Interesting premise I don’t think I’ve seen a Pokémon story where most of the notable characters are young and not in the positions we remember them at, story’s written well and has good pacing info dumps are bite sized and are only used to explain things that have happened or clarify to avoid confusion while helping flesh out the world, character design is good to you can get a pretty going visual of previous gym leaders
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LIKEEven if you don’t like more light hearted stories like this I’d still recommend reading this one sense while it depends on the fandom, overall story’s like this are very rare sense you lessen the familiarity of the world (which is why this type of story is more common in fiction like Naruto sense they still got the great ninja wars as a focal point) this generally means you can take the story into multiple directions you otherwise couldn’t while also exploring the world in a unique way. P.S. Authors got balls and I’m looking forward to how this story develops