What this is
Who started the Pokémon Adventures manga, according to its author Kusaka in 2016: Nintendo wanted a Pokémon manga and offered him the job, before The Pokémon Company existed.
How it’s built
- Reported by Anime News Network from the manga's creators' appearance at the Barcelona Manga Fair, published November 2016.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
It is the author's recollection; it names no contract, licence or rights holder.
The value
- Kusaka: Nintendo wanted to make a Pokémon manga and offered him the job
Where it comes from
Interview: The Creators of Pokemon Adventures Anime News Network (Manu G.) · 29 November 2016 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
so Nintendo wanted to make a Pokémon manga — at that time, The Pokémon Company didn't even exist.