Team Rocket isn't nearly as intimidating as in the games, but they're still a threat. Hiroshi eventually grows up out of his HarmlessVillain role, as shown in the author's note at the end of the volume he appears in.

A SliceOfLife type ''{{Pokemon}}'' manga. Each volume contained a ''{{Pokemon}}'' [[TableTopGame/{{Pokemon}} trading card]], and the chapters were drawn by Kagemaru Himeno who is an artist for the trading card game.

* ABoyAndHisX: An unnamed boy (who turned out to be Bill) and his Dratini in the first chapter, which centers around {{Pokemon}} first meeting humans.

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Giovanni]] has a Persian, and Team Rocket is shown in a similar way to the Anime. The ending to [[spoiler:Giovanni's]] chapter also resembles when in ''PokemonRedAndBlue'' [[spoiler:Red comes and beats him]].

* NonindicativeName: No chapter revolves around becoming Pokemon cards.

* BadassLongHair: [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/0/05/Persian22.jpg Giovanni]] in his young adult years.

* ABoyAndHisX: An unnamed boy and his Dratini in the first chapter, which centers around {{Pokemon}} first meeting humans.

* {{Bifauxnen}}: Kaede, in some panels, seems to be a rather cute young man. It's been theorized that this is why she has earrings--to show that she's a girl in panels where you can't see her chest.
* CuteShotaroBoy: Any boy that appears.
* {{Discontinuity}}: The first chapter can't take place in the same setting as some of the others, given that it places the first contact between humans and pokémon between ten and fifteen years before present day and other chapters indicate relationships between species going back much farther than that.
* DistantFinale: Giovanni's chapter skips from him as a child to him as an adult.
* FoeYay: In a way, Kaede and Erika.
* HarmlessVillain: Hiroshi is a CuteShotaroBoy who wishes to be a member of [[{{Yakuza}} Team Rocket]]. Team Rocket isn't nearly as intimidating as in the games, but they're still a threat. Hiroshi eventually grows up out of his HarmlessVillain role, as shown in the epilogue.
** Well, he ''looks'' more intimidating anyway.
* MythologyGag: Giovanni has a Persian, and Team Rocket is shown in a similar way to the Anime. The ending to Giovanni's chapter also resembles when in ''PokemonRedAndBlue'' Red comes and beats him.
* NoExportForYou: Due to the trading cards involved, don't expect the series to come out outside of Japan anytime soon.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Giovanni is shown as a little kid, meeting his Persian, in one chapter. He nurtures him after he finds him injured, and saves him from being captured.

* Bifauxnen: Kaede, in some panels, seems to be a rather cute young man. It's been theorized that this is why she has earrings--to show that she's a girl in panels where you can't see her chest.

* HarmlessVillain: Hiroshi is a CuteShotaroBoy who wishes to be a member of [[{{Yakuza}} Team Rocket]]. Team Rocket isn't nearly as intimidating as in the games, but they're still a threat. Hiroshi eventually grows up out of his HarmlessVillain role, as shown in the epilogue.