Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu

The Pokémon Graphic Novel, more commonly known as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu (Japanese: 電撃！ピカチュウ, Hepburn: Dengeki! Pikachū, lit.'Electric Shock! Pikachu'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toshihiro Ono. It was serialized in the children's manga magazine Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special and CoroCoro Comic from April 1997 to December 1999. Individual chapters were collected into four tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on October 28, 1997, and the fourth volume on January 28, 2000. The characters and storylines are all drawn from the Pokémon anime series, although some events and depictions of characters diverge slightly from the anime, and the world itself has a visibly higher level of technology.

The manga was published in English in North America by Viz Communications in a "flipped", left-to-right format. The Electric Tale of Pikachu marked the first time that any of the Pokémon manga series were translated to English. In 1998 the company released the series as individual single comic book issues; the collected volumes came afterwards. At the time of its release, Issue #1 was the best-selling manga issue, and best-selling comic book of any type, in the United States. The issue sold 1.001 million copies, the highest for a single comic book since 1993. The first volume, The Electric Tale of Pikachu!, was released on September 5, 1999. The third volume, Electric Pikachu Boogaloo, was released on April 5, 2000.

In Singapore, the manga is published in English by Chuang Yi and translated as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu! for all four volumes. The Traditional Chinese edition in Taiwan of the manga is published by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Chingwin Publishing.