Several days break here, so reviews had more time to show up…sadly, that doesn’t help much.
Power-fantasy heavy, and heavy on pulling in outside elements and then not using them well. (more…)
Several days break here, so reviews had more time to show up…sadly, that doesn’t help much.
Power-fantasy heavy, and heavy on pulling in outside elements and then not using them well. (more…)
None had reviews when I began and I suspected those are going to be quite thin on the ground throughout the month, so I’ll be noting it if it’s true but not putting down zeros.
This week: still doing “but N! you participate in society! I am very clever!”, still doing redos of Ash’s first day without paying attention to any of the details, still thinking it’s a good idea to throw in talking pokemon, and still terrible porn, but isekais are now giving the self-insert an in-universe backstory as well for maximum boring and people are using AI so their stories can be worse faster.
Even worse capitalization sins than usual, the continuing adventures of isekai, Arceus, and some actually good stuff.
A batch that’s heavy on the unfortunate implications and questionable decisions. (more…)
Sexism, both quite subtle and unusually overt, and a variety of rulebreaking. Stories that say they’re about Ash but aren’t. Stories that say they’re about pokemon but aren’t! And pacing issues upon pacing issues. (more…)
A lot of stuff centered around Ash and the early season, with even the one that’s about Ash starting in Kalos and the inevitable betrayal-Ash fic both involved emphasis on how many seasons of adventures he’s already had. Possibly the modern accessibility of shows means that the newest fans coming in are now watching from the start again.
Also, yet another quirky character specializing in something else entirely and who clearly had no interest in pokemon battling somehow changing their mind and becoming a great trainer.
We continue to not have any standard OT fic! However, there is someone being roughly as incompetent, overpowered and poorly plotted but as a baker for some reason.
Quite a strange collection this time, including platonic? tickling where Ash considers Kukui his father, a story that was 90% worldbuilding setup by someone who didn’t actually seem to have any interest in the world, a scientist who didn’t know how to science, and a character from our world who tells Oak exactly that.
More “why are you saying this is the same character” issues, as usual, and a genre-aware isekai that’s probably is just a usual one but could possibly be a very stealth meta deconstruction of typical isekai instead. Plus an earnest attempt at a science-of-pokemon thing that’s very rough.
Lot of pacing issues with a dash of why are you saying this is a canon character when you’ve removed the thing about the character that’d make them interesting in the AU. (more…)
The starting batch has a surprising bunch of unusually detailed, narration-heavy non-new trainer stories with unusually terrible grammar. Also, bonus other review.
Some actually decent stuff today, including a story with some nice Johto character study and worldbuilding.
Anime: 1
A story about how paraplegics can’t be trainers or, apparently, doctors, and a story by a gun fetishist.
Anime: 4
And so we finish! More of the people and pokemon and humans in a number of different ways.