Let's get this straight right off the bat... You're not going to like Pocket Monsters. Nobody outside of Japan likes Pocket Monsters. How it has been published and sold for almost a decade is one of the universe's enduring mysteries. It's a lowbrow gag story manga with little continuity. It depends largely on slapstick and toilet humour, following the bungled adventures of Red and his two pokemon companions, cousins Pikachu and Pippi. Akai "Red" Isamu is a none-too-bright pokemon trainer, and Pippi is a loud, rude, male Clefairy who has a long list of enemies, as it annoys everyone it encounters. Most of their stories hinge on some situation that Pippi has either gotten them into, or must get them out of. The manga disregards most, if not all, rules established in other pokemon continuities.

An off-colour Mewtwo appears in the first volume of Pocket Monsters as a foil for trainer-wannabe Red and the abrasive Pippi (Clefairy) with whom he is partnered. Mew also appears in this first volume. Red and company encounter Mew in the woods, and begin a chase to recover the moon stone, given to Red by gym leader Kasumi, that it has stolen. Ultimately they discover that this Mew is in fact a human woman whose genes have been spliced with a pokemon's. The moonstone is the key to returning her, and the scientist who did the experiments, to their human forms. In the end, Mew turns out to be a lovely lady, and the scientist a huge dork. A more defined Mewtwo, complete with creepy manservant and gloomy mansion, appears in later volumes with a serious vendetta against the obnoxious Pippi.

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