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So far it's a very entertaining fanfiction. I love that the MC actually utilizes his knowledge of the manga, anime fillers and movies to find and grab opportunities to strengthen himself and his village, instead of being passive like other SI MCs, who desperately try to preserve canon. It's also good to see that the MC doesn't bootlick Konoha. I've seen several fanfics where the MC was born in a shinobi village other than Konoha, but still acted like they were from Konoha and cared about it more than their own village...
In chapters like this you can really tell it's a Chinese fanfic, because of lines like 'Young Master' or 'Frog in a well'...
This is an updated review after giving the story more of a chance and reading all 147 currently available chapters. The translation quality is overall good. The TL changes the Chinese names to western names, although they sometimes fail to change some of the names, leading to awkward situations where you don't know which character is being talked about, forcing you to puzzle it out through context clues. Originally I complained that the MC wastes a lot of time on catching Pokémon he doesn't immediately need and even wastes time shiny hunting, when he could just power-level his starter, speedrun the game and have enough time to hunt for perfect IV shiny Pokémon. After reading more of the story it's clear that the game in this story is far more difficult than the regular Emerald edition and speedrunning it would pretty much be impossible. I still dislike the fact that the story is set in a version of the real world with Pokémon instead of the world of the Pokémon anime. The parts of the story that focus on the "real" world tend to be more boring compared to the parts about the game. At least that's my personal experience so far.
Bro, you're already replacing the characters chinese names with western ones, so why would you not give Flannery her English name?
I think you mean Mawile instead of Whiscash...
Fake Out is a normal type move though, so why would you need fighting type energy to learn it?
Huh, I didn't expect Bege do bite it... I hope Kid and Killer get murked as well, since those two are basically as evil as real life pirates. Same thing with Hawkins. The only ones I want to actually survive are the Strawhats, Law and Bonney, since since they aren't actually evil and Bonney is still just a child.
Don't waste your time with this one. The Grammar sucks, making it hard to read. The Novel itself could've been decent, but unfortunately it's ruined by two main problems. One is the addition of various xianxia tropes that don't fit the setting. Like random shinobi underestimating the strength of the MC and making him show off his strength, even though he is a Jonin and ANBU operative, which should be enough proof of his strength. Another problem are the many random ass-pulls, like the time Kakashi's Sharingan activated Kamui on its own and absorbed a Flying Thunder God kunai, which somehow allowed Kakashi to learn the Flying Thunder God technique. In that case the only explanation the author gave, was that both are Space-Time techniques, so they interacted like that. That obviously doesn't make any sense, but the author loves doing stuff like that.
What the hell is this bs? The MC just randomly has everything working out in his favor somehow, even when it doesn't make any goddamn sense. How the hell does the sharingan just absorb the Flying Thunder God kunai and how does that let Kakashi understand the technique? This is actually making my head hurt with just how incredibly stupid these garbage ass-pulls are...
Seeing a name like 'Lindy' in a Naruto fanfiction is really weird and ruins my immersion. I'd recommend changing it to a Japanese name.