Today’s theme was extremely awkward prose. There is also a platonic trainer/gardevoir relationship fic that still does all the annoying cliches.
Anime count: 4
Category: Reviews
[22] The Other Pokereviews, Part 99
An actually good story today with a pokemon protagonist in a world that actually treats pokemon like people! I am starting to wonder if we should start a C2 for “positive pokemon treatment” stories. Unfortunately, the rest is terribly dull, and contains a greater-than-average amount of gross porn.
Anime count: 7
Honey vs Vinegar Reviewing
So, in the interests of data, someone decided they’d review for a while nicely. While there were originally plans to try to match our standard reviews as closely as possible, that didn’t really pan out, but it’s still useful in a broader sense.
Also it shows that either this level of politeness is safe or people are just way chiller these days, because so far they’ve had zero screaming at them! So if you ever wanted to hand out crit but were holding off because of that, now might be a good time to jump in. (more…)
[43] The Other Pokereviews, Part 100
100th post! It is extra long in celebration, compiling all the reviews it took to get me caught up in early April after Enki’s reviews. As is to be expected this batch has a wider variety than normal, yet I could not find many notable stories. There is, however, a decent fic towards the end that actually seems to be engaging with the legendaries as nature gods.
Anime count: 7
[14] The Other Pokereviews, Part 101
As an experiment, I used a variation of Enki’s disclaimer paragraph in these reviews to see if it had any effect. During this period, some trolls also reviewed (nearly) every story telling everyone to block me, so I’ve noted stories I was blocked on to gauge their success.
Story content was unfortunately unremarkable. There is a decent novelization of the RSE opening, and a multi-trainer intrigue thing that might turn out interesting but I don’t know because it spent the first several thousand words on pointless backstory.
Anime count: 2
[18] The Other Pokereviews, Part 102
Some decent stuff today, though it mostly still falls into the standard OT traps. There is also a really beautiful and striking ficlet I believe is based on the manga.
Anime count: 4
[14] The Other Pokereviews, Part 103
Today there’s what looks to be an interesting thing about pokemon personhood, though the first chapter is too short to really tell where it’s going. There is also a very disappointing pokeworld history headcanon, and slim pickings otherwise.
Anime count: 5
[18] The Other Pokereviews, Part 104
Mostly boring stuff today, though a story I reviewed a while back did get reposted with some edits and additions that are nice.
Anime count: 3
[18] The Other Pokereviews, Part 105
A “parody” about hey did you guys ever consider pokemon training is really dangerous???? and not much else.
Anime count: 5
[16] The Other Pokereviews, Part 106
Something about an established trainer trying to summon Arceus to heal his daughter of magic sickness. Not much of note, otherwise.
Anime count: 5
Random Potshot and Obligative Review: Quivering Lips
Someone who was not Dragon’s Blaze left a counter-review on The Two Colors, Pink and Blue:
“Ok first off don’t listen to this idiot below me Elmo. He rags on every new writer and only targets people with smaller stats. If you look at the stories he’s written well let’s just say he doesn’t practice what he preaches.“
I hoped I could get some reviewing out of them or at least an explanation of what sucked about my stories, but alas this was not to be.
[19] The Other Pokereviews, Part 107
A Pokemon Colosseum novelization that actually looks pretty good, and several other novelizations that do not.
Anime count: 5
[12] The Other Pokereviews, Part 108
A pokemon-only society that’s not PMD, and a trainerfic that appears to be walking the walk on pokemon treatment and hints at an unusual plot to come.
Anime count: 6
[21] The Other Pokereviews, Part 109
Several unusual stories today, including some that engage with pokemon treatment.
Anime count: 11
[19] The Other Pokereviews, Part 110
A post-apoc story where pokemon have succeeded humans, though so far it looks like it’s effectively just a typical fantasy YA narrative. There is also what looks to be a decent high fantasy thing about the legendaries where Arceus is not the center of the universe.
Anime count: 8