Pokemon Story

Pokemon Story is a massive, 500+ page book co-written by Kenji Hatakeyama and Masakazu Kubo. It was first released on 10 December 2000. The book covers the origins of Pokémon and chronicles the first four years of the franchise's history. Main author Hatakeyama interviewed numerous people involved with the creation of Pokémon. Co-author Masakazu Kubo, himself a core person within the franchise, provides commentary at the bottom of the pages. This makes it difficult to put the book's text in a digital document in such a way that it can be interpreted correctly by machine translators.

The book was also released as two bunkobon (pocket books), released on 25 April 2002.

Table of contents[edit]

Chapter	Pages
Cover (without sleeve), back (without sleeve)
0_2, 0_3, 0_4, 0_5, 0_6, 0_7, 0_8
	1
Table of contents	2 – 5
Foreword	6 – 12
Chapter 1: Birth	13
Subchapter 1: Game Creator	14 – 43
Subchapter 2: Nintendo	44 – 74
Subchapter 3: Producers	75 – 105
Subchapter 4: Production	106 – 131
Subchapter 5: Post Production	132 – 158
Chapter 2: Breakthrough	159
Subchapter 1: Release	160 – 175
Subchapter 2: CoroCoro Comic	176 – 223
Subchapter 3: PCG ~ Pokemon Card Game	224 – 249
Subchapter 4: Presentation	250 – 288
Subchapter 5: Animation	289 – 354
Subchapter 6: Breakthrough	355 – 396
Chapter 3: United States	397 – 399
Subchapter 1: San Francisco	400 – 425
Subchapter 2: Radio City - Music Hall	426 – 450
Subchapter 3: Sial	451 – 468
Chapter 4: Pokemon World	469
Subchapter 1: Pokemon 2001	470 – 483
Subchapter 2: Satoshi Tajiri World – Long Interview	484 – 518
Epilogue	519 – 531
Timeline	532 – 537
List of 251 pocket monsters	538 – 541
References and publishing information	542 – 543

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Releases[edit]

Pokemon Story was released as a hardcover 'big book' on 10 December 2000 by Nikkei BP. A two-part bunkobon version was released on 25 April 2002 by Kadokawa Shoten.

Big book: Google Books, amazon.com, amazon.co.jp (ISBN: 978-4822241995);
Pocket book, volume 1: Google Books, amazon.com, amazon.co.jp (ISBN: 978-4043645015);
Pocket book, volume 2: Google Books, amazon.com, amazon.co.jp (ISBN: 978-4043645022).

The big book and the pocket books do not differ in terms of text.

Note that Google Books incorrectly labels the second bunkobon as "Volume 3". This is wrong; there is no volume 3.

Download[edit]

For a ZIP file containing all scans, go here (1.45 GB).
Here is a mirror of the ZIP file at MEGA.

I can create a PDF document of the book if all pages have been proofread.
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Gallery[edit]

Bunkobon version, volume 1, cover.
Bunkobon version, volume 1, back.
Bunkobon version, volume 2, cover.
Bunkobon version, volume 2, back.
Size comparison.