Animefication

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ Ayo! The name’s Vic, I’m 32, and this blog is dedicated to anime. Finding a balance between the world around me and still enjoy my passions is hard. But I’m still here. I consider myself a veteran but there’s so much to watch. I just come to vibe and read fic rather than interact. I’m scared of spoiling myself.

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As much as I am not happy with a lot of things I’ve been hearing. At the core I am a pokemon fan. And until either I save money or they make a switch lite 2 of some kind this will be my last game. I will be getting back into the Kalos region after 12 years.

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This is perfect

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Looking through my pictures to clear out some storage and found this gem. This is a good time to show you the pokemon I got during the wonder trade inside the pokemon Home app

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Since I missed this game bc at the time I didn’t have a switch (and switch lites weren’t out yet) I could play Let’s go Pikachu and Eevee. I chose Eevee and played through it and once I got to the end I sat and shiny hunted. I must say this is the least complicated game to shiny hunt in my experience. I caught a full team worth and I decided I start my next playthrough with an exclusive shiny team. Which sucks that I can’t keep eevee this time around but I simply couldn’t pass up so here’s my new team in order of who I hunted.

I must say that clefairy was the hardest shiny to get. I want it to be known I had to pass up two shiny geodudes, shiny zubat, and two chancey bc I had to keep my catch combo and the moment you catch anything other than the Pokémon you’re hunting it ends the combo and you have to start over and I didn’t want any of those enough to justify messing my combo. Anyway I started a new game and sent them over from home and I shit you not at full odds look at what I got when I set foot in viridian forest

I don’t like bug Pokémon and least of all the weedle line but a random shiny I get by chance without any work is a win for me

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Just me playing devils advocate with the Rumbling. Spoilers for aot

Since the new episode drop all sorts of discussions and memes are on the internet including once again casting judgement on Eren and the ‘Yeagerist’ both in show and fans irl.

I myself am an Eren apologist or Yeagerist. While I don’t seriously feel the need to defend myself, I’ve grown pretty grey when it comes to morals in an anime. I could simply say I have watched this man grow and suffer for too long in the series to suddenly switch on him at the end. I could say I’m loyal to a fault, where if I can justify the action I will support you regardless be it a fictional character or a real person. If I can justify the means I will probably support you and your decision.

However I feel everyone is focusing on innocent children are dying and it’s wrong(which I agree is sad). But I feel there’s some things I feel people are magically forgetting about.

Eren was just a kid when Birthcontrol, Reiner and Annie came storming in from Marley and attacked Paradis. And many many other people, children included, died in the aftermath of the wild titans that were let into the wall. On top of the following death that came when the government couldn’t hold the refugees from the breached wall and sent them on a death mission that was essentially population control. All that because they were attacked first. Innocent lives have been lost long before Eren had ever gotten the power needed to start the rumbling.

Paradis island and the Eldians in general were under a constant threat by Marley. Did we all just forget the wild mindless titans are people? Actual eldians from Marley that were punished by being forcefully turned into mindless titans and were let loose onto Paradis that have been tormenting the people on the island the entire time. Meaning this whole time the scouts have been unknowingly killing their own people for survival. And had to kill them after knowing this truth just to officially clear the island of titans for good(minus the wall Titian’s and the shifters of course.)

The people Eldians on Paradis have NO IDEA what exists over the wall. The average person was left in the complete dark and only the royals knew the truth and forced everyone to continue living in the walls. The whole argument was ‘well Eldians started it’ but the royal family just locked themselves away on Paradis and kept everyone ignorant. Eren and Armin dreamed of what was over the walls to be free of Titian’s. Imagine finally getting through the nightmare that is fighting all the Titian’s to know they weren’t the last of humanity. But CIVILIZATIONS have modernized. And not only that they’ve already labeled your kind, specifically paradis as the enemy. The worst of humanity, monsters. What would you do? What do y’all expect him to do? You think he’s going to just take that sitting down?

What other option did he have? Being diplomatic and peacefully talking it out seems good on paper. And quite honestly following the peaceful route was gonna get them all killed. That episode where they went to Marley and sat in on that meeting. Eren essentially deadass heard everyone make Paradis the scapegoats for everything wrong with the world, even other Eldians are throwing Paradis eldians under the bus. After that speech it’s no wonder he left the group to execute his plan ‘with’ Zeke (we know he double crosses his own brother). There was no hope to peacefully talk it out when the whole world has decided paradis island is the enemy. And for all the damage and distraction Eren did not attack until war was officially declared on Paradis island first. They was gonna send destruction on a higher scale to the island had Eren not made his move. He simply brought the war to them.

In the end it was literally Paradis against the world. Eren is going to choose his home and his friends over the world that’s already declared them an enemy. And frankly I can’t and won’t blame him for attacking first. In a perfect world I would have loved for all eldians across the globe to stand together. But because they’ve already been brainwashed and condemned paradis eldians I could just say their deaths are an unfortunate collateral damage. Seeing the sheer destruction and mayhem the rumbling is causing is shocking and I was left speechless. And Eren himself hates he has to do this but he’s going to do whatever it takes to make sure the eldians of paradis island are free. I can agree the rumbling is horrifying but I can see why it happened. In the new episode even the commander of the Marleain army can acknowledge this is the cultivation of all their hate being returned back to them.

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Spoilers for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

I’m going to talk about the story lines!! All three of them please just keep moving. I beat the game over the past weekend and I was just letting it simmer in my brain and I think I am ready to talk about it.

Team St⭐️r:

I’m not gonna lie when they first dropped info on them in trailers of them just being some rowdy kids who refuse to wear their uniform correctly and causing mischief I was disappointed. Ever since Team Skull from alola the ‘evil team’ just not evil-ing like they used to. I like triumphing over an evil organization. However as I progressed through the operation Starfall story and it just unravels how it was just a group of kids who were being bullied and after clearly receiving no help from the adults decided to band together and confront their bullies and they eventually became the villain after the kids cried and left the school. It’s crazy how the narrative switched up and they became the bad guy after defending themselves. With defeating each boss it was touching to see just how much team star meant to them. Giving me nakama vibes.

Clavell being in disguise the whole time was funny af. He thought he was cool.

Penny being the ultimate boss of team star was shocking for me. Usually I’m good at capturing the obvious reveal but I guess I missed the mark this time.

Victory Road:

At the core I’m a filthy traditionalist and I enjoyed collecting gym badges as usual and I absolutely looked up the ‘correct’ order of who to challenge. I never minded there was an order to the gyms I don’t care if they never allowed us to play the gyms in every order. However since they did give us a choice and really selling the open world aspect I’m disappointed they didn’t scale lvls accordingly. I had Sprigatito and pawmi early on. If I wanted an easy gym badge why couldn’t I go to the water gym and beat his ass? Like sure I could go anywhere I wanted (within reason, like if you could only run on korai/miraidon) but it didn’t mean I should go anywhere. But overall I enjoyed the gyms I enjoyed Rhyme, Grusha and Larry for various reasons. Can I just say Larry looks as tired as I feel. The elite 4 was kinda lackluster. I wonder if it’s because I’m so used to Galar. They made EVERYTHING a spectacle. Other than ‘wow hi Larry’ moment when he came back as an elite 4 member nothing really stood out. Even the champion Geeta wasn’t that impressive like they built her up for being the overall champion of Paldea and it wasn’t impressive. I like she’s involved with the academy and the Pokémon league and she running things but getting that moment to battle her I didn’t feel a spark. The only thing that tripped me up as not knowing what the heck the Gilmora was was and making the mistake of hitting it and having to get poisoned on switch in.

Nemona was an amazing rival, sure I’ve never had a problem with beating her but I can feel she genuinely wanted us to grow and thrive as trainers. Leaning she’s always had to hold back and just wanted a true rival in battling made me want to lowkey impress her with my skills. Though each of her battles were never hard for me. That battle with the tournament where we finally could fight as equals was exciting. This was the battle I had hoped to have with Geeta. My only thing was that early on it’s implied she had other Pokémon when she joined the academy and that was why she didn’t get a starter pokemon, getting the one weakest to ours(Quaxly for me). But I’ve seen her battle with the same Pokémon including the end. I had hoped to see a few different Pokémon on the roster as if to show she really went and got her old and strongest partners to come at us. But when I won and the cam pans over to Nemona it was like holding my breath everyone waited for a reaction. Rather than upset she was ecstatic. The look of joy on her face and just being so excited was such a nice feeling. When I first beat Hop I felt horrible since I killed his dream of fighting Leon but beating this rival felt good in a different way from beating those douche bag rivals of the past.

Mystica Hunt:

Y’all this is the best story in the whole game. I didn’t think knocking out totem—I mean titan Pokémon to steal a magic herb to make sandwiches was going to be good for much other than just be a way to upgrade our riding companion. When I saw Arven being introduced I just thought him to be so pretty and thought with his rude behavior in our intro this would be the annoying rival I was missing with Nemona. But then…2nd mission drops and it’s revealed he just wants to make medicine for his sickly dog who seemed to be an inch from death took me. So much emotion and showing me a different side of him I wanted to help him. But have a cute moment in the caves eating sandwiches and hanging out. With Arven I felt like I had a friend. Rivals like Hop, Barry, Cheren & Bianca were supposedly childhood friends and even the kids in x and y were supposed to be our new friends. But I’ve never felt my character was friends with them. We go our separate ways and occasionally battle. With Arven we were going through things together. And then we finely get his Pokémon back I was overjoyed. Starfall made me feel bad lowkey and the gym challenge is business as usual for me. But this mission felt so fulfilling even when I felt bad about having to battle him and his beloved Pokémon shortly after. The way I was disappointed when the next stage of the story with the professor couldn’t continue until I beat the elite 4.

The professor (Sada/Turo) being not only a robot this entire time but the original professor was dead for years. YEARS. no one, not even poor Arven, knew. Game freak really got me. I did not expect that. It was crazy enough we didn’t meet the professor the entire game mean but when we finally do it’s a robot. I saw one person on tiktok say it feels like it doesn’t fit with sada being scarlet professor and that game is about the past and the robot is a future element. Basically the robot plot twist didn’t fit and they felt like game freak made the plot line for violet and tried to make it fit scarlet. And I disagree. The technology in the Pokémon universe is pretty advanced. Why is it out the ordinary that Turo can make an Ai in his timeline and not for Sada’s? She is studying ancient Pokémon sure but if I’m not mistaken the Ai was made to help the professor with their research. It doesn’t matter the area of study, past or future. using the power of the crystals in area zero to get the Ai to actually run and help with the research is like a fancy assistant. I think it still fits even for the professor Sada story line.

Overall I love the three story lines as it gave me a little more to do than just the usual gym challenge. I like that Gamefreak is starting to breath more life and personality into these characters bc yes I’m always here for Pokémon but I like when the characters around me have personality and have more depth than being just a rival or just an obstacle for me to lvl up my Pokémon in between gym badges. Is the game glitchy? Yes, but it didn’t hinder my game play. I’ve seen some wild glitch stuff happen to others on tiktok and I’m glad I was spared the torment. I always took care to save periodically just in case. Well worth the money imo.

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Also here’s the team I’ve decided to go the distance with struggled early game and kept switching out and debating bc I didn’t want to have two of the same type. Luckily I have a violet copy so I can still use mons that didn’t quite make it for this playthrough.

My honorable mentions is Pinku the Flamigo, Raycer the Cyclizar and while I didn’t name them I was considering adding girafarig and tinkatink to the team

Erza the Armarouge

Denki the Pawmot

Ikuto the Meowscarada

Poundcake the Dachsbun

Squishy the Clodsire

And Patronus the Palafin

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Completed all the gyms. Now I gotta complete the other stories in the game. Y’all I’m so soft for Grusha he’s so cute I mean look!!!

I screamed look how cute the gym photo is.

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Slowly but surely making my way through all 3 story lines. I am a filthy traditionalist and love going through the gym challenge. The gym leaders are some interesting characters Ryme is so dope and I love to see a black womanly thrive in pokemon(or any fictional media for that matter).

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Two gyms and two titan stories and one team star story down. I love how adorable these little snap shots are.

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Ended up picking Spirgatito no regrets. I have never chosen the grass starter first so this will be a special first playthrough. Spent so much time exploring and picking up items I barely got far at all. Ended up running into Arven sooner than I thought. A bit rude and was surprise to find out he’s the son of the professor. I guess I shouldn’t be since I saw a post pointing out his features. Whoever called it must be feelin proud of themselves.

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The longest I’ve ever took on the opening screen I didn’t know the customization was available so soon. I struggled to see if I should make the character look as close to me as possible or not. Decided to live my silver hair dream through her lol

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It’s here. My copy of Pokémon scarlet and violet. I always knew I’d get both but usually I would buy a digital copy and get a physical copy but I decided to have both physical. Anyway I’ll be documenting my thoughts on here like always. Deciding to play scarlet first bc I always choose the ‘red’ game with the exception of sword.

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Watching Bee and puppycat on Netflix and I’m amazed at the changes they made already. But holy shit in episode two I realize Toast had the same VA as the og sailormoon back in the old days. I’m geeking out right now.

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I’m back I’m just having a damn good time. This fine man is voiced by Steve Blum. Fucking Spike from cowboy bebop. And most importantly. The toonami Host from my childhood. Space Outlaw can just talk forever.

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Watching Bee and puppycat on Netflix and I’m amazed at the changes they made already. But holy shit in episode two I realize Toast had the same VA as the og sailormoon back in the old days. I’m geeking out right now.

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I ain’t gonna lie Brassius kinda hot. He’s on the simp list.