My story with PokeSpe is pretty straightforward; actually, I think someone in one of the forums that I frequented before mentioned it to me (in 2011-2012), but I'm not sure. I feel that I've known about the manga for the longest time, so I don't even remember when I discovered it. Then, in 2017, when I was reading much more manga, I finally decided to read it (I was putting it off because the manga is just too long and I was lazy lol). I read everything until the US&UM chapter and lost a bit of interest in the SW&SH chapter. I reread again until the Yellow arc in 2021, then I stopped and started rereading everything now (2024) to write this shrine. To this day, PokeSpe is the longest manga I've ever read.

Since there isn't much to talk about my story with the manga, this page will be for my favourites only. This list may change since I am rereading the manga and it has been a long time since I read it.

Warning: This page has unmarked spoilers.

• Red, Green and Blue because it's the first of the series and the most loyal to the game mechanics; Gold, Silver and Crystal because it's my favourite generation of the games, and it also follows the story of the other 2 arcs; Ruby and Sapphire because of the protagonists, and it's my favourite region; Diamond and Pearl & Platinum mostly because of Platinum.
• Favourite dex holders: Red is my favourite dex holder of the boys. I like him because he is everything that Ash isn't in the Pokémon anime (like winning the Pokémon league). And growing up watching the Pokémon anime on TV, I never liked Ash much (sorry for his fans lol). He also has his own troubles that he overcomes in the manga, but I'll let this to his own page;;
  
  Crystal is my favourite of the girls. I always loved her game counterpart (Kris) because she was the first female playable character in the series, and I think that her sprite is the prettiest. She's also so badass in the story, she throws her pokeballs by kicking them, and she is the only one to actually fill the Pokédex for the Professor;
  
  My other dex holders are Blue, Sapphire and Platinum. I didn't like Blue at first because she was such a swindler in the series (lol) but I grew fond of her when I knew more of her backstory (she's also actually the first female protagonist in the Pokémon series, even before Crystal, because she is based off an artwork featuring 3 trainers, each with a starter).
  
  Sapphire, I love her because she is such a badass, also totally different from May from the anime (I still remember how stupid she looked when she chose her starter), she also beat all of Hoenn's gym leaders.
  
  Platinum is another character that I disliked at first because she was such an ojou-sama, but I started liking her in the first chapters, and she also beat all gym leaders and the Battle Frontier and saved her bodyguards, she's awesome (and her pokémon are all cute too).
• Favourite couple: Ruby and Sapphire (I don't even need to explain this, they're the cutest).
• Favourite secondary characters: ??
• Favourite villains: ??
• Favourite battle: ??
• Favourite team: Ruby's and Platinum's because they have some of the prettiest Pokémon in their regions and I could imagine myself playing with their team on my game.
• Favourite Pokémon: Red's Pika, Yellow's Chuchu and Gold's Togetaro and Pibu.
• Favourite PokeSpe is darker than the games moment: When Lysandre and Malva jumped to their deaths (on the Bulbapedia says the only Malva died, but I don't remember that, so I guess I need to reread anyway).
• Favourite manga original: ??

Female dex holders: Crystal > Platinum > Sapphire > Blue > Y > Yellow > White > Moon > Whi-two

Male dex holders: Red > Gold > Ruby > Silver > Diamond > Black > Pearl > Emerald > X > Sun > Green > Lack-two

Manga Arcs: RG&B > GS&C > R&S > D&P > Platinum > X&Y > B&W > B2&W2 > OR&AS > HG&SS > Yellow > FR&LG > Emerald > SM&USUM

*I still haven't finish reading SW&SH and didn't read S&V so I can't rank them yet.