The Pokemon franchise has obviously been controversial lately as childhood dreams clash with bitter reality. But this manga hold's true to my initial daydreams of what pokemon is like.
The first few chapters take recognizable characters and makes them ICONS. The story is dark but digestibly so- and believable. It's just my precious little guilty pleasure that I'll never let go of even as I grow up.
Gender roles are nonexistent here (impressively so back in the 1990s) and you can tell the authors love pokemon just the same as we do. I'm only finishing the DP/P arc but the characters are still a joy even
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Mar 7, 2021
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Ahhhh good ol' haitus x hiatus. It's honestly regretful that this anime will never pass into masterpiece territory that all it's fans know it is capable of doing. Togashi's work is incredible- you can see the amount of detail and quality he's laced into his characters and plotlines. The Chimera Ant Arc was a very heavy and fresh climax to Shonen in general, and I know we're all looking forward to what comes beyond this world.
Story/9 I'm grading this mainly on the potential of what is to come. The beginning (and the training arc) was a fine snowball which was eventually the Chimera Ant Arc (bugs ... |
