The establishment likewise won numerous manga elucidations, the first being Pokémon Pocket Monsters by Kosaku Anakubo, which was first gathered and published in November 1996 by Shogakukan. ... The primary character was a youthful Pokémon Mentor named Satoshi (after Satoshi Tajiri, later named in English to Fiery remains Ketchum), based on Red.
Pokémon really began as a couple of computer games published by Nintendo for the Game Boy in 1996. Known as Pokémon Red and Blue, these games were followed up by some short stories.
IIRC, first came the Pokémon comics, at that point the Pokémon arrangement appeared on TV on April 1, 1997, and shortly from there on the manga was discharged on August 8, 1997.