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He's super arrogant, but tbh that's kind of expected, but where this really loses me is when his sword is like a magic girl. Like wtf I can get integration power wise but this is a little too out of context for that universe. Not for me. Not really recommended. Translation is okay but has some weird edited spots.
This reminds me a lot of the protagonist from losing money to be a tycoon. He doesn't really want to go the training route because of danger, but the world setting has everyone else being kind of dumb, so he ends up bumbling his way to the elite. His pokemon's personalities are where this is a real winner. His starter is just so self motivated and a pleasure to read. The translation quality is like 500% better than MTL, like pokemon is one of those things where it doesn't MTL well because the names end up as "ghost rock", etc. So I'm happy to see it getting a solid translation. I'd rate this as one of the better translations I've read. Looking forward to more!
Seriously hard to get into. God let him pick way to many OP perks. The guy knows everything before he's born, like seriously he should have spent the last wish to skip 6 years so he doesn't have to be a baby. He's super OP, knows everything, but he is dumb as a rock. He knows everything, has super bullshit build, AI helper, etc. Like dude don't save a wish for if somehow you are going to be on the back foot, use it to skip time in womb.
This was pretty solid until volume 4. At that point the author completely forgets everything about the MC and decides he needs to experience a traumatic event and have issues and personality changes in the aftermath. Which is fine, but the traumatic event itself is less impactful than four different situations earlier in the story. The entire thing feels super fake/forced. Writing around that area has huge issues with telling us stuff vs showing it. I swear I read lines like the following at least 10+ times. "He won't be the same after this", "This could change him forever", etc. The huge kicker is he starts acting all emotional when back at home. He showed zero personality changes earlier in the story (after kidnappings, murdering poachers, selling pokemon on black market, murdering pokemon to use as food for his current team). So why is he acting like a baby now?
I feel like you forgot earlier parts of the story. He is already awake to realities of this world with the whole getting grandfather and his grandfather's pokemon disabled backstory. From that event he was already of the mindset to get strong. I don't understand why he's having a larger breakdown over people he's not actually related to. Did you forget how dark you made the MC's initial training plan? Gastly was devouring poison cores and crippling pokemon. Charmander was hunting and eating dead Ekans and stuff. He then sold pokemon on the black market and then used funds to buy pokemon that he killed and fed to Gastly. Alex has personally killed others. I think some of the shadow gang guys but for sure he killed the poachers in green village. You made this cool dark MC, a guy mentally older than 11, but now you are making him act his age. The event you are using to direct this growth is less impactful than events experienced in the past, which makes this feel super fake.
#Mental anguish #Trauma This version of the MC who suddenly cares society is idiosyncratic with that guy I read about earlier. I thought he was cold. Like look at how he trained Gastly or the black market selling of pokemon. His cold blooded killing when escaping shadow. Seriously I remember him cold blood killing the green village poachers. I just don't understand why he's all traumatized now but not earlier? Smaller numbers make it more personal, so he should be more impacted by personally killing others than he is by his leadership leading to deaths. The hard numbers don't really help more than they hurt. Compared to the millions in town, 40k dead or injured is nothing. That's like less than 4% of one million. Pokemon deaths are even less of a deal, those are replaceable and from what we are told bonds only matter for advanced+ trainers. Plus like I mentioned earlier anyone who sells pokemon on black market shouldn't pretend to care about pokemon.
The second half of this volume just felt off. Like a perfect mix of cringe and filler that made me want to drop the story. I'd rather timeskip past any personality changes than have them shown like this (aka poorly). I felt like every other sentence was like "this is going to change him" or "he won't be the same person" and honestly that's fine to say once, but not once a chapter. Honestly this half of this arc made me wish the MC was older from the start. No one would be happy following lead of 10 year old, and any avenues to mitigate that feel absolutely cringe inducing.