A lot of stories that don’t go anywhere; a pokemon empath who appears to be going on a regular trainer journey; and an intriguing story about an oranguru who acts as the team’s trainer after their human dies.
Anime: 7
Tag: Pokemon fanfic
[12] The Other Pokereviews, Part 154
Standing on the corpse of its mother was a young Cyndaquil who was crying for all to hear, which would only give its location away to those Pokémon who would see it as prey. From his location, Bastion could tell that the Pokémon was male.
“Poor little guy!” Bastion muttered out and seeing that the Pokémon was all alone he decided that he was going to capture and care for him.
From the sight of the creature, Bastion guessed that he was only a few days old and even then that could be a stretch. This would allow Bastion to capture the Pokémon pretty easily since the Cyndaquil had most likely not learned how to properly defend himself yet.
A few decent fics in addition to this, though.
Anime: 4
[21] The Other Pokereviews, Part 153
Some varying quality today. Most of the porn authors blocked me this time, interestingly.
Anime: 14
[22] The Other Pokereviews, Part 152
Some variety today, including a story with talking pokemon that does nothing to examine the implications, and a bunch of gross porn.
Anime: 8
[18] The Other Pokereviews, Part 151
A competent but otherwise unremarkable novelization, two instances of weird untagged porn (including totally-not-incest between adopted siblings), and what looks to be an actually good grimdark Rocket takeover AU.
Anime: 6
[13] The Other Pokereviews, Part 150
A decent story about an autistic kid, a Mary Sue/Mewtwo romance, and a story where Lusamine spends all her time sobbing over her losses instead of doing anything about it because she’s so pathetic and ineffectual.
Anime: 4
[22] The Other Pokereviews, Part 149
A weird story about what appears to be a self-insert replacing Lillie’s role in the plot of SuMo, a decent story about the creation of Porygon, an amusing story about an incompetent spoiled brat trainer, and a lot of grammatical incoherence.
Anime: 7
Obligative Review (Salvation)
A while back I reviewed the story Salvation. The author has since rewritten the story, and asked me to review the new version.
[17] The Other Pokereviews, Part 148
Another nice pokemon story from NebulaDreams, a painfully cliché crime drama where everyone is incompetent, and a lot of nothing.
[16] The Other Pokereviews, Part 147
Experienced some writer’s block, so I figured it was time for some reviewing. There were a few decent fics, but nothing terribly notable aside from a pokemon rebellion fic that was actually just an edgelord post-apocalyptic story about wizards in pokemon costumes.
Anime: 4
Obligative Review (A Blessed Life)
[17] The Other Pokereviews, Part 146
A lot of decent but not terribly remarkable stuff. Also, another fic of humans in pokemon costumes.
Anime: 12
[28] The Other Pokereviews, Part 145
Some decent stuff today, including a pretty interesting anime AU where Ash is raised by Mewtwo. Most of the trainer fic also at least has nonstandard openings. There is, however, a lot of weirdness around pokemon treatment, including a heartwarming story about a guy using his brother’s ghost for dogfighting.
Anime: 17
[21] The Other Pokereviews, Part 144
A cute Yueltide fic with delibird, and a really awesome opening about a shiny hunter tracking legendaries WHO GET “IT” PRONOUNS I’M SO HAPPY. Mostly just standard openings otherwise, including another entry into the reincarnation-through-Arceus subgenre.
Anime: 13
[22] The Other Pokereviews, Part 143
The Curious and the Shiny got a reboot! I unfortunately fell behind on the original, but the new version is looking great. There are a few good openings, otherwise.
Anime: 9